DMX to Serve Time

DMX is out fifteen days of freedom and $400. A Cheektowaga, New York judge rejected his appeal to overturn the jail sentence and fine stemming from a traffic incident last March. Following a Ruff Ryders/Cash Money performance in Buffalo, DMX was pulled over in his car by police and charged with speeding, failing to signal a lane change, driving with a suspended permit and marijuana possession.

DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of driving without a license and was ordered to serve fifteen days in jail and pay the $400 fine.

Within the next two weeks, DMX is expected to surrender and begin serving his fifteen-day sentence at the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden, New York.

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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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