All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Cover Multitrack

My cover of all along the watchtower, I use about 20 tracks in this video. I improvised small parts in place of vocals (as i cannot sing) but unfortunately could not find a backing track with just drums and bass. My favourite part starts at 2:00. I also did abit of improv at the end (my guitar chokes on the 19th fret E string so i try to avoid it).

Gear/Effects:
Fender 62 vintage reissue american stratocaster
Fender blues junior: used for all lead and wah tracks, preamp pushed all the way for a natural overdrive, used a good amount of reverb.
Marshall DSL 401: on the OD1 channel, used for the rythm. (i actually had more drive on the rythm than the solo, as marshalls retain alot more clarity when distorted)
Dunlop Crybaby Wah: for the wah parts
Boss DD3: used on the octave and wah parts in the 3rd solo, the ending solo, and the improv over the second vocal verse (where I had the tone knob switched off to achieve Eric Clapton's woman tone).

I also used a TS9 tubescreamer to boost the preamp on the wah and octave parts in the 3rd solo, however I decided against using it for the rest and just turned the preamp up instead.

Recorded using only an Ipod touch, edited with sony vegas movie studio 10 HD Platinum software.

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[frabs91]

bad intro...:-/..wahwah....but the other parts are nice..

[Mrjamesanonymous]

@frabs91 thats fine, it's your opinion. I personally wanted to put abit of my own style into it, but the intro seems to offend everyone for some reason. I think alot of the time people can be too touchy when it comes to altering source material, as to me its much more interesting when people put there own individual spin on things. For example, If Hendrix was afraid of reinterpreting Bob Dylans classic, then we wouldn't have Hendrix's incredible version of watchtower in the first place.

[gould0453]

very good guitarist and good cover, but i think you need to cool down a little bit in some of your solos

[Mrjamesanonymous]

@gould0453 Thanks for the compliment. I'm not sure what you mean by 'cool down' though, could you be abit more specific?

[gould0453]

@gould0453 like some of your bends and vibratos are to powerful sounding for a song like this

[Mrjamesanonymous]

@gould0453 That's just how I like to play. I'm sorry that it bothered you but I think that it's down to your own personal preference that the blues in this song should be played smooth as apposed to aggressive. It's really no different from a preference for a soft B.B. King style solo over a hard SRV one, I mean if they played together SRV wouldn't say to himself 'I need to tone down my playing for BB King' and BB King wouldn't say to himself 'I need to tone up my playing for SRV'.

[wesmatron]

@Mrjamesanonymous I prefer that...I'm listening to the tune through your ears...much better than a note-for-note copy. If people want a note-for-note copy they should listen to the album :)

[Mrjamesanonymous]

@Carbonite2008 Thanks

[Carbonite2008]

I love your picking style!

[Mrjamesanonymous]

@turkish349 Thanks