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

Al Kooper

Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before.
AL KOOPER

Before Celebrity Down Hear never Person Play Start Went White
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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Celebrity Disorganized Invite Least Like Mean Producer Roll Say Session Stone Watch
Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
AL KOOPER

Now Somebody Steal Stuff Then
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
Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
AL KOOPER

Bob Dylan Much Pretty Produce Sport
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
Every day from 10 to 6, we’d go in there and pretend that we were 13 year old girls and write these songs. That was the gig.
AL KOOPER

Day Every Gig Old Pretend Six Song Ten Thirteen Write Year
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.
AL KOOPER

Crook Definitely Doubt Fitness Generation Little Money More Out People Take Wave
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
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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Activity Alley Building Country Hib Music Pan Tin
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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After Country Politics Record Roll Stone Think
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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Equivalent Excellent Gospel Influence Jewish Marriage Mostly Music Over Play Twist
You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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Being Help Influence Person
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
I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
AL KOOPER

Around Believe Center Country Everything Just Live
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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Actual Came Door Little Lock Out Outside Slate Wall Write

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