Watch It Now: Bruce Springsteen Plays 'Kitty's Back' With Max Weinberg's Big Band

Bruce Springsteen performed three songs with the Max Weinberg Big Band at last night's Stand Up For Heroes Benefit at New York's Beacon Theater. With E Street Band keyboardist Roy Bittan sitting in, Springsteen and the group played "Open All Night," "If I Should Fall Behind" and an 11-minute "Kitty's Back." The yearly fundraiser — which raises money for injured veterans — also featured Tony Bennett, Jerry Seinfeld and Jon Stewart.

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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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