Phish to Play New Year's Eve in New York

For the first time in eight years, Phish will return to New York's Madison Square Garden to ring in the New Year. Five dates were announced for Phish's holiday run, including a three-night MSG stand kicking off December 30th and two nights, December 27-28, at Worcester, Massachusetts' DCU Center. The ticket lottery for all five shows is up now at the Phish ticketing site, and a public sale is set for October 9th.

Phish performed at Madison Square Garden on December 31st in 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2002. The band recently announced their autumn tour, which includes a Halloween show at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall. [Phish]

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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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