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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

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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Before Celebrity Down Hear never Person Play Start Went White
Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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Educate Jazz Produce Record University
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
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

Activity Alley Building Country Hib Music Pan Tin
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.
AL KOOPER

Guy Man Organ Player Producer Say Turn
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.
AL KOOPER

Celebrity Disorganized Invite Least Like Mean Producer Roll Say Session Stone Watch
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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Chronicle Compiler Event Feel Intelligent Many Participate Research Room So Unlike
If you’d done a good job you’d just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.
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Back Different Good Interact Job Let Let Go Step
You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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Being Help Influence Person
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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Ambition Bob End Fact Play Session Sheer Through
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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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.
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Broadway Business Everything First Happen Introduce Music Reality Start
I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
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Became Care Organ Player Really Turn
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

Album Differ Different Entirely Highway Incorrect Recor
At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
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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

Band Chord One Play Quick Unbeat

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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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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