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Skynyrd

I can't believe that Skynyrd has one mention here. Kooper was such a driving force behind the band, playing on many songs. Read the book (I can't even remember the name) written by a friend of the band. Kooper's name comes up every couple of pages. Zchris87v 21:59, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

After doing the math, here are the results. Skynyrd book, Kooper gets mentioned "...every couple of pages...". You didn't say 'every other' page, so I figured every 3rd page to put a real number to the implication. Next, the Wikipedia 'Kooper' article, Skynyrd gets mentioned every page. Tally results-- Kooper in Skynyrd book is 33 percent. Skynyrd in Kooper article is 100%. Mathematically, Skynyrd gets more coverage here in Kooper than Kooper got in Skynyrd. Just an observation. Joe Hepperle (talk) 10:31, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well was he or was he not a driving force behind Skynyrd? Inanygivenhole (talk) 23:45, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Al was their producer. If that makes him a "driving force" then the answer is yes. But if Kooper was more in the role of a "George Martin" then the answer is no, in my opinion. George played on some of the Beatles stuff also, but could not be comfortably called a "driving force" - more a contributor from a creative angle which is pretty much what Al did for Skynyrd.THX1136 (talk) 22:50, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No Direction Home

Regarding the two paragraphs, starting with "In 2005 Martin Scorsese produced a documentary, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan" - It seems that this is Kooper's narrative of the recordings he did with Dylan in 1965+66, but that's not made clear. Whbjr (talk) 03:37, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Needs citations??

I'll admit it, I'm too lazy to look at Wikipedia's guidelines (I find them not very straightforward when I HAVE done so). The header says the article needs citations (I'm assuming inline) with much of the info being drawn from Kooper's autobiography which is listed in the 'Sources' section. Is it okay to just go ahead and add the cites from that source even though it's listed as it is? Also, the article used to be a bit more fleshed out and now it seems to be somewhat stripped back. I assume various editing has occurred to account for this result. Was the now missing detail inappropriate? Not upset, just curious to understand how things work here. Thanks for any enlightenment! THX1136 (talk) 01:59, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]