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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.

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.
AL KOOPER

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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

Crook Definitely Doubt Fitness Generation Little Money More Out People Take Wave
The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
AL KOOPER

Crook Doubt First Generation Mean Much People Pretty
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.
AL KOOPER

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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
AL KOOPER

Being Help Influence Person
I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after “Like A Rolling Stone”.
AL KOOPER

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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

Actual Came Door Little Lock Out Outside Slate Wall Write
I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the ’60s.
AL KOOPER

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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
AL KOOPER

Bob Dylan Much Pretty Produce Sport
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

Cock Cubic Every Fake Joke Morning Paino Place Upright Wall White Work
If you’d done a good job you’d just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.
AL KOOPER

Back Different Good Interact Job Let Let Go Step
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.
AL KOOPER

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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

Actual During End Like Playback Rolling Stone Take Thing
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.
AL KOOPER

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

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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

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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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