Win a Pair of Tickets to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Hollywood Bowl

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been touring behind their excellent Mojo since early June, and the summer trek is wrapping up in California at the beginning of October. Haven't caught the show yet? You're in luck: Rolling Stone, in partnership with Live Nation Merchandise and TomPetty.com, is giving two lucky winners a pair of tickets each for the October 1st show at Los Angeles' historic Hollywood Bowl. Rolling Stone is not responsible for travel for the winners and their companion.

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To enter, fill out the form below or e-mail your name, e-mail address, age, phone number and address to contests [at] rollingstone [dot] com with the subject line "Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Hollywood Bowl Sweepstakes." No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Open to residents of the 50 United States and Washington DC who are 18 years of age or older as of September 20, 2010. Sweepstakes begins at 5:00 p.m. EST on September 20, 2010 and ends at 11:59pm EST on September 25, 2010. Number of winners: 2. ARV: $250.00. Certain restrictions may apply. Complete Official Rules are available here.

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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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