Phish Plan Fall Tour, Halloween Blowout

Phish just wrapped their summer tour last week, but they're already announcing fall concert dates. After headlining Austin City Limits on October 8, they'll continue the tour with a three-night stand at Broomfield, Colorado's 1stBank Center, then work their way east, winding things up with three nights at Atlantic City, New Jersey's Boardwalk Hall. The band will play their final, "very special" show on Halloween, where tradition suggests that they'll wear a "musical costume" – i.e., perform another artist's album in its entirety. On past Halloweens they've covered the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St., the Beatles' White Album, the Velvet Underground's Loaded, Talking Heads' Remain in Light and the Who's Quadrophenia. Watch Phish's tour announcement video above, and visit Phish.com for ticket information.

Photos: Phish's Festival 8, Halloween 2009

Oct. 8 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival
Oct. 10 – Broomfield, CO @ 1stBank Center
Oct. 11 – Broomfield, CO @ 1stBank Center
Oct. 12 – Broomfield, CO @ 1stBank Center
Oct. 15 – Charleston, SC @ North Charleston Coliseum
Oct. 16 – Charleston, SC @ North Charleston Coliseum
Oct. 19 – Augusta, ME @ Augusta Civic Center
Oct. 20 – Utica, NY @ Utica Memorial Auditorium
Oct. 22 – Providence, RI @ Dunkin Donuts Center
Oct. 23 – Amherst, MA @ Mullins Center
Oct. 24 – Amherst, MA @ Mullins Center
Oct. 26 – Manchester, NH @ Verizon Wireless Arena
Oct. 29 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
Oct. 30 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
Oct. 31 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall

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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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