You know how sometimes you wish you'd be young again, or to relive a certain part of your life again? Well , watching and listening to your reactions actually does that for me. I simply close. I simply close my eyes and you transport me back to the greatest years of my life. Thank you.

@hannejeppesen1809

Ай бұрын

That is what music does for you. I'm of the Dylan and Hendrix generation, and love most of the music from that area. I listen to my favorite music at least an hour a day. Not always rock, since I'm a lover of jazz as well. My favorite bands from back then, is what started as Dylan's back up band, The Band and The Doors.

@L33Reacts

Ай бұрын

I appreciate you Brad. Thank you for the kind words. I’m glad I can offer something 😊

@dianegardner7210

Ай бұрын

I know what you mean-many times I can still envision where I was or what I was doing when I first heard one of these gems -we were so lucky and we didn’t realize it

@hannejeppesen1809

Ай бұрын

@@dianegardner7210 Many songs have makes you think of an event or somebody special. In 1968 when I was an au pair from Denmark in Westport Ct. I met and dated someone that was the love of my life. We met in early July, he was on leave from the air force in Maine. When he left after 4 weeks of spending as much time together as possible he said "See you in September, since Labor Day would be the first chance he had to come back to Westport. I cannot hear the song by The Happening, :"See you in September" without thinking of Steve. We dated the next 2 years, then life took us in different directions. However over the years we stayed in touch. I married someone else 6 years later. He was always there for me. He died about 6 years ago.

@ChasBeauregarde

Ай бұрын

@@dianegardner7210 I can remember specifically where I was ten years old and heard Hendrix for the first time. It was 1968 and I was the odd kid who had an ear for quality music. While my classmates were still listening to AM radio and The Monkees (not slamming them, I liked them too) I was listening to FM, Jimi, The Doors, Cream, Dylan and Joni. I was tending to my dad's little plot of a vegetable garden, having the radio tuned to WNEW in the backyard and I hear this cover of the Dylan song thinking "...wow the guitar goes on a lot longer like The Doors " Light My Fire." " or some kind of thought like that. I just knew it was different like Dylan was different a few years earlier. Just that moment though frozen in time, its just great putting music and time together. By the way, most of my classmates tuned into FM a few years later and we were all hip together LOL!!

Man, so glad you've started delving into Hendrix. The man is a legend for a reason. He absolutely loved Dylan too.

1965 In a top 40 world where radio airplay only allowed singles under three minutes. Then this came along and blew up the airwaves. NOBODY heard or played music like this.With this one song, Dylan singularly changed the landscape of pop music forever. No hyperbole intended. Jimi’s epic performance at Monterey also changed music in the U.S. The U.K. was already digging Jimi before he returned to the U.S. debuting the Experience at Monterey. His best Dylan cover is “All Along The Watchtower.” IMO

@curtadams7406

Ай бұрын

AM radio always played an abbreviated version w/o the last verse

@alanstein5930

Ай бұрын

This record was truly a game changer, a revolution in what is possible in popular music in terms of lyrical sophistication, song length, avant garde AND commercial acceptance, and more. I disagree with Lee about the definitive version of this song, which, to me, will ALWAYS belong to Bob Dylan ALONE. 😊Now, I'll give "All Along The Watch Tower" to Hendrix. And, while his version of "Rolling Stone" was great, nobody can match the original, IMHO.

Funny story about the recording of "Like A Rolling Stone". A young guitarist named Al Kooper was booked to play, but a top studio guitarist showed up, bumping Kooper out of the spot. He was desperate to play with Dylan, so he sat at an electric keyboard, pretending he had an idea for the song. When they started recording, Kooper started playing, and the Studio Engineer interrupted to complain about the "crazy" keyboards. Dylan cut in, "Yeah, I love that keyboard, turn it up!" So, Kooper's "improvised" keyboard style became a big part of Dylan's electric sound, and he toured with Dylan too.

@michaelkeefe8494

Ай бұрын

Yeah, Mike Bloomfield... They had the guitar stuff covered. That was the day Kooper became a keyboard player.

@russallert

Ай бұрын

There's a great piece of audio from the session when producer Tom Wilson announced the take, saw Kooper at the organ and said half-laughingly half-scoldingly "What are are you doing there?". But he let it go, and Kooper made up the organ part for the take on the spot. If you listen closely to the first verse, you can hear him coming in an eighth note after everyone else, because he wanted to be sure he heard the chords correctly before playing them. Later, when he toured with Dylan, Kooper said he and Bob got a big laugh out of listening to the latest hit songs on the radio all featuring organ on them and (in Kooper's words) "imitating me not knowing what I was doing".

@jraben1065

Ай бұрын

@@michaelkeefe8494 Yep, Kooper's heart broke when he saw Bloomfield walk in with that guitar. And Al really didn't know how to play the Hammond Organ, but he wanted to be there so much. I really like that Dylan was open and creative enough to realize that Kooper's unpolished keyboards added something new, an almost a child-like looseness to the composition.

@michaelkeefe8494

Ай бұрын

@@jraben1065 can't imagine that song now without the organ part.

@izzonj

Ай бұрын

Dylan preferred a raw and real sound than something practiced and refined

When you ain't got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.

@rodneygriffin7666

Ай бұрын

Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse.

@user-mk5xc4ye9t

Ай бұрын

And later "When you think that you've lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more"

Jimi's girlfriend (Faye) in doc interview said Jimi wouldn't let her leave the room when Dylan was on."he wouldn't even let me go to the bathroom!! Jimi loved Bob"

@mr.goodenough3796

Ай бұрын

Faye or Fayne but yeah ✌🏼

@andymccracken4046

Ай бұрын

She quoted him as saying "Don't go now you'll miss this good bit".

@sharondavid-melly1498

Ай бұрын

​@@andymccracken4046Thanks for setting me straight. 👍 Remember her as endearing, her laugh while she told the story. RIP Jimi

@sharondavid-melly1498

Ай бұрын

​@@mr.goodenough3796 Thanks for correcting 👍

@mr.goodenough3796

Ай бұрын

@@sharondavid-melly1498 Yeah I loved her interviews about Jimi. She only passed away in the last year or so.

At the start when he looks to his left and says "that's Bob Dylan's grandma over there", he is joking about bassist Noel Redding....who like Dylan at the time, had a pretty good afro going!

@brettv5967

Ай бұрын

I always wondered what that comment was about.

What gets lost nowadays because we take Dylan for granted is how shocking his writing was - and his singing. This is a eighteen months after 'She Loves You' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' on Ed Sullivan. These lyrics - and the sound of Dylan's voice - were a total readjustment. He was a shock wave to everybody else. The world had to up their game.

@jraben1065

Ай бұрын

Yes, it's unlikely that even The Beatles would have become such innovative songwriters, if not for Bob Dylan. Dylan's groundbreaking song writing made musicians want to be "writers' too. Particularly because of his Folk/Social Protest and Surreal Poetry. When "electric" Dylan exploded into the popular consciousness in 1965, he really changed the whole scene. By 1966-67 it was essential for a serious rock musicians to have "something to say". Rock Stars became the poet-philosophers of their generation, with Dylan and The Beatles regarded almost as cultural messiahs.

@Blue-qr7qe

Ай бұрын

That's true for those who actually listened to the lyrics. Unfortunately, most gave a superficial listen to what he was saying and only paid lip service to his significance.

@mikeadams2351

24 күн бұрын

only if you hadn't heard Dylan's earlier albums.

@liblit

24 күн бұрын

@@mikeadams2351 Absolutely true. But for me, I'd heard some of his earlier stuff and it had kind of bounced off. By the time this came out, I'd heard Tambourine Man by the Byrds which softened me up and I started listening different. So yes, Dylan was there before but this Dylan hit me. A case of the audience catching up to the artist.

L33, this is a genius combo, looking forward to your reaction! Dylan's first electric song hit on pop radio. From 1965 on, Dylan was as important as the Beatles. "Rolling Stone" broke the 3 minute barrier on radio, and popular audiences started going back to Dylan's earlier albums, hearing the originals, which had previously been heard as "covers". Dylan did great live versions in 1965-66 while his "Folk" fans booed the "electric" sound. Hendrix's later live version is amazing too. Jimi was a big Dylan fan, recording a great version of Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower", considered by Dylan the definitive version.

The brillance of this song is the words, the story he tells, it's not in the instruments.

I was between my sophomore and junior year of college when this was recorded. When classes resumed in September you could hear this song blaring from dorm windows all across campus. The world seemed to be on fire with Dylan's lyrics and the music itself was like nothing we had ever heard before. What an electrifying time to be young - I turned 20 that September, this year I'll be 79!!! Yikkkeees! How the Hell did I get from there to here?

@sueprator9314

Ай бұрын

Wow I will be 75.

One thing about Al Kooper, the smart ass guy who snuck in on organ when no one was lookin. He was one of those guys who had a knack for being present at some key moments in Rock n Roll. Started as a teen in the music biz, later on he's in the Blues Project which was early Psychedelia and Jazz Rock, then Blood Sweat n Tears one of the 1st horn rock bands, he saves the disintegrating Zombies amazing " Odessey and Oracle " LP by getting a US deal and a hit single, goes to a bar in Atlanta, hears Lynyrd Skynyrd and does everything he can for them, gets them signed produces their first 3 LP's, then he finds teen prodigy Shuggie Otis and gets his career started.... I mean HOLT SHEEEEEE

@davidbooth7778

Ай бұрын

His book is really good....how he got screwed by his own band is a cautionary tale. "His production for their "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" is great cover.

@jrusso4753

Ай бұрын

Ever read Kooper's book? "Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards". If not, do so. Great read written by an iconic dude. I read it years ago. Sent him and email and he actually responded! Great guy.

@brewstergallery

Ай бұрын

@@jrusso4753 I can believe it. I saw him play organ for Hubert Sumlin, Howlin Wolf's lead guitarist, who was kind of fragile. Except for the drummer, the backing band played the changes and soloed without paying attention to Hubert. In contrast Al was respectful gracious and supportive to Hubert. Classy guy. I gotta check out the book.

@edb6690

Ай бұрын

Al was the one discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd and produced their first three albums. He also produced the first album by The Tubes.

@brewstergallery

Ай бұрын

@@edb6690 If you look at my whole comment I did write that about Al and LS but did not know about him and the Tubes. Thank you for that edb6690 !

Dylan goes electric, at the Newport Folk Festival. There were boos, and Pete Seeger tried to cut the cord. Jimi also did the definitive cover of "All Along the Watchtower."

Yes, the Hendrix version was at the 1967 Monterrey pop festival....one of my favorite Hendrix cuts....and there are so many favorites!

Hendrix's bassist was Noel Redding. The trio was known, ofc, as The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Redding was with the group from its inception in September 1966, until he quit in June 1969.

Such a great cover by Jimi Hendrix. Both men icons in the music industry. Dylan won a Nobel Prize in Literature for his contribution to our music culture. Jimi revolutionized blues and rock combined.

Al Koopers fingerprints are all over music of the 60s and 70s

@LittleLou-vk9fm

Ай бұрын

"But he's a guitar player..." haha

@arjaylee

Ай бұрын

@@LittleLou-vk9fm he also played French horn in the beginning of you can’t always get what you want

@LittleLou-vk9fm

Ай бұрын

@@arjaylee Great call, I forgot about that. Iconic, as well.

I was stunned when you mentioned SUPERSESSION!! STOP, SEASON OF THE WITCH, ALBERT'S SHUFFLE,. REMEMBER MIKE SHREVE played with them at the Fillmore.

Dylan wrote this masterpiece and it sounded unlike anything he or anyone else was doing at the time. It literally changed the direction of rock and other genres of music. Love Hendrix, but his version sounds like practically everything else he ever did. It's an awesome take on the song but no comparison musically or culturally.

@sharondavid-melly1498

Ай бұрын

No one can replace Dylan. Jimi is a sport and does a great job on the song but really no comparison

@captainsatellite2112

Ай бұрын

​​​@@sharondavid-melly1498Hendrix did a cool live version of the Sgt Pepper song 3 days after the album came out. Paul and George were there. Great because it was the Experience but nowhere near the same impact. Agree about Dylan. Loved his stuff for decades. Saw him last year. People complain about the arrangements now but I loved the show. Keep on rocking.

Bob Dylan forever in one of a long list of favorite songs." IT FEELS GREAT❤️.

Next Dylan must-listen is "Just Like a Woman". Another beautiful song with meaningful lyrics.

This song has such amazing imagery within the lyrics. I still dig it.

Ned from Spain checkin in Lee. Hendrix loved Dylan and even said he was shy about his own voice until he heard Dylan's whiny croakin. Jimi just looks so damn happy up there. BTW you turned your head away at the end when the camera finally gave Mitch a little spotlight.

Two highlights of the 60s in one video! Made my day.

I like Dylan's version better. His voice has so much passion and the way he phrases things and stresses the enunciation of certain words is brilliant. I like the way the instruments support his vocals so seamlessly, letting Dylan's singing be the focal point. Also, at the end of each verse, Dylan's voice builds up in intensity, with a big release as he does the chorus. You don't hear that in Jimi's version. Give it a listen again and I hope you'll appreciate Dylan's version more.

It’s Monterey

According to Rolling Stone magazine Like a Rolling Stone is the number one song of all time it was the first time that Dylan went Electric

@danielschaeffer1294

Ай бұрын

Actually, no. “Bringing It All Back Home” had one electric side and one acoustic side.

Simply wow. Give me a break, I mean Dylan and Hendricks. What a great choice for the day. A personal note and in my top 10 greatest days or rather nights of my life. I saw a Hendrick's live at the Fillmore. East in branch village, New York City on New Year's Eve 1969. Go on, do me a favor, try to guess exactly how great that night was. Taking a line from the Four Seasons..... Oh, what a night.

Hendrix always carried a book of Dylan lyrics around with him

I’ve seen Dylan 3 times. The last time was 1988 outdoors with Tom Petty and his band. This song got the city pissed off lol. 45,000 people stomping their feet in time.

@captainsatellite2112

Ай бұрын

I saw him on that tour with Petty. Great stuff. HBO had one of the shows from that tour back in the day. Great version of It's Alright Ma in the vid. Saw him last year. People complain about the arrangements now but I had great seats and loved the show.

@mythicsin3083

Ай бұрын

@@captainsatellite2112 Great. I’d seen Tom Petty on his first tour in 77 or 78 in Portland. I’d seen Dylan in 78 (a great show) and 80 in a small local venue where we got seats close enough to touch Bob. All amazing.

@captainsatellite2112

Ай бұрын

@@mythicsin3083 Love TP and Heartbreakers too. Rock on.

Definitely Monterey Pop Festival. A high school buddy and I drove my 1953 Cadillac Hearse directly from our graduation all-night party (my band played it) in Chico, California, to the Monterey Fairgrounds. The vibe was so sweet. Not a single hassle for three days. The only bad vibe I saw was Alan Ginsburg flipping out because he didn't have comp tickets. The program handed out at the door had a photo of Jimi in his Revolutionary War waistcoat and no guitar or any other props or band members...so we just assumed he was a folk singer songwriter. When it was time for Jimi's set to start my pudgy friend said, "I'm going to crash, wake me up when The Who comes on." He got into his skintight army surplus mummy bag and conked out in our box seat. Brian Jones introduced Hendrix and the first four bars were like a comet impact. My friend jumped up shredding the sleeping bag, ripping out of it like a butterfly or something, yelling "What the Fuck???" He dove over the fence and slithered to the edge of the stage. I followed and it was truly a life changing experience. Jimi was the whole package. His use of feedback and general noise cracked the Northern California music scene into a million fragments. The rest of the gig was totally awesome. But, for just blowing the place up, it was the big one of all time.

@captainsatellite2112

Ай бұрын

Awesome story. I was only 6 but man I now wish I could have seen this show. Didn't expect them to take a 6 yo but disappointed that my teen sibs weren't interested enough to drive a couple hours. Can't believe you played grad night then went to the show and made your way to the stage. I did something similar for a couple shows in my youth but this is EPIC. Thanks for sharing. Rock on.

L33, man, been a Hendrix fan since he first burst on the scene BUT nobody is going to do this song like Dylan.

Bob Dylan was one of Jimi Hendrix's heros.

Heard this Hendrix version for the first time around 1980 and it's been one of my favorite Hendrix songs ever since. It's one of the few songs where I far prefer the cover over the original. You can feel how much Hendrix was feeling the song here. At the very start when he says, "hang on a minute while I just play my guitar," you can feel how much he loved to just be playing.

The song was revolutionary at the time: over 6 minutes long when most singles were only 2 or 3 minutes long, with the sophisticated lyrics. It was listed in "Rolling Stone" magazine sometime ago as the greatest song of all time.

Jimi loved Dylan and covered several of his songs.

Mike Bloomfield is so underrated. He was part of so many Classic Rock songs, yet so many don’t know who he was. An early American convert to Chicago blues, he & Elvin Bishop gave Pal Butterfield’s Blues Band that great guitar sound. And here he & Al Kooper helped electrify Dylan. Great song & reaction. And with your love of harmonica, you should check out Butterfield’s work with them. ✌️❤️🎶

That was jimi at monterey in 1967 - his breakthrough appearance in the U.S.! He was recommended to be part of that festival by none other than Paul Mccartney!

I remember when Dylan went electric and folk traditionalists went nuts. It was like the apocalypse and the end of the world. Of course, they soon faded into the books of history.

I had this on vinyl with Otis Redding.

@woedan48

Ай бұрын

Wuuuut ?

@andymccracken4046

Ай бұрын

@@woedan48 It was a Monterey live disk with Jimi on one side and Otis on the other. I had a copy too.

@brettv5967

Ай бұрын

I still have the album. The album cover has long disappeared, but I’ve somehow managed to hang onto the album. Both sides are just awesome.

@johnsilva9139

Ай бұрын

First album I ever bought in 1970. Still cherish it. Remains my favorite live album to this day.

@steveowens2505

Ай бұрын

@@johnsilva9139 I’ll have to check. I may have it.

As I recall Highway 61 Revisited has many tracks with mutiple keyboard players. One the many special things about that album. Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues is my favorite piano track, pianos serve as the lead instruments.

A mark of Jimi's respect for Bob..... He learned the words to the song.

I memorized these lyrics 20 years ago. Which is really cool because I’ll never forget them.❤ you should do the Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix versions of all along the watchtower.

@DocSardo

26 күн бұрын

And the Dave Mason version.

"Like a Rolling Stone" was stopped at #2 because "The Beatles" "Help!" held the #1 spot.

You gotta watch Jimmy's other performances at Monterey (flames and all)

Dylan was such a poet as a lyricist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for them. And he revolutionized folk by this song with an electric not acoustic guitar. Bruce once said he wish he could play like Jimi. Sing like Roy Orbison and write like Dylan.

Jimi loved Dylan's word play

Bob owns this song. He clearly made it his. I can FEEL the words. I think I discovered it in 1974. That was around the time I started listening to FM rock stations. It had all been AM stations playing top-40 hits up until then.

Greatest lyrics in the 60's.

“Yes I know I missed a verse - don’t worry” Jimi

"Hot Sauce", good one, so true.

Only one person did Dylan about as good as Dylan: Hendrix. He gives it the deeper blues that Dylan isn't capable of vocally. Bass player Noel Redding. Drummer Mitch Mitchell.

Most of Bob Dylan songs were popular because of the storytelling. Usually about events that happened at that time. This song was about a rich socialite in New York, who fell from 'grace' when she mixed with the Andy Warhol crowd and ended up as a junkie in the gutter. It was big Media news back in the day. Hence, Bob wrote a song about it

@mikefannon6994

Ай бұрын

Edie Sedgewick

If you never seen Jimi Hendrix at Monterey then you have more to see

Hendrix arrived at Monterey Pop as a rumor, and left as a legend. Criterion has released the entire Monterey Pop film -- the entire Hendrix performance. Must see.

It’s impossible for Hendrix to bore you for 6 or 7 minutes!!!!!!

Mitch Mitchell played a few songs with John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and Keith Richards in a thrown together group called “The Dirty Mac” for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus in 1968. I suggest you watch their version of the Beatles song “Yer Blues”. Check it out!! Yes, this was the Monterey Pop festival but is usually seen in color. I don’t know why this was in black and white. The bass player is Noel Redding.

Amazing stuff.... Both versions are great in their own way!! 😊

This song on this album when Dylan went electric, was the real beginning of the 60's as everyone thinks of it.

Also Jimi Hendrix Machine Gun Live At the Filmore East 1970 will blow your mind in the best way ! :P

the word found the heart and the brain..Great Bob...

I love Jimi's version. Another Dylan song became the great Jimi version on "All Along the Watchtower."

@richarddefortuna2252

Ай бұрын

He did "The Drifter's Escape," too. Would have loved to hear his take on "Wicked Messenger," but I don't think he ever got around to it (we do have Patti Smith's and The Faces' versions, though).

Amazing i love how you break everything down ❤

I remember buying the single after school going home and playing it over and over again . Only days later I remembered that there was a B side which after one listen I had to play that side over and over , yes value for money back then .

A L33 Reacts binge evening! You absolutely.MUST watch an react to the movie "Don't Look Back ". Don't worry about how long the reaction might take. We'll all be right there with you. All the best kiddo.

That Hendrix version was indeed from the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. There is colour footage of the show as it was filmed in colour. Jimi - unlike some other artists - made it his own when he did a cover. He didn't just do a straight copy of the original. The Dylan album that "Like A Rolling Stone" is from - Highway 61 Artist - is worth it's own reaction.

This was the album on which Dylan departed the pure folk style and "went electric," it is still my favorite Dylan album. Every song is noteworthy, but "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Desolation Row" are superb.

They used to play the Dylan one on the radio even though it was "too long". Yes this was Monterrey, Jimi's introduction to America. He famously burned his guitar after "Wild Thing". The Who had gone before and smashed their shit per usual. Jimi was like "Hold my beer". I never knew it was Kooper and Bloomfield on Dylan's song. Kooper sat in with everybody. They collaborated on numerous projects together. Kooper had a mid-sixties band, the Blues Project ("Wake me, Shake me") and Bloomfield had Electric Flag. R&R trivia. Groovy times man

The album this song is from is revolutionary - “Highway 61 Revisited” it is the 2nd Bob Dylan album that wasn’t entirely acoustic. It could be thought of as mainly a blues album. I heard with a friend when it came out in 1965 and we both were amazed, to say the least.

Check out the story of how Al Kooper wound up on “Like a Rolling Stone”. It’s a fascinating story that launched his own recording career. The story is a little long and convoluted to write here. There are videos of Al telling the story… very cool!

Yes, another lefty like McCartney. Interesting that about the time the Beatles split, Hendrix floated the idea of forming a new super group with McCartney on bass, but the offer never made it to Paul who was kind of isolated upon his Scottish farm.

A Strat turned into a three dimensional sound machine in the hands of Hendrix.

Hendrix is probably the only person who could do a creditable cover of this song. Not a patch on Dylan's, of course, but that was never on the cards.

Loved this song from the moment it came out

Never heard Hendrix’s version! That’s Awesome!!! Have you done “All Along The Watchtower?”

Hey Lee! I'm going to agree with you and say that I prefer the Jimi version. But saying that I think that Dylan's version is one of the best songs ever. I just think Jimi is that good. Nice to hear both songs together too. Peace!

'Can't see talking over Dylan's lyrics and somehow thinking that you're experiencing Bob Dylan. You're missing him by a mile.

There's a great story as to how Al Kooper came to play the iconic organ part on this song. It's worth going down that rabbit hole, if you get the chance!

Thanks for talking thru all of it

@L33Reacts

Ай бұрын

@@mrsnookdeb you’re welcome

I love Dylan and Hendrix but Jimi took this one. So much soul and feeling. The music just flowed through that man

Gotta check out , Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe live at monterey .... plays with his teeth and behind his head . Also he covered Wild Thing in the same concert and trashes the stage also sets a light his guitar ;) .. It was his first gig back to break America.

Wife here. The one to really listen to is All Along the Watchtower . Hendrix version blows Dylan’s away .

Jimi was trippin abject *BALLS* at Monterey...its hilarious....& kind of a miracle as well, lol.

The Hendrix video is available on youtube in color. Dylan's riveting Newport performance video is available on youtube.

L33, man, Al Kooper was also a founding member of Blood, Sweat and Tears, appearing on their first album, before David Clayton Thomas (a fellow Canadian) joined on vocals for the second lp.

A more pointed comparison would be between Bob's version of All Along the Watchtower (from John Wesley Harding) and Jimi's (from Electric Ladyland). Dylan was so impressed he soon switched to using Jimi's arrangement for live gigs.

Noel Redding is The Experience bass player.

This Dylan version of the song brings back memories of my youth. I was in HS from ‘76 to ‘80. It was upstate NY in the sticks and the drinking age was 18. The seniors let the underclassmen know where the age rules were lax. My freshman class settle in to a little hole in the wall call the Press Box where John at the bar knew our ages. He had one rule for minors. Stay and drink heavy or get out. We felt important. He even let us bounce any kids who weren’t drinking. I get that he was a menace but I didn’t at that age. At that age he was a god. He turned a lot of youth with demons into raging alcoholics. I stopped 9 years later or I’d be dead. But that epic song was on every jukebox in the state so many years after its release. It’s the only song that stopped everyone in their tracks. We’d pause briefly, respectfully and then it would morph into a crowd sing along that would tear the roof off. We knew every word. Still do. Great memories turned into bad memories turned into it’s great to be alive. Love you. Keep up the great work and as OAR would sing “ don’t let the conquering fool” get you. You’re an inspiration no matter how shitty it feels at times.

Jimi's whole Monterey set is worth checking out. It's fully recorded in color. You gotta at least check out Hey Joe from that set ;)

@claytonpaul4259

Ай бұрын

It was the experience's us debut. They were recommended by paul McCartney when the Beatles couldn't make it. Also Pete townshend and Jimi settled the argument of who would follow the other with a coin toss. Pete won. Jimi stood up on a chair and blasted out a crazy riff from ever present guitR strapped to him and said, "if I'm going to follow you, I'm going to pull out all the stops. The who went on and smashed their gear. Then Jimi comes out and just from the rip blows everyone away for an hour then sets his guitar on FIRE after wild thing. The most legendary introduction ever, and the most legendary moment of the times until he played the anthem at woodstock. If you see the actual film and not clips on yt, the audience reaction is straight shock and bewilderment lmao ppl running up the aisles or sitting there mouths agape, eyes wide, connections being made in their brain they never knew could be. The album wouldn't come out in the US for a few more months so ppl had zero reference for what was happening. Jimi shifted the whole worlds perception of music forward and that's why he's the greatest.

Arguably the most important rock tune ever. Just for grins, check out “Super Session.” Al Kooper and Steve Stills do the Dylan tune “It Takes a Lot to Laugh.” The drummer uses his cymbals to great effect.

This was the Monterey Pop performance, but it looks like that was the unused film angles. The same performance is available in living color in the movie Monterey Pop. You seem to have blown past Dylans amazing lyrics about a rich girl that goes to live in the city and ends up broke, used and homeless, living off prostitution and drugs. As great as the music is, it was that story that also sold the song. It was "poetic" in its presentation, but that's what it's about. Listen again.

Check out Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary".

Classic song by Dylan. Jimi's version killed it, though. Noel Redding was his bassist. We miss you, Jimi.

If you get a chance to watch Hendrix's whole Monterey performance, do it!! I finally did in the late 80s-early 90s after 2 decades of Jimi adoration and was still moved, gobsmacked, by his fluidity, mastery and effortless cool. No wonder it was his big breakout gig. 😎🤙🏼🎶🔥❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊

With Like a Rolling Stone Dylan invented Rock. Loose, loud and long, with intelligent acerbic lyrics, nobody had heard anything like it. Before it there were jazz, folk, blues, soul, country, pop - all defined genres. Aside from blues they were all tightly rehearsed. Dylan's band winged it, each playing what he felt. Cooper on the organ was so unsure he lagged slightly behind as he waited to see what the next chord was. Suddenly pop was set free, and the musical landscape was changed forever as improvised rock took hold. One of the greatest moments in music history was when Dylan was touring the UK with the Hawks (later the Band), minus Lvon Helm who left the tout fearing violence as they were being booed every night for going electric. Someone shouted out "Judas!" Dylan replied "I don't believe you, you're a liar!" Then he turned to the Hawks and shouted "Play fuckin' loud!" They launched into a blistering version of Like a Rolling Stone!

Yes it's Monterey

You gotta listen to the first Blood, Sweat, and Tears album with Al Cooper. "Love you more than you'll ever know" is a great way to start.

It wasn't Woodstock. It was daylight when he was performing at Woodstock.

The funny story by @jayraben gets most of the story wrong. According to Al Cooper, who has been interviewed in great detail about what happened: (1) Kooper was NOT booked to play. He heard from a mutual friend of Dylan's that Bob was recording the following day so Kooper showed up uninvited with his guitar, walked into the studio, listened to the guitarist who was booked, a seasoned sessional musician, and the booked guitarist was so much better than Kooper that Kooper walked out of the room to where an engineer was working the sound board. (2) Dylan arrived and the band, without Kooper, began recording, and that band included someone on the keyboard. Dylan remarked that something else was needed and asked if anyone could play the Hammond organ, and that was when Keeper walked back in and said he could. (3) Kooper had almost no experience playing the organ. He also had not seen the sheet music and did not know the chords for Like a Rolling Stone. So to compensate, Kooper delayed playing each chord until he heard the rest of the band play it, and that meant always came in about a half-beat after everyone else -- and that syncopated delay is what boosted the groove and feel of the track.

Dylan was from Hibbing MN. US Hwy 61 now terminates just north of Mpls/St Paul ... but now continuing as MN 61 it goes through Duluth to the Canadian border .. Dylan territory.