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The very first topic I started....

 

 

Today one of the most dreadful sequels in Hollywood history (that's a personal opinion, they should never have touched the original...) was playing on the tube again. It does have one thing it's favour over the original and that is an enormous role call. Every whose who in blues is in it.

 

Since its release in 1998 a lot of musicians have shed off their mortal coil and shook hands with the devil at their crossroads. Quite an impressive list.

 

Blues Brothers Band.

Donald "Duck" Dunn. 1941 -2012

Alan Rubin. 1943 -2011

 

Guests.

Junior Wells. 1934 - 1998 (movie was released after his death.)

Wilson Pickett. 1941-2006

Esther Ridgeway. 1959- 2003

Gracie Ridgeway. 1957 - 2006

James Brown. 1933 - 2006

 

Louisiana Gator Boys

B.B. King. 1925 - 2015

Clarence Clemons. 1942 - 2011

Bo Diddley. 1928 - 2008

Isaac Hayes. 1942 - 2008

Billy Preston. 1946 - 2006

Lou Rawls. 1933 - 2006

Koko Taylor. 1928 - 2009

Grover Washington Jr. 1943 - 1999

 

Motel Band

Bobby Sheehan. 1968 - 1999

 

Non-musical contributors.

Kathleen Freeman. 1919 - 2001

Jeff Morris. 1934 - 2004

Wally High. 1938 - 2008

George Sperdakos. 1931 - 2000

Candide Franklin. 1967 - 2013

 

 

Edit:

Jeff Morris was mentioned twice. Mended.

 

Man, that's true carnage!! But lots of people left.

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Good idea for a topic. Out of interest, how many people from the original Blues Brothers have died (besides Belushi)?

 

Carrie Fisher is obviously always lurking in the background on DL, since she has had a veritable shoppingl list of mental health and drug addiction issues. It is amazing Disney have taken the risk of including her in Star Wars7. I am betting her role there will be fairly small.

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Goodman and Aretha won't see 2017..

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Good idea for a topic. Out of interest, how many people from the original Blues Brothers have died (besides Belushi)?

 

Carrie Fisher is obviously always lurking in the background on DL, since she has had a veritable shoppingl list of mental health and drug addiction issues. It is amazing Disney have taken the risk of including her in Star Wars7. I am betting her role there will be fairly small.

Cab Calloway obviously wasn't around for the sequel. John Candy and Ray Charles likewise.

 

Others who died are:

Illinois Nazi Henry Gibson

Good ol' Boy Charles Napier

all around hero John Lee Hooker

Pinetop Perkins

Walter Horton

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"Cab Calloway died after Kurt Cobain" is one of my favourite bits of music trivia.

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9 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

According to this, original and 2000 Blues Brothers participant and DDP pick Matt "Guitar" Murphy has died. https://demonszone.com/2018/06/16/matt-guitar-murphy-has-died/

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614506/

Sun Obit: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6546510/matt-guitar-murphy-dead-blues-brother/

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Bringing back this thread - also an idea for Bibliogryphon's film pool...

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