{"id":99265,"date":"2020-05-09T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=99265"},"modified":"2020-05-08T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T12:10:28","slug":"a-blast-from-the-past-rarities-edition-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=99265","title":{"rendered":"A Blast from the Past, Rarities Edition &#8211; Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hendrix\u2019s cover of Dylan\u2019s \u201cAll Along the Watchtower\u201d is today considered the definitive version.  Dylan himself was apparently floored by Hendrix&#8217;s version, and now reputedly uses the Hendrix arrangement himself in concert.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan\u2019s \u201cAll Along the Watchtower\u201d has been covered by many other artists.  But the best I can tell, Eric Clapton has never released a cover version of the tune.  I\u2019m sure many of his fans wish he had.<\/p>\n<p>But Clapton <i>was<\/i> recorded playing the tune in concert at least once, with Lenny Kravitz on vocals.  So if you\u2019d ever wondered how a Clapton cover might have sounded . . . here ya go.  Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1fMvW_FtALU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hendrix\u2019s cover of Dylan\u2019s \u201cAll Along the Watchtower\u201d is today considered the definitive version. Dylan himself &hellip; <a title=\"A Blast from the Past, Rarities Edition &#8211; Part 3\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=99265\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Blast from the Past, Rarities Edition &#8211; Part 3<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100527,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99265\/revisions\/100527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}