“200 Dollars, and you boys drank $300 worth of beer” In 1980, a beer cost approximately $1.50. That means that the 10 man Blues Brothers band drank 200 beers, or 20 beers per person. The Blues Brothers then proceeded to have a high speed chase immediately after. If consumed during a 6 hour set, and if Dan Akroyd’s character weighed a mere 170lbs, his BAC would have been 0.52%! It would then have taken him over 35 hours to sober up completely!
As a musician for 45 years, I can tell you this film should be shown in music school of the performing arts. I played Bob's place many times. Beer bottles flying passed your head, bar fights and my all-time favorite was the night a bar we played got raided by the cops. One night a place caught fire and the band put it out. This movie isn't fiction.
Exactly.....I've played alot of cement block buildings with picnic tables etc. Ive seen places that were so country they didn't like things like the Georgia satellites or ZZ Top......it was Ray Price and Eddy Arnold for them.... I had a guitarist that would drink his pay every night.
Back in the 80's, when I was doing some training out at Ft. Sill in OK (I was just a kid from NJ), went to a bunker place like this. Sure enough, when the band played something not purely country (or western), the beer cans went flying at the stage ( yeah, they had cans instead of bottles - mostly). The only thing missing was 'Stand by Your Man'
@@kipstapleton I don't think so. The screenplay for Roadhouse was written by a former bouncer.....so it was probably a fictional workup of his experiences.
I have actually been to a beer joint that had chicken wire in front of the stage. The first song I heard on the juke box when I walked was a boy named sue
@Heineken FiftySeven It is his only line in the movie. Also, he is still performing. His hair is still long but its gray now. I always see him with the band that does the Kennedy Awards and other award shows.
Funny part is the whole band is made of legendary session men, and session work is all about being adaptable - I'm sure they could fake their way through a country setlist if they needed to.
R&B is just blues + dance music. Country is also a blues-based genre, with Western just being a geographical change from the South to the West (songs about cowboys and tumbleweeds instead of coal mines and freight trains). My point is they're all blues-based genres - country may not be as COOL as R&B, but if they knew their chops they'd know it's from the same blues family tree.
@@gastonbell108 Blues, like country, originated in the South and mid West, but had a different sound. However, many of the subject bluesmen sing about like being poor, being unlucky or lucky in love, and living in a certain area are similar.
Good one! For me and my husband, use the line "we are a mission from God"...cuz we eloped to Nawlins in 1986, rode the "CIty of New Orleans" from Memphis..... got married in a preacher's home, that we got out of the phone book for $15
The "pepper steak" line and Belushi's quick dismissal of it was part of a line that was cut from an earlier part of the movie where Jake complains that when he was in Joliet, the food was awful and they served a lot of pepper steak and kale.
42 years it was made and I'm still watching it ! Must have seen the movie at least 50 times. It still puts a smile on my face...SO MANY classical scenes...and quotes...
To win any bar bet in the country, name where they stole the PA speaker from. Oscar F. Mayer grammar school. Yup. Lunchmeats. I live over there, and it STILL took me those 50x to notice THAT. lol
Seen it fifty ??!! Saw it every Fri' night in a cinema in Melbourne,Australia, for three years ; seen it hundreds of times, four visits to Chicago (from Australia). Brother visited Joliet, other bro' visited many places of filming (a south side local drove him to the Triple Rock...).
The part when they are being chased by the good old boys, and you can see the silhouetted heads in the top window compartment of the camper cracks me up all the time. As kids we always chilled up there looking out that window.
You know I had the same thoughts but I never really could put a finger on why the vibe so subtle is, but It's the music that makes it both relaxed and continuous.
just like "she caught the katy and left me a mule to ride"refers at the purchase of their new bluesmobile and give me some love to give credit at their music
I've certainly played my share of country bars and rodeo arenas. You can always calm the crowd with a good Dolly Parton tune. EVERYBODY loves some Dolly!! We added "Theme from Rawhide" after this movie came out and the cowboys in the crowd always do the part with the whip. We do Country Swing Dance music and I play the part of Mr. Fabulous.
Still watching this in 2018...one of my favorite movies of all time. "We got both kinds: country AND western!" "Chicken Wire?" "That ain't no Hank Williams song!" Hilarious!
@@timkellyD2R Some of us are up to here with rude, inconsiderate people here and would kill for 40 acres in the middle of bumblef...k. with all the neighbors WAYYYYY over there.
Played in places like that. The one brought to mind by this classic Blues Brothers clip was in Vineland, New Jersey in the late '70's. The line, "both kinds of music, country & western" brings to mind at that time Graham Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers, as well as wagon wheels; a stage net, and the Expectation which comes with playing to a crowd: "the drinkin' they are, the player we get". Wild Tyme, J.A.
True, and never noticed that before, but it doesn't make sense. Elwood already knew they were there to play the gig, he wouldn't have been surprised to hear Jake say that. It's kind of like an inside joke, breaking the fourth wall of the drama and winking at the camera. In that sense, you're right, it was funny.
I grow up with this movie and the music as my mom was a huge fan and I am too. I've seen them play in Atlantic City But it was Jim Belushi And Dan aykroyd as John Belushi passed away many years ago. After my mom passed away I took a picture of The Blues Brothers from her Blues Brothers album's backcover and I use it as my profile picture.
The way John was able to switch into different characters at the drop of a hat was incredible, When he says "The rest of the bands out in the parking lot getting our stuff tgthr".. Kills me ever time!! LOL!!
Lol...I think Farley was playing tribute to him when he played Matt Foley. He would usually say during these skits "I gotta get my stuff together". This movie had the funniest, and greatest car chases of all time. The mall police chase scene and the Illinois Nazi chase scene is priceless. "Do you have a Miss Piggy" and "and I always loved you" before the Nazis plunge to their deaths are priceless.
The Bob's Country Bunker sequence was a great representation of the small California town I grew up in. Every line, every shot... everything from the ''both kinds of music'' line to the guy crying in his beer shot. Light blue corduroy bellbottoms with cowboy boots, plaid shirts, padded ski vests and ballcaps. And their attitude towards anything that WASN'T country/western related. Whoever wrote this part did their research. My buddies and me laughed all the way through it.
@@jerry-st7rc Oh yeah... tons of them. I lived in California for 7 years and traveled from San Diego to Eureka and from my home in Monterey and Big Sur to Sequoia to the Lava Tubes to Death Valley, Yosemite, Joshua Tree and even through _Rice_ lol. Most beautiful state in the US and it's not even close. But my question to the OP was which was his small town??
"This list doesn't mean anything, they are just requests" hahahah....love this movie, one of my all time favs! I didn't know the clerk at the tax office at the very end was actually Steven Spielberg.
Hey Mac. I played one too. I couldn't believe it when I walked in and their actually was "Chicken Wire" in front of the stage! I started looking around for Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. No sign of Patrick Swayze either. I don't know about Space Aliens, but these places do exist!
my mom is in a band and she told me once they had a gig at a sketchy place so she said " chicken wire ?? " and one of her band mates started laughing because he got the joke
He was pissed that they framed his head out of the "Think" musical number when he's playing his sax while standing on the counter. In the original script, Blue Lou was going to community college and working as a security guard at a planned community that was under construction. The band gathered there to rehearse, trashing a model home in the process. The Blues Brothers' solution was to have Duck make some homemade bombs to destroy the house outright and then Blue Lou commandeered a nearby bulldozer to roll over the wreckage so it looked like there had never been a house there.
The first part is from a DVD documentary. The second is from the Blues Brothers novelization, which was based on an earlier script where every band member had a different backstory. It’s worth getting a hold of if you can.
A friend owned a bar in Washington. I played "Move it on over," the Thorogood cover and told him I was playing a Hank Williams song for him. He said, "That's a Hank Williams song but it ain't Hank Williams!"
i used that line for years, "what kind of music do you listen to?" "both kinds, country AND western." always got a laugh. another one i've used, bonus points if you know what movie, "you got any i.d.?" "i..d. about what?"
They tried. If I ever kill myself (I want to be there to see some people I don't like go first, tho, lol) You'll see that moronic BB 2000 playing when I do so.
back in the day when I saw this movie I laughed all the way through it. Sometimes just a little and other times out loud big time but never stopped completly.
@@paws_offury If you look close just for a few moments when they were going over that metal grated bridge there was a camera filming from the back seat. You will see the speedometer was on 115mph!
I LOVE this part! There is {or WAS} a place almost JUST Like this in Mauston Wisconsin, where the stage was at the end of the room and YES it was covered in Chicken Wire, but ALSO Smaller Galvanized Screening because, {as we found out,} they DO INDEED Throw Beer Bottles! And the MORE they like what you played the MORE bottles they threw at the stage! The smaller screening was to keep the small glass shards from coming through the chicken wire! SHEESH! What's funny, is that I was the "New Guy/Drummer/Percussionist" in the band, and no one would tell my ANYTHING about this place! All they would do is laugh and say "You'll See?!" when I asked about it?! When we got there, was when I saw the Chicken Wire and Screening over the front of the stage and I IMMEDIATLY laughed and said, "OH MY GOD! It's BOB'S COUNTRY BUNKER! Then WE must be The Good Ol' Boys Blues Brothers Band!" But it was ACTUALLY a Great Night and we played there several more times and EVERY TIME we ended up getting paid even MORE then the original agreed upon amount! AND we drank beer and soda for FREE! LOL :D
I've seen this film a hundred times and I missed "because you're the tallest one". The entire thing is masterpiece of comedy writing. As well as music. And action.
Not a bad scene in this entire movie. Brilliant all around. A John Landis masterpiece.. Belushi and Ackroyd had: #1 weekly show: SNL, #1 band: Blues Brothers and #1 movie happening at the same time. I don't believe anyone ever had that or has since..
I often wonder what Ghostbusters would be like If he would have played the role of Peter Venkman which was written for him. I imagine the script would have been changed a bit to allow him to showcase his physical comedic talent. I try to imagine him saying the Iconic line of "He slimed me." Murray did a great job in the role. Although I think Belushi would have taken it to a new level like only he could do. It's kinda like if Farley would have been in Grown Ups instead of Kevin James. James did well but obviously it was meant for Farley.
@@shonmoody1706 Murray was good in Ghostbusters and possibly the perfect actor, and choices, for the part and ensemble. On the other hand, Belushi's talent is gigantic while Murray is a comparative no talent, and also Belishi and Akroyd were a tight team, so Belushi could be expected to have been much better. Did Belushi's style ever fail in any movie/show?
The part that made me laugh the most was 2:50 to 2:53. That pregnant pause and the subtle looking over at Bob was sheer genius. Zero dialogue but it encapsulated the entire scene perfectly.
K so, my son is 23 but I was 35 when I had him so he's been exposed to movies, music, etc. from the 70's and 80's. Sometimes he says something to a friend and, when they are confused or wonder how he knew that, his only explanation is that his mom grew up in the 70's. He told me that he and a friend were discussing music the other day and it fit in, so he said "We have Both kinds, country AND western" and his friend was like "WTF?" LMAO
I just wanted to make sure that everybody here knows that Tucker McElroy was not just lead singer of the Good Ol Boys. He was also driver of the Winnebago.
I just watched the clip again. It does sound like he could've very well said Duncan. However, everything on the IMDBs and Wikipedias has Charles Napier credited as Tucker. Either way, Duncan or Tucker, what is fundamentally important here is that he was, in fact, driver of the Winnebago.
Wish we had chicken wire.Played Hatmakers Bar,Chambersburg,Pa,mid 1960's.Fight started and worked it self onto the stage .Only the go go girls escaped it. Our equipment got broken ,we got cuts and bruises.The guys that started it ran out the back right up the alley that ended at the police station .Those guys ended up buying us all new equipment.Top of the line Vox gear.
@@markberthold6135 You should've turned out the lights and said, "Hey! Who turned out the lights? Maybe we blew a fuse!" And Blue Lou would've said, "I don't think so, man. Those lights are out on purpose."
Many thanks my dear friends the Blues brothers always kill the Covid shit and make us laugh here in Costa Mesa California are very thankful and we’re very grateful for all the laughs brilliant thank you
It can be done, what are you talking about? I've done I in a 2009 Dodge Challenger R/T HEMI. In fact, I did it TWICE that night. I started out in a Mercury Sable and had to switch cars because the battery croaked on me.
I watched this movie as a kid. I inferred that being a musician was a dangerous job if you needed chicken wire. Plus, I saw the stuff they had to deal with in the movie. Well, I had forgotten all of that by the time I became a musician myself. I never had chicken wire at any of my gigs in and around Houston, Texas. It doesn't negate the fact that you'd better be good, or else! I have both Blues Brothers movies on DVD, I just don't watch them. I'm going to have to watch them.
MATT MURPHY: So, how was Joliet? JAKE BLUES: It was horrible. Thursday nights, they'd serve a wicked pepper steak! 1:25 WOMAN: You know; we happen to serve the state's best pepper steak!
I know this is gonna sound like pure bullshit, but when I was playing in a country band back in the 60's, we played the Red Dog Lounge in Freer, Texas. There really was chicken wire in front of the stage!!
Brother, that's no BS. Old style East Texas/West Louisiana country bars had chicken wire to protect the bans from flying beer bottles. Fact, sadly, not fiction. Aah, the good old boys..I mean, the good old days!
My band took a gig at a bowling alley for a bunch of bikers who lost one of their friends. In between sets the head biker (a real tough looking dude) insisted on taking the mic and making a speech. It wasn't very good and it went on for a real long time. Filled with awkward pauses where the room was dead silent. It became painful after a while. I wanted to get the hell out of there but we had to do another set 😐
I saw this and just had to click on it. I played in a band in high school and somehow we got booked in a place just like this. We arrived and started taking our gear in and I heard " My Red Neck White Sox's and Blue Ribbon Beer" on the jukebox. I looked at the bar and saw two older men with trucker base ball caps, white T-shirts, Jeans and yes white soxs. I knew it was going to be a long night. And yes there was chicken wire in front of the stage. We opened with a Booker T and The Mg's song and there was dead silence. Later some guy that would make Shaq O'Neil look like a midget came up to our guitar player and said, " I want to hear Memphis" Our guitar player told him sorry we don't know that one. He grabbed the guitar player by the shirt and shouted, " By God I want to hear Memphis!" Our guitar player turned and said to us " Just follow me" He started the song Memphis and our singer would once in awhile go to the mike and say, "Memphis Tennessee" Well the big guy got his girl and I swear he shouted " Yee Haw" and started dancing. This got us through the night and we were out of there in record time after our last song!
“200 Dollars, and you boys drank $300 worth of beer”
In 1980, a beer cost approximately $1.50. That means that the 10 man Blues Brothers band drank 200 beers, or 20 beers per person. The Blues Brothers then proceeded to have a high speed chase immediately after.
If consumed during a 6 hour set, and if Dan Akroyd’s character weighed a mere 170lbs, his BAC would have been 0.52%! It would then have taken him over 35 hours to sober up completely!
I like this POV.
math whiz
You forgot that they were on a mission from God.
"Oh, we got both kinds. We got country- AND western!" The look on Elwood's face is priceless.
One of the greatest lines in American film.
He's thinking, "Awwww, shit!"
That's when Elwood knew they were at the wrong place, even though Jake assured him that they were at the right place.
😂
That "AND" make all the difference of the world 😂😂
They drank $300 worth of beer. Elwood must have been at least a little buzzed.
They were drinking out of those fancy green bottles.
Dry white toast soaks up beer.
300$ in US beer? I don't think so, partner ;)
You forgot Belushi’s got a pocket full of cocaine . Flying high all night and into the morning. The 80s what a great time to be alive.
He's used to drinking much harder stuff...including rot gut wine. He's fine...lol
As a musician for 45 years, I can tell you this film should be shown in music school of the performing arts. I played Bob's place many times. Beer bottles flying passed your head, bar fights and my all-time favorite was the night a bar we played got raided by the cops. One night a place caught fire and the band put it out. This movie isn't fiction.
Exactly.....I've played alot of cement block buildings with picnic tables etc. Ive seen places that were so country they didn't like things like the Georgia satellites or ZZ Top......it was Ray Price and Eddy Arnold for them....
I had a guitarist that would drink his pay every night.
Back in the 80's, when I was doing some training out at Ft. Sill in OK (I was just a kid from NJ), went to a bunker place like this. Sure enough, when the band played something not purely country (or western), the beer cans went flying at the stage ( yeah, they had cans instead of bottles - mostly). The only thing missing was 'Stand by Your Man'
Question: Was this the original idea applied to Road House? Very similar.
@@kipstapleton I don't think so. The screenplay for Roadhouse was written by a former bouncer.....so it was probably a fictional workup of his experiences.
@@kipstapleton I have only seen Roadhouse in bits and pieces, but I do remember the chicken wire on that band stand has well.
`we've got *both* kinds, we got country AND western!"
Lion Phoenix , LOL ! I have to, Bless their heart.
I have actually been to a beer joint that had chicken wire in front of the stage. The first song I heard on the juke box when I walked was a boy named sue
@Heineken FiftySeven
It is his only line in the movie. Also, he is still performing. His hair is still long but its gray now. I always see him with the band that does the Kennedy Awards and other award shows.
one of the best lines of all time
My dad says this all the time and I never knew it was from this!!
Funny part is the whole band is made of legendary session men, and session work is all about being adaptable - I'm sure they could fake their way through a country setlist if they needed to.
R&B is just blues + dance music. Country is also a blues-based genre, with Western just being a geographical change from the South to the West (songs about cowboys and tumbleweeds instead of coal mines and freight trains).
My point is they're all blues-based genres - country may not be as COOL as R&B, but if they knew their chops they'd know it's from the same blues family tree.
@@gastonbell108 Blues, like country, originated in the South and mid West, but had a different sound. However, many of the subject bluesmen sing about like being poor, being unlucky or lucky in love, and living in a certain area are similar.
In the movie they actually did.
They played Rawhide, and then did Stand by your man. They did well enough to drink $300 worth of beer.
@@gastonbell108Nahh 😄 R&B is Rythmn and blues, I oughta whip that smoke right outta your mouth..
😃Rawhide! Yeaarh! 💥
Some legends in that band. I’m sure they could play anything from that era
"Bob's Country Bunker" was purportedly to be in Kokomo, Indiana where I spent the 70's...... seems about right
Bob should be grateful that the Blues Brothers showed up, because the Good Ol' Boys showed up RIGHT after the place closed for the night...
Yeah, right? Better to have the wrong show than none.
Well yeah, the Blues Brothers were on a Mission from God, which explains away all the plot holes and plot conveniences 😂
And they ran out of beer because the band drank $400 worth.
@@timbrown5576 $300.
@@BradleyJuby $300 plus the tip. LOL!
To this day, when I'm driving somewhere with my wife and we get to where we're going, I say "Bob's Country Bunker. Here we are!"
Zachary Hollback lulz.....!!!!
I'm sure she LOVES that.
No, you don't.
Good one! For me and my husband, use the line "we are a mission from God"...cuz we eloped to Nawlins in 1986, rode the "CIty of New Orleans" from Memphis..... got married in a preacher's home, that we got out of the phone book for $15
Zachary Hollback
LOL
And you’re still married? 😁
"Well, it's a beauutiful place, Bob!"
Belushi had the hick persona down pat.
The "pepper steak" line and Belushi's quick dismissal of it was part of a line that was cut from an earlier part of the movie where Jake complains that when he was in Joliet, the food was awful and they served a lot of pepper steak and kale.
Classic belushi
@@williamshaw9047
Now people NOT in prison are eating kale.🙄
42 years it was made and I'm still watching it ! Must have seen the movie at least 50 times. It still puts a smile on my face...SO MANY classical scenes...and quotes...
Fix the cigarette lighter.
Same here. I passed it on to my next generation. Love this quote
We have both kinds
Country and Western lol
And now it's 2022 and stop and reflect on all those in the movie who have passed.......
To win any bar bet in the country, name where they stole the PA speaker from.
Oscar F. Mayer grammar school. Yup. Lunchmeats. I live over there, and it STILL took me those 50x to notice THAT. lol
Seen it fifty ??!! Saw it every Fri' night in a cinema in Melbourne,Australia, for three years ; seen it hundreds of times, four visits to Chicago (from Australia). Brother visited Joliet, other bro' visited many places of filming (a south side local drove him to the Triple Rock...).
The part when they are being chased by the good old boys, and you can see the silhouetted heads in the top window compartment of the camper cracks me up all the time. As kids we always chilled up there looking out that window.
I laugh at the same, you'd get launched through the glass like a sidewinder missile in any collision.
I always liked that part too
Agree!! 🤣😂🤣😂
"your cheatin´ heart" is playing when Jake enters Bob´s Country Bunker. The subtlety of this film is sublime.
You know I had the same thoughts but I never really could put a finger on why the vibe so subtle is, but It's the music that makes it both relaxed and continuous.
@@TimothyBoersma99 hi there
just like "she caught the katy and left me a mule to ride"refers at the purchase of their new bluesmobile and give me some love to give credit at their music
Hollywood doesn't make them like this anymore.
It was subtle to have a Hank Williams song playing in a place called "Bob's Country Bunker"??
I'm fucking cracking up at how enthusiastic Belushi sounds as he bullshits everyone.
THERESTATHEBANDS OUTINTHEPARKINLOT GETTINOURSTUFFTOGETHA!
I'd hire him for manager, are you kidding? Big, chunky dego in a suit. Perfect.
Shouldn't say that unless you are one.
And I are one.
I mentioned the Blues Brothers to someone yesterday and this is in my feed. They’re listening to us people!
To YOU, maybe. I leave my sh*t OFF when I'm not using the internet...no location, no nothing.
One of the best comedies ever!!!!
The best SNL movie ever!!!!
Also one of the best musicals ever.
"we're the good ole blues brothers..... boys.... band....."
To keyser soze ...Jake * thinking * yeah... that'll work !!
From Chicago.
I've certainly played my share of country bars and rodeo arenas. You can always calm the crowd with a good Dolly Parton tune. EVERYBODY loves some Dolly!! We added "Theme from Rawhide" after this movie came out and the cowboys in the crowd always do the part with the whip. We do Country Swing Dance music and I play the part of Mr. Fabulous.
Is the fucking soup ten dollars?
@@timdowney6721 No, but they make the best damn chicken in the state.
I love Dolly's "Sweet Summer Loving"; if that doesn't calm a crowd, nothing will.
that was a regular friday sat night at ARNOLDS RED ROOSTERinCALERA OKON 75 just over the tx-ok border
2:13 I LOVE 'Jake's' country accent. "Well, it's a beautiful place Bob".
Never realized that! I guess I'm from Texas dammit so it sounded Ok to me! Thanks!
Jake's mind: It's a terrible place!!!!
"We play both kinds of music at Bob's country bunker, Country & Western."🤪🤪
Maybe you'll like a beer or something a little harder?
The look on Blue Lou's face when he sees the stage. "Chicken wire?"
Protection against "flying bottles"...
@@mrtsd6242 That's what I'm thinking.
Rawhide plays, but bottles still continued to keep on being thrown.
He ought to be thankful for that once the beer bottles come flying.
Still watching this in 2018...one of my favorite movies of all time. "We got both kinds: country AND western!" "Chicken Wire?" "That ain't no Hank Williams song!" Hilarious!
HA! Funniest line HA!!!
The problem is when you're from Chicago this movie makes you horribly homesick.
@@timkellyD2R Some of us are up to here with rude, inconsiderate people here and would kill for 40 acres in the middle of bumblef...k. with all the neighbors WAYYYYY over there.
Best movie lines ever
I love Jake's enthusiasm while he bull shits. That's what's got me through alot of...Bullshittin
It's truly "fake it until you make it" and I've done that a few times myself!
What did you mean bs? Oh yes, he tricked the band saying that the country bunker are going to play Blue Brothers but the sign said, "Good ole boys."
@@meathead6155 Jake also BS'd Bob into believing the Blues Brothers were the "Good Ole Boys" country band.
Ot wasn't lies, just bullshit
Elwood jerking his head to look at Jake when Jake said, "we're the band" kills. 😯
He’s like “Wait......WHAT??” LOL😂
I just saw this movie for the first time. It is one of the few times I truly enjoy a musical and it was a dynamic film. R.I.P. John drugs are bad.
Despite being a country and western bar, they just happen to have a Hammond B-3 laying around for bands to use.
"We've got both kinds of music. Country and Western!" Yee Haw!
Played in places like that. The one brought to mind by this classic Blues Brothers clip was in Vineland, New Jersey in the late '70's. The line, "both kinds of music, country & western" brings to mind at that time Graham Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers, as well as wagon wheels; a stage net, and the Expectation which comes with playing to a crowd: "the drinkin' they are, the player we get". Wild Tyme, J.A.
One movie I never get sick of. Can you believe it turns 40 next year?
Yup. I'm just over here waiting for people I don't like to die n leave me some money. Lol
Imagine all the great and bad movies john belushi would of made if he were still alive.
daAnder71 Calm down
Imagine what kind of life you could've had if you'd passed 4th grade English.
John Belushi? In a bad movie? Impossible!
@@olliegardner4901 Continental Divide kind of sucked.
Fucking a
1:34 LOL Elwood’s reaction when Jake says “We’re the band!” 😂🤣
True, and never noticed that before, but it doesn't make sense. Elwood already knew they were there to play the gig, he wouldn't have been surprised to hear Jake say that. It's kind of like an inside joke, breaking the fourth wall of the drama and winking at the camera. In that sense, you're right, it was funny.
He should be thinking: My brother is very crazy!!! Or: John Belushi is very crazy!!!
I grow up with this movie and the music as my mom was a huge fan and I am too. I've seen them play in Atlantic City But it was Jim Belushi And Dan aykroyd as John Belushi passed away many years ago. After my mom passed away I took a picture of The Blues Brothers from her Blues Brothers album's backcover and I use it as my profile picture.
"I guess I'll give this to you, you're the tallest one" is such an underrated line
This is from the extended cut. The bit where Bob gives Bones Malone the setlist was cut from the theatrical and broadcast versions.
Oh, I'd never seen that before! "You're the tallest" lol
Bob was played by the late Jeff Morris. He was Private Cowboy in Kelly's Heroes.
I knew I recognized him.
33VMUH rip his response to being scammed out of $300 worth of beer...hilarious !! $300 ...goddam thats a lot of beer. How much is that in 2018 $$????
@@ernestinemaloy6752 $917
Put on your thinking cap and name Mr. Morris's more celebrated Lubbock, Texas homeboy.
@@Juliaflo Buddy Holly 😎👍
A jukebox, neon signs, and pinball machines.. love it!
Who told them about Bob's Country Bunker?
The way John was able to switch into different characters at the drop of a hat was incredible, When he says "The rest of the bands out in the parking lot getting our stuff tgthr".. Kills me ever time!! LOL!!
Lol...I think Farley was playing tribute to him when he played Matt Foley. He would usually say during these skits "I gotta get my stuff together". This movie had the funniest, and greatest car chases of all time. The mall police chase scene and the Illinois Nazi chase scene is priceless. "Do you have a Miss Piggy" and "and I always loved you" before the Nazis plunge to their deaths are priceless.
Well he knew what to expect when he saw the name of the bar. I expect he had time to figure out how to play it as he walked to the bar.
there is a term for that, "code switching"
The Bob's Country Bunker sequence was a great representation of the small California town I grew up in. Every line, every shot... everything from the ''both kinds of music'' line to the guy crying in his beer shot. Light blue corduroy bellbottoms with cowboy boots, plaid shirts, padded ski vests and ballcaps. And their attitude towards anything that WASN'T country/western related. Whoever wrote this part did their research. My buddies and me laughed all the way through it.
what years was this?
@@edmondlau511 Released in 1980.
What is the name of the "small California town"?
@@donarthiazi2443 there are tons of small towns. Bakersfield, oildale, modesto, Mojave desert
@@jerry-st7rc
Oh yeah... tons of them. I lived in California for 7 years and traveled from San Diego to Eureka and from my home in Monterey and Big Sur to Sequoia to the Lava Tubes to Death Valley, Yosemite, Joshua Tree and even through _Rice_ lol. Most beautiful state in the US and it's not even close.
But my question to the OP was which was his small town??
"This list doesn't mean anything, they are just requests" hahahah....love this movie, one of my all time favs! I didn't know the clerk at the tax office at the very end was actually Steven Spielberg.
The rest of the boys are out in the parking lot gettin' our stuff dugetter!.😂
"Well it's a Beautiful place Bob!"
Hey Mac. I played one too. I couldn't believe it when I walked in and their actually was "Chicken Wire" in front of the stage! I started looking around for Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. No sign of Patrick Swayze either. I don't know about Space Aliens, but these places do exist!
my mom is in a band and she told me once they had a gig at a sketchy place so she said " chicken wire ?? " and one of her band mates started laughing because he got the joke
I wouldn’t mind trying some of that pepper steak right about now. 🤔🤔🤔
Blue Lou only had a couple of lines in this movie but they were Oscar-worthy.
He was pissed that they framed his head out of the "Think" musical number when he's playing his sax while standing on the counter.
In the original script, Blue Lou was going to community college and working as a security guard at a planned community that was under construction. The band gathered there to rehearse, trashing a model home in the process. The Blues Brothers' solution was to have Duck make some homemade bombs to destroy the house outright and then Blue Lou commandeered a nearby bulldozer to roll over the wreckage so it looked like there had never been a house there.
@@williamshaw9047 really?! is there a book or an article or something online about the making of this movie?!
@@williamshaw9047 Well, I'm 51 years old now and that's the first time I've heard that story. Thank you for sharing!
The first part is from a DVD documentary. The second is from the Blues Brothers novelization, which was based on an earlier script where every band member had a different backstory. It’s worth getting a hold of if you can.
" We got both kinds of music, Rock and Roll and Heavy Metal."
"We got both kinds of music. Rock AND Roll."
That ain't no Hank Williams song!
But entering the diner was a Hank Williams song sung by Kitty Wells: Your Cheating Heart.
Classic shit
A friend owned a bar in Washington. I played "Move it on over," the Thorogood cover and told him I was playing a Hank Williams song for him. He said, "That's a Hank Williams song but it ain't Hank Williams!"
@@Frankie-O That's the song I've been wanting to know for years, thank youuuuu
Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here?
Lady: We got both kinds, we got COUNTRY and WESTERN.
Elwood's mind: Where am I?
"You probably wanna go set up your steel guitars"
i used that line for years, "what kind of music do you listen to?"
"both kinds, country AND western." always got a laugh. another one i've used, bonus points if you know what movie, "you got any i.d.?" "i..d. about what?"
My wife and I (Who both really dislike Country and Western) have a joke between us when we hear C&W. "Ya know I hate both kinds, country and western"
@@glenchapman3899 i'm with you on that.
best music movie ever i have ever seen in my life seen it a hundred times and more to come!
Ya spelt yer name wrong...it's halfwit.
I love this movie, so much. It is an automatic stop an watch when i am channel surfing
John Belushi, what a comedic talent! Great movie!
"Excuse me sonny, I guess I´ll give this to you, you´re the tallest one"
They will never make another movie like this , classic!!
They tried. If I ever kill myself (I want to be there to see some people I don't like go first, tho, lol)
You'll see that moronic BB 2000 playing when I do so.
" We have both kinds of music ",
Country and Western.
Yep the the good ol Blues Brothers.
1:49 Amazing how quickly she popped those beer bottle caps off!
"Chickenwire?" Never gets old
'Blue' Lou had some great lines. Another was, "I don't think so man, those lights are off on purpose". LMAO
back in the day when I saw this movie I laughed all the way through it. Sometimes just a little and other times out loud big time but never stopped completly.
@@paws_offury If you look close just for a few moments when they were going over that metal grated bridge there was a camera filming from the back seat. You will see the speedometer was on 115mph!
I LOVE this part! There is {or WAS} a place almost JUST Like this in Mauston Wisconsin, where the stage was at the end of the room and YES it was covered in Chicken Wire, but ALSO Smaller Galvanized Screening because, {as we found out,} they DO INDEED Throw Beer Bottles! And the MORE they like what you played the MORE bottles they threw at the stage! The smaller screening was to keep the small glass shards from coming through the chicken wire! SHEESH!
What's funny, is that I was the "New Guy/Drummer/Percussionist" in the band, and no one would tell my ANYTHING about this place! All they would do is laugh and say "You'll See?!" when I asked about it?!
When we got there, was when I saw the Chicken Wire and Screening over the front of the stage and I IMMEDIATLY laughed and said, "OH MY GOD! It's BOB'S COUNTRY BUNKER! Then WE must be The Good Ol' Boys Blues Brothers Band!"
But it was ACTUALLY a Great Night and we played there several more times and EVERY TIME we ended up getting paid even MORE then the original agreed upon amount!
AND we drank beer and soda for FREE! LOL :D
I've seen this film a hundred times and I missed "because you're the tallest one".
The entire thing is masterpiece of comedy writing. As well as music. And action.
Not a bad scene in this entire movie.
Brilliant all around.
A John Landis masterpiece..
Belushi and Ackroyd had:
#1 weekly show: SNL,
#1 band: Blues Brothers
and #1 movie happening at the same time.
I don't believe anyone ever had that or has since..
I often wonder what Ghostbusters would be like If he would have played the role of Peter Venkman which was written for him. I imagine the script would have been changed a bit to allow him to showcase his physical comedic talent. I try to imagine him saying the Iconic line of "He slimed me." Murray did a great job in the role. Although I think Belushi would have taken it to a new level like only he could do. It's kinda like if Farley would have been in Grown Ups instead of Kevin James. James did well but obviously it was meant for Farley.
i recently rewatched it on netflix and that part is missing entirely so you aren't the only one
@@shonmoody1706 Murray was good in Ghostbusters and possibly the perfect actor, and choices, for the part and ensemble. On the other hand, Belushi's talent is gigantic while Murray is a comparative no talent, and also Belishi and Akroyd were a tight team, so Belushi could be expected to have been much better. Did Belushi's style ever fail in any movie/show?
That scene is also missing from the television cut which is the version I saw 100 times growing up.
“WE’’RE THE BAND!”
The Good Ole' Boys were no band.
I've played a lot of gigs in my time, many of them country music, but I can't recall ever seeing a Hammond B3 and Leslie as the house keyboard.
Did you notice the Rhodes made TWO appearances? The red one in the Ramada room and Ray's Music exchange.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 That's the Armada Room.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 There was a lot of action left in that keyboard at Ray's.
The part that made me laugh the most was 2:50 to 2:53. That pregnant pause and the subtle looking over at Bob was sheer genius. Zero dialogue but it encapsulated the entire scene perfectly.
They should have left that in. It was great!
I never get tried of watching the blue brother they made some great movies 1980s.
...one of the great American musicals!!!
"Theme from the tv show Rawhide" beer bottle smashes on the chicken wire. " Thank You ". 😁
Stand by your man gets them all calmed down and slingin' snot
HEEEYAAAAH! _whap_
K so, my son is 23 but I was 35 when I had him so he's been exposed to movies, music, etc. from the 70's and 80's. Sometimes he says something to a friend and, when they are confused or wonder how he knew that, his only explanation is that his mom grew up in the 70's. He told me that he and a friend were discussing music the other day and it fit in, so he said "We have Both kinds, country AND western" and his friend was like "WTF?" LMAO
Thats how i respond when people ask me what kind of music i listen to. I like both kinds, country and western!🤣
"... y'know we serve the states best pepperstea-"
"NO THank you mam..."
Best detail of the scene
There's so much underrated comedy in this movie!
I just wanted to make sure that everybody here knows that Tucker McElroy was not just lead singer of the Good Ol Boys.
He was also driver of the Winnebago.
Duncan Mcelroy.
I just watched the clip again. It does sound like he could've very well said Duncan. However, everything on the IMDBs and Wikipedias has Charles Napier credited as Tucker.
Either way, Duncan or Tucker, what is fundamentally important here is that he was, in fact, driver of the Winnebago.
Copy that. I will look pretty funny eaten corn on the cob this summer.
Ricky Skaggs used to always introduce band member Darrin Vincent as "Bass player and driver of the big bus". So that's a valid musical credential.
Elwood:”Are you sure this is the place ?”Jake :”Yeah,yeah this is the place.”
Who told Jake about that place?
I love that line cause is as if Elwood was really saying "Are we really doing this Jake?" lmao
I love the response from Jake. Even with his sunglasses on his face his mannerisms scream out . " HELL NO THIS ISNT THE PLACE "😂😂😂
Wish we had chicken wire.Played Hatmakers Bar,Chambersburg,Pa,mid 1960's.Fight started and worked it self onto the stage .Only the go go girls escaped it. Our equipment got broken ,we got cuts and bruises.The guys that started it ran out the back right up the alley that ended at the police station .Those guys ended up buying us all new equipment.Top of the line Vox gear.
The only words I remember Blue Lou saying are "Chicken wire?" and "I don't think so, man. Those lights are out on purpose."
Blue Lou was special guest this morning of our college. I had to ask, Could you please say "
Chicken Wire?" !!!
@@markberthold6135 You should've turned out the lights and said, "Hey! Who turned out the lights? Maybe we blew a fuse!" And Blue Lou would've said, "I don't think so, man. Those lights are out on purpose."
CHICKEN WIRE? LOL that's a tip-off right there as to what the clientele is like!
Many thanks my dear friends the Blues brothers always kill the Covid shit and make us laugh here in Costa Mesa California are very thankful and we’re very grateful for all the laughs brilliant thank you
"Hey Bob!, This is the band!" .......🤣🤣
Alright!
What a stroke of luck the good old boy shows up when the bars close
There must be some back story there
@@nosuchthing8 Hollywood bulshit most people can't think for themselves
And what were the Good Old Boys planning on when they show up at bar close? Certainly not to bang out a few sets.
Pro tip; Mission from God=All gig equipment in two cars.
I can believe it, they had a Cadillac and a Dodge Monaco. Both huge cars with trunks big enough to stack bodies in like cordwood.
Even better, Jake and Elwood left by themselves, so the rest of the band had to pile into one car.
It can be done, what are you talking about? I've done I in a 2009 Dodge Challenger R/T HEMI.
In fact, I did it TWICE that night. I started out in a Mercury Sable and had to switch cars because the battery croaked on me.
Excellent analysis.
I'll never understand why Bob and the Real Good Ole Boys we're upset. They showed up hours late so the Blues Brothers saved Bob.
The Good Ole Boys were upset because they poached the gig, and Bob was upset because they still owed him for the beer. Plus it said so in the script.
@@davidallen5535 lol. Plot hole be damned. Love this movie.
@@davidallen5535 it was last call when they got there!
@@davidallen5535 Well the bar lady never charged them for the first round so they thought beer was free for the band.
I went to Guilly's in Texas when they had chicken wire. There were bottles thrown if they didn't like you. Quite a rowdy bar, I loved it.
"Oh, we've got both kinds! We've got country AND western!" Even Elwood could tell right away they were at the wrong place.
"Oh we got both kinds, we got country AND Western..."
Country and Western - a Texas style railroad whose freight includes two styles of music. The Blues Brothers are the crew of one of the trains.
I watched this movie as a kid. I inferred that being a musician was a dangerous job if you needed chicken wire. Plus, I saw the stuff they had to deal with in the movie. Well, I had forgotten all of that by the time I became a musician myself. I never had chicken wire at any of my gigs in and around Houston, Texas. It doesn't negate the fact that you'd better be good, or else! I have both Blues Brothers movies on DVD, I just don't watch them. I'm going to have to watch them.
Everytime my Aunt watched us growing. We watched this. 1060 west Addison. I remember that much. “That’s Wrigley Field”.
MATT MURPHY: So, how was Joliet?
JAKE BLUES: It was horrible. Thursday nights, they'd serve a wicked pepper steak!
1:25
WOMAN: You know; we happen to serve the state's best pepper steak!
The Good ole' Blues Brothers Boys Band. What could go wrong ?
Its a beautiful place BOB. :DDD
One of the best films 💚🍄💚 pure class 👌🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👌
the background music is Johnny Lee Hooker tune that put ZZ Top on the map..."La Grange"
I know this is gonna sound like pure bullshit, but when I was playing in a country band back in the 60's, we played the Red Dog Lounge in Freer, Texas. There really was chicken wire in front of the stage!!
Brother, that's no BS. Old style East Texas/West Louisiana country bars had chicken wire to protect the bans from flying beer bottles. Fact, sadly, not fiction. Aah, the good old boys..I mean, the good old days!
I played in a bar in Tuscaloosa Alabama that had chicken wire.
Why cause Y'all were Chickens to play behind it or they'ss just paid you chicken fee ?????
I just watched Ken Burns's PBS documentary "Country Music" and they mention that chicken wire wasn't uncommon for rowdy country bars.
Wow! I believe it. Hope they never threw beer bottles at you.
she's so skilled in opening beer. half-second for two bottles))
Wow, how long do you take? You must be a real artiste.
This movie played such a big part of my youth when it probably shouldn't have. However it was the mid-80's and things were different then.
Great movie and performers. I sure miss Belushi.
I guess Bob used some of that gold he got during the war to buy this place.
Nice
Wonder how many people will understand where that is coming from.
Did Clint and terry share out
If you brought up the name of Sgt Bellamy to Bob, he probably get pissed.
all of us who ever took a gig we should never have agreed to taking laugh a little bit harder at this scene.
Sign of a great band, whatchu talkin' bout, Willis?
My band took a gig at a bowling alley for a bunch of bikers who lost one of their friends. In between sets the head biker (a real tough looking dude) insisted on taking the mic and making a speech. It wasn't very good and it went on for a real long time. Filled with awkward pauses where the room was dead silent. It became painful after a while. I wanted to get the hell out of there but we had to do another set 😐
@@daviddemaria3982 biker bowling alley funeral. thats a new one on me.
@@chavruta2000 In Toronto, booking agents call themselves 'curators' now and you need to 'interview' with the venue
@@daviddemaria3982 Wow yikes! Awkward.
One of the greats,movies that is.
I was at this show.had a great time..them good ole boys had me sh$t kicking all night..
Me too! I'm the guy dancing on the table. Almost tore a ham string.
"You are the tallest one".What a masterpiece!
Love the move but missed that line before now
@@raymondweaver8526 they deleted it. Shame too
@@raymondweaver8526 That scene is not in most of the cuts.
"Chicken wire" LMAO
I saw this and just had to click on it. I played in a band in high school and somehow we got booked in a place just like this. We arrived and started taking our gear in and I heard " My Red Neck White Sox's and Blue Ribbon Beer" on the jukebox. I looked at the bar and saw two older men with trucker base ball caps, white T-shirts, Jeans and yes white soxs. I knew it was going to be a long night. And yes there was chicken wire in front of the stage. We opened with a Booker T and The Mg's song and there was dead silence. Later some guy that would make Shaq O'Neil look like a midget came up to our guitar player and said, " I want to hear Memphis" Our guitar player told him sorry we don't know that one. He grabbed the guitar player by the shirt and shouted, " By God I want to hear Memphis!" Our guitar player turned and said to us " Just follow me" He started the song Memphis and our singer would once in awhile go to the mike and say, "Memphis Tennessee" Well the big guy got his girl and I swear he shouted " Yee Haw" and started dancing. This got us through the night and we were out of there in record time after our last song!
I'll bet a grand he played an open A and and E. Lol.
The Blues Bros. were great, and the best music going on at that time.