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[SolomanDHBlues]

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Speech By: Elwood Blues
Speech Title: Briefcase Full of Blues Intro

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Universal Amphitheatre. Well, here it is, the late seventies going on 1985. You know, so much of the music we hear today is all pre-programmed electronic disco, we never get a chance to hear master blues men practicing their craft anymore. By the year 2006, the music known today as the blues will exist only in the classical records department of your local library. So tonight ladies and gentlemen, while we still can, let us welcome, from Rock Island Illinois, the blues band of Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues, the Blues Brothers.

Well, here it is 2006 and the Blues, Soul, and R&B is more alive than it was when this speech was made in 1979.

What do you think? I believe the reviving of the music by The Blues Brothers movie and their concerts which raised awareness of the music and the songs original performers kept it alive.

And then I wonder, if The Blues Brothers hadn't been so iconic and wonderful, and had been a passing fad like The Coneheads, WOULD blues music have whithered and died?

Opine, please!

[dixiesquare]

as long as there are oldie stations or dusty stations or what ever they like to call them selfs these days , the music will still live on . you just cant play that type of music , it has to be played , some one likes it so it carries on . its like saying were not to play any elvis or chuck berry or little richard or buddy hollyetc etc etc any more it can not be done . there is all ways gonna be a nitch for that type of music , be now or in the future , this is stuff that we the people born from 1945 to 1959 (the baby boom ) grew up with. just because we are gettin older dosnt mean we are to forget these great musicians and the music they brought forth .

for some one to say it will be gone , there wrong , the stuff is as popular today as it was when first recorded up to 50 years ago .

[bluesharp]

Agreed!!

[CountryBob]

Blues, like Jazz, will never 'die'. It's the basic foundation for most music. As music evolves, it's basic root will remain the same.

[dixiesquare]

there are 8000 plus people who have come to this site for what ever reason, to snoop to hear music to post , whatever .

here are 8000 plus people interested in the music , it isnt going any where .

[DonJuan]

Well, Sadly at My Libray, The music know today as the Blues, IS in the classical Section. But at the Same time, there's abunch of music genre's in the classical section. They don't organize at all

[SolomanDHBlues]

DonJuan said:

Well, Sadly at My Libray, The music know today as the Blues, IS in the classical Section. But at the Same time, there's abunch of music genre's in the classical section. They don't organize at all

You win the chuckle of the day award! You got the first chuckle out of me. Funny stuff!

Here's a question, gang: Had it not been for the Blues Brothers reviving the sound, which was giving way to the punk music and hair-bands, would it have been as popular now?

I think that The BB brought it out of a possibly near fatal lost remembrance, especially when folks like James Brown and Aretha Franklin go on record saying TBB saved their careers.

Being from Memphis and having seen all the history of the STAX recording studios as it faltered and died now replaced with a museum, I wonder if Jake and Elwood hadn't brought back the great sounds of Sam and Dave on that first performance shown on SNL with "Soul Man" if any interest would have come back to the Memphis music scene. I don't think even Beale St. here in town would be thriving today had it not been for the Blues Bros. in the 80's.

I think it would have lived on barely in the small dirty blues dives and street bands, but I tend to think if TBB hadn't come about then Blues would have suffered. Soul already had at that point with its biggest recording studio (STAX) having been shut down.

My biography has me as a LEETLE boy being kept by an African Amarican woman while my single mom worked. I would stay at this old woman's house and I would hear the scratchy records she would play sometimes while I was playing outside with her grandchildren. She had the old Sam and Dave records and all kinds of old blues records that you could hardly hear under the scratching of the needle. I never paid any attention to any of it. I do remember seeing TBB on SNL and it was the look and the movements that captured my attention first, then recognizing the song that enraptured me!

I was all into the Disney, Sesame Street, and such as that, records that I had, but for me TBB really did open a new world of music and entertainment for me.

Otherwise, I wonder, would I have cared about the music if they hadn't looked so funny dancing like that?

8000 people (and more) can't be wrong that we congregate here to celebrate The Blues Brotehrs heritage, but if it weren't for them, would we care about Blues and Soul Music? I guess that's the question.

[dixiesquare]

will the music fade away ? yes and no

in certain radio markets it will , theres just not enough people out in the sticks who want to listen to rock and roll r&b , or any thing other than country or that crappy dance mix techno stuff blaring and thumping nd sounding like the garbage it is because people dont understand the volume and bass controlls and how they work .

but in the larger citys and markets ... no ... for as long as there are oldies stations it will be played and it will carry on . take any of the larger city around the us , and you will find at least 2 good oldies , 1 good r&B station , and a lot of good old rock and roll ( be it new or classic )here you will find clubs , concerts, and get togethers .

granted john and dan did a great thing making the movie and reintroducting the music to the masses, but... to give them all the credit for saving this music from extiction , takes it a little to far , studios close for one reason or another , we had in chicago ,the chess studio's , universal had a big studio here and r c a had one here also , all are gone except the chess which is now a museum from the lable and the artist who recorded there .

it's been 26 years since the movie was made, and the music still lives on , not because of dan and john , but just because it is great music , and great music does not die .

[Scott]

Hmm... maybe we should start making a list of R&B radio stations for the new site?

[itsallblack]

old record collections never die, they get handed down to the next generation or somebody who will appreciate them http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum2/public/style_emoticons/default/icon_cool.gif old soul records still fills the dancefloors. time for a revival :wink:

[dixiesquare]

all most every big city has a list of what they have for tv/radio stations and what they play . when im traveling for my job its the first thing i do so im not hitting the scan button evey couple of seconds .

[SolomanDHBlues]

Ya'll want to know something REALLY sad?? It borders on pathetic, really.

Memphis. A few hours north of the place where Blues was born and self-proclaimed "Home of the Blues," where--in actuality--some of the breath of life was given to the sound that "grew up" in Chicago. One of the places responsible for bringing to life so much in the history of the blues:

Not one single radio station dedicated to Blues music!

There used to be a DJ that came on at Midnight I would listen to on the weekends because he had a 4 hour blues show. But that was only on Saturday nights.

Right now, Rock 103 has the Elwood Blues Radio program, but they keep shifting the time-slot so I can't schedule myself to be there to listen to it.

Memphis needs a blues radio station. We have a "Soul Station" that plays modern day "R&B" (if it ain't Hayes, Charles, or Vandross, it ain't real R&B) and Michael Jackson, but nothing pure soul that WE all recognize from STAX.

Sad, ain't it?

[bbcentral]

That's terrible! I think the STAX museum should do something about it.

[TheTCofArcade]

on most radio stations I never hear Soul, funk, jazz, swing, rag time, motown, rhythem & blues & blues.
Just pop, electronica, bad rap & country

Only station I know that has blues is a rock station, mainly ZZ, stevie, and some aerosmith(well some of their songs are blues)

Otherwise I'd probably say Country & Western, Rock and Roll & Rhythem and blues are pretty much dead.

Media wise anyways, in reality no genre will ever die.

[dixiesquare]

and again it depends on your location , and who is living there , there would be no need for certain stations if no one listens or they cant find advertising for them .

[bbcentral]

This is exactly why internet radio is so cool.
Go to www.shoutcast.com and have a look at the hundreds of streaming radio stations for jazz, blues, funk, soul :D

At least if you don't like the song, you can change to a different station!

Direct Links:

http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?sgenre=Blues

The hard part is that you have to filter down the bad stations, some rap stations for example call themselves 'funk'.

Also you can do a search for an artist:
http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?s=blues+brothers
(right now blues brothers are being played on two stations, nobody is playing james brown, booker t and the mgs are playing, eddie floyd is playing :D)

[Scott]

Accuradio has one Blues station:
http://www.accuradio.com/channellist/index.aspx#Blues

[Guitarman5151]

I can't find a radio station that has a blues station per sey but , I know there are some rock and oldie stations that do have a blues show that comes on at night on the weekends like 10 or 11pm on friday or saturday nights.

Like someone else said the only thing else that is refered to as blues is R & B and Soul is that horrible pop or rap and eletronic crap that I just can't stand to listen to. I can't even refer to it as music.