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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

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So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.
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Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
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I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
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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.
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The very funny thing about “Like A Rolling Stone” is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument.
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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the ’60s.
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Bob Dylan said to the producer, turn up the organ. And Tom Wilson said, oh man, that guy’s not an organ player. And Dylan said.
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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.
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I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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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.
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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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