Fact #39651
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Short story:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience enter the UK singles chart with their cover of Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower. It will peak at No5 during an eleven-week run.
Full article:
Bob Dylan : We can’t forget Jimi Hendrix. I actually saw Jimi perform when he was with a band called Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. Something like that. And Jimi didn’t even sing. He was just the guitar player. He took some small songs of mine that nobody paid any attention to and brought them up into the outer limits of the stratosphere. Turned them all into classics. I have to thank Jimi, too. I wish he was here.
(Source : speech at the Musicares Person Of The Year Event, Feb 2015)
Jimi Hendrix : Dylan really turned me on – not the words or his guitar, but as a way to get myself together. A cat like that can do it to you. Race, that was okay. In the Village people were more friendly than in Harlem where it's all cold and mean. Your own people hurt you more. Anyway, I had always wanted a more integrated sound. Top-Forty stuff is all out of gospel, so they try to get everybody up and clapping, shouting, 'yeah, yeah.' We don't want everybody up. They should just sit there and dig it. And they must dig it, or we wouldn't be here."
(Source interview by Michael Lydon in New York Times, March 1968)
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(Source : speech at the Musicares Person Of The Year Event, Feb 2015)
Jimi Hendrix : Dylan really turned me on – not the words or his guitar, but as a way to get myself together. A cat like that can do it to you. Race, that was okay. In the Village people were more friendly than in Harlem where it's all cold and mean. Your own people hurt you more. Anyway, I had always wanted a more integrated sound. Top-Forty stuff is all out of gospel, so they try to get everybody up and clapping, shouting, 'yeah, yeah.' We don't want everybody up. They should just sit there and dig it. And they must dig it, or we wouldn't be here."
(Source interview by Michael Lydon in New York Times, March 1968)