And a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside.
AL KOOPERThe 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.
More Al Kooper Quotes
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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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Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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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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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 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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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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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 believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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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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Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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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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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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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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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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I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
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