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.
AL KOOPERProducing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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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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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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Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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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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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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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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I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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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 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 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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At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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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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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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