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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.

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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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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.
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At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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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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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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Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.
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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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I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
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