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From: t~umancode.com (Tim Moyer)
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:48:35 -0600
Subject: Re: Blues Bros 2000

At 03:25 PM 1/30/98 -0600, Barry B. Bean wrote:
>Do Audiences fell Dr. John in your experience?

Not audiences that have gone intending to see Doctor John. But when the
audience has come to see a bunch of guys in full pads bash each other
around, that audience is probably a lot more "generic" than an audience
assembled to hear the good Doctor. I'd venture to guess that more folks
have ante'd up for a ticket to a Blues Brothers movie or rented the video
than have seen Dr. John in his entire career. It doesn't exactly warm my
heart either, but it's true.

>How about, say, Robert Cray? Charlie Musselwhite? Dr. John? B.B.
>King? Bobby Bland? Little Milton? Rod Piazza? Ruth Brown? Charles
>Brown? Any one of the thousands of blues players in every city and
>town in the country who play some shade of the real thing?

Precisely! If those guys get some play out of this fad, then it's good for
the genre, not bad. There just aren't enough John Goodmans and Dan Akroyds
in the universe for them to fill every demand, no matter how trend driven.
So the real thing is bound to get a break out of it.

>To add some harp content, imagine that the same folks who created The
>Blues Brothers, had instead created The Blues Harp Brothers, and had
>two frat boys in suits wheezing away hackneyed versions of classic
>harp tunes. Imagine further that the public grabed hold of this
>image, and left great players like Piazza, Musselwhite, DeLay,
>Thielmans, Meurkens, et al in relative obscurity. Finally, imagine
>that when The Blues Harp Brothers played, people posted that "well,
>if they had put Musselwhite up there, everyone would have gone home."

Are you really arguing that Charlie Musselwhite could hold captive a
SuperBowl halftime audience better than a slapstick parody starring
Hollywood movie stars? I doubt it.



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