If you’d done a good job you’d just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.
AL KOOPERI liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
More Al Kooper Quotes
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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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Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
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The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
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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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Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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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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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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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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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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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 liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
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Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony ‘encyclopedia’ compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in.
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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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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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