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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 02:13 PM Original message |
Why was John Lee Hooker too black for the Blues Brothers soundtrack? |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. Just reminds me why I hate Corporate commitees |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 02:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I'm grotesquely amused by the fact that he was too black for the album but not the movie |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 02:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Perhaps its the blues thing singing about the black experience |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 02:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Almost all the guest stars were black musicians singing about the black experience |
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HuskerDU (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
3. I don't think that a record company could get away with that |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 02:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. A record company today would never have to confront that issue |
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HuskerDU (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 03:22 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I'd be much more afraid of Belushi himself than any of the |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
7. That really doesn't sound right at all. I wonder if the biography wasn't off about that. |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 03:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I just posted it on an Internet message board |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 03:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Google's first result for: Hooker too black Blues Brothers |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 04:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Wow, thanks for the info. All these years of loving the Blues Brothers, I had no idea that |
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hellbound-liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 05:28 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I think you're exactly right Nickster. "Too black" means that the intended audience for the movie |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 05:43 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I was soooo lucky to see John Lee Hooker in Chicago before he died. Plenty of fans there that day! |
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MnFats (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 06:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. saw him in a little place called the Union Bar in N.E. Mpls. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 06:59 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. no shit! |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 10:15 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Yep, no shit. I was still in high school. My buddy and I went downtown to see the Blues Fest. |
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MnFats (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 04:22 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I agree. that scene of The Hook playing at the Chicago street festival.. |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 04:25 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. So the philosophical question is why did the corporate suits freak out? |
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SPKrazy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 05:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. He was just too cool for them |
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Elidor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-22-07 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
15. John Lee Hooker was the MAN! |
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