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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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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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Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
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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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Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before.
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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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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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I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
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I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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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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Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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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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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
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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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The 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.
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