Like A Rolling Stone Al Kooper
In a never released interview from 1984 al kooper explains how chutzpah helped to get him playing on dylan s early sessions and more.
Like a rolling stone al kooper. It was in those recording sessions that kooper met and befriended mike bloomfield whose guitar playing he admired. Like a rolling stone was recorded a few weeks later as part of the sessions for the forthcoming album highway 61 revisited. But the tape is rolling and that is bob. Kooper who was a 21 year old session guitarist arrived merely as a guest of wilson.
Al kooper like a rolling stone. Tom wilson invited al kooper to stop by the next day s session simply to watch. As chronicled in the 2005 martin scorsese documentary film no direction home. During a difficult two day preproduction dylan struggled to find the essence o.
Its confrontational lyrics originated in an extended piece of verse dylan wrote in june 1965 when he returned exhausted from a grueling tour of england. On june 16 1965 kooper showed up for the second day of the production of like a rolling stone which was being produced by tom wilson. A great rock and roll career is made. I love this story.
Kooper also played the hammond organ riffs on dylan s like a rolling stone. Initially kooper hoped to work his way into the session on guitar. Kooper played organ once again with dylan during his 1981 world tour. Like a rolling stone is a 1965 song by the american singer songwriter bob dylan.
Dylan distilled this draft into four verses and a chorus.