Yeah, I grew up in the 70s in England and this music changed my life. The blues brothers were on another level. long live the ten hole diatonic harmonics.
Aside from The Blues Brothers and being funny as hell, what really makes this movie an absolute classic is that it preserved incredible performances from legends like Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, James Brown, and Chaka Kahn.
& they were going to cut this performance because they were afraid white people wouldn't watch the movie..this is MY personal fave in the movie though it's difficult for me to pick a favorite
Bulushi and Ackroyd were big blues fans and gave credit to the musicians who brought us much of what we know as American music, rock and roll being at the forefront.
That is John Lee Hooker in front of the greatest of Muddy Waters' bands. Shakey Horton, Willie Smith, Pinetop Perkins, Fuzz Jones and Luther Johnson. The very apex of an art form right there on celluloid. Beautifully directed and integrated into the movie too.
One thing I love about Blues Brothers, especially with the extended cut, is scenes like this - you’re forced to take in the atmosphere of Chicago and vibe with the music being played - it enhances the core themes and messages that the movie brings to the table. You’d never find movies nowadays where you’re allowed to stop for a moment and take in the setting and vibes, everything has to be so tightly-paced and action packed when stuff like this is just as effective. Love this movie.
Not many people have any idea the power & strength of the performers who appeared in this movie. There wouldn't be genres of music if it wasn't for these legends. Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklyn, Jonnny Lee Hooker, Chaka Khan, James Brown & the like. There wouldn't be any rock-n-roll and their bands who perform them if it wasn't for the blues and soul and gospel. What you're watching here are the pioneers of music.
I've been rewatching this movie since I was 5 just for the love of the rusty 74 Monaco (Shit Box Dodge) I'm now a 24 year old auto body and mechanic nerd and I found one of those 74 Dodge Monaco's In a junkyard and I had to have it. I tore it down to the frame, dumped a 440 police pack in it, undercoated the frame, repainted it to a faded Mt Prospect reject, rewired everything (even shoved a 8-track in the dash) and I bought a ripped and beat up dash, steering wheel, front and rear bench seat and door panels to give it that Blues Brothers feel. When I take it for a drive, theirs only one of two things that go through my head... ♪Boom Boom Boom Boom♪ or " Pfff... Illinois Nazi's. I hate Illinois Nazi's " lol. Even after 30+ years This movie never gets old.
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Never forget that the blues gave birth to rock and roll. Without John Lee Hooker and others, we wouldn't have the great music that we know as rock and roll. God bless all those creative people.
😠 That Is Not Really True At All, John 🎖 Lee 🎣 Hooker ⚓ Is One ☝ Of The Greatest 👍 , Bad Ass 💪 , Master Blues 🎹, Jazz 🎷 & Rock 🎸 For Life 😇 ( 😠 Like Why Doesn't Anyone Listen 👂 To ME Anymore? )
What a great presentation of the real Maxwell Street Market. The cuts between people, the knick-knack on display and the brothers Blues are perfectly executed. I feel like there's more culture in these 3 minutes than most full movies made today.
I’m a Sicilian guy, that watched the movie the first time as a little kid. This movie provided me with good taste in music and I feel a huge nostalgia for an era that I missed…
Could have been even better. Muddy Waters was too sick to perform, so one of the sidemen - Hooker - stepped in. Boosted his career just like it did all the other featured artists.
I was blessed enough to meet Matt Guitar Murphy in Downtown Denver an underground blues club he was playing at. I was a light tech for Amarillo Productions and had connections. I shook his hand and told him that I was a big fan of his. He was so cool and laid back. Then I thought how many blues greats shook the same hand I did.. Including John Lee Hooker..
I saw this blues master back in 1973 at a small auditorium in Long Beach, Ca. John Lee came out, played for about an hour, then Canned Heat played for another hour. When they were done John Lee and Canned Heat played together for about another hour. What a show!! It still stands out in my memory!
I grew up in Chicago in the 70's and used to go to Maxwell street (where this scene is) it was the largest and oldest open air flea market in the country, it had been there for 120 years and you could literally buy anything you needed for cents on the dollar, and Blues was EVERYWHERE on every juke box in every tavern on every corner you could hear the best music, it was really as magical as it looks here, people were friendly, it was a great time to live there. I live in L.A. now and there's no comparison, Chicago is the greatest city in the world, Bangkok is pretty freakin incredible as well as Paris but Chicago is truly amazing. Well it was when I was growing up there. When the Blues Brothers movie came out we had to sneak in to see it because it was an R film, but we did it about 14 times. And bought the album and learned every song.
Some people watch 'It's a wonderful life' every year. or whatever other film gives them the warm and fuzzies. I watch this at least yearly. And I bought the album. And the VHS. and the DVD. And then torrented it. Never bought the shitbox Dodge though. Got the Chrysler Newport instead. Yeah, Chicago. The quintessential American city. The good (and great), the bad, and of course to complete the triptych, the ugly. The trichotomy of mankind.
i disagree just to lyk, the one half a step up is a better guitar sound imo but thats only cus i play guitar. also i say this not to argue or nothin, but just to comment on a great song
I had dinner with Hooker at his home - my band opened for him a couple of times. He was an absolute HOOT ! No talking to him while he had a baseball game on the tv though.
I am beyond jealous, I styled my playing by studying him for years! Saw him play but never got to meet him. Was he playing with Ry cooder, John Hammond or Bonnie Raitt? I think Hammond is a genius on guitar.
ookiiani I was raised on this film too. My dad loved The Blues Brothers and would often dress up in his Blues Brothers costume when he worked (he was a DJ). He introduced me to this film when I was less than a month old and it became ‘our film’. Now we do our own double act dressing up as Jake and Elwood, heading out to the bar and singing songs from The Blues Brothers to a clapping crowd. They all love it when we do the act.
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The 1st- and still my favorite- version of this INCREDIBLY powerful song. I personally owe John Belushi & Dan A. a massive debt of gratitude for their painstaking & smashingly successful effort to introduce the unstoppable force of the blues. As a grade school aged kid when the movie came out, this performance in particular made an indelible mark that has never wained. As a skinny white music nerd stuck In the in the middle-west, with no transpo besides a ten speed, no money, and less of a clue, finding & obtaining ANY blues records was a daunting task. Hard to fathom if you never struggled to survive in the (very) pre-internet days of the late 70s. I literally wore out the bootleg videotape of the movie provided by Vinny, or Pasquale, or any one of my dads "friends". I actually remember that I felt bad it was hot, yet somehow that seemed to make everything cement together more perfectly in my head & heart- watching and listening to a bunch of Catholic school whiteboys holding their own with some of the greatest blues artists of all time hit me like the low thud in he heart- like being electrocuted and "pleasured" at the same time: it thrilled, inspired and scared the shit out of me all at once. No single performance has- or likely will ever will have as significant an impact, or left such an indelible mark on my soul.
The music in that movie is just bliss, and I love that they didn't waste time and money one glitzing & glamouring up every extra to look like a super model. Does anybody else feel that the characters look like everyday human beings is amazingly soothing?
Well Elwood trys to pick up Twiggy who was a model and Carrie Fischer was Jakes ex and she was pretty well known for her gold bikini costume in Star Wars people need to stop getting so star struck because actors are just people.
I saw Lightnin' Hopkins open for J L Hooker here in Houston at Liberty Hall in 1980. Lightnin' was stoned drunk outta his mind, couldn't even get thru a 15 minute set...just trashed...stumbled and mumbled his way off the stage. John Lee Hooker comes on around 11PM, apologizes for LIghtnin's performance and proceeded to do about 2 hours of non-stop boogie, just him and a drummer...fantastic night.
The best thing about this movie and even Blues Brothers 2000 is that it got so many legends of Blues on video and shown to the masses. This stuff is pure greatness!
@@mvorselen real bluesbrothers fans love 2000 fuck these old dudes hating on 2000 as if the first one had that great of a story or was that funny wtf you wanted them to resurect belucci?
I met John Lee Hooker after a concert he walked up said hello and shook my hand swim to those things that you never ever forget It was very nice and approachable a wonderful person
"That was Boom Boom, I wrote that back in the fifties!" "NO YA DIDN'!" XD I love that bit between John Lee Hooker and the person listening to the song.
I grew up in Illinoi. And my mother also grew up in illinoi. And she became good friends with John Lee in his early career. He would invite her over for dinner, and concerts, and parties. And when my mother meet my dad. My dad took a beautiful picture of my mother holding John Lee's hands with his altigraph on it. I never meet John. But from what my mother tells me. He was alot of fun to be around. She got to meet some other blues artist like Van Morrison, BB King, Earl Hooker, and a few others that I cant remember off the top if my head. Alot of you probably wont think this is true, but I can assure you this is 100% all true.
Backing the great John Lee Hooker is the Legendary Blues Band, featuring the no less great Calvin "Fuzz" Jones on the bass, "Guitar Junior" Luther Johnson on the guitar, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith on the drums, and Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins on the piano. And, lending his amazing skill on the mouth harp, "Big Walter" Horton.
When I see the little kids in this movie, I remember how I was a little kid in Chicago when this movie was being made, and I wonder how their lives have turned out.
Mr. John Lee Hoover - 100% pure American icon! One of the greatest regrets in my life is that I had an opportunity to see the great JLH at the Golden Bear in Berkeley in 1971..... and passed it up. Much to my lifelong regret. RIP Mr. John Lee Hooker
My sons started dancing in a way that they envisioned "old" people dancing, while listening to this song. I was laughing so hard that I forgot to record them doing their "jig" to this song!!!
A little bit "Boom Boom". a little bit "hmm hm", a quarter "how, how" and a short "heyyy hey". You never need more for a good blues, if hou have the blues like John Lee Hooker. UNFORGETABLE
Nothing portrays Maxwell Street better than this scene. When I was a kid my uncle use to take me to the flee markets there. This is exactly how it was before they were forced to move. As I got older I would hit Maxwell Street for the food after a long night of drinking. Best damn polish sausage in the world cooked exactly as they show it, next to a mountain of onions. Cars would pull up three deep in the street for a polish or a pork chop sandwich. I miss those days and that place.
I was eight years old and witnessed this movie in the theater. I believe this movie helped influence my love for music. This scene (in its entirety) was not in the original or other repeats since. This extended cut puts it all into perspective.
Just got to see this movie in the theater this year for the first time ever and even though I'd seen it before on TV it was so much better on the big screen. Just made me smile.
This scene was probably the most iconic musical moment I've ever seen in a movie growing up. Today I got to play a guitar that was owned by John Lee Hooker, and goddamn it if I was any good at the guitar I'd have tried playing this song.
Yeah the director's cut is superior in this case. nothing superfluous, just fills out the scenes/story. Watch it yearly since release. This movie hits all the marks for what a good movie is all about. SCMODS? State County Municipal Offender Data System.
Ive seen that version before I was like "what the fucking hell did they do?" Its the best song in the movie, and the shortest. Would it have killed them to just put it in? Also the best version of the song itself on youtube, better than the studio album.
A true classic! BACK in the day , movies were not overproduced in order to boost the egos of all the actors involved! THE formula for this scene was simple ; GOOD old down home blues, in the ghetto,paired with everyday shoppers and spectators ,= PURE CINEMA MAGIC! NOTHING else like it ever since! R.I.P, JOHN BELUSHI!
This movie is more than a comedy. It’s a love letter to soul and blues.
And a salutation to loving each other, doing something right, making amends, and to honour America.
Yeah, I grew up in the 70s in England and this music changed my life. The blues brothers were on another level. long live the ten hole diatonic harmonics.
Rythym and blues
"We got both kinds. Country and Western."
So true
Aside from The Blues Brothers and being funny as hell, what really makes this movie an absolute classic is that it preserved incredible performances from legends like Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, James Brown, and Chaka Kahn.
That is absolutely correct!!
& they were going to cut this performance because they were afraid white people wouldn't watch the movie..this is MY personal fave in the movie though it's difficult for me to pick a favorite
@@donnaidontwanna I thought Aretha’s rendition of “Think” was the best performance in the movie.
You couldn’t have said it better. Such amazing talents from real musicians
Bulushi and Ackroyd were big blues fans and gave credit to the musicians who brought us much of what we know as American music, rock and roll being at the forefront.
That is John Lee Hooker in front of the greatest of Muddy Waters' bands. Shakey Horton, Willie Smith, Pinetop Perkins, Fuzz Jones and Luther Johnson. The very apex of an art form right there on celluloid. Beautifully directed and integrated into the movie too.
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Great info, thank you👌💙🎵🎶🎸👏👏👏👏
Really appreciate the musicians identified here.
The real deal right there! Live and direct
Thank's Man , i wish to say the same that you said !!! Really, Really Big Band , they know how to play the Blues like no one else 👍🙋🏻♂️🤙🎸🤙
This movie was made at the perfect time when these legends were still with us.
I cannot fathom to this day how so much talent was packed into a single film.
My dad took me to see John Lee hooked when I was 14. I count myself lucky to have seen him.
A Huevo!
That is why the film was made
Very thankful!
1:10
Holding a microphone, harmonica, and a cigarette at the same time. Old school.
That's Big Walter Horton -- he was the real deal, maybe the best of all time.
Captain_Hat Eddie Van Halen adopted this playing method when he picked up the guitar
When woke ment getting up in the morning 😎
@@yortukfenstruk Sunny Boy ??
One big máster
It's 106 miles from Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it!
@Shards of Shattered Halos Lacerate My Skin what?
To Chicago
@Emily Petsche - Classic.
106 miles yet took them until like 9am the next morning to get there 🤷♂️
@@theF1oracle They had to go through Racine.....it happens...
One thing I love about Blues Brothers, especially with the extended cut, is scenes like this - you’re forced to take in the atmosphere of Chicago and vibe with the music being played - it enhances the core themes and messages that the movie brings to the table. You’d never find movies nowadays where you’re allowed to stop for a moment and take in the setting and vibes, everything has to be so tightly-paced and action packed when stuff like this is just as effective.
Love this movie.
Not many people have any idea the power & strength of the performers who appeared in this movie. There wouldn't be genres of music if it wasn't for these legends. Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklyn, Jonnny Lee Hooker, Chaka Khan, James Brown & the like. There wouldn't be any rock-n-roll and their bands who perform them if it wasn't for the blues and soul and gospel. What you're watching here are the pioneers of music.
Well, they were on a mission from God, so...
Don’t forget Joe Walsh…
THIS FILM WAS AN ABSOLUTE CLASSIC MASTERPIECE FOR SO MANY REASONS.
just, yes.
It's a fuckin great comedy that just happens to be a musical with some of the greatest R&B artists of all time.
IS
No remakes 🤦🏾♂️ please Hollywood
Amen Brother
I've been rewatching this movie since I was 5 just for the love of the rusty 74 Monaco (Shit Box Dodge) I'm now a 24 year old auto body and mechanic nerd and I found one of those 74 Dodge Monaco's In a junkyard and I had to have it. I tore it down to the frame, dumped a 440 police pack in it, undercoated the frame, repainted it to a faded Mt Prospect reject, rewired everything (even shoved a 8-track in the dash) and I bought a ripped and beat up dash, steering wheel, front and rear bench seat and door panels to give it that Blues Brothers feel. When I take it for a drive, theirs only one of two things that go through my head... ♪Boom Boom Boom Boom♪ or " Pfff... Illinois Nazi's. I hate Illinois Nazi's " lol. Even after 30+ years This movie never gets old.
Good for you man, I like the dedication. That car became an icon for me, and one day I will have one too!
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I wish I get one when I'm older
Did you fix the lighter?
@@jwsaxe funny story behind that. The lighter was missing and I kept it that way. Lol
I’m so thankful to The Blues Brothers for introducing me to so many legendary artists when I was a child. John Lee Hooker’s legend lives on !!!!
Never forget that the blues gave birth to rock and roll. Without John Lee Hooker and others, we wouldn't have the great music that we know as rock and roll. God bless all those creative people.
That’s right black people crates the blues in America that’s facts ✊🏼✊🏿
Yes thank you 😎
The guy at the end yelling at John was none other than the legendary Pinetop Perkins
Yeah, was that part in the theatrical release. I cant remember it.
@@edmel144 no, the song didn't last this long either.
I've just noticed that the other guitarist looks suspiciously like Taj Mahal.
@@danburrill8716 It's Luther Johnson, AKA "Guitar Junior", part of Muddy Water's band
The argument was scripted obviously, but it was a reference to a real dispute that the two men had about writing the song.
John Lee Hooker is ridiculously Cool
And he's from the Motor City.
😠 That Is Not Really True At All, John 🎖 Lee 🎣 Hooker ⚓ Is One ☝ Of The Greatest 👍 , Bad Ass 💪 , Master Blues 🎹, Jazz 🎷 & Rock 🎸 For Life 😇 ( 😠 Like Why Doesn't Anyone Listen 👂 To ME Anymore? )
JLH took blues to a whole new level. It was all about the feel and the rhythm, and it insprired a ton of musicians like ZZ Top and George Thorogood.
@A.P. Guaschino I saw John Lee and Miles Davis' picture.
He sure is. I can only aspire.
Big Walter Horton on harmonica, some real legends there 👍🏻
a little Son Seals on rythm, and you got a band.
I SHOLLLLLLL WISH LIL WALTER WAS STILL WITH US AT THE TIME OF THIS MOVIE AS WELL!
thanks for pointing that out man! this makes me appreciate this masterpiece (the blues brothers) more and more
Thanks a lot brother, imma look him up. Long love the BLUES !
Thank you.
The amount of music legends they were able to get in the movie franchise was so epic. Will never stop loving these movies
What a great presentation of the real Maxwell Street Market. The cuts between people, the knick-knack on display and the brothers Blues are perfectly executed. I feel like there's more culture in these 3 minutes than most full movies made today.
You may appreciate the Scorcese classic Mean Streets. There are many scenes that show case small Italian-Amer. bands playing traditional music.
Oi ALESSANDRO DE SOUZA AXÉ AXÉ PRIMTONES BELO NOME BONITO
Being from that " part of the World ...Oh Yeah..Maxwell Street alright
I appreciate that, too❤
Probably
This makes me want to eat 4 fried chickens and some dry white toast
You better think....
And don't forget to drink a cola
And a coke
no. no ...no.... A liter of colaXDD
What are you, some kind of Hasidic Diamond Merchant?
I’m a Sicilian guy, that watched the movie the first time as a little kid. This movie provided me with good taste in music and I feel a huge nostalgia for an era that I missed…
I've loved John Lee Hooker since I discovered the blues at about 10. This is definitely the best version of this song.
Raw. Sounds great!!!
One of the coolest riffs ever... if you don’t tap your feet to this then you’re already dead!
Absolutely💯👌🖐
oh Yeah👍, Merry Christmas
Even the dead are tapping their bones to this....
Hell yeah
If you're dead, and you made it into Heaven, then you'll be tapping and nodding to this at least a few times throughout eternity....
Do you know how cool it would be to walking down the road and see John lee hocker preforming
that would be a $500 show by now
Could have been even better. Muddy Waters was too sick to perform, so one of the sidemen - Hooker - stepped in. Boosted his career just like it did all the other featured artists.
The least you could do is get his name right.
@@mjc11a :D
You used to could.
I was blessed enough to meet Matt Guitar Murphy in Downtown Denver an underground blues club he was playing at. I was a light tech for Amarillo Productions and had connections. I shook his hand and told him that I was a big fan of his. He was so cool and laid back. Then I thought how many blues greats shook the same hand I did.. Including John Lee Hooker..
I'm just gonna say it: this is the best version of "Boom Boom", hands down.
Those look like better times compared to 2020 👑🙏🏼 R.I.P. JLH
for you tf
Yes it was; like the French Quarter
its what you make it/
BEST FUCKING MOVIE IN THE WORLD !
Sacha Vogt You're so right xD
Sacha Vogt crossroads is better
Sacha Vogt I'm from Calumet City
lol
Miss the blues bros,and it's the only movie I like.
I saw this blues master back in 1973 at a small auditorium in Long Beach, Ca. John Lee came out, played for about an hour, then Canned Heat played for another hour. When they were done John Lee and Canned Heat played together for about another hour. What a show!! It still stands out in my memory!
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Where are the blues today? 😪
I grew up in Chicago in the 70's and used to go to Maxwell street (where this scene is) it was the largest and oldest open air flea market in the country, it had been there for 120 years and you could literally buy anything you needed for cents on the dollar, and Blues was EVERYWHERE on every juke box in every tavern on every corner you could hear the best music, it was really as magical as it looks here, people were friendly, it was a great time to live there. I live in L.A. now and there's no comparison, Chicago is the greatest city in the world, Bangkok is pretty freakin incredible as well as Paris but Chicago is truly amazing. Well it was when I was growing up there. When the Blues Brothers movie came out we had to sneak in to see it because it was an R film, but we did it about 14 times. And bought the album and learned every song.
Some people watch 'It's a wonderful life' every year. or whatever other film gives them the warm and fuzzies. I watch this at least yearly. And I bought the album. And the VHS. and the DVD. And then torrented it. Never bought the shitbox Dodge though. Got the Chrysler Newport instead. Yeah, Chicago. The quintessential American city. The good (and great), the bad, and of course to complete the triptych, the ugly. The trichotomy of mankind.
Ivan Damico thanks. Didn't realize it was a real place. Nothing like that in the UK 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Cool story, thanks for sharing it. Wish I had a time machine!
I envy you so much Ivan...
Ivan Damico yup. All that needs to be said
This is the best recorded version of this song ever made.
And it is the extended version, not the chopped up one from the original theatrical version
And there are certainly no two versions alike!
@@kenholland911 u
Amen
i disagree just to lyk, the one half a step up is a better guitar sound imo but thats only cus i play guitar. also i say this not to argue or nothin, but just to comment on a great song
I had dinner with Hooker at his home - my band opened for him a couple of times. He was an absolute HOOT ! No talking to him while he had a baseball game on the tv though.
I am beyond jealous, I styled my playing by studying him for years! Saw him play but never got to meet him. Was he playing with Ry cooder, John Hammond or Bonnie Raitt? I think Hammond is a genius on guitar.
😃
One of the best scenes in the history of cinema. Goose bumps all the way through every time. Since I first saw it in the theaters as a kid.
goddam i was raised on this film and it's still so perfect; so many legends in one place!
大きい兄 freaking awesome movie
I asked my dad if we could watch it when i was 8 and fell in love with music and awesome driving
Chicago's best movie.
BigDGuitars - Wrong, best movie in the entire universe.
ookiiani I was raised on this film too. My dad loved The Blues Brothers and would often dress up in his Blues Brothers costume when he worked (he was a DJ).
He introduced me to this film when I was less than a month old and it became ‘our film’.
Now we do our own double act dressing up as Jake and Elwood, heading out to the bar and singing songs from The Blues Brothers to a clapping crowd. They all love it when we do the act.
One of the best films ever
This scene is a masterpiece. The whole movie is, but here you just get the whole place's atmosphere, the sense of the place. Amazing direction.
Music that transcends generations is timeless..loving this in 2023
Classic blues, classic Chicago, awesome movie!
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The 1st- and still my favorite- version of this INCREDIBLY powerful song.
I personally owe John Belushi & Dan A. a massive debt of gratitude for their painstaking & smashingly successful effort to introduce the unstoppable force of the blues.
As a grade school aged kid when the movie came out, this performance in particular made an indelible mark that has never wained.
As a skinny white music nerd stuck In the in the middle-west, with no transpo besides a ten speed, no money, and less of a clue, finding & obtaining ANY blues records was a daunting task.
Hard to fathom if you never struggled to survive in the (very) pre-internet days of the late 70s.
I literally wore out the bootleg videotape of the movie provided by Vinny, or Pasquale, or any one of my dads "friends".
I actually remember that I felt bad it was hot, yet somehow that seemed to make everything cement together more perfectly in my head & heart- watching and listening to a bunch of Catholic school whiteboys holding their own with some of the greatest blues artists of all time hit me like the low thud in he heart- like being electrocuted and "pleasured" at the same time: it thrilled, inspired and scared the shit out of me all at once.
No single performance has- or likely will ever will have as significant an impact, or left such an indelible mark on my soul.
AWESOMENESS
What a decade the 80's was for music and musicals. Great to be a teenager growing up in this era
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I'm late to this party, but i was going down a john coltrane/ miles Davis rabbit hole, and managed to find myself now completely loving blues.
The music in that movie is just bliss, and I love that they didn't waste time and money one glitzing & glamouring up every extra to look like a super model.
Does anybody else feel that the characters look like everyday human beings is amazingly soothing?
Amazingly soothing is a great way to put it!
yes, Ma'am.
Absolutely. Realistic presentation is great.
Well Elwood trys to pick up Twiggy who was a model and Carrie Fischer was Jakes ex and she was pretty well known for her gold bikini costume in Star Wars people need to stop getting so star struck because actors are just people.
@@AnnaLVajda she wouldn’t dawn the gold bikini for another 3 years from when this film came out. She was mostly known for the white gown
All these films had the very best musicians that are at the top of there game, you will never find anything like these films ever again 😢 😭
Wow this song gives me chills it’s so good , never gets old.
Bravoo, 👍🇮🇹
Yeah 100%!
Thank you ladies and gentleman, that was Boom Boom, the song that I wrote back in the 50's..
This is my favorite scene from one of my favorite movies of all time.
I saw Lightnin' Hopkins open for J L Hooker here in Houston at Liberty Hall in 1980. Lightnin' was stoned drunk outta his mind, couldn't even get thru a 15 minute set...just trashed...stumbled and mumbled his way off the stage. John Lee Hooker comes on around 11PM, apologizes for LIghtnin's performance and proceeded to do about 2 hours of non-stop boogie, just him and a drummer...fantastic night.
I love America, as chaotic as we are
I don't believe this music and film could have been created anywhere else in the world.
Those polish sausages and mountain of onions is just awesome.
The best thing about this movie and even Blues Brothers 2000 is that it got so many legends of Blues on video and shown to the masses. This stuff is pure greatness!
Did you really just complimented bb2000????
@@mvorselen real bluesbrothers fans love 2000 fuck these old dudes hating on 2000 as if the first one had that great of a story or was that funny wtf you wanted them to resurect belucci?
John Lee didn’t need a dance number. He just naturally made people move 🖤
I met John Lee Hooker after a concert he walked up said hello and shook my hand swim to those things that you never ever forget It was very nice and approachable a wonderful person
I envy you...!!!
I wish I could have met John Lee Hooker !! He's amazing, and has a great voice !!
This movie introduced me to the Blues and I am eternally grateful!!
I can still smell it like it was yesterday. Onions, old style , 🐫 smokes. How far we have fallen
"That was Boom Boom, I wrote that back in the fifties!"
"NO YA DIDN'!"
XD I love that bit between John Lee Hooker and the person listening to the song.
That argument was about John Lee stealing the song Pinetop Perkins allegedly wrote.
They laugh when make the fake fight 😁
That was Pinetop Perkins, Muddy Waters' piano player from 1970-1980.
I WROTE BOOM BOOM!!!!! I WROTE BOOM BOOM!!!!
That guy, no ya didn't! 🤣
Blowing smoke through the harmonica gives it the blues. . . Hookers voices is golden!
Gutterally gorgeous👌💙🎶🎵
God bless that man my father took me to see him when I was a young kid and that’ll never be duplicated ever. God bless him rest in peace.
This movie is just a love letter to the music, the city, and the era. I love it so much 💖🎶
It was a love letter to ALL music. From blues and rock to classical and elevator, there was a sample of almost every type of music in that film.
@@crawfb well spoken sir. Glad to see a fellow music fan.
@@crawfb Yes classical as when the Illinois Nazis drop to their deaths. Wagner.
Well said!
John Lee Hooker was a great and memorable musician.
I grew up in Illinoi. And my mother also grew up in illinoi. And she became good friends with John Lee in his early career. He would invite her over for dinner, and concerts, and parties. And when my mother meet my dad. My dad took a beautiful picture of my mother holding John Lee's hands with his altigraph on it. I never meet John. But from what my mother tells me. He was alot of fun to be around. She got to meet some other blues artist like Van Morrison, BB King, Earl Hooker, and a few others that I cant remember off the top if my head.
Alot of you probably wont think this is true, but I can assure you this is 100% all true.
I don't know why, but this clip always puts me in the mood for barbecue more than cool music.
One of truest joys was getting to see John Lee Hooker live at the Greek Theatre in LA. An absolute music treasure!
You're very lucky.
Talk ‘ bout this movie here.
RIP John Lee, boom, boom
Amen. i Still have a crush on that man.
Boom, Boom Is Lo❤e
John Lee Hooker; God rest his soul and bless his memory!
Backing the great John Lee Hooker is the Legendary Blues Band, featuring the no less great Calvin "Fuzz" Jones on the bass, "Guitar Junior" Luther Johnson on the guitar, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith on the drums, and Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins on the piano. And, lending his amazing skill on the mouth harp, "Big Walter" Horton.
Damn you know your bluesman, like that bout ya 🤘🤘
When I see the little kids in this movie, I remember how I was a little kid in Chicago when this movie was being made, and I wonder how their lives have turned out.
I wish this were on the soundtrack, this version is fantastic..
Agreed. 2 years later
Agreed. 4 years later
@@jonasswanson1691 agreed 4 years later 9 days
I was a kid watching this having no clue what it was but my mind being opened to a whole new world of music
Mr. John Lee Hoover - 100% pure American icon!
One of the greatest regrets in my life is that I had an opportunity to see the great JLH at the Golden Bear in Berkeley in 1971.....
and passed it up.
Much to my lifelong regret.
RIP Mr. John Lee Hooker
My sons started dancing in a way that they envisioned "old" people dancing, while listening to this song. I was laughing so hard that I forgot to record them doing their "jig" to this song!!!
I like it when they're being chased by cops driving thru a shopping mall and Belushi says, "This place has everything."
"Yeah...lots of SPACE in this mall!"
Lots of space in a LOT of malls these days...
THOSE WERE THE DAYS.....WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD NEVER END.....BUT HERE WE ARE
Little did we know 😭
John Lee Hooker was a real Blues Brother!
A little bit "Boom Boom". a little bit "hmm hm", a quarter "how, how" and a short "heyyy hey".
You never need more for a good blues, if hou have the blues like John Lee Hooker.
UNFORGETABLE
Nothing portrays Maxwell Street better than this scene. When I was a kid my uncle use to take me to the flee markets there. This is exactly how it was before they were forced to move. As I got older I would hit Maxwell Street for the food after a long night of drinking. Best damn polish sausage in the world cooked exactly as they show it, next to a mountain of onions. Cars would pull up three deep in the street for a polish or a pork chop sandwich. I miss those days and that place.
I was eight years old and witnessed this movie in the theater. I believe this movie helped influence my love for music. This scene (in its entirety) was not in the original or other repeats since. This extended cut puts it all into perspective.
Just got to see this movie in the theater this year for the first time ever and even though I'd seen it before on TV it was so much better on the big screen. Just made me smile.
The second he first says "boom boom boom"... I get goosebumps...
Yes, can totally relate to that. I was only a kid when I first saw the film and this bit changed my life, for sure.
Shivers down my spine
I love how John Lee gives Jake and Elwood the nod at the end of the song to continue with the story. Everything waits for JLH
It was nice that he let them build an entire movie around his walk-on street show.
This scene was probably the most iconic musical moment I've ever seen in a movie growing up. Today I got to play a guitar that was owned by John Lee Hooker, and goddamn it if I was any good at the guitar I'd have tried playing this song.
That is cool. Where were you when you got the chance to see this guitar owned buy John Lee Hooker
I love this song and the movie! The exchange at the end is hilarious, "the song that I wrote back in the 50's...No you didn't!!" 🤣🤣🤣
Preach on Mr. Hooker!!!
All this was gone back in 99 wish it was still there then I would've got out and jammed
I love how this song just grooves in the back of the pocket…even his vocals!
I heard John Lee Hooker on the radio as a teenager ... it was so exciting.. I decided to learn to play the blues
This is my childhood. I grew up in the south burb's, and went went to Maxwell Street during the 70's when this shit was going on. Good stuff
One of my favorite all time movies. It was so fun and filled with great music, great artists, and great performances!!
Amen
My favorite Movie of all time [[Im 85 years old]
Classic film...
Just drive down town, and John Lee is jamming in the street 👍👍👍
I had no idea there was a ''lengthy version'' of this part in the blues brothers! This was one of my favorite scenes WHAT A TREAT!
There's a version of the movie that's out on DVD that has the Theatrical version of the movie, and the one with all the deleted scenes.
Yeah the director's cut is superior in this case. nothing superfluous, just fills out the scenes/story. Watch it yearly since release. This movie hits all the marks for what a good movie is all about. SCMODS? State County Municipal Offender Data System.
Ive seen that version before I was like "what the fucking hell did they do?" Its the best song in the movie, and the shortest. Would it have killed them to just put it in? Also the best version of the song itself on youtube, better than the studio album.
Mark Breaux aww
I love that talk
That baby talk
John Landis said one of his proudest moments in the making of The Blues Brothers was getting John Lee Hooker on film doing this song
There will never be a film like this again.
this scene has always stood out to me. its so beautiful.
Hard to believe this movie exists. Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker? Incredible.
Not to mention Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Carrie Fisher, and John Candy. So many legends in a single moive. Amazing.
Frank Oz and Steven Spielberg too in rare camera appearances.
Still one of the best movies ever.
A true classic! BACK in the day , movies were not overproduced in order to boost the egos of all the actors involved! THE formula for this scene was simple ; GOOD old down home blues, in the ghetto,paired with everyday shoppers and spectators ,= PURE CINEMA MAGIC! NOTHING else like it ever since! R.I.P, JOHN BELUSHI!
For awhile in the 80s, Ellwood had a syndicated radio show about how Blues affected a variety of bands. Listened to it every Sunday!
As of two months or so ago, it was still going; "House of Blues." Got it on my oldies station.
I wish the world was still like this. I hate the world today
Before thre time of youtube, I went to the cinema only to see this scene. Thats Blues. Rip John Lee.
Doesn’t get much better than the “ blues”, especially with greats like Hooker