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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

Al Kooper

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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I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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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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I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
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Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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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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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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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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At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
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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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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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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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The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
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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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