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when interviewed, musicians will often mention
the performers and experiences that had shaped
their art

sometimes these influences will surprise us;
we just wouldn't have expected them

i think that a case in point is the mutual respect
and influence shown by Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix;
two musicians who, at first glance, seem quite
different

Hendrix very much identified with Dylan's lyrics;
and Dylan had great respect for Hendrix's
musicianship

Hendrix on Dylan,

Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me
so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn't
always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days,
but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.
— Jimi Hendrix, from Beat Instrumental magazine,
1969

Dylan on Hendrix, when asked how he felt when first
hearing Hendrix’s version of All Along the Watchtower,

It overwhelmed me, really. He had such a talent, he
could find things inside a song and vigorously develop
them. He found things that other people wouldn’t think
of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the
spaces he was using. I took license with the song from
his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day.
— The Bob Dylan Companion

to get a sense of the influences Dylan and Hendrix
had upon one another, check out the video below

it shows Dylan's All Along the Watchtower from
John Wesley Hardin (1967); the Hendrix version
from Electric Ladyland (1968); and one of Dylan's
Hendrix-influenced live performances, Braunschweig,
Germany 2001