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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”.

Al Kooper

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
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
I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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Around Believe Center Country Everything Just Live
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
I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
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Challenge For God Like Me Music
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
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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Ambitious Keyboard Mediocre Opportunity Organ Play Player Record Seize Still
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
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
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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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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Educate Jazz Produce Record University
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
Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
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Now Somebody Steal Stuff Then
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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Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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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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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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