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 KOOPERI don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
More Al Kooper Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
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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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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 liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
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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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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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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
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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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