If you’d done a good job you’d just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.
AL KOOPEREvery now and then we could steal somebody else’s stuff.
More Al Kooper Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
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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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At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
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Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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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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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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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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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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Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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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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The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
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