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The Blues Brothers.
The Blues Brothers were a punk band – and a joke on an even more monumental level than the Sex Pistols. The band is essentially the vanity project and fantasy fulfillment of two rich and famous superstars, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd of the first “Saturday Night Live.”
In 1978, they took on the roles of two white Chicago R&B performers and hired an all-star group of soul session pros to back them up. With sure hands like Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn (both from the Stax studios), Matt “Guitar” Murphy (from Muddy Waters’ band) and others, the music rocked but the vocals sucked. The two stars obviously had a love for this kind of music but they just managed to wind up exploiting the music of people who had been ripped off so many times before.
You know the rest: Briefcase Full Of Blues, a No. 1 hit album, The Blues Brothers movie is a comedy staple. Aykroyd and Belushi plundered the best American music of the previous two decades and along the way managed to exploit even big names like Aretha Franklin and James Brown (who were struggling at the time). Hollywood made a fortune off the Blues Brothers project. And go into any House of Blues – they’re still cashing in (although they rarely have blues acts).
The public went along for the ride, of course. It was a safe alternative to the crazed British punkers (Sex Pistols, Clash) on the scene and perhaps a soothing escape from the next wave, New Wave. Today, some middle-aged white guy somewhere is planning his weekend barbecue and selecting the Blues Brothers as his party music. If you wind up at his barbecue, you have our permission to piss on his pit.
The Blues Brothers – punk? Probably. They punked us, even before it became a verb.
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Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
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Russell: The wilderness must be explored! Caw-caw, rawwwr!
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Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for the upcoming Jorma Taccone-helmed adaptation of SNL’s successful recurring sketch, MacGruber.
The film, which, in addition to the obligatory Will Forte and Kristen Wiig, will star Bill Hader, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer, and SNL alum Maya Rudolph, is due in theaters April 23.
Note: This is a red-band trailer so caution@work.
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