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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.

Al Kooper

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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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
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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Chronicle Compiler Event Feel Intelligent Many Participate Research Room So Unlike
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
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
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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I liked being challenged by music. It’s good for me.
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Challenge For God Like Me Music
I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
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Became Care Organ Player Really Turn
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
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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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 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
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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Ambitious Keyboard Mediocre Opportunity Organ Play Player Record Seize Still
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
Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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Bob Dylan Much Pretty Produce Sport
Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.
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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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