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Al Kooper

Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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Breath Finally Found Fresh Hardcore Intelligent Research Word
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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Day Every Gig Old Pretend Six Song Ten Thirteen Write Year
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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Guy Man Organ Player Producer Say Turn
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.
AL KOOPER

Funny Thing Instrument Minute Play Read Rolling Six Song Stone Unfamiliar
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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Equivalent Excellent Gospel Influence Jewish Marriage Mostly Music Over Play Twist
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
Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
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Now Somebody Steal Stuff Then
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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Band Chord One Play Quick Unbeat
Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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Bob Dylan Much Pretty Produce Sport
The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
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Crook Doubt First Generation Mean Much People Pretty
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
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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Bob Eloquent Music Musically Primitive Somebody Term Use User
I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
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Challenge For God Like Me Music
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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After Country Politics Record Roll Stone Think
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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Cock Cubic Every Fake Joke Morning Paino Place Upright Wall White Work
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

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