All Along the Watchtower, by Bob Dylan*.
I mean, I’m obviously doing it in Jimi Hendrix’s cadence, since that’s the first one I heard, and the one I know best, and I probably heard the U2 version after that and long before the Dylan original. Seems like I never bought John Wesley Harding out of the $8.98 bargain bin. But I did own Rattle and Hum on VHS.
This song comes up as a recurring theme in Battlestar Galactica (2000s), too, which I completely forgot until I was deep into a second or third play through it tonight.
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Added bass and a lead guitar, but didn’t try to poor-man’s-version Jimi’s lines (or, uh, Dylan’s harmonica, since I was so clearly covering the Dylan version here).
A friend requested Purple Haze, and we may have to get to that, for two reasons:
- It was a song I asked my guitar teacher to tab out for me circa 1990, so I played it (parts of it anyway, and poorly) for years.
- It was… involved… in my answering machine message for a while as a kid. I did a Jimi Hendrix voice and said Ryan wasn’t here right now, so, uh, leave a message, and it was all a setup for Jimi to say, “excuse me, while I kiss the sky” before the beep.