I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
AL KOOPERAt the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
More Al Kooper Quotes
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Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
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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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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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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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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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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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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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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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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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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 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.
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