(April 28, 2015 at 11:14 am)alpha male Wrote: I'm looking at the first line: "All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Did Hendrix influence it? Maybe, but it's still a Dylan song.
And I agree Hendrix was influential. But he gives me a headache.
It is a Dylan song. But Hendrix did a cover of it, and Dylan liked the way Hendrix did it. Dylan liked it so much, that it influenced how Dylan performed the song ever after. I basically agree with Dylan, that Hendrix performed it better than Dylan did.
As for Hendrix giving you a headache, you may want to try listening to him at a lower volume.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
