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In 2013, Classic Rock's much-missed sister serial The Blues took a wide dive into the making stop John Landis's classic movie The Blues Brothers.

Writer Darren Weale spoke with actor and scenarist Dan Aykroyd and to boggy of the musicians involved become conscious the late John Belushi be first the Blues Brothers: Curtis Salgado, Steve Cropper, Tom ‘Bones’ Student and Lou Marini. It's totally a story.

The Dixie Quadrangular Mall that stood at say publicly junction of 151st Street favour the Dixie Highway in Doc, Illinois had its grand ability in November 1966.

By Nov 1978 it was abandoned. That’s not to say the come to nothing girl had outlived her usefulness.

The following summer, director John Landis rented the site to bolt a demolition derby of cable car destruction for his latest game, a musical comedy starring Privy Belushi and Dan Aykroyd introduction ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood, Picture Blues Brothers.

Landis had spanking shop windows and merchandise admonitory in; he signed up dealerships to stock the car leave and mocked-up showrooms with integrity latest in shiny and fat-rubbered Detroit steel.

The mall was at the end of the day razed to the asphalt dash May 2012 but Landis deed his team of stunt drivers gave the demolition crew look after helluva head start on go wool-gathering summer night back in ’79.

The new cars and high-mindedness mall would be wrecked pathway one spectacular money shot desert was over in a affair of minutes.

By all accounts, lapse evening’s filming was bang class schedule but then some put the cast and crew began to notice that one draw round their number was missing. “Nobody could find John,” Dan Aykroyd tells The Blues.

“I couldn’t find him on set pass away in my trailer, his drone, anyone’s trailer. The radios were going crazy. It was 2am and we had to depart from by dawn. Time and resources were ticking away. I could just see $150,000 disappearing.

“I went to have a cigarette coupled with stood under the stars, misstep the street lamps,” he continues.

“I could see broken boulevard lamps and a path clean and tidy tufts of grass and tractable fearless glass, with the lights deteriorating into the distance, like in the way that Frank Sinatra is in dominion raincoat as he walks out. It was a logical step to follow and I went down it. Lights in magnanimity homes around were extinguished.

Loaded was a dark suburban neighbourhood.”

As he sauntered along the have to do with street, Aykroyd spotted something blaze in the distance.

“One light was on,” he recalls.

“I knocked and a gentleman came to the door. Uproarious said, ‘I’m sorry to worry you, I’m looking for exceptional missing member of our integument crew.’ The man said, ‘You mean Belushi? He’s been at hand two hours, raided my icebox. He’s asleep on the couch.’”

That evening is Dan Aykroyd’s salutation memory of his late friend: “He was the guest who wouldn’t leave.”

Debuting in 1980, Dignity Blues Brothers movie is a-ok light-hearted musical comedy that became a culturally significant event.

Inert introduced a generation ignorant devotee the cultural significance of African-American music like jazz, blues spell soul to legends like Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, Outlaw Brown and Cab Calloway.

Picking present his brother ‘Joliet’ Jake Suggestive from prison where he’s served a three-year stretch for armlike robbery, Elwood Blues has significance audacity to turn up flat The Bluesmobile (Illinois licence flake BDR529), a decommissioned ’74 Evocatively Prospect, Illinois Dodge Monaco get the lie of the land car.

He swapped their Cadillac tail a microphone.

The new motor’s attributes will come in many-sided when the brothers try augment stay one step ahead holiday State Troopers, Illinois nazis splendid a pissed-off country band styled The Good Ol’ Boys… duct Jake’s homicidal ex-girlfriend, played building block Carrie Fisher. Says Elwood: “It’s got a cop motor, exceptional 440-cubic-inch plant.

It’s got bogey tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It’s a model made a while ago catalytic converters so it’ll original good on regular gas.”

The movie’s plot is simple. The boys return to the St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud orphanhood in Calumet City, Illinois, disc they were raised by Preserve Stigmata – aka The Penguin – to find that she’s fighting closure.

They need $5,000 to pay property taxes highest stay in business. ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood visit the evangelistic church service of Cleophus Crook (played brilliantly by James Brown), where Jake suddenly sees probity light.

It’s a mission from Maker. Put their old band Integrity Blues Brothers back together, draft on a show and agreement enough dough to save loftiness orphanage.

All they have to come loose is find their old bandmates.

But hey, we’re getting ahead notice ourselves here.

As Steve Sing like a canary told us, “The Blues Brothers was a band way heretofore it was a movie…”

In 1975, Belushi joined the cast disregard comedy sketch show Saturday Gloomy Live. His trademark skit go dressing up as a feel around bee and singing Slim Harpo’s 1957 Excello Records B-side I’m A KingBee (‘Well, I’m excellent king bee, buzzin’ around yo’ hive’).

It was Dan Aykroyd that sparked Belushi’s initial association in blues music (he was bored of rock and heinous disco) but singer and musician Curtis Salgado gets the soil for fanning the embers.

“He ensure turned John on to reminiscent music,” acknowledges Aykroyd. “He steeped him in blues culture. Funny listened to him for blurry own harmonica practice.”

Salgado first fall over John Belushi in October 1977, when the comedian was get Eugene, Oregon, filming another Can Landis-directed picture, National Lampoon’sAnimal House.

Salgado however, had no given who this guy was.

“When inaccuracy saw me play, he gratuitously a local cocaine dealer gift hanger-on, ‘Who’s that guy travelling fair stage?’” recalls Salgado. “I was with The Nighthawks with Parliamentarian Cray in the King Kale Room of the Eugene Motel in Portland.

I was make out mid-set when a guy be handys up and says, ‘John Belushi wants to talk to you.’ I say, ‘I’m singing. Shtup off.’”

Despite Salgado’s charming riposte, Belushi was determined to make fillet acquaintance.

“I jump off stage extort head to a group ingratiate yourself girls,” he recalls.

“This insult grabs me and spins company around, says, ‘Meet John Belushi.’ This other guy reaches fastidious his hand. I’m looking nearly over my left shoulder bulk the girls when Belushi says, ‘I love your music. Narrow down reminds me of a magazine columnist of mine. His name pump up Dan Aykroyd. He looks on the topic of you, he plays harp too.’ I think, ‘Great, that’s stiffnecked what I need, another strong player.’”

Belushi explained that in resign from to filming Animal House, lighten up was still fulfilling his Saturday NightLive commitments by flying contain to New York at honesty end of each week.

“I not ever saw it,” says Salgado enjoy the show.

“I’m a excavation musician. No time for Small screen. We have radio in communiquй house.”

As he drained in vain to brush Belushi off, Salgado finally heard specifics pointer that really snagged his congested attention.

“I’m packing up my harps, trying to break free, as he says, ‘I’m going stick to have Ray Charles on character show.’ I turn and regulation, ‘You got to ask him about Guitar Slim and The ThingsThat I Used To Do.

You can hear Ray bawl at the end of honourableness record that it’s a take.’”

Ray Charles was in his ill-timed 20s when he arranged, get about and played piano on Eddie ‘Guitar Slim’ Jones’ million-selling 1953 rhythm and blues smash. Spawn now warming to Belushi, Salgado dropped another nugget about Leadership Genius into the conversation.

“I said, ‘Do you know Spinal column plays alto sax? He blunt on Live AtNewport [released carefulness Atlantic Records in 1958] checking account a song called Hot Rod.’”

“After the show finished we partied a bit and he flew out,” says Salgado. “Saturday Fallacious Live plays the following weekend.

On the Sunday morning, disinformation are spreading that Ray Physicist played sax for the head time in 17 years achieve Saturday Night Live with say publicly Saturday Night Live Band, restructuring a guest. I think, ‘I did this.’”

Belushi was paying control. He was getting hooked exploit the blues and Curtis Salgado was to become his dealer.

“John calls me up, says, ‘Let’s get together,’” he remembers.

“I start bringing him my records: Fats Waller, Magic Sam, Cub Boy Williamson. 30 records… unadulterated big pile.

Howlin’ Wolf, Bobby Dilute, Blues Consolidated. He dug Sortilege Sam. He absorbed it. Prohibited was serious – a development nice guy – and intense.”

Pretty soon, of course, Belushi wants to perform this music…

“We played the Eugene Hotel the whole number Monday, called ourselves The Cray Hawks,” Salgado says.

“A circus crowd, a couple hundred. Verification John Belushi began coming locked in. The word gets out nearby it was tenfold. He wants to sit in, asking in shape can he do Johnny Butter-fingered. Goode or Jailhouse Rock. Crazed tell him they’re corny. Uproarious turned him on to Floyd Dixon’s Hey Bartender [released weight 1954 on Cat Records].

Hurry enough, he’s there next Mon. I said, ‘I’ll call tell what to do at the end of grandeur second set.’ The place was now packed. The audience goes apeshit when I announce we’re doing a song with Crapper Belushi. He gets up cliquey stage.”

Belushi made the mistake hostilities performing HeyBartender in character approximately get laughs from the assemblage.

Salgado was not amused.

“I mat a little bitter,” he admits. “He’s doing the song change a gravelly voice and government hands clenched. I’m on restate and looking to my unattended to, thinking, ‘Is that Joe Cocker?’ The audience are peeing their pants. I’m a bit ill-humoured.

That’s not a serious be dispensed with to do the song.”

During honourableness post-show analysis, Salgado gave Belushi a dressing down.

“He asks reliability, ‘What did you think?’”

“I claim, ‘John, it’s Joe Cocker.’”

‘Yes, Beside oneself do Joe on Saturday Blackness Live.’

“I punch his chest bracket say, ‘You need to on time this from here [pointing dilemma his heart] and be yourself.’ After that he didn’t ape any more.

He was himself.”

“John came back from Oregon reduce a lust for the blues,” remembers his widow, Judith Belushi. “He had tapes in realm pockets and went to clubs.”

The Reminiscent Brothers concept was conceived like that which Belushi and Aykroyd met adjust a bar a few life earlier.

John would sing; Dan would play the harp. Very present at this time was Saturday Night Live musical full of yourself Howard Shore, who dubbed description union The Blues Brothers. Honourableness name hit the spot stall stayed there.

The concept gathered fleetness at the recording of Saturday Night Live.

“I made an pose for The Blues Brothers farm animals the song Rocket 88 gain we rehearsed it with picture Saturday Night Live Band,” says trombonist Tom ‘Bones’ Malone.

“We developed the characters and their steps, but we didn’t settle your differences on the show. Instead, astonishment were asked to warm race the studio audience. Their gentleness was reasonably good.

“The next workweek we thought, let’s do Hey Bartender,” he continues.

“Again, amazement didn’t get on the communicate. Lorne Michaels, the show’s farmer, said he didn’t see anything funny in The Blues Brothers. The next week we upfront nothing. The week after, good taste said, ‘The show is twosome minutes short, what can miracle do?’ John suggested The Suggestive Brothers.

Lorne said, ‘You possibly will as well make fools interrupt yourselves, but if the event goes over time I’ll cut out your part.’ We did go well and had an amazing answer, with cards and calls escaping the TV audience.”

Things started bare move quickly. Record executive Archangel Klenfner took John and Dan to see Ahmet Ertegün unconscious Atlantic Records.

He signed Ethics Blues Brothers up. The boys now needed a band.

“John was the leader of The Gloominess Brothers Band,” says Bones. “He chose me, [pianist and tomorrow's David Letterman Show band leader] Paul Shaffer and [saxophonist] Sad Lou Marini. He told moniker to choose another horn thespian.

I chose Alan Rubin [aka Mr Fabulous] from the Sat Night Live Band. [Legendary songster of Viva Las Vegas, AMess Of Blues and others] Md Pomus was John’s blues lecturer in New York and be active chose Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy tonguelash join the band. I non-compulsory Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn and Steve Cropper.”

Dan Aykroyd remains grateful to Malone, Marino and Shaffer.

“There would nominate no Blues Brothers without those gentlemen,” he says. “It was Tom Malone and Paul Shaffer who suggested we approach Dodge Dunn and Steve Cropper, who were playing with Otis Town. Then we became more prior to a comedy tribute. We became true blues with the brimfull band and had the shrouded in mystery essence of the music.

Engross and Shaffer were both archivists and turned us on get snarled so much. They were go in front musicologists, introducing us to songs like [James Brown’s ’69 hit] Mother Popcorn (You Got ToHave A Mother For Me). They and Lou Marini helped ill-famed treat the music with cognition, humour and with confidence give it some thought we were venerating it.

They gave John confidence as elegant singer and me as fact list instrumentalist.”

Stax Records and Booker Businesslike & The MG’s alumni bassist ‘Duck’ Dunn and guitarist Steve ‘The Colonel’ Cropper initially threatening the calls they received expend John Belushi to recruit them for The Blues Brothers were bogus.

“I was mixing, and Unrestrainable tell the girls not advance disturb me unless it shambles a friend calling me prevalent go to lunch,” Cropper remembers.

“When Belushi called, they figured it was important enough acquaintance put through, but I didn’t believe it was him. He’d be saying, ‘I want bolster in the band,’ and I’d say, ‘You’re not him!’ Uproarious pretty much hung up sweettalk him.

“The mix I was observation was for guitarist Robben Plough through.

He says, ‘What did closure want?’ I say, ‘For status to go to New Dynasty and join The Blues Brothers Band.’ He says, ‘I’ll controversy it.’ I said, ‘No support won’t, I’m doing it.’ Unrestrainable finished the mix and entered a day later than Crapper wanted.”

Session saxophonist Tom ‘Triple Scale’ Scott and Saturday Night Hold out Band drummer Steve ‘Getdwa’ River completed the line-up and Grandeur Blues Brothers began rehearsing connote a run of shows sharpen up the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, opening on September 9, 1978 for comedian Steve Martin.

While choosing the set-list should imitate been easy – especially organize a couple of Stax legends onboard – Aykroyd admits significant made a few odd suggestions.

“We thought of doing a disconsolate version of Stairway ToHeaven,” let go says.

“Duck said no.”

“The Depression Brothers had been rehearsing lay into Duck a day before Uproarious arrived,” adds Steve Cropper. “I get there and Duck says to me, ‘These guys part rehearsing songs no one has ever heard of.’”

Stairway denied, influence band replaced it with birth 1967 Sam & Dave Stax classic, Soul Man.

“I say however Shaffer, ‘You know Soul Man?’” remembers Cropper.

John says, ‘I can’t sing it that high!’ but we played it detour the key of E by way of alternative of the key of Misty and we have done bright since. A better key!”

The viable cut of Soul Man sooner or later peaked at 14 on decency Billboard Hot 100. Cropper as well had some thoughts on ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood’s stage project.

“I saw them singing awareness still and said, ‘You’ve got to move around more, lack Sam and Dave.’”

The first Amphitheatre show was released as the 1978 Ocean Records album, A Briefcase FullOf Blues.

It was dedicated gain Curtis Salgado.

“Nobody in the party expected to see Dunn bear Cropper,” says Steve Jordan adequate the band’s live debut.

“We hurt the stage on fire arm played [Otis Redding’s ’65 B-side] Can’t Turn You Loose. Leadership crowd was shocked and dazed.

We just ripped it grab hold of. People were freaking out.”

“Afterwards, Lavatory pulled me into his housing with Dan and opened a- bottle of Dom Perignon champagne,” Jordan adds. “There was trim knock on the door near Mick Jagger and Linda Ronstadt walked in. I’d seen renounce in my dreams.

Jagger was all smiles – it was like a whirlwind, a commendatory visit.”

“On the third night, Hysterical was the outside horn, next the audience,” remembers Marini. “I saw Jack Nicholson in glory audience. He looked at would like, lifted his sunglasses and went, ‘Wow!’”

When the decision was sense to make a movie family unit around the band and sheltered two leading characters, some company changes had to be straightforward.

Other commitments meant that Feminist Shaffer, Steve Jordan and Lie Scott were unavailable. Willie ‘Too Big’ Hall stepped in reliable drums. Hall played with integrity Bar-Kays band at Stax contemporary Isaac Hayes’s band The Movement; he played percussion on Hayes’ album Hot Buttered Soul increase in intensity his Theme From Shaft.

Murphy ‘Murph’ Dunne took over on keyboards (the boys rescue him unapproachable lounge-band hell and his call for Murph And The MagicTones).

Have a break Scott was not replaced, operation the band back down assess a three-man horn section.

Dan Aykroyd spent six months writing say publicly screenplay for what would one of these days become The Blues Brothers flick picture show. The result was a 324-page slab (bound in the eiderdowns of an LA Yellow Pages as a joke) that was too unwieldy to reproduce onscreen.

The movie’s director John Landis fagged out a fortnight whittling Aykroyd’s efforts into a workable script.

Illustriousness finished result contained some manipulate the greatest movie dialogue shrewd. The Blues Brothers is rapidly only to This Is Spinal Tap for killer quotes.

There’s illustriousness classic moment when ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood have the required scratch to save the institution and need to get well supplied into the right hands.

What ensues is an orgy worry about car crashes as they’re track by State Troopers – plus John Candy as Burton Manufacturer – and Illinois Nazis, whose leader was brilliantly portrayed unreceptive Henry Gibson. And what analysis kicks off the mayhem!

Elwood: “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, miracle got a full tank dressing-down gas, half a pack see cigarettes, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses.”

Jake: “Hit it.”

Then there’s the scene where the brothers seek out Matt ‘Guitar’ Potato and Blue Lou Marini finish Mrs Murphy’s (aka Aretha Franklin) Soul Food Cafe.

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Maxwell Street enclose Chicago served as the conditions for the exterior shots present the cafe. The interior was created on a studio piece. As Jake and Elwood impend the cafe, we’re treated unearth a performance of Boom Boom by Street Slim (played mass John Lee Hooker); harpist Approximate Walter Horton (as Tampa Pete); Pinetop Perkins (as Luther Jackson) on electric piano; Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith on drums; player Luther ‘Guitar Jr.’ Johnson; instruct Calvin ‘Fuzz’ Jones on resonant.

That’s Chicago blues royalty carrying out in an area that has been eradicated forever by modernisation.

The scene is a piece portend blues history. The brothers belief into the cafe and proximate Mrs Murphy. Matt ‘Guitar’ Spud is the short order fudge in the kitchen; Blue Lou Marini is washing the soiled dishes.

Mrs.

Murphy: “May I serve you boys?”

Elwood: “You got equilibrium white bread?”

Mrs. Murphy: “Yes.”

Elwood: “I’ll have some toasted white cabbage please.”

Mrs. Murphy: “You want expansion or jam on that pledge, honey?”

Elwood: “No ma’am, dry.

[“I love dry white toast,” Aykroyd tells us. “These days Farcical like to take it recognize some American Michigan sturgeon roe on it.”]

Mrs Murphy turns bodyguard attention to Jake.

Jake: “Got concert party fried chicken?”

Mrs. Murphy: “Best find fault with chicken in the state.”

Jake: “Bring me four fried chickens allow a Coke.”

Mrs.

Murphy: “You long for chicken wings or chicken legs?”

Jake: “Four fried chickens and fine Coke.”

Elwood: “And some dry creamy toast please.”

Mrs. Murphy: “Y’all hope for anything to drink with that?”

Elwood: “No ma’am.”

Jake: “A Coke.”

When she realises the brothers intend fit in lure her husband and labourer back on the road, integrity foot comes down.

“Now, you gather together going back on the over no more.

And you ain’t playing any more two-bit, slovenly dives. You’re living with apartment now… and you’re not gonna go sliding around with your white hoodlum friends.”

After a vaporization blast through her 1968 letters hit Think, Aretha’s character loses her man to the film from God.

Blue Lou chases seconds later. “I pretended converge be scared – I was supposed to be,” says Hell for leather Murphy on his confrontation elegant an angry, full-throttle Aretha Writer. “But I was having great ball! I was almost rumble up when I looked dislike her.”

Lou Marini recalls the years filming for a couple leave undone reasons. First there was neat as a pin practical joke: “The scene pivot I was washing dishes overcome the Soul Food Café, forth were four or five guys. Landis and me, a camera guy, lighting guy, sound deride.

Landis said, ‘I want sell something to someone to do the dishes, quickly what you like with them, get angry, throw them, come apart them. Whatever you do, don’t look up till I affirm cut.’ I was washing apartment house eternally long time. I looked up and they’ve all air. I yelled and down honesty end at the coffee studio I heard them cracking up.”

He was less amused by her highness portrayal during the Think custom.

Some critics made reference obviate the fact that Marini’s intellect was out of shot in that he danced on the cafe’s counter, playing his sax. He’d put a lot of elbow grease into practising the nerve-wracking stunt.

“It was a little daunting,” powder says. “The counter was arched up to four and swell half feet up and was just two feet wide… flourishing there were pots and pans down below.”

The reason his imagination was chopped?

The set didn’t have a false ceiling. “The cameraman couldn’t use the involve yourself as the top was air and the studio was difficulty view,” says Marini. “Landis took me to see a complexity of the scene, said overcome was ‘spectacular’. He said in detail me, ‘It was great, right?’ I said it sucked.

‘I learned to play and pull and you can’t see gray head.’ I was told, ‘You signed up for a abundance of money and a miniature head, and that’s what sell something to someone got.’”

The scene at Bob’s Sovereign state Bunker (where the waitress eagerly informs the band they suppress both kinds of music: “country and western”) sees the buckle incite a violent reaction outsider the patrons.

As bottles smash assertion the chicken wire that isolates the stage from the rich customers, the band change push the boat out and play The Theme Liberate yourself from Rawhide and Tammy Wynette’s Stand By Your Man.

The locale was based on real-life recollections and as Steve Cropper resonant Dan Aykroyd at the lifetime, he had seen worse.

“I’ve atypical guys shot, guys holding their guts and belly after personality stabbed, people hit on nobleness head with baseball bats – a lot of blood moniker the parking lot.

By dignity time we did The Doldrums Brothers, Duck and I were both seasoned musicians. Dan went round interviewing the band shaft putting bits of useful data into the script.”

The tale of ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood Blues’ mission break God hit cinemas in 1980.

The receipts for the get-up talent and all those ruined cars busted the movie’s regardless by $10 million.

John Landis besides encountered trouble getting The Vapours Brothers into cinemas. For action, Ted Mann, head of loftiness Mann Theatres chain, was dubious that white movie-goers would weakness interested in a bunch weekend away old black musicians.

He besides apparently didn’t want blacks gathering in predominantly white areas ruin see it.

Ultimately, The Blues Brothers only opened in half righteousness theatres that a similar dimension movie would enjoy. Some critics hated the movie for tog up thin plot and reliance bump car chases for entertainment, nevertheless they were in the schooldays.

The finished product is unmixed blast.

And despite Ted Mann point of view the critics’ best efforts, ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood Blues strong their audience. The Blues Brothers made stars of Belushi other Aykroyd, allowing the latter expire bankroll future box-office behemoths mean Ghostbusters.

It also reignited back-catalogue sales for James Brown, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker talented the other legends that comed in the movie. Even gloominess and soul musicians that didn’t feature in the film matt-up the benefit of the public’s renewed interest in their manufacturer of music.

The discovery of Ablutions Belushi’s lifeless body on Walk 5, 1982 in Bungalow 3 at the Chateau Marmont yjunction the Sunset Strip in Feeling put paid to any suntan of a sequel to grandeur movie.

Belushi was only 33 years old when he succumbed to the effects of neat as a pin speedball, a combined hit elaborate cocaine and heroin.

Aykroyd takes nobleness opportunity to pay tribute fully his late partner in delinquency by remembering one of authority favourite scenes in the membrane – the attempt to prevail on Alan Rubin to quit empress maitre’d post at Chez Thankless, the high-end restaurant where “Even the fucking soup is need dollars.”

“The scene with John poisoning the shrimps in his kisser, he missed a few.

Crazed didn’t throw them all. Landis threw some. John was lack a seal! He could apprehend shrimps, sing, dance, he was a real negotiator, actor, supervisor. He managed himself and rectitude band brilliantly. A woman slap too much heroin into enthrone injection and his lungs shaft stomach were already weak, remarkable she did three years schedule jail for it.

The environment lost one of its leading talents ever at the exclusive of 33.

“Maybe he was hard to numb the past, safe and sound the present and look implication comfort in the future. Filth found it there and endure killed him.

“If he was helter-skelter now, he’d be a ascension director on Broadway, putting prevent plays with great actors, participation of the theatre world.

Fair enough was very literate in surmount theatrical pursuits.”

The temptation to make a end did eventually prove too annoying and Landis and Aykroyd reconvened for the ill-fated Blues Brothers 2000 in 1997.

Despite a selection of great musical performances, the non-appearance of John Belushi was besides big a hole to cram – even by John Clarinettist – and the movie drunk. Aykroyd’s intentions, as ever, were honourable.

“Getting the blues more extensively known was part of justness message,” he says.

The manifesto research paper right there in Elwood’s line that kicks off the be in first place track on Briefcase Full Out-and-out Blues…

“Good evening, ladies and cream, and welcome to the Typical Amphitheatre.

Well, here it admiration, the late 1970s, going calculate 1985. You know, so luxurious of the music we hang on words today is pre-programmed electronic discotheque, we never get a crash into to hear master bluesmen business their craft anymore. By position year 2006, the music disclose today as the blues prerogative exist only in the exemplary records department of your shut up shop public library.

Tonight, ladies dominant gentlemen, while we still stool, let us welcome, from Teeter Island, Illinois, the blues belt of ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers.”

Thanks resign yourself to ‘Joliet’ Jake, Elwood and their mission from God, The Grievous Brothers band, even their ’74 Dodge Monaco cop car, influence blues is still going strong.

This feature originally appeared in Exemplary Rock Presents The Blues matter 7, published in June 2013.

Darren Weale is a public family members and marketing consultant at Interchangeable Tune PR and the settler developer of The British Blues Carnival, a hub for information, reach an agreement and events related to Land Blues.