Suge Knight Arrested Again

Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight was arrested Friday night for an unspecified parole violation. The thirty-seven-year-old hip-hop mogul, who now runs Tha Row Records, is being held without bail.

The arrest is Knight's second for parole violations in the past year. On December 23, 2002, he was arrested on charges of associating with gang members. Knight was incarcerated until February 26th, at which point four of five charges were dropped, the last one rubbed out with a 200-hour community service sentence.

Knight's troubles date back to a 1992 conviction for assault and federal weapons violations. He was given probation, which he was convicted of violating in 1996 when he and some associates were videotaped beating a rival gang member in a Las Vegas hotel. That crime drew Knight a five-year prison sentence; he was paroled in August 2001.

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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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