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At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.

Al Kooper

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.
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Cock Cubic Every Fake Joke Morning Paino Place Upright Wall White Work
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
Every now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
AL KOOPER

Now Somebody Steal Stuff Then
The “Highway 61” album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I’m not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson.
AL KOOPER

Album Differ Different Entirely Highway Incorrect Recor
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
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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Afternoon Age Career Finish Guitar Just My One
Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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Breath Finally Found Fresh Hardcore Intelligent Research Word
At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
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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.
AL KOOPER

Ambitious Keyboard Mediocre Opportunity Organ Play Player Record Seize Still
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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Band Chord One Play Quick Unbeat
If you’d done a good job you’d just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.
AL KOOPER

Back Different Good Interact Job Let Let Go Step
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.
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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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Ambition Bob End Fact Play Session Sheer Through
You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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Being Help Influence Person
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
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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