Who Will Open For AC/DC On Tour? The Answer

AC/DC have chosen an opening band for their upcoming North American tour, hand-selecting North Ireland rockers the Answer. You may remember the Answer from David Fricke's column following their performance at this year's SXSW festival. The Answer released their debut album Rise in 2006. If an opening slot for AC/DC doesn't mean you've hit the big time, Guitar Hero: World Tour has also tapped the band's "Never Too Late" for its track list. The Answer will precede their AC/DC stint with their US live debut at a club show during NYC's CMJ music marathon.

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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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