Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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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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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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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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I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
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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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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 now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
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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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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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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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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
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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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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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