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 [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

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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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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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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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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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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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At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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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.

AL KOOPER

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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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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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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Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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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.

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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.
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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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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 believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.

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I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.

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