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Al Kooper

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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Bob Dylan Much Pretty Produce Sport
Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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Educate Jazz Produce Record University
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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Celebrity Disorganized Invite Least Like Mean Producer Roll Say Session Stone Watch
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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Actual Came Door Little Lock Out Outside Slate Wall Write
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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Funny Thing Instrument Minute Play Read Rolling Six Song Stone Unfamiliar
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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Activity Alley Building Country Hib Music Pan Tin
You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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Being Help Influence Person
The “Highway 61” album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I’m not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson.
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Album Differ Different Entirely Highway Incorrect Recor
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
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
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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Back Different Good Interact Job Let Let Go Step
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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Chronicle Compiler Event Feel Intelligent Many Participate Research Room So Unlike
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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Ambition Bob End Fact Play Session Sheer Through
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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Broadway Business Everything First Happen Introduce Music Reality Start
Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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Breath Finally Found Fresh Hardcore Intelligent Research Word
And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.
AL KOOPER

Afternoon Age Career Finish Guitar Just My One

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