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Location: Michigan | :o Which one do you prefer??? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | NEIL YOUNG! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I can't vote in that I slammed so many doors on the 'Watchtower' peddlers! 
As to the music, I appreciate 'em all!  |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | FYI Dylan now uses Hendrix's arrangement, not his original one. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by BruDeV:
FYI Dylan now uses Hendrix's arrangement, not his original one. This is the version that I voted for... 1967 |
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Location: Jet City | Hendrix by far, I don't mind Dave MAtthews version either. |
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Location: North Carolina | Dylan has been fortunate that so many real performers could hear SOMEthing in his attempted songs to extract, amplify and coax into becoming a musical work. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Originally posted by First Alternate:
Dylan has been fortunate that so many real performers could hear SOMEthing in his attempted songs to extract, amplify and coax into becoming a musical work. Amen to that!!!
As a poet and songwriter he is great.
I saw him here about 4 years ago, he was absolutely terrible.
He wasn't on this planet that's for sure.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Dave Mason's version. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Looks like I agree with the majority with voting for Hendrix. Haven't heard Dave Mason's (or Mathew's) though. :confused: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'm sure henrix will "win" because this is a guitar forum. Personally I don't care for hendrix at all, and for my money the best version is Dave Mason. Dave |
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Location: closely held secret | Mason |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Dave Mason
This One |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Thanks James! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Okay... I like the Dave Mason version... A LOT!
But mister Dylan did write it. |
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Location: Lebanon, TN | Just as an FYI, very nice rythmical adaptation of the song on the last season of BattleStar Galactica (BSG). You can find it here on You Tube
BSG Watchtower - Audio only
Set to video from the series
Bear McCreary's version |
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| The Local Band 805 (I posted a You Tube clip from recently) is reforming later this year, for work beginning next winter/spring 2008/09. I have been working loosely with Dave Porter the originator and front man, and will be doing a 1 hour warm up acoustict set and one long break for them. We have worked out my last song of that hour to be DOGS from Floyd, Dave loves my version of it and has decided they are going to come on stage about three minutes into it and finish it with me. ! Very Cool! I am very honored to be able to play on stage with these guys as they were, and still are, the best musicians to ever come out of this area of upstate NY. I think I am going to do a few lighter songs for the 20-25 min break section and after seeing this post I will come out of America's "Sand Man" and roll right into Watch Tower, Dave is a great lead guitarist and his interpretations of things on the neck of a guitar ae pretty amazing. I think I can do a second song this way with those guy's and introduce them to the stage with music once again..
Thanks for this. Great Song. Love the social implications of the changing of the guard, so to speak. Great Jam song too.
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Location: Tennessee | I'm with the Mason crowd 100%. But there was a Dylan version that was really good I thought ... it was live and with The Band. Was that Before The Flood?
BTW ... Mason plays 12 string acoustic on Hendrix's recording. |
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Location: GA USA | I was just listening to Dylan's the other night, and thinking that he must have loved what Jimi did with it. I like them both better than that Mason clip. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I saw Mason perform it live, outdoors. Man what a great day, it was around 1980. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Also, saw 805 in around 1980 too. Wow, tempus fugit. If memory serves me right, it was at a race track somewhere two hours east of Buffalo. Can't remember the town, but I remember trying to buy beer at 11:30 AM, and being told no dice. That was the days when the drinking age was 18. Also, I remember some holligans turning over a car left on the race track and setting it on fire. And the band played on while the smoke billowed up. |
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Location: Berkeley, CA | I forgot!
Saw Van Halen on tv one night (Midnight special?) and went out the next day and spent my paycheck, plus borrowed money on a Strat looking something at a pawnshop. Still couldn't afford an amp, but it didn't make any difference cause my buddy promptly sold it for some junk (you know, junk. :mad:
So that was that. That's probably why I forgot about it.
Eddie rocks. So did the band, even Ol' Dave. ;)
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Location: Jet City | Dave Matthews Version |
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| I am a Dave Mathews fan but I think he is trying to be so different he sings this to strange, even for me.
Here's the best cover I have ever heard of this song. I remember and always like the Hendrix version the best.
Check this one out, Henrix was pretty cool and he was a great guitarist. Try and copy his style someday if you are not convinced it ain't easy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htjMvrb5kHA |
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Location: Converse, Texas | I like the Eric Clapton/Lenny Kravitz version.
Eric Clapton/Lenny Kravitz Version |
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YES YES YES ANOTHER POLL???ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER , HENDRIX OR DYLAN ???
