2007-03-11 21:42:18 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Bob Dylan - Jehovah's witness - Watchtower is the name of their magazine.
Jimi Hendrix - "includes one of the most highly praised guitar arrangements in modern music" ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Along_The_Watchtower
And everybody has done it.
2007-03-11 21:59:16 · answer #1 · answered by pepper 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The song depicts a conversation between two people, a "joker" and a "thief", about the difficulties of getting by in life ("There's too much confusion"). Ironically, the joker is concerned about losing his property, and it is the thief rather than the joker who observes that some individuals among them that aren't taking life as seriously as they should: "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke." It has been said that Dylan was complaining about record company executives cheating him out of royalties with the lines "Businessman they drink my wine/Plowmen dig my earth". The joker then suggests that time is running out, which may hint of their own mortality or foreshadow a change in society. In the last verse the viewpoint of the song switches abruptly. The ruling princes stand guard in a watchtower over their women and servants as an unnamed pair approach amid ominous sounds.[
2007-03-12 05:03:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋