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All Along The Watchtower by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Biografie van de kunstenaar The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Was A Short-Lived Yet Highly Influential Rock Band Famous For The Guitar Work Of Jimi Hendrix 1942– 1970 On Songs Such As Purple Haze Foxy Lady Hey Joe Voodoo Child Slight Return And All Along The Watchtower. Rounding Out The Experience Were Noel Redding 1945–2003 And Mitch Mitchell 1947–2008 On Bass And Drums Respectively. Hendrix Arrived In England In October 1966 And Auditions Were Launched To Find Him A Backing Band. Noel Redding Was Chosen For The Bass Spot. Even Though He Had Never Played Bass Before Auditioning He Was A Guitarist Hendrix Liked His Look And Attitude. Mitch Mitchell Was A Seasoned London Drummer Who Brought Jazz Chops And A Lead Style Of Playing To The Table. He Would Prove To Be Hendrix's Most Valuable Musical Partner. Though Initially Conceived As Hendrix's Backing Band The Experience Soon Became Much More Than That. Along With Cream They Were The First Group To Popularize The "power Trio" Format Which Essentially Strips A Rock Band Lineup Down To The Essentials Bass Guitar And Drums. This Smaller Format Also Encourages More Extrovert Playing From The Players Involved Often At Very High Volumes. In The Case Of The Experience Hendrix Mixed Lead And Rhythm Guitar Duties Into One While Also Making Use Of Then-Revolutionary Guitar Effects Such As Feedback And Wah-Wah. Mitchell Played Hard-Hitting Jazz-Influenced Grooves That Often Served A Melodic Role As Much As They Did Timekeeping. Redding Was The Eye Of The Storm Playing Deceptively Simple Bass Lines That Helped To Anchor The Band's Sound. Visually They Decked Themselves Out In Matching Psychedelic Costumes And Permed Afros. The Lineup First Came To Prominence During The Monterey Pop Festival One Of The First Major Music Festivals. The Band Delivered A Stellar Performance That Ended With Hendrix Famously Setting His Guitar On Fire. The Moment Was Immortalized In A Photograph Which Was Used As A Cover Of Rolling Stone 1 Magazine. The Appearance Was Also Filmed And Put Into The Documentary Film Monterey Pop. This Brought Them To The Attention Of North American Audiences. They Were Then Asked To Go On Tour With The Monkees As The Opening Act. They Abruptly Left The Tour After Only A Few Dates. It Was Later Revealed By Chas Chandler As Being A Publicity Stunt. With The Band Hendrix Recorded His Three Most Successful Albums Are You Experienced? Axis Bold As Love And Electric Ladyland. In June Of 1969 He Decided To Break Up The Group. Deteriorating Relations With Redding Had Come To A Head And He Also Felt Stilted By The Trio Format. He Used A Larger Band Lineup For His Woodstock Concert In August 1969. Hendrix Would Revert Back To The Trio Format With Buddy Miles On Drums And Billy Cox On Bass And Called Themselves The Band Of Gypsys. A Live Self-Titled Album Was Released In March 1970. This Line Up Only Lasted A Couple Of Months. From Early 1970 They Were Back To The Original The Jimi Hendrix Experience Except Noel Redding Was Replaced By Billy Cox On Bass. This Line Up Continued Until Jimi Hendrix Died In London England From A Drug Overdose On The 18th September 1970.

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"All Along The Watchtower " Originally Written And Recorded By Bob Dylan Was Record By The Jimi Hendrix Experience In 1968 At Olympic Studios In London Beginning With A Recording Session On 21 January. According To Engineer Andy Johns Jimi Hendrix Had Been Given A Tape Of Dylan’s Recording By Publicist Michael Goldstein Who Worked For Dylan’s Manager Albert Grossman. “ Hendrix Came In With These Dylan Tapes And We All Heard Them For The First Time In The Studio” Recalled Johns. According To Hendrix’s Regular Engineer Eddie Kramer The Guitarist Cut A Large Number Of Takes On The First Day Shouting Chord Changes At Dave Mason Who Had Turned Up At The Session And Played Guitar. Halfway Through The Session Bass Player Noel Redding Became Dissatisfied With The Proceedings And Left. Mason Then Took Over On Bass. According To Kramer The Final Bass Part Was Played By Hendrix Himself. Kramer And Chas Chandler Mixed The First Version Of “All Along The Watchtower” On January 26 But Hendrix Was Quickly Dissatisfied With The Result And Went On Re-Recording And Overdubbing Guitar Parts During June July And August At The Record Plant Studio In New York. Engineer Tony Bongiovi Has Described Hendrix Becoming Increasingly Dissatisfied As The Song Progressed Overdubbing More And More Guitar Parts Moving The Master Tape From A Four-Track To A Twelve-Track To A Sixteen-Track Machine. Bongiovi Recalled “Recording These New Ideas Meant He Would Have To Erase Something. In The Weeks Prior To The Mixing We Had Already Recorded A Number Of Overdubs Wiping Track After Track. Hendrix Kept Saying ‘I Think I Hear It A Little Bit Differently.' " The Finished Version Was Released On The Album Electric Ladyland In September 1968. Hendrix’s Obsessive Re-Working Of The Song Transformed It From A Quiet Acoustic Ballad To A Pyrotechnic Display Of Hendrix’s Guitar Virtuosity. The Single Reached Number Five In The British Charts And Number 20 On The Billboard Chart. Dylan Has Described His Reaction To Hearing Hendrix's Version "It Overwhelmed Me Really. He Had Such Talent He Could Find Things Inside A Song And Vigorously Develop Them. He Found Things That Other People Wouldn't Think Of Finding In There. He Probably Improved Upon It By The Spaces He Was Using. I Took License With The Song From His Version Actually And Continue To Do It To This Day." In The Booklet Accompanying His Biograph Album Dylan Said "I Liked Jimi Hendrix's Record Of This And Ever Since He Died I've Been Doing It That Way... Strange How When I Sing It I Always Feel It's A Tribute To Him In Some Kind Of Way." Hendrix's Version Was Featured In The Movies Withnail And I Rush Private Parts Forrest Gump A Bronx Tale Vegas Vacation Tupac Resurrection And The 2001 Remake Of Brian's Song And Also In Television Shows Such As The Simpsons In Episodes "Mother Simpson" And "My Mother The Carjacker". The History Channel Series Ax Men Uses A Portion Of The Song In Its Opening Credits. The Song Was Also Mentioned By Fox Mulder In The X-Files Season One Episode 'Beyond The Sea.' More Recently All Along The Watchtower Received An Infusion When Composer Bear McCreary Adapted The Song For The Sci-Fi Phenom "Battlestar Galactica" Hendrix's Version Also Appears In The Series Finale! This Version Of The Song Appears At Number 48 On Rolling Stone's List Of The 500 Greatest Songs Ever And In 2000 British Magazine Total Guitar Named It Top Of The List Of The Greatest Cover Versions Ever.

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