Courtney Booked for Drugs

Courtney Love will be arraigned tomorrow in Los Angeles on a misdemeanor charge of being under the influence of a controlled substance. The charge, handed down yesterday, carries a minimum of ninety days in jail and a maximum of one year.

The charge stems from an incident a week ago outside the L.A. home of her ex-boyfriend, producer and manager Jim Barber. Police arrested Love after responding to a burglary call around 2 a.m.; Love had broken windows of the house and was standing in the middle of the street when officers arrived.

"Her behavior was consistent with being under the influence," a L.A.P.D. spokeswoman told Rolling Stone.

Then at 6 a.m., after Love had posted bail, Beverly Hills responded to "medical emergency" at her home, and she was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for an apparent drug overdose.

Love has responded to the charges on her Web site. "That controlled substance," she wrote earlier this week, "one fucking word: Xanax."

But police reportedly believe that Love was taking a controlled substance other than that prescription drug. Official drug tests are forthcoming.

Meanwhile, Love's new album, America's Sweetheart, has been bumped back more than three months and is now expected February 10th.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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