Massive's 3D Busted for Porn

Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja is denying ever having looked at child pornography on the internet after his arrest in connection with alleged class A drug and Web porn offenses.

British police raided his Bristol, England, home Tuesday as part of Operation Ore, the same international child pornography sting that netted Who guitarist Pete Townshend last month. They came away with computer equipment and substances suspected to be drugs, and detained Del Naja for six hours of questioning. Del Naja, who records and performs with Massive Attack as 3D, has not yet been charged, and is now free pending further inquiries.

In Britain, Class A drugs include ecstasy, cocaine, methadone, heroin, L.S.D., and amphetamines. Possession can carry a seven-year prison term. A conviction for possession of child pornography could carry a five-year sentence.

"I am fully cooperating with police and I would ask everyone not to judge me prematurely," Del Naja said after his release. "I have total faith in the justice system."

Massive Attack's latest album, 100th Window, is currently in the U.K. Top Ten, and Del Naja has recently been an outspoken public opponent of the possibility of war with Iraq.

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“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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