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I couldn't think of anybody but him.
:42:02
I mean, he just was the best guitar player
I ever heard.
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Okay, Bob. We've got everybody here,
let's do one. And then...
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A producer named Tom Wilson
invited me to a recording session.
:42:11
And me being 21 years old
and incredibly ambitious...
:42:15
and a big Bob Dylan fan, I decided
I was going to play on that session.
:42:19
There was another guitar player
who sat down, and was warming up...
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and just was playing far beyond my abilities.
:42:26
And he turned out to be Mike Bloomfield.
:42:29
I packed up my guitar, and I went into
the control room where I belonged.
:42:34
After the first couple of hours
of the session, they moved...
:42:40
the organ player over to piano.
:42:45
And I said,
"Well, here's another chance for me".
:42:48
So I said to Tom Wilson:
:42:51
"Why don't you let me play the organ?
:42:53
"I got a great part for this,"
which was total bullshit.
:42:59
And Tom Wilson said,
"Oh, man, you don't play the organ.
:43:04
"You're a guitar player".
:43:06
I said, "I got a really good part for this,
I can play it".
:43:08
He said, "Al".
:43:11
And just then someone came and got him...
:43:14
to take a phone call that came in for him.
:43:17
So he didn't say no.
:43:19
Like a Rolling Stone, remake, Take One.
:43:24
What are you doing there?
:43:26
At that point,
he really could have just busted me...
:43:30
and got me back in the control room.
:43:34
But he was a very gracious man.
And so he let it go.
:43:39
And so I began to play.
:43:41
In the verses, in the beginning,
you hear me come in...
:43:43
always an eighth note behind the band.
:43:46
To make sure that I played the right chord...
:43:48
the band would go... And I'd go like that.
:43:53
Like that.
:43:54
They started playing it back.
:43:56
After about a verse or two,
Bob said to Tom Wilson:
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"Hey, turn the organ up".