And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.
AL KOOPERYou couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
More Al Kooper Quotes
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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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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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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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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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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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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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I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
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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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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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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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Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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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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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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