Fact #39126
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When Bob Dylan plays at The Bear, Chicago, Illinois, USA, he meets Mike Bloomfield for the first time. Bloomfield will become his guitarist when he makes his change to electric music, and will play on Like A Rolling Stone and many other tracks.
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Mike Bloomfield (blues/rock guitar virtuoso) : I met Dylan at this funny little club called The Bear in Chicago, just after his first album came out. The liner notes described him as a real hotshot, you know, a real great guitar player. And I heard the album and it sounded just shitty. He came to Chicago and I welcomed the opportunity to go down there and cut him. So I went to see him in the afternoon, to talk to him, and he was really nice. He was just so nice. I saw him at a few parties, and then out of the clear blue sky, he called me up to cut a record, which was Like A Rolling Stone. So I bought a Fender Telecaster, a really good guitar, for the first time in my life.
Ted Nugent : (Bloomfield was) One of my biggest influences - an early assertive tone-conscious white adaptation to the blues masters with a very excitable and flamboyant flair for rhythm and blues-based rock 'n' roll.
(Source : Guitar World, March 1987)
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Ted Nugent : (Bloomfield was) One of my biggest influences - an early assertive tone-conscious white adaptation to the blues masters with a very excitable and flamboyant flair for rhythm and blues-based rock 'n' roll.
(Source : Guitar World, March 1987)