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Topic: TUrning GOat Pee to gasoline

This forum is all about the two brothers from Rock Island Illinois, Joliet Jake, and Elwood Blues

#1 May 05th 2006, 4:02am

Sax-Hog

The Blues Brothers rock. I wish there was more content on this site about them. Hell, and I wish John Belushi hadn't died so there would be more decent movies.

#2 Jun 05th 2006, 2:36am

ObsessedRomantic

These two boys came along in a dark time, Disco and game shows ruled the day and they came to us and gave us back ROCK AND ROLL and R&B and real Music. and I just felt this forum needed a Blues Brothers forum to talk about just how funny and hip and cool and good they were.

#3 Jun 05th 2006, 4:58am

Sax-Hog

Hey, even today we need an influence like that. Most music today is about nothing, nothing people can relate to, just trivial things like OMG where can I park my Bentley, where's the valet, OH GOD im about to die from drug overdose.

I guess people can relate to the last one.

Anyway, viva la Blues. At least the brought back a genre of music that was more than people talking about themselves.

#4 Jun 05th 2006, 8:38pm

ObsessedRomantic

Yes, I would have to agree with you there, We seem to be awash in a sea of Artificial Clay Aikens and Christina agulereas, . You're right, Music just doesn't seem to mean anything anymore, I remember, Mettalica, George Thourogood, Huey Lewis and the News, and so many more. Where are they now.

#5 Jun 06th 2006, 1:06am

Sax-Hog

Man, I love Gerorge Thorogood. Sorry, unrelated. I guess what a lot of people miss these days even when they like the Blues Brothers, is that it is about music, not about sex and drugs and maybe not even about the characters. Though it's really hard to write a fanfic without characters.

Probs I'm not going anywhere with this, but music changes as people and society change. So maybe what we're really missing these days is values. That sounds pretty gay. But maybe it's true.

#6 Jun 07th 2006, 12:47am

ObsessedRomantic

What is missing from music today is Soul, Heart, Real feeling and guts. Music that won't let you blow it off, Music that MAKES you listen. That is what I am talking about. We need music with more to say than a 14 year old girl scrawing her crush on her composition notebook.

#7 Jun 07th 2006, 6:45am

Sax-Hog

Hell yes. Maybe its the apathy in society. Maybe we can't deal with bigger issues, like actual emotion. Music today fails to conjure up powerful emotion in people, but is it the music that's lacking or is it the people? I guess we wouldn't buy it if we didn't like it!

Anyway, do you play any instruments? I play bass. DhnnNrrwwhhh

#8 Jun 07th 2006, 7:54pm

ObsessedRomantic

Here's the problem see, People like powerful music, people like rock and roll and Rythm and Blue and soul and hard Rock and Metal, but what's going on in the current music industry is that these homogenised pasturised prossesed Artificial singers are being pushed on us and their songs are being played to exxess on the radio so that we will be brainwashed into thinking THAT'S what's popular. It's called Payola and it really stinks.

I play blues guitar and Harmonica Like John Lee Hooker, (Boom,Boom Boom Boom ah haow haow haow haow.)

#9 Jun 07th 2006, 8:18pm

Sax-Hog

You're right: it's like any music that you can listen to without your eardrums committing suicide is classed as alternative. In the music awards this year punk bands like Greenday and Simple Plan were classed as Rock. Even the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who are sort of modern day blues and rock, were put in the alternative basket. To people who listen to radio, alternative is simply one more genre of music, instead of the dozens it actually emcompasses (heavy metal, blues, death metal, etc).

What's worse about this is that alternative is practically defined as music that causes teenagers to kill each other and themselves, and is attributed to the declining state of society. The fact is that alternative is anything that deals with issues that people in power would rather ignore.

Okay, I'm no anarchist, but if the biggest issue Brittany Spears deals with is her boyfriend fighting with her, and she's a pop goddess, then what hope does society have?

John Lee Hooker is awesome. I like the Red Hots as well as older blues, which is why I wanted to learn bass. Plus, it bugs my folks. Cheers.

#10 Jun 08th 2006, 8:58pm

ObsessedRomantic

This kind of thing runs in cycles, just give it some time, we came back from payolay in the early sixties and had acid rock in the late sixties we came back from disco in the seventies to have real tunes in the eighties we'll come back from this

#11 Jun 08th 2006, 9:17pm

Sax-Hog

I sure hope so! Maybe John Butler will turn out to be the anti-idol. Maybe Head from Korn. Nah. Just got to tell you, Stargate is excellent. I never watched Atlantis, and I know this is extremely off-topic. But Stargate is a truly great show. Sorry, I read your profile. Richard Dean Anderson will be in my dreams tonight!

(God, I hope I'm wrong about that.)

#12 Jun 11th 2006, 3:44am

ObsessedRomantic

Stargate SG-1 is the Shizz-nat. You have to check out Stargate Atlantis too and while you're there don't miss Battlestar Galactica(2003) Seriously, back to topic, The BLues Brothers came along in the hey-day of Disco, and they gave us back real music, but that wasn't all they epitomised rebellion and freedom and challegne to established authourity and just plain fun and good times for their own sake.

#13 Jun 11th 2006, 4:01am

Sax-Hog

Musical anarchists ;) I think in a way all Blues challenged the immediate and reigning authority, which through blues history has always been old white men. Blues itself was practically created with the very point of expressing the repression and frustrations of the people under authority, and the Blues Brothers do the same. Y'know, police chases, against the man. If FIght Club and BB have taught us anything, it's that anarchy is fun for the whole family. Especially when people get hurt :)

Okay, I have to tell you this joke. It's unrelated, but it really reminds me of something Jake would say.

A copper arrested a guy for smoking on a bus.

Can't you see the sign which says No Smoking?said the cop.

No, and I can't read anyway. said the bloke, who appeared to have had three too many.

What's your name? demanded the cop, but all he got was a mumbled reply.

Write it down. said the cop, handing him his notebook.

The drunk scribbled something illegible.

What's that? the cop asked.

I don't know, said the bloke, I told you I can't read!

Okay so that was gay but it cracked me up the first time I heard it.

#14 Jun 11th 2006, 10:58pm

ObsessedRomantic

Why do people say that. Why do folks say that if they don't like something or think something is silly, they say it"gay"? I have never understood why my orientation is associated with silly or pointless things. I dunno. to get back to the subject I have to agree Rock and Roll and Rythm and BLues is the Music of rebelion and that's why it ** me off when the Corporations try to co opt it and turn it into lukewarm homogenised toothless garbage.

#15 Jun 11th 2006, 11:19pm

Dani Blues

Your right, it's pretty stupid for people to say something's gay if they don't like it. But then some people are stupid. Anyway Like what yall said earlier the Blues (music genre) is great. I think that the "new" Rythym and Blues is kinda, not blues. I mean come on, Usher is considered R&B. Now I like Usher but he is NOT R&B. R&B is like the greats in my opinion, The Blues Brothers :), John Lee Hooker, Cab Calloway, those people.

#16 Aug 02nd 2006, 5:38pm

ObsessedRomantic

Retread never plays like the original and calling a tail a leg don't make it stand up. Ect. Ect.

#17 Aug 02nd 2006, 6:05pm

Alani

I recently bought two of their albums: Briefcase Full of Blues and The Best Of.

Such great, great music. My favourite song would have to be RubberBiscuit and I recently watched the clip of Elwood singing it on youtube.

I also have the soundtrack to the first movie and I didn't like the second movie much.

#18 Mar 28th 2007, 5:56am

ObsessedRomantic

BB2000 was kindof a joke, No Belushi, (Rest his soul) and You could tell they were trying to hard and what was with the friggen carpet crawler, you gotta be kidding me.

#19 Jun 21st 2007, 9:26am

Jo Z. Pierce

Well, this forum has sat very quiet for a while.

I guess I am new here, relatively speaking. I just started a bunch of BB fanfic writing. It started when I signed up for the Yuletide Rare Fanfiction Exchange. I produced two fanfics from that, and have been writing them since.

For my latest one, I actually wanted to get a better feel for the blues, and have been doing a lot of research online, especially with the Pandora website. (If you don't know about it, go to Pandora dot com. It's a great source for learning about music and listening for free!) I must say that while I love the BB, I have never known enough about the genre to really appreciate it. But hey! We are never too old to learn about good music!

Aside from Elwood? My current fave is Keb' Mo'. Yummy.

#20 Jan 25th, 6:06am

Sax-Hog

I feel really bad about the "gay" comment. It wasn't meant to be derogative. So, I want to say sorry, even if it's late coming.

There's a lot of good writers for this category. Pity it's so obscure. Actually, Doogie Houser MD is far more obscure than the BB fandom.

I'm talking about nothing. Okay. Really I just wanted to apologise.

#21 Feb 13th, 12:11am

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