Talk:All Along the Watchtower

Prince performed it at Super Bowl 41. 144.178.0.140 (talk) 20:11, 16 August 2018 (UTC) Darwin

:WP:SONGCOVER. DonIago (talk) 13:35, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

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{{ping|ErnestKrause}} I'm a bit confused about your addition:

"In 1974, Dylan recorded and released a studio version of the song on Before the Flood concert which Larry Starr has called Dylan's up-tempo version of the song after listening favorably to the Hendrix version. A third version of the song is identified by Starr as being released on the MTV Unplugged concert recording released in 1995"

as this seems to repeat part of the pre-existing text:

"Dylan has released live recordings of the song on the following albums: Before the Flood (recorded February 1974); Bob Dylan at Budokan (recorded March 1978); Dylan & The Dead (recorded July 1987); and MTV Unplugged (recorded November 1994)."

I'm sure the 1974 release would have had some sort of studio treatment, but I don't think it's a "studio version". Maybe some commentary from Starr can be included, but it would need to be fully cited in the way that the other books referenced are. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 16:19, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

:{{u|BennyOnTheLoose}} The quote from the new Larry Starr book that I added on your Talk page is: "...'Watchtower' is a brief, compelling, and mysterious song. Its ominous character is captured memorably in the studio version, which utilizes for accompaniment just Dylan's guitar and harmonica... The singing is utterly straightforward, as if recounting a simple parable about the nameless joker and thief; Dylan is not about to disclose a hint of any deeper meaning...", from page 107. If that is useful, then maybe you can find some way to add it into the article. Any duplicated material can be deleted. Of the six Dylan books I've looked at so far, only Starr seems to give any attention to Watchtower. ErnestKrause (talk) 16:30, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

:I've removed the duplicate part about the 3 versions from Starr and added his quote about the lyrics to the lyrics section. If it looks ok, then it can be converted to Harvard cites format. Also there seems to be a problem with cites made to Gray;2002 in the book sources which I can't quite figure out, in the print out in the last paragraph of the Lyrics section. I've also added a short quote from the 2021 Cambridge University Press anthology on Dylan titled The World of Bob Dylan. If it looks ok, then it can be converted to Harvard cites format as well. ErnestKrause (talk) 00:08, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

:Also fixed the Harvard cites in the lyrics section I just mentioned above. ErnestKrause (talk) 00:30, 3 August 2022 (UTC)