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I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.

Al Kooper

Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
AL KOOPER

Now Somebody Steal Stuff Then
I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
AL KOOPER

Challenge For God Like Me Music
I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
AL KOOPER

Around Believe Center Country Everything Just Live
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.
AL KOOPER

Cock Cubic Every Fake Joke Morning Paino Place Upright Wall White Work
The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
AL KOOPER

Crook Doubt First Generation Mean Much People Pretty
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.
AL KOOPER

Chronicle Compiler Event Feel Intelligent Many Participate Research Room So Unlike
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 KOOPER

Actual Came Door Little Lock Out Outside Slate Wall Write
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
AL KOOPER

Bob Eloquent Music Musically Primitive Somebody Term Use User
Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
AL KOOPER

Educate Jazz Produce Record University
At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
AL KOOPER

Actual During End Like Playback Rolling Stone Take Thing
I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after “Like A Rolling Stone”.
AL KOOPER

After Country Politics Record Roll Stone Think
I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
AL KOOPER

Became Care Organ Player Really Turn
In the, uh, ’30s and ’40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City.
AL KOOPER

Activity Alley Building Country Hib Music Pan Tin
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.
AL KOOPER

Celebrity Disorganized Invite Least Like Mean Producer Roll Say Session Stone Watch
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 KOOPER

Guy Man Organ Player Producer Say Turn
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.
AL KOOPER

Band Chord One Play Quick Unbeat

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