And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.
AL KOOPERI believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
More Al Kooper Quotes
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Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
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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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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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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the “Like A Rolling Stone” session I was invited by the producer to watch.
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Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
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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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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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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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Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.
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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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