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Post #AvN28Dda8zareyU93I by [email protected] |
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I picked up Daniel de Visé's *The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the … |
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Post #AvN28DmRc2gO6SdDrk by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic it's poignant that they were only able to secure such legendar… |
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Post #AvN28EegMO4Gog0XPE by [email protected] |
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It was on the receiving table I sat next to as I signed books after a book-tour… |
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Post #AvN28FDmFu8mZWQZ6m by [email protected] |
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By the time the line was cleared, there was no question that I was going to buy… |
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Post #AvN28Ff4cPyVwBCMee by [email protected] |
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Like many people of my generation, I grew up with The Blues Brothers. I taped t… |
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Post #AvN28G7mtewZNEdIPY by [email protected] |
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The Blues Brothers is sunk so deep into my psyche that I don't know that I … |
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Post #AvN28GbD8GTmqUOnGy by [email protected] |
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But beyond the movie, I was taken with the Blues Brothers' *music*. I didn&… |
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Post #AvN28H3ZQpAGGRfRTc by [email protected] |
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By the time I was 20, I'd amassed a vast collection of used records, tapes … |
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Post #AvN28HYPa9pno664Y4 by [email protected] |
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Within a few hops, I'd found my way to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and t… |
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Post #AvN28I2Xm7wBJYC8W0 by [email protected] |
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It's not an overstatement to say that The Blues Brothers altered my life, c… |
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Post #AvN28IVy0jTOmnxdNQ by [email protected] |
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When I put on a Memphis Slim album, it doesn't occur to me that the reason … |
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Post #AvN28J0SBNrMJMDytc by [email protected] |
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I knew a little, of course - my friends and I used to trade the information tha… |
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Post #AvN28JXQCoENxbeJHc by [email protected] |
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And no one could escape some of the more salacious details of Belushi's dea… |
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Post #AvN28KUcehaOvDLaYi by [email protected] |
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So I bought a copy off the receiving table, straight out of the box, and I'… |
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Post #AvN28KwyxGGsLAcElM by [email protected] |
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Instead, I found myself utterly engrossed in a brilliantly told, brilliantly re… |
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Post #AvN28LPhEVEvmE3AWG by [email protected] |
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De Visé devotes the first third of the book to snappy, revealing biographies o… |
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Post #AvN28Ls3X3vPCBJoiu by [email protected] |
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These biographical sketches are short, but they don't shy away from nuance … |
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Post #AvN28ML7mzB2eKv224 by [email protected] |
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As the two men find their way into various pioneering comedy projects - Second … |
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Post #AvN28Mou0Gzq8gqoRk by [email protected] |
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By the time we get to the SNL chapters, the show itself becomes the star, and i… |
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Post #AvN28NGCMmpZVLcbzc by [email protected] |
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De Visé shows us how Belushi had won over a long list of household names in th… |
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Post #AvN28NkKYkvx0nifxY by [email protected] |
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From winning over the mayor of Chicago (who reversed a decades-long policy of a… |
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And while all of this is going on, de Visé gives us a vivid portrayal of Belus… |
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Post #AvN28Ofl7Es3suaXTM by [email protected] |
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These are the final days of Belushi, something we all know and can see coming. … |
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Post #AvN28P9XKWgrNGWJt2 by [email protected] |
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Aykroyd and Belushi wanted to bring the music back. They couldn't stand tha… |
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Post #AvN28PcFbleuoJxFdw by [email protected] |
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In a "where are they now" coda straight out of the closing credits of… |
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Post #AvN28Q6NnjlIJm3Jbs by [email protected] |
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Which is where I came in, I suppose. That's how I got here, in this form, w… |
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Post #AvN28QZo2LIVn1ooTI by [email protected] |
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This isn't a book about a movie; it's a rich and engrossing tale of an … |
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Post #AvN28R4eBfy3KgFRXk by [email protected] |
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*. Catch me … |
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Post #AvSaThzspZnM8F8Pzc by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic For some reason there are life-size figures of Jake and Elwood on … |
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Post #AvSaTi7KNtkYVKcMb2 by [email protected] |
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@jef @pluralistic Same in Dallas, TXhttps://dallas.reel-scout.com/up_images/7/m… |
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Post #AvTeIhfWJ0kcu1ZsVk by [email protected] |
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@jef I mean, of course. |
