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Not that faggoty shit with movie stars in sunglasses and a black hat.

Quote from: AbsintheClock;1380083Not that faggoty shit with movie stars in sunglasses and a black hat.

The Blues Brothers are not faggoty shit, iffen that be what you were implying.
They're Floyd Dixon inspired, Sonny Terry's co-Blues Hall of Famers Ray Charles, Bo Diddley and B.B. King were in the Blues Brothers movie/s, and Steve Cropper and Donald Dunn of Booker T. and the fucking M.G.'s were members of the band.

Belushi owns Akryod owns
genre purism = douchebaggery.


Sonny Terry's awesome, liking him does not exclude one from knowing how awesome the Blues Brothers were. Are. Whatever.

Seems to me it's just buying all the good musicians and putting them in a movie. Doesn't seem all that special to me.

If you've watched it and still think that there's nothing I can do for you.

Blues Brothers (the movie. the first one) is an American comedy classic up there with Three Amigos, Ghostbusters, and Caddyshack imo, but the music was nothing if not reverent to its Blues origins.
Almost everything they played was a classic of the genre (Sweet Home Chicago hello) and even their freaking theme song was an Otis Redding instrumental.

They're not the blues but the entire thing was Belushi and Akryod's salute to blues.

To your own credit I think any appreciation for the blues brothers could quite possibly be ruined because of a furniture store with some interesting theatrics. But that's another story.

Quote from: AbsintheClock;1380132To your own credit I think any appreciation for the blues brothers could quite possibly be ruined because of a furniture store with some interesting theatrics. But that's another story.

Wait, what?

http://www.clockcrew.cc/talk/showthread.php?p=1380083#post1380083

They have a mardi gras theme where the store owners pop out as robotic blues brothers.

ugh.

smod fight

Yes, better to stand back, boys, this one's looking vicious.

Nothing riles up a forums moderator quite like discussing the relations between blues musicians from the 1940's and dead SNL cast members. We get quite brutal.

Absinthe nearly took my head off with that cutting "Doesn't seem all that special to me," remark.

you guys should have an axe throwing battle


but you wouldnt be throwing the axes at a target



unless you count each other as a target

THE BLUES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SAD
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Once again prime example of what a blues musician looks like.

Quote from: AbsintheClock;1380083Not that faggoty shit with movie stars in sunglasses and a black hat.

Aykroyd is a huge (literally nowadays) Blues fan with nothing but respect and support for its pioneers and performers.

That being said, I have read a very interesting schoarly article called "Million-Dollar Juke Joint: Commodifying Blues Culture" in The African American Review which claims that The Blues Brothers and other acts like it were so successful because it a) re-packages black entertainment in a way that whites find plattable and b) Paints the white characters as heroes rescuing disenfranchised blacks.
It is true, albeit unintended.

Anyone with access to JSTOR can read it here:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3042294