"I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "The assistant warden wants this one out of the block early." "Wants to get it over with fast." "Okay." "Let's do it." "Hey, wake up." "It's time." "Wake up." "Let's go." "It's time." "This is it." "7474505B." " What wing?" " Maximum wing, Block 9." "Standard release?" "Parole, three out of five." "Good behaviour." "Give me a minute." "One Timex digital watch, broken." "One unused prophylactic." "One soiled." "Boots, black." "Belt, black." "One black suit jacket." "One pair black suit pants." "One hat." "Black." "One pair sunglasses." "Twenty-three dollars and seven cents." "Sign here." " What's this?" " What?" "This car." "This stupid car." "Where's the Cadillac?" "The Caddy." "Where's the Caddy?" "The what?" "The Cadillac we used to have." "The Bluesmobile." "I traded it." " You traded the Bluesmobile for this?" " No, for a microphone." "A microphone?" "Okay, I can see that." " What the hell is this?" " This was a bargain." "I picked it up at the Mount Prospect City Police Auction last spring." "It's an old Mount Prospect police car." "They were practically giving them away." "Well, thank you, pal." "The day I get out of prison... my own brother picks me up in a police car." "You don't like it?" "No, I don't like it." "Car's got a lot of pick-up." "It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant." "It's got cop tyres, cop suspension, cop shocks." "A model made before catalytic converters... so it'll run good on regular gas." "What do you say?" "Is it the new Bluesmobile, or what?" "Fix the cigarette lighter." "What are we doing here?" "You promised you'd visit the Penguin the day you got out." "Yeah." "So I lied to her." "You can't lie to a nun." "We gotta go in and visit the Penguin." "No fucking way." "Who is it?" "Jake and Elwood." "Come in." "Hello, boys." "Nice to see you." "Please, have a seat." "No, boys." "Come over here in front of me." "I want to see your faces." "The county took a tax assessment of this property last month." "They want $5,000." "Won't the church pay?" "They would if they were interested in keeping the place." "But they aren't." "The archbishop wants to sell this building to the Board of Education." "What will happen to you?" "I'll be sent to the missions..." "Africa, Latin America..." " Korea." " Forget it!" "Five grand?" "No problem." "We'll have it for you in the morning." "Let's go." "I will not take your filthy, stolen money!" "Well, then." "I guess you're really up shit creek." "I beg your pardon." "What did you say?" "I offered to help you." "You refused to take our money." "Then I said, "I guess you're really up shit creek."" " Christ, Jake, take it easy, man." " Elwood!" " Ow!" "Shit!" " Jesus Christ!" " Shit!" " Jesus!" " Shit!" "Goddam it!" " Son of a bitch!" "You fat penguin!" "Fuck this!" "You are such a disappointing pair." "I prayed so hard for you." "It saddens and hurts me... that the two young men whom I raised... to believe in the Ten Commandments... have returned to me as two thieves... with filthy mouths and bad attitudes." "Get out!" "And don't come back... until you've redeemed yourselves." "Boys, you gotta learn not to talk to nuns that way." "Curtis!" " You look fine!" " Good to see you!" "Buy you boys a drink?" "Boys, things are bad." "They gonna sell this place to the Board of Education... and I'll be out on the street." "That money's got to be in the Cook County Assessor's Office within 11 days." "They wouldn't turn you out, would they?" "Shit." "What's one more old nigger to the Board of Education?" "Curtis, you and the Penguin are the only family we got." "You're the only one that was ever good to us... singing Elmore James tunes and blowing the harp for us down here." "Well, the sister was right." "You boys could use a little churching up." "Slide on down to the Triple Rock... and catch Reverend Cleophus." "You boys listen to what he's got to say." "I don't want to listen to no jive-ass preacher... talking to me about heaven and hell." "You get wise." "You get to church!" "All I'm saying is, we got to figure out... some way to get that money honestly." "That could be a problem." "Like the Penguin says." "We got to move toward redemption." "We got to go to church." ""We got to move toward redemption." "We got to go to church."" "Bullshit." "Come on." "And now, this week's sermon... is from our beloved, the Reverend Cleophus James!" "And now, people..." "And now, people..." "When I woke up this morning, I heard a disturbing sound." "I said, when I woke up this morning..." "I heard a disturbing sound!" "What I heard was the jingle-jangle... of a thousand lost souls!" "I'm talking about the souls of mortal men and women... departed from this life!" "Wait a minute!" "Those lost, anguished souls roaming unseen over the earth... seeking a divine light... they'll not find because it's too late!" "Too late!" "Yeah!" "Too late for them to ever see again... the light they once chose not to follow!" "All right!" "Don't be lost when the time comes!" "For the day of the Lord cometh... as a thief in the night!" "Amen" "Say amen!" " Let us all" "All go back" " To the old" " Old landmark" "As we stay in the service of the Lord" " Let us preach" " Preach the word" " Got to preach" " Preach the word all the way" "Do it, know it, feel it" "Jake, are you all right?" "Alleluia" "The band." "Do you see the light?" "What light?" "Have you seen the light?" "Yes!" "Jesus H. Tap-Dancing Christ!" "I have seen the light!" "The band!" " Praise God!" " And God bless the United States!" "Stay in the service of the Lord" "Yea, Lord" "We'll put the band back together, we do a few gigs... we get some bread." "Bang... five thousand bucks!" "Well, getting the band back together might not be that easy." " What are you talking about?" " They split." "They all took straight jobs." "Yeah?" "So you know where they are." "You said you were keeping in touch with them." "I got a couple of leads, a few phone numbers." "But, I mean, how many of them visited or even wrote you?" "They're not the kind of guys who write letters." "You were outside." "I was inside." "You were supposed to keep in touch with the band." "I kept asking you if we were gonna play again." "What was I gonna do, take away your only hope?" "Take away the very thing that kept you going in there?" "I took the liberty of bullshitting you." "Okay?" " You lied to me." " It wasn't lies." "It was just bullshit." " Shit." " What?" " Rollers." " No." "Shit." " What?" "What did I do?" " You failed to stop at a red signal." "The light was yellow, sir." "May I see your license, please?" "Goddam it!" "I haven't been pulled over in six months." "I bet those cops have got SCMODS." "State County Municipal Offender Data System." "Elwood, we show your license currently under suspension." "Step out of the car, please." "First you trade the Cadillac for a microphone." "Then you lie to me about the band." "Now you're gonna put me right back in the joint!" "They're not gonna catch us." "We're on a mission from God." "We are in high-speed pursuit northbound on Courtland Avenue." "Black-and-white 1974 Dodge sedan with Illinois plates." "Request assistance." "We'll be all right if we can just get back on the expressway." "This don't look like no expressway to me!" "Don't yell at me." "What do you want me to do, motor head?" "Try not to be so negative all the time." "Why don't you offer some constructive criticism?" "You got us into this parking lot, pal." "Now you get us out!" "You want out of this parking lot?" " Will there be anything else?" " Do you have Miss Piggy?" " There's pants and burgers." " Yeah, lots of space in this mall." "Disco pants and haircuts." "Baby clothes." "This place has got everything." "New Oldsmobiles are in early this year." "Pier 1 Imports." "Oh, shit!" "They broke my watch!" "I'm gonna catch that sucker... if it's the last thing I ever do." "Nice place, huh?" "Hey, Sam." "Hey, Lloyd." " Anybody call for me on the phone?" " No." "No calls." "Some guy left his card." "Cop." "Said he'd be back." "This here's my brother, Jake." "He just got out of the joint." "He's gonna be staying with me for a few weeks." "Yeah." "Okay." "Did you get me my Cheez Whiz, boy?" "Well, it ain't much, but it's home." " How often does the train go by?" " So often you won't even notice it." "What are you doing?" "Making dinner." "Want some?" "Tomorrow we got to get the band back together." "I'm gonna quit work in the morning, first thing." "And how are you going to get to work..." "Mr Lead Foot, Mr Hot-Rodder, Mr Motor Head?" "Those cops took your license away." "They got your name, your address." "No, they don't got my address." "I falsified my renewal." "I put down 1060 West Addison." "That's Wrigley Field." "I gotta hit the sack." "Hey, you sleaze!" "My bed!" "This, gentlemen, is the elegant abode of one Elwood Blues." "Thanks, Mr Mercer." " I kinda like the Wrigley Field bit." " Yeah, real cute." "Hi, Sam." "Hi." "Has my friend arrived yet?" "He failed to report in yesterday." "I don't want trouble." "Tell us where they are, and there'll be no trouble." "Stand back." "It's almost 9:00." "We've gotta go to work." "Hello, Elwood." "Sit down." "What's on your mind?" "I gotta quit." "Why is that, Elwood?" "I'm going to become a priest." "I'll call payroll and have them get your severance pay ready." " Good luck." " God bless you, sir." "Thank you." " What's this?" " This is the last known address... of Bones Malone and Blue Lou Marini." "The Lord works in mysterious ways." " Mrs Toronto?" " Tarantino." "Ma'am, do you have a Thomas Malone or Louis Marini living here?" "Not any more." "They moved out a long time ago." "I don't take in boarders any more." " May we come in, ma'am?" " Please." "Did they leave a forwarding address?" "A phone number?" "Did they live quietly?" "What were their personal habits?" "They were good boys... but they made a lot of racket at night." "Are you the police?" "No, ma'am." "We're musicians." "Mr Man!" " Yes, ma'am?" " They left this card." "Maybe it'll help." "Thanks." "Thank you." "You're marvellous." "Thank you." "I'm Murph, and these are the Magic Tones." "Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn..." "Willie "Too Big" Hall and Tom "Bones" Malone." "We'll be back with the Magic Tones for the Armada Room's... two-hour disco swing party after this short break." "Till then, don't you go changing." "So you're out." "You're free." "You're rehabilitated." "What's next?" "What's happening?" "What you gonna do?" "You got the money you owe us, mother-fucker?" "Let's get something straight here." "The reason he got locked in the slam in the first place... was for sticking up a gas station to cover you guys." "You're kidding." "He pulled that job to pay for the band's room-service tab... from that Kiwanis gig in Coal City." " You did?" " That's right." "So I don't want to hear any more of this small-change shit." "We're putting the band back together." "Who here at this table can honestly say... that they played any finer or felt any better than they did... when they were with the Blues Brothers?" "You were the backbone... the nerve centre of a great rhythm-and-blues band." "You can make that live, breathe and jump again." "Murph and the Magic Tones?" "Look at you in those candy-ass monkey suits." "And I thought I had it bad in Joliet." "At least we got a change in clothes." "You're wearing the same shit from three years ago." "Jake ain't lying, though." "We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline." "We'll never get that fat sound again without more horns." "We'll never get Mr Fabulous." " Where is he?" " Forget it." "Mr Fabulous is the top maitre d' at the Chez Paul." "He's pullin' down six bills a week." " Matt Murphy got married." " Where is Matt "Guitar" Murphy?" "He opened a restaurant with his old lady on Maxwell Street... and he took Blue Lou with him." "You'll never get Matt and Mr Fabulous out of them high-paying gigs." "Oh, yeah?" "Well, me and the Lord... we got an understanding." "We're on a mission from God." "Mainly French cuisine." "No, sir." "Mayor Daley no longer dines here." "He's dead, sir." "Private dining rooms are available." "Oh, no." "It was supposed to be five years." "Didn't you get five years?" "No, sir, not you." "And your name, sir?" "Rizzolo, for eight at 11:30." "Thank you." "Mr Fabulous, how marvellous it is to see you." " You're looking younger than ever." " Wait." "You guys can't come in here." "Nonsense, my dear fellow." "My brother and I have come to dine... to celebrate my early release from the service of the state." "Wait." "Let's talk outside." " Let's have a cup of coffee outside." " Why, heavens, no." "We seek a full meal and all the compliments of the house." "Come, Elwood." "Let us adjourn ourselves to the nearest table... and overlook this establishment's board of fare." "Good evening." "Chez Paul." "Wait!" "Hey!" "Sir, do you mind calling back in about five minutes, please?" "We'll have a table in a few moments." "Excuse me." "Give us a bottle of your finest champagne... five shrimp cocktails and some bread for my brother." "We have a Dom Pérignon '71 at $120." "That'll be fine, pal." "Seriously, the food here is really expensive." "The soup is fucking $10!" "Let's go outside." "I'll buy you a cup of coffee." "We're putting the band back together." " Forget it." "No way." " We're on a mission from God." "Hold it." "Hold it." "What's this?" "Waiter?" "Sir?" "Please, waiter?" "Yes, sir?" "How are your salads?" "The salads are fine." "It's just that we'd like to move to another table... away from those two gentlemen." "Why?" "Have they been disturbing you?" "No." "It's just that..." "Well, frankly, they're offensive-smelling." "I mean, they smell bad." "Excuse me." "I'll see if I can locate another table for you." "Thank you." "Wrong glass, sir." "How much for the little girl?" " The women?" "How much for the women?" " What?" "I want to buy your women." "Your little girl." "Your daughters." "Sell them to me." " Sell me your children." " Maitre d'!" "Cut it out." "The owners are gonna ask me to call the cops." " You wouldn't do that to me, would you?" " He just got outta Joliet." "He's on parole." "You can't call the cops on him, man." " We're putting the band back together." " I said no." "Absolutely not!" "How much for your wife?" "We're putting the band back together." "We need you, man." "We need your horn." "I really can't." "We got everybody except Matt "Guitar" Murphy and Blue Lou." " We're getting them next." " No way." "If you say no, Elwood and I will come here for breakfast... lunch and dinner every day of the week." "Okay." "I'll play." "You got me." "Sir?" "White men!" "White women!" "The swastika is calling you!" "The sacred and ancient symbol of your race... since the beginning of time." "The Jew is using the black... as muscle against you." "And you are left there, helpless." " Fuck you!" " What are you gonna do about it, whity?" " Just sit there?" " Go back where you came from!" "Of course not!" " Son of a bitch!" " You are going to join... with us... the members of... the American Socialist White People's Party:" "an organization of decent... law-abiding white folk... just like you." "Go to hell, bastards!" "Go to hell!" "I pledge allegiance to Adolf Hitler... the immortal leader of our race." "To the order for which he stands." "One great cause." "Sacred and invincible." "Hey, what's going on?" "Those bums won their court case so they're marching today." " What bums?" " The fucking Nazi party." "Illinois Nazis." "I hate Illinois Nazis." "Heil Hitler!" "Ten-hut!" " Gruppenfuehrer!" " Yes, sir!" "Get that car's license plate number." "We're gonna kill that son of a bitch." "Come on home, babe" "Oh, come on home, woman" "Oh, come on home, pretty baby" "I love you" "When she walk that walk" "And talk that talk" "And whisper in my ear" "Tell me that she love me" "I love that talk" "That baby talk" "When she talk like that" "I can't take it like that" "Come on home to me, baby" "Walk your walk Talk your talk" "Talk your talk, baby" "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen." "That was "Boom, Boom", a song that I wrote back in the '50s." " No, you didn't." " It was a hit." " No, you didn't." " Yes, I did." "I wrote "Boom, Boom"!" "I wrote "Boom, Boom"!" " Can I help you, boys?" " You got any white bread?" "Yes." "I'll have some toasted white bread, please." "You want butter or jam on that toast, honey?" "No, ma'am." "Dry." " Got any fried chicken?" " Best damn chicken in the state." "Bring me four fried chickens and a Coke." "You want chicken wings or chicken legs?" "Four fried chickens and a Coke." "And some dry white toast, please." "You all want anything to drink with that?" " No, ma'am." " A Coke." "Be up in a minute." "We got two honkies out there dressed like Hasidic diamond merchants." " Say what?" " They look like they're from the CIA." " What they wanna eat?" " The tall one wants white-bread toast." " Dry." "With nothing on it." " Elwood!" "And the other one wants four whole fried chickens and a Coke." "And Jake!" "Shit!" "The Blues Brothers!" " Hi, Jake!" " Matt!" "How you doing?" " How was Joliet?" " Oh, it's bad." "On Thursday night they serve a wicked pepper steak." "Can't be as bad as the cabbage rolls at the Terre Haute Federal Pen." "Or that oatmeal at the Cook County slammer." " They're all pretty bad." " Matt..." "Me and Elwood... we're putting the band back together." "We need you and Blue Lou." "Don't talk that way around here." "My old lady..." " She'll kill me." " Ma'am, you gotta understand." "This is a lot bigger than any domestic problems you might be experiencing." "Matt, what the hell is he talking about?" " Don't get riled, sugar." " Don't you "sugar" me!" "Now, you not going back on the road no more." "And you ain't playing any more two-bit, sleazy dives." "You're living with me now... and you're not gonna go sliding around with your white hoodlum friends." "But, babes!" "This is Jake and Elwood!" "The Blues Brothers!" "The Blues Brothers!" "Shit!" "They still owe you money, fool!" "Ma'am." "Would it make you feel better if you knew... that what we're asking Matt to do is a holy thing?" "You see, we're on a mission from God." "Don't you blaspheme in here!" "Now, this is my man, my restaurant... and you two are gonna walk right out that door... without your dry, white toast... without your four fried chickens... and without Matt "Guitar" Murphy!" "Now you listen to me!" "I love you." "But I'm the man and you're the woman." "And I'll make the decisions concerning my life!" "You better think about what you saying." "You better think about the consequences of your actions." "Shut up, woman!" "You better think" "Think about what you're trying to do to me" "Yeah, think" "Let your mind go Let yourself be free" "Let's go back" "Let's go way on back when" "I didn't even know you, you couldn't have been too much more than ten" "I ain't no psychiatrist I ain't no doctor with degree" "It don't take too much high IQ to see what you're doing to me" "You better think" "Think about what you're trying to do to me" "Think" "Let your mind go Let yourself be free" "Freedom" "Yeah, freedom right now" "Hey, think about it" "You, think about it" "There ain't nothing you could ask I could answer you, but I won't" "But I was gonna change that, I'm not if you keep doing things I don't" "Think about what you're trying to do to me" "Damn it" "Let your mind go Let yourself be free" "People walking around every day playing games and taking scores" "Tryin'to make people lose their mind Now, be careful you don't lose yours" "You need me" "And I need you" "Without each other there ain't nothing either can do" " Yeah, think about it, baby" " What you trying to do to me" "To the bone Think about it right now" "Oh, freedom" "You, think about it" "There ain't nothing you could ask I can answer you, but I won't" "But I was gonna change my mind if you keep doing things I don't" "You need me" "And I need you" "Without each other there ain't nothing either can do" " Think about it, baby" " What you're trying to do to me" "To the bone, man" "Think about it, baby" " Yeah, right on" " To the bone" " For deepening" " To the bone, for deeps" "Deepening" "Right now" "Think about it, yeah, yeah" "To the bone For deepening" "Think about it" "To the bone" "Don't give me the Blues Brothers" "You had better" "Stop and think about it" "Think" "Let's boogie." "Well, go ahead, damn it!" "Shit!" "Pardon me... but we do have a strict policy concerning handling the instruments:" "An employee of Ray's Music Exchange... must be present." "Now, may I help you?" "Ray, it's me." "Joliet Jake." "I once rented some column speakers from you... for my band..." "The Blues Brothers." "Hey, Ray." "It's me." "Murph, of Murph and the Magic Tones." "Remember me?" "I bought three Fender amps." " Oh, we sell a lot of amplifiers." " Not like these." "They were beautiful." " Upholstered with thick, red shag." " Right!" "I remember now." "I'll buy them all back for 350 apiece." "Three fifty?" "I paid 800 each not six months ago." "You know... depreciation, man." "Ray, we're here to buy stuff." "We need pianos, amps, mikes..." "the works." "Go on!" "Get!" "Breaks my heart:" "a boy that young going bad." "Tell me a little about this electric piano." "You have a good eye, my man." "That's the best in the city of Chicago." " How much?" " Two thousand bucks and it's yours." "You can take it home with you." "I'll throw in the black keys for free." "Two thousand for this chunk of shit?" "Come on, Ray!" "Really, Ray." "It's used." "There's no action left in this keyboard." "Excuse me." "I don't think there's anything wrong with the action on this piano." "Well, I heard about the fella you've been dancing with" "All over the neighbourhood" "So why didn't you ask me, baby" "Didn't you think I could" "Well, I know that the bugaloo is out of sight" "But the shing-a-ling's the thing tonight" "But if that was you and me out there, baby" "I would have shown you how to do it right" "Do it right" "Twisting" "Shake it, shake it, baby" "Here we go loop-de-loop" "Shake it out, baby" "Here we go loop-de-lai" "Bend over Let me see you shake your tail feather" "Come on Let me see you shake your tail feather" "Come on Come on, baby" "All right" "Do the twist" "Do the fly" "Do the swim" "And do the bird" "Do the duck" "Do the monkey" "Watusi" "And what about the frug" "Do the mashed potato" "What about the bugaloo" "Oh, the Bony Maronie" "Come on, let's do the twist" "Twisting" "Shake it, shake it, baby" "Okay, man." "We'll take these axes." "Naturally." "And as usual, I gotta take an IOU." "You guys go inside." "Get yourselves a bite." "I've got to make a phone call." "Does this phone call concern our first gig?" "Have I ever lied to you?" "What are we gonna do, man?" "We don't got no gig." "How much money you got?" " I got a quarter." " That's enough for a phone call." "Come on." " What are you doing?" " You said we were gonna make a call." "I said I was gonna make a call." "Who are you gonna call, Jake?" "Do you remember Maury Sline?" "Sline?" "Booking agent?" "What about him?" "He got us some good showcases in the old days." "He got us the Morgan Park." "He got us the Ticktock." "I got him laid." "He owes me." "Give it a shot." "There's got to be at least seven dollars' worth of change here." "Sir." " What did you find out?" " Okay." "I called a friend at the Motor Vehicle Department." "That license plate is like a rash all over the computer." "The car belongs to a known traffic menace." " What's his name?" " His name is Elwood Blues." "He's got a record a mile long." "And he's a Catholic." " Did you get his address?" " Of course." "1060 West Addison." "Let's go." "Anybody with that kind of record is gonna make a mistake." "I want all party members in the tristate district... to monitor the city, county and state police on their CBs." "Mr Blues is gonna fuck up." "And when he does... he better pray the police get to him before we do." "We been in this car for three hours now." "Where is this place?" "I told you it'd take a little while to get there." " What's the name of the place?" " The name of the place is..." "Bob's Country Bunker." " Here we are." " Bob's Country Bunker?" "The sign says, "Tonight only, the Good Ole Boys"." "Blues Brothers!" "It should read, "Tonight only... the Blues Brothers' triumphant return."" "Must be some kind of mistake." "You guys unload the stuff." "Elwood, come with me." "What can I get you boys?" "You thirsty, hungry or just driving through?" "Maybe you'd like a beer or something a little harder?" "We happen to make the state's best pepper steak." "No, thank you, ma'am." "We may be sucking back a few beers later on." "We'll be here all night." "You see, we're the band." "You are?" "Gee, that's nice!" "Hey, Bob, this is the band!" "All right!" "What kind of music do you usually have here?" "We got both kinds." "We got country and western." "Jake, are you sure this is the place?" "Yeah, sure." "This is the place." " Hi!" "You the Good Ole Boys?" " That's us!" "The rest of the band's in the parking lot getting our stuff." "Well, I'm sure glad to have you boys here." "I'm Bob and this here is my place." "Well, it's a beautiful place, Bob!" "I guess you wanna get your steel guitars and everything set up on stage." "Claire, get up and turn those stage lights on and get these boys going." "Chicken wire?" "What do you say we have a sound check?" "Excuse me, sonny." "I'll give this to you." "You're the tallest one." "Okay." "What is it?" "That there is a list of the songs... that you boys will be playing tonight." "I don't think we know any of the songs on this list." "This list doesn't mean anything." "They're just requests." "Do our regular set." "First tune." ""Give Me Some Loving." One, two..." "One, two, three, four." "Shit!" "What are those damn freak pecker heads playing?" "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen." "We're glad to be here tonight." "We're the Good Old Blues Brothers Boys Band from Chicago." "We hope you'll like our show." "I'm Elwood." "This is my brother Jake." "Well, my temperature's rising And my feet on the floor" "Crazy people knockin' 'Cause they want some more" "Let me in, baby I don't know what you got" "Better take it easy 'Cause this place is hot" "And I'm so glad we made it" "That ain't no Hank Williams song!" "Give me some loving" "Get off the stage!" "Every day" "Why'd they turn off the lights?" " Maybe they blew a fuse." " I don't think so." "Those lights are off on purpose." "We gotta figure out something these people like, and fast!" "I got it." "Remember the theme from "Rawhide"?" "Old favourite." "Rowdy Yates." " What key?" " "A"." "Good country key." ""Rawhide" in "A"." "Rollin', rollin'" "Though the streams are swollen" "Keep them dogies rollin'" "Rawhide" "Through rain and wind and weather Hell-bent for leather" "Wishin'my gal was by my side" "All the things I'm missin'" "Good vittles, love and kissin'" "Are waiting at the end of my ride" " Move 'em on" " Head 'em up" " Head 'em out" " Move 'em on" " Move 'em on" " Head 'em up" "Rawhide Cut 'em out" "Ride 'em in" "Cut 'em out" "Ride 'em in, rawhide" "Theme from the TV show "Rawhide"." "Thank you." "We'd like to do a favourite of the horn section." "We hope it's one of yours." "Sometimes it's hard to be a woman" "Giving all your love" "To just one man" "And if you love him" "Oh, be proud of him" "'Cause after all" "He's just a man" "Stand by your man" "Give him two arms to cling to" "And something warm to come to" "When nights are cold and lonely" "Stand by your man" "And tell the world you love him" "Keep giving all the love you can" "Stand by your man" "Stand by your man" "And show the world you love him" "Keep giving all the love you can" "Baby" "Stand by" "Your man" "Well, folks, it's time to call it a night." "But do what you feel, and keep both feet on the wheel." "You don't have to go home but you can't stay here." "So, till next time:" " Move 'em on" " Head 'em up" " Head 'em up" " Move 'em on" "Rawhide" " Cut 'em out" " Ride 'em in" " Ride 'em in" " Cut 'em out" "Ride 'em in, rawhide" "Let's get the hell out of here." "Shit, I wanna tell you, that's some of the best goddam music we've had... at the Country Bunker in a long time." "Well, sorry we couldn't remember "The Wreck of the Old 97"." "Why, hell!" "You guys can learn it next time when you come back." "Bob, about our money for tonight." "That's right." "Two hundred dollars... and you boys drank $300 worth of beer." "When we first came in... the bar lady never charged us for the first round." "So, like, we figured beer was complimentary for the band." "Well, I'll just go out and take up a collection from the boys." "I sure would appreciate it." "I say this trip is nowhere, man." "I say we gotta quit." "What?" "Quit?" "I wish you guys would make up your mind." "Otherwise I gotta call Mr Ronzini at the Holiday Inn to get our old gig back." "Back at the Armada Room?" "Listen, they want us to pay for the beer we drank." "So you'd better split." "The next gig is gonna be dynamite!" "Huge!" "You'll see." "I say we give the Blues Brothers just one more chance." "Why not?" "If the shit fits, wear it!" "Scoot over, goddam it!" "Boys look a little upset." "Hey, man." "Don't worry." "We got a couple of days." "We'll get the Penguin's tax money." "I mean, look." "We got an appointment to see Mr Sline tomorrow." "Everything's gonna be all right." "Let's skate." "Goddam it." "Excuse me." "Are you the Good Ole Boys?" "That's right." "I'm Tucker McElroy, lead singer, driver of the Winnebago." "I'd like to talk to you, but we're running very late." "I'm Jacob Stein, American Federation of Musicians Union, Local 200." "I've been sent here to see if you're carrying your permits." "Our what?" "Your union cards." "May I see your cards, please?" "Suppose we ain't got no union cards, and we go in and start playing anyway?" "What you gonna do about that?" "You gonna stop us?" "Stein!" "You gonna look funny trying to eat corn on the cob with no fucking teeth!" "Listen, let me talk to Bob, the owner." "See if we can put your band on contract waivers for tonight." "I don't want you to move from this spot." "Just let me handle this." "We'll talk to Bob." "Get in the car and start her up." "You know you boys owe me a lot of money for that beer you drank!" " Goddam it!" " Bob, we loved playing here tonight." "My brother's writing out an American Express traveller's check... to cover the bar tab." "I sure would appreciate it." "I'd better check up, see how he's doing." "I have to sign it too." "I usually sit in the car and write it out on the glove compartment lid." "Need a pencil." " Were them guys from the union?" " What the hell, "union"?" "Those boys skipped out of here owing me a lot of money for beer." "What the hell are you guys all dressed up for?" "We're the Good Ole Boys!" "You're the Good Ole Boys?" ""A.F.M." Shit!" "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now!" "I don't believe it!" "It's that shit-box Dodge again." "The bastards are ours now!" "Holy shit!" "Boys, you in big trouble." "Maury, you owe me." "We'll play anywhere, anytime, for anybody." "Put us in the Double Up Lounge, or the Morgan Park Theatre, or the Crystal." "We always knocked them dead in those joints." "Discos." "They're all discos." "Singles." "Mixed singles." "Gay singles." "These people like to dance with each other." "We are a dance band." "I don't know, boys." "I just don't know." "Times have changed, you know what I mean?" "What are you guys gonna do?" "The same act?" "You wear the same "farkakte" suits." "You'll scare people away." "Don't you ever wear blue jeans or jump suits... like Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders?" "You gotta come through for us." "We need 5,000 bucks fast." "Five thousand bucks?" "Who do you think you are?" "The Beatles?" "You know the size hall you gotta work to take in that kind of money?" "We'll fill any hall in the country." "You guys familiar with the Palace Hotel ballroom?" " Never heard of it." " Nice place up north." "Built in the '40s on Lake Wazapamani." "That seats 5,000." "You guys fill that place, you can make 5,000 bucks, easy." " Book us for tomorrow night." " Hold it!" "Tomorrow night?" "A gig like that, you gotta prepare the proper exploitation." "I know about that stuff." "I been exploited all my life." "Forget it." "There's no way with you guys." "Forget about it." "Say, how's Mrs Sline?" "I might have some information she'd like to know." "You blackmailing me?" "If you wanna put it that way." "Maury, we need this gig!" "We're on a mission from God." "Get us the hall, and I guarantee we'll pack them in for miles around." "What do you say?" "Okay." "I'll get you the Palace Hotel." "I'll print up show bills." "I'll make the place look real pretty, okay?" "I don't think you guys are gonna gross dollar one." "But if you do, I want a taste of the gig, okay?" "Thanks, Maury." "Let's go, boys!" "Listen, you boys heard me talk about Jake and Elwood." "They used to live here, just like you." "And I used to sing to them, just like with you." "Tonight Jake and Elwood are going out to sing and play... to raise money to help you children." "Your lazy butts are in this too!" "So get up on that wagon." "We're going up north to put the word on the streets." "Tonight only, the fabulous Blues Brothers..." "Rhythm and Blues Revue... at the Palace Hotel ballroom, Route 16..." "Lake Wazapamani." "The fabulous Blues Brothers..." "Show Band and Revue." "There you go, boy." "All right, man!" "Check it out!" " Tonight only!" " From Chicago!" " The Blues Brothers." " Rhythm and Blues Revue." "One night only!" "The fabulous..." "Blues Brothers Show Band and Revue." "You!" "On the motorcycle!" "You two girls!" " Tell your friends!" " Free parking." "Two-dollar cover charge only, folks!" " That's a lot of entertainment." " For two dollars." "Will you please put this in the window, 'cause it's real important." "Tonight only, from Chicago... the fabulous Blues Brothers..." "Rhythm and Blues Revue... for your dancing pleasure." "And it's ladies'night tonight." "at the Palace Hotel ballroom." ""Tonight only, the Blues Brothers... genuine Rhythm and Blues Show and Revue." "Palace Hotel ballroom." "Tonight only."" "How we doing?" "So far we covered Lake, McHenry... and part of Du Page County." "Good." "Let's get to the gig." "What is it?" "We're out of gas." "Oh, shit." "Wow!" "A classic." "What a room!" "This place is gonna swing tonight." "It's a fucking barn." "We'll never fill it." "We've gotta fill this hall tonight." "A lot of young children are depending on it." "Young children?" "What do you mean?" "Jake and Elwood are donating the band's share of the door money... to pay the taxes on the St. Helen's orphanage... in Calumet City." "What?" " We're out of gas." " Yep." "Mind if we fill her up?" "Nope." "I said "we're" out of gas." "Tanker truck's late." "Should have been here two hours ago." "It's always late on Thursdays." "I guess we'll have to wait." "Excuse me, sir." "Yes, you." "Could you fill it up with premium, and check under the hood?" "Sure." "You want I should wash the dead bugs off the windshield?" "No." "I'm in kind of a hurry." "Where in the hell are they?" "So maybe you'd like to come by and see the show." "I'm awfully sorry, but I do have a prior dinner engagement." "Thanks, Marvin." "Get me Troopers Daniel and Mount." "I don't see those Blues Brothers." "We'll wait." "Okay, you're all set." "That'll be $94." "Here's 95." "Thank you." "Okay." "And that's a dollar change." " Oh, keep the change." " Thanks." "So, look." "If your date... don't work out tonight for any reason... there's a motel up on the interstate." "Maybe we could, say, meet... around midnight?" "I'll think about it, Elwood, okay?" "Bye." "Son of a bitch!" "Come on!" "We're really late." "You'd better step on it." "I always like to perform for angry mobs." "You can't quit now." "What can they be doing?" "My head hurts." "That Night Train's a mean wine." "You'd better get bright!" "We got a show to do." "Then we gotta figure out some way to collect that gate money... get it to the County Assessor's office as soon as they open in the morning." "We want the show!" "Gentlemen, I'm leaving." "Man, we were so close." "Hey, you guys know "Minnie The Moocher"?" "I knew a hooker once named Minnie Mazola." "No!" "The song "Minnie the Moocher"." " Yeah." "So what?" " Hit it!" "Hey, folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher" "She was a low-down hoochie coocher" "She was the roughest, toughest frail" "But Minnie had a heart" "As big as a whale" "She messed around with a bloke named Smokey" "She loved him though he was cokey" "He took her down to Chinatown" "And he showed her how to kick the gong around" "She had a dream about the King of Sweden" "He gave her things that she was needin'" "He gave her a home built of gold and steel" "A diamond car with the platinum wheels" "This is glue." "Strong stuff." "What the hell are you doing?" "This can is from a surplus disposal run." "Fifteen overcharged ounces of pure, uncompounded... isopropyl butane monosulfate." "When combined with oxygen and a little heat... it will cause a rapid expansion." "Poor Min, poor Min" " Let's take them!" " Wait a minute." "I've never even heard these boys sing, all right?" "All right." "They're not going no place." "All right, cover all exits!" "Let's go!" "Come on!" "Hurry up!" "Move it!" "Who wants an Orange Whip?" "Orange Whip?" "Three Orange Whips." "Excuse us." "Good evening, ladies." "One, two, one, two, three, four." "Now, ladies and gentlemen, it is the distinct pleasure of the management... to present to you the evening's star attraction." "Here they are, back after their exclusive three-year tour... of Europe, Scandinavia and the subcontinent." "Won't you welcome from Calumet City, Illinois... the show band ofJoliet Jake and Elwood Blues." "The Blues Brothers!" "One, two." "One, two, three, four." "We're so glad to see so many lovely people here tonight." "We'd like to welcome all the representatives... of Illinois' law enforcement community... who have chosen to join us in the Palace Hotel ballroom at this time." "We certainly hope you all enjoy the show." "And remember that no matter who you are... and what you do to live and survive... there's still some things that make us all the same." "You." "Me." "Them." "Everybody." "Everybody" "Needs somebody" "Everybody" "Needs somebody to love" "Someone to love" "Sweetheart to miss" "Sugar to kiss" "I need you, you, you" "In the morning" "When my soul's on fire" "Sometimes I feel" "I feel a little sad inside" "When my baby mistreats me I never, never" "Find a place to hide I need you" "Sometimes I feel" "I feel a little sad inside" "When my baby mistreats me" "I never, never find a place to hide I need you" "People, when you do find that special somebody... you gotta hold that man, hold that woman..." "Iove him, please him, squeeze her, please her!" "Signify your feelings with every caress." "Because it's so important to have that special somebody... to hold, kiss, miss... to squeeze and please!" "Everybody needs somebody" "Everybody" "Needs somebody to love" "Someone to love" "Sweetheart to miss" "Sugar to kiss" "I need you, you" "In the morning" "When my soul's on fire" "When there ain't no one around I need you" "Thank you." "That was for Wilson Pickett." "This is dedicated to the late, great Magic Sam." "One, two." "One, two, three, four." "Come on Baby, don't you wanna go" "Back to that same old place" "Sweet home Chicago" "Six and three is nine" "Nine and nine is eighteen" "Look there, brother, baby and see what I see" " The Mafia's after us now." " You guys were hot!" "You were great!" "I've got to record you." " Bullshit." " I don't bullshit." "I'm president of Clarion Records... the largest recording company on the eastern seaboard." " So what?" " Here's $10,000." "An advance on your first recording session." "Is it a deal?" "Yeah." "Sure, it's a deal." "Yeah." "Sure, it's a deal!" "Listen, all these cops out here..." "they're waiting for us." "We gotta get out with nobody seeing us." "You know a back door out?" "Sure." "I used to be head bouncer here back in the '70s." "There's an electrical service duct behind your drummer's riser." "Do us a favour." "Take $1,400 and give it to Ray's Music Exchange... in Calumet City, and give the rest to the band." " You got it." " Thanks." "Bye." "Me and Elwood are gonna make a break for it." "You and the band keep playing." " Something's wrong." " Where's Jake?" "Where'd they go?" "I sure hope this thing leads someplace." "Elwood, we're gone, man." "Who is that girl?" "Well, Jake." "You look just fine down there... slithering in the mud like vermin." "No problem." "You're not gonna get away from me this time." "Check that out!" "Let's go!" "It's good to see you, sweetheart!" "You contemptible pig." "I remained celibate for you." "I stood at the back of a cathedral... waiting, in celibacy, for you... with 300 friends and relatives in attendance." "My uncle hired the best Rumanian caterers in the state." "To obtain the seven limousines... my father used up his last favours with Mad Pete Trullo." "So for me, for my mother... my grandmother, my father, my uncle and for the common good..." "I must now kill you and your brother." "Oh, please don't kill us!" "You know I love you, baby!" "I wouldn't leave you!" "It wasn't my fault!" "You miserable slug!" "You think you can talk your way out of this?" "You betrayed me!" "No, I didn't." "Honest!" "I ran out of gas!" "I had a flat tyre!" "I didn't have money for cab fare!" "My tux didn't come back from the cleaners." "And old friend came in from out of town!" "Someone stole my car!" "There was an earthquake!" "A terrible flood!" "Locusts!" "It wasn't my fault, I swear to God!" "Jake, honey." "Let's go." "Take it easy." "You're now going to totally demolish that car." "You want to maybe consider going after the Blues Brothers?" "It's 106 miles to Chicago." "We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes... it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it." "Shit, man." "Can't this damn thing go any faster than this?" "Bob, I think I've got a little problem." "Goddam, boy." "Shit." "Don't you say a fuckin' word." "All units, we have a ten-seven-niner." "Officers are in pursuit:" "a black-and-white 1974 Dodge sedan... southbound on 47." "Respond to signal, ten-seven-niner." "Occupants of vehicle:" "one Joliet Jake Blues... one Elwood Blues." " Considered extremely dangerous." " Gruppenfuehrer!" "Jake, I gotta pull over." "Southbound on State Highway 47." "Hi!" "Wanna hand me the mike?" "Thanks a lot." "This is car..." "What number are we?" "Five-five." "Car 55." "We're in a truck." "Signal ten-seven-niner still engaged." "Vehicle travelling southbound approaching Chicago city limits." "Commander advises will contact Chicago precincts... for a local intercept." "Maintain pursuit." "Use of unnecessary violence... in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved." "Well, this is definitely Lower Wacker Drive." "If my estimations are correct... we should be very close to the Honourable Richard J. Daley Plaza." " That's where they got that Picasso." " Yep." "Son of a bitch!" "There they are." " Oh, no!" " What the fuck was that?" "The motor." "It's thrown a rod." " Is that serious?" " Yep." "Faster." "Holy shit!" "I've always loved you." "There it is!" "Come on!" "Sir, where's the office of the assessor of Cook County?" "Down the hall." "Turn right." "Take the elevator to 1102." "Thank you, sir." "Excuse me." "Did you see two guys... with black suits and hats, one carrying a briefcase?" "Yeah." "I just sent them down there." "Thank you." "Hold the door." "Let's go." "Can I help you?" " This is where they pay taxes, right?" " Right." "This money is for the year's assessment... on the St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage in Calumet City, Illinois." "Five thousand bucks." "It's all there, pal." "Stand back!" "Fire!" "And here is your receipt." "Warden threw a party in the county jail" "Prison band was there and they began to wail" "The band was jumping and the joint began to swing" "You should of heard those knocked-out jailbirds sing" "Let's rock" "Everybody, let's rock" "Everybody on the whole cell block" "Was dancing to the jailhouse rock" "Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone" "Little Joe was blowin' on the slide trombone" "The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang" "The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang" "Let's rock Everybody, let's rock" "Everybody on the whole cell block" "Was dancing to the jailhouse rock" "Sad Sack was sitting on a block of stone" "Way over in the corner weeping all alone" "The warden said Buddy, don't you be no square" "If you can't get a partner use a wooden chair" "Let's rock" "Everybody, let's rock" "Everybody on the whole cell block" "Was dancing to the jailhouse rock" "Ripped with SubRip 1.14 and Verified by CdinT (Cristi_Polacsek@SoftHome.net)" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Ladies and gentlemen" "'Joliet Jake' Blues..." "John Belushi" "Here's Elwood..." "Dan Aykroyd" "Some people say that going to college and going on in life and doing something different from what one studied in college means that you wasted your college years" "Well, I studied criminology, sociology deviant psychology, abnormal psychology and I went into show business" "All I'm saying is we gotta figure out some way to get that money honestly" "Well, that could be a problem" "It's like the Penguin says:" "We gotta make that move towards redemption" "We gotta go to church" "You gotta make that move toward redemption You gotta go to church" "Bullshit" "Come on" "Alleluia" "Amen" "The band" "The band" "Do you see the light?" "The band!" "Do you see the light?" "What light?" "Have you seen the light?" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Jesus H Tap-Dancin' Christ!" "I have seen the light!" "The club where we came up with the Blues Brothers was a speakeasy that I had in Toronto called the 505 Club and John was up recruiting The National Lampoon Radio Hour trying to steal talent from Second City and bring them to New York" "He managed to grab Gilda Radner" "I didn't wanna go 'cause I was on a children's TV show" "I had Second City I was making more money than the prime minister of Canada" "Plus, I had my speakeasy I had walls of cash..." "Literally, cash in the walls from this after-hours, illegal booze can called the 505 Club" "The night John came up to recruit we came back to the booze can and we started to play old blues records" "And I had a Downchild Blues Band Put them on He said, "Who's this?"" "I said, "Downchild Blues Band";" "a local blues band" "You're from Chicago You should know about the blues" "He said, "I'm into Grand Funk and Allman Brothers"" "I said, "Well, that's all blues"" "And I reacquainted him with blues and he reacquainted me with sort of heavy metal and Howard Shore was in the place that night" "He eventually became musical director of "Saturday Night Live"" "and we were saying, "We should put a band together"" "And he said, "Yeah, you could call yourselves The Blues Brothers"" "Subsequently, that's what we did" "Belushi was very into heavy metal" "He had his head-banging room in... they had a town house in the Village in New York and he had this padded room, and you'd go in there..." "Only Michael Jackson He's the only other person I know who plays music that loud" "They'd crank up this heavy metal stuff and your fillings would hurt" "It was like, "Aaah!"" "When I was working at "Saturday Night Live" as an arranger in 1978" "Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi came back from a weekend in San Francisco and they had stayed up all night with Curtis Salgado listening to blues records" "Curtis Salgado is the harmonica player with the Robert Cray Blues Band" "On the way back on the aeroplane, John and Danny came up with the idea of these two characters that later became called the Blues Brothers" "Back then it was just to sort of explore the music, have fun with it make the audience laugh in the warm-ups... pull off our appearances on "Saturday Night Live"" "and kind of come off to sell these characters" "But as it evolved, the mission was to reacquaint people, or acquaint people for the first time with this tremendous form of American music" "We rehearsed the "Saturday Night Live" band and we were hoping to get this routine on the show" "The fact that John and Danny were so popular..." "They were heroes already with the public" "We wore the suits for a couple of occasions" "Then we took the act to the show as a warm-up act" "The timing was right The public was behind these kids from the get-go" "Once we got the show, we started to play around on weekends" "We played at the Lone Star Cafe" "Our backup bands at one time were like Willie Nelson's band and Room Full of Blues, Duke Robellard's band" "We got letters and cards and phone calls which led to another appearance of the Blues Brothers" "Then we put it on the show with Carrie Fisher's guest host appearance and with Steve Martin subsequently" "Then Steve Martin asked us to open for him at the Universal Amphitheatre" "When we looked into the crowd at the beginning of the show there's Jack Nicholson" "It was like the who's who of Hollywood, all with their dark glasses on" "Nicholson was right in the first seat, and he had his shades on" "I looked over, and he caught my eye and he lifted up his shades and..." ""Wow!" Lowered his shades Cool" "No one was prepared for the phenomenal success that Jake and Elwood suddenly had because they opened for Steve Martin at the Universal Amphitheatre and then an album was made of that" "And that album was..." "I think to this day it's like the highest-selling blues album which is pretty bizarre" "We came along at a time when there was a real lull and a dip in American music tastes and one fad was going out and people weren't really sure what the next fad was going to be" "It was black music;" "it was blues and rhythm and blues and at that time, black music was Nile Rodgers and Chic singing "Le Freak"" "It was all disco" "It was the disco/new wave cusp and in there we were able to slot in and do the song that a lot of people knew but with a different kind of twist to it and with the image associated with who the Blues Brothers were" "The album went on to sell three and a half million copies and we had a viable entertainment act after that" "We put the band back together, we do a few gigs we get some bread, bang, five thousand bucks" "Yeah, well, getting the band back together might not be that easy, Jake" "The band itself had basically been assembled already by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi and really by Paul Shaffer" "John Belushi and I handpicked this band 20 years ago" "We started to play with the "Saturday Night Live" band and "Bones" Malone was there and Paul Shaffer and Bones said, "Have you ever heard of Steve Cropper and 'Duck' Dunn?"" "I hadn't really heard of them, but I knew of the Stax-Volt movement in the '60s in Memphis" "A buddy of mine used to call me and usually if I was in the middle of mixing or overdubbing they'd say, "Steve is busy He can't come to the phone Leave a message"" "Well, we had this thing that he would call and pretend he was somebody and he'd say, "This is President Nixon" or "This is Stevie Wonder or this is da-da-da-da-da-da" "I get this call, and they say John Belushi's on the phone" "I go, "Oh, yeah, my buddy Hey, Alan, what's goin' on?"" "He said, "Who?" I said, "Alan, this isn't you?"" "He said, "No, this is John Belushi" "One night I got a call, long ago, from John Belushi" "It was about 3:00 in the morning, and I thought it was a friend of mine putting me on, and he said, "This is John Belushi" "We're gonna put this band together I like your bass playing" "Would you come to New York and rehearse?"" "I hung up Five minutes later, he calls back and says" ""This is not a joke It's John Belushi"" "Anyway, I told him, "I'll have to get back to you"" "So, in talking to Robben Ford a little bit later, he said" ""Who was that?" I said, "Believe it or not, it was John Belushi" "He wants me to come to New York and start rehearsing for some shows next week."" "He says, "You gonna do it?" I said, "I don't know if I can"." "He said, "Well, I'll do it"." "So..." "When my artist said he'd do it, I said, "We'll work something out"." "Having them come along, Duck and Steve because they were real RB guitar players and real men of soul legitimized what we were up to and gave us sort of a whole purpose and a meaning there just beyond doing kind of a comedy act" "and we started to revive some of these songs" "It was very important to John Belushi to have a hot lead guitar player" "I kept saying to him, "We can get somebody good"." "He wanted to jump and get that spot in the band filled" "I was swapping' licks with Johnny Winter and this guy named Doc Palmers, I think it was had told them about me" "So they come up and they introduced themselves" ""Hi, my name is John, and this is Dan" "We're thinkin' about makin' an album" "Would you like to help us make it?"" "And I said, "I would be glad to help you make it"." "We saw him playing at a club on Columbus Avenue" "He played with James Cotton I had seen him before" "I'd known of his work, and we approached him" "When I was talkin' to 'em, and we were supposed to be negotiatin' he goes, "Well, Matt" "Yes, that's good, then You're gonna help us" "So I think your figure's gonna be like 650" "I go, "Oh, no, man I think that should be more"." "And he goes, "Oh, no!" "I'm sorry I meant 6,500"." "And I almost fell off the chair 6,500!" "Jesus, I couldn't believe that" "I didn't think it was gonna be near that much" "So the band was pretty much intact although there was this very political, it's a long, involved story like "Rashomon"..." "lots of sides... but Paul was prevented from being in the first movie by unnamed people" "But he couldn't be in the first movie" "There were some problems with Paul Shaffer's availability owing to a contractual dispute with "Saturday Night Live"" "and all sorts of difficulties" "So he couldn't get out of his contract and so John Landis had seen this film where I played the piano and John Belushi knew I played piano so, voilá, I was on the plane" "And then Willie Hall..." "Duck and Steve recommended Willie" "They knew him from Memphis." "They played with him in Memphis with Isaac Hayes." "Some people that we hired were in the original "Saturday Night Live" band" "Most notably, the three horn players" "Our friend Lou Delgado from the "Saturday Night Live" show played the fourth horn part but there was no fourth horn player in the movie so that's one of the anomalies of the movie" "You're hearing four horns playing, but there's only three of us on-stage" "The Blues Band has amazing musicians" "It's a Memphis rhythm section with a New York horn section and the idea of taking that kind of fatback rhythm and putting slick New York horns on top of it combined with the special vocals and harp playing of Dan Aykroyd" "was really amazing" "They're a great band and great to listen to" "If you listen to the records, you can hear them doing great stuff" "The guys in the band are some of the most accomplished musicians you'll ever come across in your life" "We recognized their talent, their abilities" "They recognized that although we were not the greatest vocalists/harp players we weren't the greatest front men we provided an energy and a package for the band and sort of an enclosure to reintroduce the world to a lot of this music" "Danny's a maven I mean, he's a real... not only a true fan but an expert in blues and rhythm and blues and has a real passion for it" "I used to get more people, interviewers and fans as well, goin'" ""What's the thing on Belushi and Aykroyd?" "They really can't sing, can they?"" "I said, as far as I'm concerned..." "I think I'm a fairly well-qualified musician" "I'd been a producer for so many years" "I said, "I think he sings better than some artists that are out there"." "If you heard John Belushi at rehearsals like we did..." "I have some cassettes at home of the original rehearsals little pieces of it" "He was good This guy had great time I think he was a drummer" "He had such a love for it, and he played drums in a band" "He kept decent time He had his rhythm down" "He never missed a step or a cue" "We tried to pick blues songs that weren't Delta blues" "We've never been a Delta blues band and Delta blues is the primitive rural blues" "We were always a Chicago, electrified urban blues band fused with the Memphis Stax-Volt movement" "I think what we tried to do is represent that in the movie as best we could" "The creation of the mythology of these characters has been very strong, very successful to the point where it's kind of scary" "I meet people who tell me that Jake and Elwood Blues are these legendary blues artists, and I think, "Uh-oh"" "We put together what I like to call the third-greatest rhythm and blues revue in the world the first being James Brown, the second being Tina Turner's and the third being us" "First you trade the Cadillac for a microphone" "Then you lie to me about the band" "Now you're gonna put me right back in the joint" "They're not gonna catch us We're on a mission from God" "Me and the Lord we got an understanding" "We're on a mission from God" "Would it make you feel better if you knew that what we're asking Matt here to do is a holy thing?" "You see, we're on a mission from God" " We need this gig" " We're on a mission from God" "Judy Belushi and John and I come up with sort of the back story and the concept of the Blues Brothers as sort of filling in our own conceptions of who they were and where they came from after the first album came out" "I remembered all that stuff from crim and sat down and kind of used used it in creating the profile of two guys who start out, basically, in an orphanage and homeless and end up in a life of crime because they never really had a family" "Most of your criminals have that as an origin" "Danny had said..." "Thinking up all these adventures for the Blues Brothers" "They had a big life, and it sounded great" "So we made the deal at Universal Studios and Danny went away to write" "I really didn't know how to write movies" "I don't think I'd ever even seen a screenplay" "I was told that most screenplays were 120 to 150 pages long but when I sat down to write "The Blues Brothers"" "there were so many descriptive passages in there... paragraphs and paragraphs of shots, of concept of ideas, of descriptions, and eventually it just kind of ballooned up" "The thing about Dan Aykroyd..." "He's a marvellous writer" "What he has that's really great are ideas" "His conceptions are so strong" "I had the idea that since there was no way" "I could get it all into one movie or one script" "I figured I might as well get the knowledge that I have about the Blues Brothers..." "all of the conceptions" "John's input, my input, Judy's input... and put it all in one volume... even though it would be prohibitively long... and, I figured, devise the method of writing actually two scripts at one time" "Dan Aykroyd had written, actually, a 324-page script that actually had a story for recruiting each member of the band individually" "Now, that script, which, by the way, was delivered to me in the covers of the Valley Yellow Pages 'cause it was as big as a phone book..." "Dan tried to take the sting out of it with humour, making it look like a phone book" "Dan Aykroyd wrote an incredible tome about these two guys and John then took it and edited it and tried to make it into a screenplay for him that he could shoot" "I thought, "There's no way to shoot this"." "It was pretty incoherent, but it had great ideas and epic characters and a real respect for the music and it was pretty..." "it was big!" "I didn't know what Landis was gonna do with it but he was an accomplished film-maker" "He had written scripts before, and he was able to take it and distil it down to an actual form of screenplay at 120 pages" "We started shooting before we had a finished screenplay, really" "Won't you welcome, from Calumet City, Illinois the show band ofJoliet Jake and Elwood Blues..." "The Blues Brothers!" "All blues music has great humour in it and just the rhythms and the feeling ofjoy that comes from singing it and playing it, I think..." "We viewed all of it as being able to be relatively easily transmitted out there to the audience" "The songs were chosen by Danny and me and John and it's just what we liked or what was interesting or what was appropriate to the scene" "I remember going to his apartment in the Village where he and Judy lived and this was during the period when he was selecting music" "He had this incredible shelf of 45s" "And he'd put something on for about four measures" "Nah Snap it" "Put another one on, listen to it" "He'd throw it on the floor and stomp on it" "It was like Blutarsky in "Animal House"" "I said, "What are you wasting them..." "Give 'em away to somebody"." "He said, "I hate this crap"." "Personally, I wasn't a big fan of this music all along" "I mean, when it's good, any music is great... when it's really good" "But I learned to appreciate it by being exposed to it through these guys" "John really knew the stuff, and so did Danny" "If the music didn't work, throw it out They didn't care" "We would rehearse it three times Boom!" "Out" "If it wasn't fun, we didn't do it" "It's always frustrated me that many people don't consider the movie a musical, which makes me nuts 'cause it has more music than most musicals" "Because to him it's a musical" "It's almost non-stop music There's always music in the background" "There's all these musical numbers" "He really felt that he was directing a musical" "I have a great love for the classic Hollywood musical" "Musical comedy is an American theatrical form" "It's ours" "I knew the action part of it but to me, loving old Hollywood and old Hollywood musicals that's what I kept visualizing" "It's almost like a camouflaged musical" "Musical usually means that main characters break into song to express emotion and that doesn't happen in this" "It was a new kind of musical" "It was absolutely It was catching rhythms of life in the city and the times" "The musical numbers in the movie were kind of the crown jewels of the piece" "The shoe leather that got you from one musical number to another was something that we always tried to keep to a minimum so that we could get into the great musical numbers that were the set pieces, if you will, in the movie" "There was an attempt to do every kind of performance" "By that I mean like operetta... traditional musical comedy, which is the American form where people are talking, and then they burst into song but the song furthers the plot" "I wanted to do that I did" "Then there's performance numbers when they're on a stage performing" "So I did that too" "I did every kind of number that had been done in a film" "That was the intention" "He's not denying that there are car chases" "Of course there are car chases, but there was a rhythm to them" "They were musical numbers They were production numbers" "If you listen to the scoring and look at the screen those cars were dancing, baby" "Those cars were dancing" "The hard thing in a musical is getting a number that feels organic... that doesn't feel like a sudden departure in the picture" "I think we were very successful with most of the numbers in "The Blues Brothers"" "Musicals are inherently expensive because of the recording and the music" "It's much more expensive now because of what's happened to the..." "To buy a song now is much more costly" "I mean, in "Animal House", I paid $2,000 for a Sam Cooke tune" "Now I'd pay $60,000, $70,000 for the same piece of music" "I only remember one problem, and that was with a song called "Sweet Home Chicago"." "Come on" "Baby, don't you wanna go" "Back to that same old place" "Sweet home Chicago" "I was waiting to hear from the studio who owned that song so we could negotiate the publishing rights and I wasn't hearing anything" "Then I got a memo from a guy here at Universal that said they weren't sure" "So I did a little research of my own and it turned out that MCA owned the rights to that music" "And so I let the guy know" "After an embarrassed phone call, we had the rights to that song" "But, pretty much, it all was fairly easy to get" "I hired this man, Carlton Johnson who used to choreograph The Carol Burnett Show "for years"." "Very talented choreographer He's passed away" "Carlton was a very traditional kind of corny..." "da-da-dada... you know" "He was great, because he had to work with a variety of acts the different guest talent that we had in the movie and work with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd" "John and Danny aren't real dancers therefore I won't use real dancers" "So Carlton Johnson, our choreographer, was told, "I want amateurs only"." "And so I shot several numbers in Chicago and by the time I put them together, I thought, "Ooh, that was a mistake"." "So when we did the church scene, we brought in professional dancers unlike "Shake Your Tail Feather", all amateurs in Chicago" "The Ray Charles number was big in that we were out on the streets of Chicago" "We even had people dancing up on the elevated, up on the train" "So that was tough" "All right Do the Twist" "When we shot the outside of Ray's Music Exchange with the hundreds of people in the streets dancing it was freezing cold" "It was freezing, and yet, the sequence takes place in the summer" "So we had all these poor dancers out there wearing short-sleeve shirts and things, dancing away" "It was like 25 degrees" "Ow!" "Cut!" "Yes!" "Essentially, all of the moves in the movie are Carlton's and some of the moves that we used subsequently in the act when we went on tour were Carlton's and as I do "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" today and "Soul Man"" "we still do some of the moves that Carlton taught us today" "Then it came about who we wanted" "Aretha Franklin, we wanted John Lee Hooker, we knew we wanted" "Ray Charles We wanted James Brown" "Unfortunately..." "Fortunately for us, but unfortunately at the time except for Ray Charles, most of these people weren't working" "It was easy to get 'em You called up and said, "Hey, you want a job?"" "They went, "Please!" So that was not the hard part" "It was great We were getting to work with our heroes" "And it was fantastic to be going to the likes of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles and James Brown to ask them to participate" "No one had really done anything like this before" "So it was really very exciting for all of us" "There are certain singers..." "BB King, Aretha Franklin who have trouble with lip sync to playback and the reason for that is interesting" "It's because they never sing a song the same way twice" "So it's quite great if you're seeing them live but if you're trying to shoot them to playback, it's a pain in the ass" "'Cause it's like, "What is your mouth doing?"" "The only problem that you have editing musical numbers is do performers do it the same way take after take?" "And can they lip-sync their dialogue... their song, especially if they're the ones who made the song famous?" "I'm not gonna mention any names" " You better think" " Think" "Think about what you're tryin' to do to me" " Yeah, think" " Think, think" "Let your mind go Let yourself be free" "Let's go back, let's go back Let's go way on to way back when" "I didn't even know ya" "You couldn't have been too much more than ten" "I ain't no psychiatrist I ain't no doctor with degrees" "It don't take too much high IQ to see what you're doin'to me" " You better think" " Think" "Think about what you're tryin' to do to me" " Now, now, now think" " Think, think" "Let your mind go Let yourself be free" " Oh, freedom" " Freedom" " Freedom" " Freedom" "Freedom" "Yeah, freedom" "Right now Freedom" " Freedom" " Freedom" "Freedom" "Oh, freedom" "They were not easy numbers to cut" "Lots of takes Lots of different camera angles to choose from" "Performance variations Those are hard days, to shoot those scenes" "And I think they looked..." "I think they looked pretty good" "One of the reasons it's so choppy was because Aretha couldn't lip-sync correctly" "And the other was my fault" "I was doing jokes that were not amusing to anyone but me" "I have a shot where you see "Blue Lou" Marini in the background and he's framed so that you're cutting him here which I found terribly funny, but everyone else went, "That's weird"." "I remember getting criticized in a review by Janet Maslin that in a couple of the shots I picked in the diner" ""Blue Lou", the saxophone player you only see his legs 'cause he's jumped up on top of the counter" "And they complained about..." "She complained about how badly this was done and we shouldn't have used this shot" "It seemed to work when we were doing it but I guess everybody has his opinion" "So I go to see the Aretha scene, and half the scene" "I'm dancing and I'm cut off from like here" "You don't see the top of my head" "And so, when I came back, Landis says, "How'd you like the scene?"" "I said, "It sucked!" He said, "What are you talkin' about?"" "I said, "It sucked I busted my ass to learn this dance sequence and to play at the same time, half the time you can't see my head"." "So Stephen Katz says:" ""You signed up for a lot of money and a little head, and that's what you got."" " And now, people" " All right, Reverend!" "When I woke up this morning" "I heard a disturbing' sound" "The James Brown scene that takes place in the church you know, we found that James couldn't sing the same way twice" "And so what we did, we took the track, the music itself and that was done to playback, and people sang to playback except forJames Brown, and we recorded his lead vocal live" "Let us preach To the old" "We'll constitute it In the old" "I preach" "Feel it, tell it and live" "It will, it will" "When you shoot someone live, lip-sync's not a problem 'cause they're live" "In the first movie, John Lee Hooker is live" "James Brown was live" "Ray Charles was playback, Aretha was playback and all the Blues Brothers stuff was playback" "But it really makes no difference, because the artists are the ones who perform it regardless" "It's for technical reasons whether it's live or not" "Dan Aykroyd is a motor-head" "The character of D-Day in "Animal House"" "was actually based on Danny Aykroyd by Harold Ramis and Chris Miller and Doug Kenney and I didn't know Danny at that time." "I learned later that, Hey, this is this guy" "He likes bikes;" "he likes motorcycles" "Danny's idea of a good time is to get in his car in Los Angeles and drive to New York, straight" "He enjoys that" "I've always liked cars but I was really writing..." "The whole concept of the Blues Mobile and why it was an old police car was basically Elwood's concept" "It was sort of living inside the character" "Elwood is a genius driver" "He does extraordinary things with this car" "She caught Katy" "And left me a mule to ride" "She caught Katy" "And left me a mule to ride" "Car's got a lot of pick-up" "It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant" "It's cop tyres, cop suspension, cop shocks" "It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas" "Whattaya say?" "Is it the new Blues Mobile or what?" "Fix the cigarette lighter" "At that time, the hottest police car in America was the Dodge Monaco with the 440 cubic-inch engine and that became the Blues Mobile because Elwood knew that he had to stay, at least, if not one jump ahead of the law" "on the same kind of technological footing with them" "That's really Elwood's call" "Aykroyd decorated the thing" "That's why you saw all those cigarette packs" "They were Chesterfield King packs" "Had to be matches, gum wrappers" "There were lots of different Blues Mobiles" "There were Blues Mobiles that were specifically for high-performance driving... stunt driving" "Basically, the idea of the magic car came from me" "I finally just said..." "Danny tends to want to explain this stuff" "In fact, in the new movie at one point the car goes underwater and Danny wanted to show propellers coming out" "I said, That's James Bond We don't have Q. It's a magic car." "It does it 'cause I said so" "That's one of the things about film You show people; there it is" "You want a giant bug?" "There's your giant bug" "You don't have to explain your giant bug" "A couple of scenes that were omitted from the first movie:" "One was, which I..." "One of my favourite was... sort of explained how the Blues Mobile got imbued with special powers to do back flips and that, and it was that we parked it in a secret hiding place under the El train in Chicago" "in a transformer room to which I had a key" "The room opened up with these big steel-plate doors and inside were these humming transformers and the Blues Mobile parked in there every night and sort of absorbed the power of the electrical transformers under the El train" "We actually shot a scene where you saw it stored under this transformer and the big electrical hum" "It was part of the "Peter Gunn" thing and" "I cut it out" "The movie was too longI had to cut stuff, and quite honestly" "I think I said to Danny" ""Are you gonna go with each print and explain to people" "'See how we're parked near this transformer?" "That's why the car can do this stuff.'"" "That makes no sense!" "In Danny's head, it made sense" "The Blues Mobile that was supposed to tumble end over end... and originally the notion was to launch the miniature and the miniature itself was about four and a half feet long" "There were all these novel ways that the effects guys were proposing to do that, and we started going out to see some tests which really fizzled, one after the other" "We finally decided to get a bunch of guys and throw it in the air and I think that's the way we did it" "And then cut to the Nazis'station wagon being dropped over the Lower Wacker area... a vacant lot... and we had a target zone of 50 by 50 feet..." "I remember there was a specific thing where we wanted to drop the Pinto belonging to the Illinois Nazis past the..." "You wanted to see it fall past the skyline" "How we were gonna do that was actually drop the Pinto from a helicopter" "We had to have the Ford Pinto certified by the FAA" "They actually wanted to know about its un-airworthiness" "'Cause they were afraid it might be like an airfoil and somehow in the middle of the drop go sailing off over Lake Shore Drive" "So we had to do drop tests where we dropped the Pinto from the helicopter had to hit a specific place" "We were using the area where they store salt that gets spread during the snowstorms of the winter" "It has nothing on it during the summer and it's away from a populated area" "Although, it is within the city" "We proved to the FAA and the city that we could hit a mark" "We dropped this Pinto, and it fell right on the X where we wanted it and flattened it" "It was this high when we got done with it That's how we did that shot" "I've always loved you" "We were fortunate enough to find the Dixie Mall in Harvey, Illinois" "An abandoned mall" "It was a one-in-a-million" "You don't go around finding these things abandoned" "In fact, we felt like archaeologists from the 31 st century or something going into this place with our flashlights" "All the power was off, dust flying everywhere and the place had been closed for over a year" "I'm proud to say we were the first movie to trash a mall" "Because I thought, "Mmm, mmm"." "That sequence came out of a location scout" "It was perfect for what we wanted, and we ended up shooting there for a week" "Before they go in the mall, there's this giant parking lot that they drive around, and it's like" ""How we gonna fill this parking lot?"" "So we made a deal to get brand-new cars... every car in that parking lot is a brand-new car... that's just there to fill up the parking lot" "Otherwise we couldn't fill the parking lot" "I remember the production manager saying" ""Don't hit any of those cars!"" "You got us into this parking lot, pal" "Now you get us out" "You want out of this parking lot?" "Okay" " Would there be anything else?" " Yes Do you have a Miss Piggy?" "It had, I think, a 130, 140 stores originally" "Actually, we did them all over" "We went in there and remodelled the whole works, put in breakaways and decorated all those stores" "We had stores that were being dressed by people that had franchises that were there" "There were two types of storesOnes we could wreck, and ones we couldn't wreck" "There's pants and burgers" "Yeah Lots of space in this mall" "We had hired..." "I won't say their names... but the most famous private security police force in the country" "And we had hired them to guard..." "'Cause we had millions of dollars of merchandise in there" "We made a deal with suppliers" "Anything we didn't break we didn't have to pay for" "So we had guards there, and things were being stolen and called the police, and it turned out the guards were doing the stealing" "We had to get guards to watch the guards" "And background action Enjoying yourself" "And car!" "In the mall, all those stunt guys weren't drivers" "Those stunt guys were..." "Everyone on foot in the mall are stunt people" "So that's where the huge numbers came in" "I do remember that Danny Aykroyd thought that shooting at that mall was just one of the greatest things he'd ever seen... that he'd thought this up, and here it was this bizarre car chase combining consumer goods and police cars" "in his own mall" "I'll never forget the sheer delight that this idea he'd had late one night was now being played out in a very big way" "Cut!" "Stop!" "Part of the joke of the first "Blues Brothers is size." "Everything's gigantic Everything's exaggerated to such a huge extent" "It was interesting People were going, "Car crash?" "Song?" "Gee, that doesn't compute?"" "I just couldn't describe events without getting into trouble and without people looking at me like" ""What have you got us into?"" "Yeah, well, we did run over but the footage is gonna be excellent" "It's movie history" "I know, I know" "No, I think, in this sequence, we're gonna be two days over" "It'll all be on the screen I promise Okay I'll see you in LA" "Obviously, one couldn't duplicate the first movie" "It would cost too much It cost $27 million then which is much more than what we got now, actually" "But that was a huge amount then That was probably like 60 now" "We did this epic..." "We had 34 cars going 110 miles an hour in downtown Chicago" "I don't think you could do that again" "Ten-seven-niner still engaged" "Vehicle travelling southbound approaching Chicago city limits" "Commander advises will contact Chicago precincts for local intercept" "Maintain pursuit" "Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved" "Just the fact of what it took to film that in Chicago tying off blocks and blocks of city streets and multiple days of filming for really seconds of film..." "We would shut down the city on weekends, I guess on Sundays when there wasn't a lot of traffic or people out so no one would, hopefully, cross in front of us" "We had I don't know how many hundreds of PAs at every intersection, every alley, every doorway so that no one would walk out and get hit" "This is definitely Lower Wacker Drive" "If my estimations are correct we should be very close to the Honourable Richard J Daley Plaza" " That's where they got that Picasso" " Yep" "We had great drivers" "The doubles for Belushi and Aykroyd were Tommy Huff and Eddie Donno and Tom Huff was a brilliant driver" "And what we were doing in that movie that was unusual is they were going that fast;" "we were going 100 miles an hour" "So there's one shot in the movie, when I shot it" "I looked at it in dailies and said:" ""People are gonna think I sped this up"" "So we reshot it with pedestrians on the sidewalk" "It was probably a wasted effort but there's a shot where you see the Blues Mobile coming towards us then around a corner and under the El train followed by these twenty-some police cars" "They're going 100 miles an hour" "We put people on the sidewalk so you could see they were going 100 miles an hour" "And what was complicated about that was that on a city street you have to make sure that all traffic is stopped" "So we were shooting very early Saturday and Sunday mornings on a lot of this stuff" "And to make sure all traffic was stopped meant you had to have a PAwith a walkie-talkie at every alley and street and lots of cops for half a mile or a mile" "These were big undertakings, this stuffWe did big stuff" "Lots of effects..." "mechanical and visual effects that made that happen, and really one of the classic chases of all time" "The Blues Brothers was really the first big picture allowed to shoot in Chicago since Daley had passed away" "You may have heard that Daley had..." "this is Mayor Daley... had come up with an edict that there would be no filming in Chicago" "He wasn't gonna allow it" "Partly because of an old "M Squad" episode with Lee Marvin, where it showed a Chicago cop accepting a bribe" "You know, and Mayor Daley's, That's it" "One of the big issues, given what we were planning, was how would we get permission to get the city of Chicago to let us film all of this" "We met with MayorJane Byrne" "We had met with her to say how happy we were to be shooting in Chicago and so forth, and she asked was there anything that she could do for us" "It was so Chicago..." "Mayor Byrne was very instrumental" "And then other people..." "high-placed... these kind of people..." "helped us too" "Because, for instance, shooting in Daley Plaza" "You know, Cook County Board said, "No, no, no"" "We went above them to the people who owned the Cook County Board" "This is no longer true in Chicago" "And we were able..." "But it was amazing the cooperation we got from the city and the police" "Good news" "The mayor of Chicago is gonna allow us to take over Daley Plaza and drive the Blues Mobile through the lobby of the state office building" "Good newsWe got the permission Bad newsWe got the permission" "Background action!" "Action!" "They got what they wanted It was slick" "It worked terrific Brakes worked good" " How'd it look?" " Looked terrific" "I couldn't see it I had my eyes closed" "The first thing I thought about was those Sam Fuller movies" "I thought I was going to be making this great war movie" "That's what went into my mind I saw it as a battle sequence" "And it really excited me, because we had the tanks we had the army..." "we had so much stuff going on" "We had conversations..." "How many ISPs?" "Illinois State Police cars We got like 60 ISPs and 42 Chicago city cop cars and 17 ambulances" "150 National Guardsmen, 60 Chicago cops 350 guns" "There's 150 batons" "Four Sherman tanks, three helicopters 700 pounds of prime rib" "And 400 troops Well, if we've got the 400 troops then what about the SWAT team?" "John Landis directs..." "directed this movie as General Westmoreland might prepare a battle" "Come on, men!" "Screaming!" "Hustle, hustle, hustle, hustle!" "Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!" "Get those weapons ready, mister!" "Hustle, hustle, hustle, hustle!" "We had a place called "the war room"" "and in the war room were maps of Chicago and aerial views and this was where all the planning was done" "If you're gonna tie off major sections of Lower Wacker Drive or Lake Shore Drive, these things had to be carefully coordinated and with the assistant directors and Chicago police and fire departments we staged some very, very big gags" "Get your arms up in the air, people!" "From a logistics standpoint, I think the hardest number was the Cab Calloway number which was a giant, live, large concert that we actually shot here in Hollywood at the Palladium" "There were thousands of extras, in fact, so many that we had promoted the audience through a local radio station" "Faster!" "In between the set-ups, we're entertaining them with local disc jockeys and giving away prizes and so forth" "And there were wardrobe changes and lighting effects and so on" "I think that was, logistically as far as anything inside was concerned, the most difficult" "You guys know "Minnie the Moocher"?" "I knew a hooker named Minnie Mazola" "No, the song "Minnie the Moocher"." " Yeah So what?" " Hit it!" "I had a rough start with Cab" "He came to Chicago to prerecord "Minnie"" "and he was quite taken aback by the tracks" "He listened to them and said, "That's the way it sounded 50 years ago"." "'Cause we were recording 50 years to the day he had written it" "And I said, "Yeah, that's what I want"." "He wanted to do it disco He had just cut a disco version" "He told me he'd done "Minnie" cha-cha, "Minnie" twist, "Minnie" polka" ""Minnie" rumba..." "done all the major dance crazes and he didn't understand why we wanted to do it this old-fogy way and I told him, "Because that's great, and that's what I want"." "He was very unhappy about it and in a very bad mood this old guy, and he went into the recording studio and went in and did a take and afterward said, "How was that?"" "And I said, "I was unhappy with that, Cab"." "And his eyes got narrow He said, "What was wrong with it?"" "So I said, "Well, it was mediocre," "And you're Cab Calloway, so it should be great"." "And he said, "Oh, great?" "I'm sorry You didn't tell me you wanted it great"." "Really angry So it was like real quiet" "So he goes back in, he puts on the headphones and we do another take, and it was great" "It's the one that's in the movie It was great" "But he finishes, and he takes off his headset and says, "How was that?"" "And I said, "That was great"." "And he said, "You gotta tell me what you want!" and stormed out" "And I thought, "Oh, shit"." "But then when he showed up on location he was lovely, and he had a really good time on the movie and so there were no problems" "But it was a rocky start I thought, "Uh-oh"" "John Landis is something else He is the greatest" "He loved sharing his experiences, and I don't know of anybody other than Duke Ellington, who would have more stories" "The fact that he warmed up to us, and wanted to..." "There was no aloofness, no distance..." "That made us feel very warm towards him" "He was a sweet man, and what a performer, man" "We used to sit down and talk" "He used to talk about the times that, you know, the early days when he was shootin' in Hollywood, the things that happened to him" "And he was a very friendly dude" "I told Cab that one thing that got me was that he just went absolutely straight ahead, you know?" "And he says, "Well, Lou, I learned something a long time ago." "When you got good musicians, you don't have to say anything." "And if you don't have good musicians, there's nothing you can say."" " Got any fried chicken?" " Best damn chicken in the state" "Bring me four fried chickens and a Coke" "You want chicken wings or chicken legs?" "Four fried chickens and a Coke" "It's a good movie It's..." "It's about Chicago, it's about music, it's about..." "It's about two hours" "There's no sex and drugs in the movie" "I had a funny story happen with John that I've told before but it wasn't funny at the time" "We were having quite a big fight We were over here at Universal shooting the interior of the church on stage 29 and it involved drugs" "I was extremely angry about this cocaine" "I'd thrown away a bunch of cocaine, and John was furious" "We had a big fight, and we went out on Lankershim" "So there's Jake Blues, in complete... he's in drag" "And I'm out there, and we're yelling" "We're really mad, and we're having an argument" "And he finally said, "Fuck this, and fuck you!"" "And he sort of sticks his thumb out" "I don't even..." "But this car coming the opposite way goes... makes a huge U-turn, this convertible and there's this kid, a real stoner, goes" ""Hey, John Belushi, man!"" "John jumps in the front and says, "Take me to the Chateau Marmont!"" "Off Gone Like that" "At the time it was not amusing, but in retrospect, it's pretty funny" "Over there is Alan Rubin" "Over that side That way" " Alan Rubin" " Hi How are you?" "We all know John as a "bad boy"" "but a giving, wonderful soul" "You go to his house and open his refrigerator like you were at your friend's" "He would kill for his friends" "John was the type of person that if he decided you were his friend, then he more or less looked after you from then on" "He was quite a faithful friend to me" "The guys were always partying and stuff" "I was, and still am, sort of like a loner, you know" "But whenever he saw me sittin' over in a corner anywhere he'd always come over and says, "Matt"..." "He says, "What's the matter?" He says, "Are you okay?"" "He was a serious individual, but he was always clowning' around" "That was kind of about the basic of it" "And he was just a great guy" "We hung out;" "he'd come by the house and sit there and clean out my refrigerator" "When I'd run out of food, he'd go somewhere else" "No, he was just a super guy, a very giving guy and a lot of fun" "He's also a person who might show up at your house at 2:00 in the morning" "And I loved him very much and still miss him" "John was kind of..." "Like I say, you wanted him as your next-door neighbour" "You wanna hug him" "John was a wonderful person I adored him" "In fact, everybody adored John Belushi" "This is Mr John "Be-lu-chee"" " And Mr Dan Aykroyd" " Polaroid" "Mr Dan Polaroid I've been callin' him everything like..." " "Be-lu-shee"" " Just a minute I'll get you in" " Stay back till I call you" " Belushi He's not Italian" "Now, I've compared these people, and I may have to swallow all of this" "I'm figurin' on them to take their places" "We'll just say this:" "Abbott and Costello, Hope and Crosby and Martin and Lewis and Sinatra and his little group and everything like that, but they couldn't carry these guys' jockstrap" "One night nobody could find John We didn't know where he was" "We needed him for a shot and someone said, "I saw him walking over across the street"." "He crossed the street and went over into that neighbourhood over there" "So we began to look for him, and we went to a house in the neighbourhood sort of basically looking for telltale signs of him and someone said, "Oh, yeah, he went into that house there"." "We knocked, and the guy came to the door and said" ""Yes, Mr Belushi's in on the couch." "He's asleep"" "Perfect stranger" "Turned out John had walked off the set gone to somebody's house, knocked on the door, said" ""You know who I am." "John Belushi." "I'm tired, I'm hungry."" "He walked in to the guy's fridge, opened the fridge stood at the fridge, the guy said, made himself a sandwich had a glass of milk, and then said, "Can I crash out on your couch?"" "Perfect stranger, crashed out on the couch" "John really was America's guest, and that really crystallized it, you know" "That was really a funny night" "Warden threw a party in the county jail" "Prison band was there and they began to wail" "The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing" "You should have heard those knocked out jailbirds sing" " Let's rock" " The Blues Brothers is a movie that for whatever reasons wherever I go all over the world, people love that movie and these things take on a life of their own" "I would have never imagined that 17 years later" "I would still be playing with the same guys" "Dan Aykroyd has helped blues probably more than anybody... and John Belushi, if he hadn't have died..." "I think from that first movie" "There was some criticism given to John and Danny but they've done more for blues than anybody in the last 20 years" "Dan Aykroyd's passion for rhythm and blues... it's basically black American music" "One of the things the movie did quite successfully was draw attention back to these great artists" "And you can talk to James Brown or Aretha Franklin or any of these people, and they'll tell you their careers were revitalized, and I really am proud of that" "It broadened my audience and it certainly introduced people to me who were not aware of who I was" "As soon as I got with The Blues Brothers Band and we did "The Blues Brothers" movie, one..." "I couldn't believe how I was accelerated, man" "I just knew we were making a great movie" "In my heart, I knew" "And even though, maybe the reviews weren't great and people said it wasn't gonna do well" "I knew it was gonna last forever" "I know the fans were there Without question, the fans were there" "And they go crazy when we go open a House of Blues and there's 2,000 people, and they're all goin' nuts" "They love this band" "My wife and I were at EPCOT Centre and it was about 11:00 at night, it was gettin' kind of dark" "And this guy goes, "Man Murphy Dunne, man"" "I-It's..." "Man, Mur..." "It's Murphy." "Is that you?"" "And I said, "Yeah What are you gonna do?"" "He said, "Oh, no, I'm not gonna..." "I just..." "Can I touch you?"" "I said, "Yeah." "It's okay Hi, how are you?"" "Yeah, it just knocks me out when it happens" "It's funny, though, this one appearance when I hold up that prophylactic..." "It's weird People still talk to me about it to this day" "They say it cracked 'em up" "Every now and again, even on a street, somebody'll say" ""Hey, it's the Penguin!" which is great fun" "The movie is very much like "Dragnet"" "Jack Webb, very straightforward "Thank you, ma'am"" "Certainly I did something right, because people love these characters" "There are wonderful things in the movie" "I think he's one of the great film-makers of our age" "He's certainly made some of the best pictures of our time" "He's a great director" "He's like a directing animal He's like an animal" "If there was an animal called "director", it would be John Landis" "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses" "Hit it" "Ladies and gentlemen, take a good look at these two kids because you're gonna see a lot of'em" "They're gonna say, "Here they come and yonder they go"" "They come on like "We the people" and go off like gangbusters" " Shotgun Britton, ladies and gentlemen!" " God bless you, sir" "Shotgun Britton!" "This production is happy people" "They are very professional people and very alert people" "Sean Daniel, vice president of Universal Pictures and good guy" " But not for long" " Bob, come here" "Look at this" "Robert K Weiss, of "Robert K Weiss" Presents" "The producer of the motion picture Thank you, Bob" " Cut" " Cut" "Cut I've gotta clean up" "When in Hollywood, visit Universal Studios" "Okay, cut" "Ripped with SubRip 1.14 and Verified by CdinT (Cristi_Polacsek@SoftHome.net)" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D"