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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.

Al Kooper

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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Guy Man Organ Player Producer Say Turn
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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Actual Came Door Little Lock Out Outside Slate Wall Write
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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Before Celebrity Down Hear never Person Play Start Went White
The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
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Crook Doubt First Generation Mean Much People Pretty
You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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Being Help Influence Person
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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Funny Thing Instrument Minute Play Read Rolling Six Song Stone Unfamiliar
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
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Bob Eloquent Music Musically Primitive Somebody Term Use User
I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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Around Believe Center Country Everything Just Live
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
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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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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Day Every Gig Old Pretend Six Song Ten Thirteen Write Year
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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Broadway Business Everything First Happen Introduce Music Reality Start
At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
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Actual During End Like Playback Rolling Stone Take Thing
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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Activity Alley Building Country Hib Music Pan Tin
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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After Country Politics Record Roll Stone Think
Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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Educate Jazz Produce Record University

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