You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.

AL KOOPER

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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.

Al Kooper

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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.

AL KOOPER

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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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.

AL KOOPER

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.
AL KOOPER

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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.

AL KOOPER

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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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.

AL KOOPER

You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

AL KOOPER

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.
AL KOOPER

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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.

AL KOOPER

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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I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.

AL KOOPER

I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
AL KOOPER

For Like Me
Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

AL KOOPER

Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
AL KOOPER

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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.

AL KOOPER

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.
AL KOOPER

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I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.

AL KOOPER

I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
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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I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.

AL KOOPER

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.

AL KOOPER

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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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

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 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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Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before.

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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