Jane's Back With Lollapalooza

Perry Farrell will sweep the dust off Lollapalooza this summer with a line-up that includes Jane's Addiction, Audioslave, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age and Jurassic 5.

Dormant since 1997, the Lollapalooza format encouraged the cross-pollination of bands from different genres and became one of the leading summer package tours in the Nineties.

Jane's Addiction will be out in support of Hypersonic, the band's first release since 1990's Ritual de lo Habitual, and the first with a reconfigured line-up that features Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and newcomer bassist Chris Chaney.

Navarro credited a recent string of reunion shows as the impetus for writing new songs. "We love playing together and we play great shows," he told Rolling Stone last year. "But we knew that if we're ever going to do it again we needed some new material."

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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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