ODB Arrested...Again

ODB was arrested for the second time in one week, this time in Harlem|. Police stopped the Ol' Dirty Bastard around 7:30 p.m., Friday night, when they spotted him driving his 1996 Range Rover sans license plates again.

During the stop, the officers discovered the Wu Tang Clansman was driving with a suspended license, but, this time, he had no crack.

This makes the sixth time his license has been suspended and, grander still, the seventh time he's been arrested in as many months. He's due in Manhattan Criminal Court on April 27 to face this charge, and Brooklyn on April 22nd for his charge of possession.

He went to court on Wednesday, in Los Angeles, for the incident in which he was wearing a bullet-proof vest, and he still has two pending trials in Los Angeles -- one of which has issued a bench warrant for his arrest - for allegedly threatening his baby's mother and for allegedly threatening a nightclub bouncer. According to The New York Daily News, ODB has nine convictions in the Big Apple alone, dating back to 1987.

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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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