Magic in Rolling Stone session.mpeg

[@GentlemanAnarchist]

And there, ladies and gents, you have the creation of rocks greatest masterpiece.

[@ROGER2095]

2:58 Look at the top ten for that week: 1. Help 2. Like a Rolling Stone 3. California Girls 4. Unchained Melody 5. It's the Same Old Song 6. I Got You Babe 7. You Were On My Mind 8. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag 9. Eve of Destruction 10. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Not a lemon in the list - You sure can't say that today!

[@MikeMaguire]

Incredible!

[@teacup3133]

I got you babe - not so great - the rest are gold

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Wow all are fantastic songs (eh, i got u babe not so much) No wonder I remember most of the music in that time. Now its a surprise to hear anything I wanna listen to on the radio

[@AbeFroman-zx5hs]

Sorry. A lot of pop records on that list. I got you babe. Ugh. But your point is taken. It’s not even close. Technology has made artists “lazy”.

[@BHAKTIBROPHY]

It's brilliant that Al came in on the "and" of each eighth note. If he never admitted he did it out of necessity, I'd have been none the wiser. It's genius. Most underrated musician, composer, producer, arranger.

[@SpecialSP]

BHAKTI BROPHY Al was married to my nest door neighbor in the early 70s. He did a concert at the high school for his young brother-in-law, who I was babysitting for at the time. It was like a small audienced jam session! He is definitely a legend!

[@brittbeck9158]

It was destiny which made this encounter happen. Al.Kooper’s organ play, is well deserved its place in Rock history. I love that organ part , everything happens for a reason...🙏🎶💕💗👍🏼

[@mariannegiamakis1785]

Hi. Please check out vid 19 and then vid 40 p 2 on Marianne Giamakis youtube channel, for a little more about destiny... and about choices, free will... and good will...

[@anotherjoshua]

song still gives me chills

[@TabascoRain]

Amazing amazing amazing story. As everyone knows, the organ part makes that song what it is.

[@OnerousEthic]

I love this story and I never get tired of hearing it!!!

[@countdown2xstacy]

Eric Houston Me too !

[@christopherschumacher8091]

So cool to hear the story behind the organ part in this song! The organ part always catches my attention when I hear this song, love it.

[@elisabethv9163]

+Christopher Schumacher .... due to some health reasons i had to spend time in a hospital bed, apart from my Ipod i listen to 'Highway 61 Revisited' on my Sony Discman and it is like i do hear much more of the organ, piano, well it's like i do hear a lot more things.

[@CHlEFFIN]

elisabeth v I hope you are now better in health sweet sweet angel💙❤️

[@bigbadbarbiepodcastchannel2682]

Al Kooper is the Forrest Gump of rock n roll, he has always positioned himself where all the big events were from Bob Dylan to founder of Blood, Sweat and Tears, the Super Sessions, and discovering and producing Lynyrd Skynyrd. This video and story is truly one of the greatest stories in rock and roll.

[@Shavian1]

+Zach Kile That's a good way to put it. :)

[@johntechwriter]

Zach Kile I'm with you, except for the "positioned himself" part. More accurately they came to his door. He was known as one of the best session men in American rock -- on both keyboard and guitar, which is practically unheard of.

[@recordguy4321]

he pushed his way onto Highway 61 to play organ., he admits that, after that it was clear sailing

[@jamescassara1341]

I see him more as the utility infielder who can do it all and do it damn well. His solo albums are definitely worth seeking out.

[@IzthatafaC]

I dunno, Bob Dylan is probably more like the Forrest Gump of Rock n Roll as he genuinely is a wanderer. No one really knows where he is half the time and when he's on stage no one knows how he's gonna perform.

[@normangrochowski6972]

I first heard this song in Milwaukee one night in 1966, my last year in high school. It flooded over me, the way it was all put together. I'd never heard a song like this one ever before. There was nothing like it back then. I knew there was something magical in the feeling of the music but I didn't know what or why. Later i came to realize it was definitely the organ. Kooper and Dylan must have been totally tuned in to each other when this chance meeting came about in the studio. Dylan heard the magic and said, Crank it up.

[@riffdigger2133]

Love the intro. That drum crack then boom, comes the guitar triplets and Al’s lush B-3 organ pattern. Simply exquisite and Dylan pickled up on it right away-whereas Producer Tom gracious as he was to let Al sit in, missed that dynamic. Bob sang great, the words fantastic metaphors and it sounds timeless today. Great post and happy to see it pop up on my KZbin home page.

[@melodymakermark]

About 10 years later, some rough and rowdy boys from Jacksonville would catch Al’s attention in an Atlanta bar. Al had a knack for being in the right place at the right time.

[@johnbeekman1396]

Proves a point: a "real" organist would have never come up with that iconic part. Thank God that telephone rang.

[@42awww]

Great take which is true about the most influential and greatest song in music history. Someone actually wrote a book about the whole day of trying to get it right. Al Kooper, Bloomfield and of course Bob didn't realize they were making history. On playback the final time Dylan said, "Turn up that organ" Kooper went on to manage Lynerd Skynerd and Blood Sweat and Tears. Got them recording contracts. He toured with Dylan when I was 18, so almost 40 years ago now. I saluted him after I WANT YOU and he nodded to me. A thrill for sure.. Would have been about 1983. Good work on video!

[@alvanwalls8371]

Top ten in1965 ... that smokes today's top ten

[@jackhammer111]

thanks you SO much for this, the greatest example of studio magic, being in the right place at the right time, and an artists who knows the magic when he hears it. This is one of the most important songs in popular music history. All the the great songwriters of the era which they could have written those songs. "once upon a time in your prime you through the bums a dime, didn't you?" Are you kidding me? Not only the public but other musicians and songwriters swooned. I heard David Crosby talk about just that. Only Dylan. and only 5900 hits. Lady goga get's more than that every time she farts.

[@gaminawulfsdottir3253]

I was skeptical when I saw the title, but this little 4-minute video does manage to show how the magic happened.

[@scottm8579]

Really well edited video. I love it.

[@robbiecarlisle2789]

Al’s story is one of the best in rock n roll. Accidentally ending up in history.

[@dimitrigodhead1969]

Awesome. History is made

[@stroonZe1]

Love you Al! Rock on brother!

[@randolfo1265]

That eighth note delay just makes it better, as a song and a story.

[@danielstoddart]

Sometimes the "mistakes" are where the magic is in a recording, and the best musicians with the right instincts know when to leave them in the final cut.

[@randolfo1265]

@@danielstoddart - Yes, The catchy mistake becomes the hook.

[@HotPlatters1]

Though Kooper's organ part is what's most often discussed, what's really impressive is Paul Griffin's piano part on "Like a Rolling Stone" which can be heard on Disc 4 , track 16 of the 18 cd set "Cutting Edge"...

[@maximumoccupancy]

Do you have a link to the piano part?

[@georgenaha1001]

Paul was a super talented musician, and a very humble, sweet, and funny guy.

[@nathanwahl9224]

Indeed, the underlying tidal wave of sound from him just accentuates all of the stuff layered above it, Surprisingly busy once you pick up on it.

[@penelopemaynard9016]

Great story, thanks for posting.

[@robert11751]

good thing kooper was invited to that session

[@greatful1954]

Simple twist of fate.

[@ronrotunno-jh6hw]

Bloomfield and Kooper worked well together. Two great craftsman doing their thing to elevate the song.

[@randomguy9934]

Bob Dylan, Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper are all legends

[@butlincat1507]

wonderful

[@JimVincitore]

The beauty of KZbin!

[@ds2jim]

Al Kooper, the coolest mo-fo in rock history!

[@rogerrrubin]

great vid!

[@johntechwriter]

Al Kooper is a brilliant singer/songwriter in his own right. His masterpiece is probably Blood Sweat and Tears first album, "Child is Father to the Man." As a backup musician, as shown in this video, he made countless big stars sound better. He is still working, living in Nashville, to the best of my knowledge.

[@thomasstambaugh4832]

He lives in my town, Somerville MA. He taught at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, for years.

[@charlespeterson3798]

Funny, Funny, Funny, I always saw Kooper as a fraud, but his take on his place on the greatest sound I ever heard come out of a car radio redeems him, plus he was generous with Johnston. And he did produce one very good Lynard Skynard album. Yeh, he's alright.

[@kandiceblu1]

I think he's a little sketchy at times ....he can come across that way for sure

[@texxmw]

I have been listening to this recording for decades. never gets old, never sounds flat. Kooper's immortal playing, pushing that HammandB-3 helped make this song like no other. Even Dylan 'heard it' & go it ...the entire track is simply among the best ever recorded. The question remains though: what kind of amplifier was used to get that B-3 sound?

[@johntechwriter]

texxmw I played a B3 professionally so can give you the answer. The essential amp/speaker for a B3 (which had no speakers of its own) was a big ungainly wood-paneled box called a Leslie after the now-defunct manufacturer. The top portion of the Leslie contained a rotating horn: slow for a choral sound and fast for vibrato. The bottom house a downward facing 15" (I think) conventional speaker. Its sound went directly into a rotating wooden drum that also had two speeds. Like the B3 the Leslie was designed for use in churches as a substitute for a pipe organ. The Hammond B3, was not electronic but a huge mechanical marvel that used a "tone generator" to create a natural sine wave sound. No electronic keyboard, now or then, could match its richness of tone. In popular music the B3 was used in the '50s for schmaltzy music like "Ebb Tide" played by Earl Grant. In the '60s jazz genius Jimmy Smith used the B3's percussion effect to record dazzling solos and improvisations. Then the rock world found the B3's full sound was like a backup orchestra and suddenly it was everywhere. Both Hammond and Leslie are gone now but their unique sound has been replicated in synths from Roland and Yamaha. An original B3/Leslie combo would sell today for over $10,000. For expert musicians only.

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

In most recording studio settings, the B3's rotary Leslie speaker was mic'd and eq'd thru the board. That classic gritty shrill tone in that particular cut was because of the tube amp built into the organ and the tone bar settings Kooper set it on. Kooper was a classic ear player. The eight-note delay on his chords proves his ability to play without charts and only needing to hear the chord and using his relative pitch to know which chord to play.

[@brucehauge1391]

texxnw, "Even Dylan heard it & got it"? What are you saying Dylan was tone deaf? The key word being Even.

[@Lowdownbackporch]

I still have that single. After 'You never turn around to see the ground' or something like that, the pick-up arm lifted and you had to flip the record. Cool info!

[@thenneedd]

God wanted more organ.

[@παναγιωταδουρου]

what is the version of the song called in the start?

[@ianbreedlove6412]

It's from The Bootleg Series Volume 1-3.

[@michelebryan7353]

So good.

[@tizzlebizzle1234]

Does anyone know wear to find that demo version that’s playing in the beginning

[@josefk5659]

tizzlebizzle1234 I’m commenting to be alerted when it surfaces.

[@anthonycusinato3969]

@@josefk5659 it's the 3/4 waltz-time piano demo of Dylan running through the song, just trying to put what he wrote to some kind of rythm/song. It's more or less just a fragment, but you can find it on the very first bootleg series vol. 1-3 rare and unreleased boxset that was first issued back in 1991. They are currently up to vol.14 in the series I believe, as of the last issue in 2018.

[@cdbrown30]

Tim sounds like Bob Dylan 🤯

[@mikemestas9835]

my ultimate schooling song(inceptiom by radio65)---unaware if it was Bob Dylan----more like the VOICE the song the whole shhhBANDG

[@KyKy1589]

From which documentary is this video?

[@trentyoung4041]

"No Direction Home" directed by Martin Scorsese

[@marguskiis7711]

The epic organ part is still too silent.

[@davidbrock2871]

Sometimes self promotion works wonders.

[@joebanfi8531]

Which documentary is this clip from???

[@thomascall3454]

'No Direction Home' by Marton Scorsese.