Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

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Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

Al Kooper

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The “Highway 61” album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I’m not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson.

AL KOOPER

The “Highway 61” album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I’m not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson.
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The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I’d come into work and I’d go into this cubicle that had a little upright piano and fake white cork bricks on the wall.

AL KOOPER

The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I’d come into work and I’d go into this cubicle that had a little upright piano and fake white cork bricks on the wall.
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And a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside.

AL KOOPER

And a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside.
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Every day from 10 to 6, we’d go in there and pretend that we were 13 year old girls and write these songs. That was the gig.

AL KOOPER

Every day from 10 to 6, we’d go in there and pretend that we were 13 year old girls and write these songs. That was the gig.
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My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

AL KOOPER

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.
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At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.

AL KOOPER

At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
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I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after “Like A Rolling Stone”.
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In the, uh, ’30s and ’40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City.

AL KOOPER

In the, uh, ’30s and ’40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City.
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I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.

AL KOOPER

I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.
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I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.

AL KOOPER

I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
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Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
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Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,

AL KOOPER

The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
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Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before.

AL KOOPER

Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before.
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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

AL KOOPER

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.

AL KOOPER

Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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