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Afternoon Quote by Al Kooper

“Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went,…” quote by Al Kooper — Download Open image

“Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.”

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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