30 years ago today, this improbable blockbuster was released

The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year.

Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

Jake: Hit it.

I'll have an orange julius. Orange julius? Orange julius? Orange juliuses all around.

One of my favorite movies ever.

"We're on a mission from God."

Salgado is credited with introducing Belushi to heroin? Have a source for that? A quick google search says nothing about that. Salgado was famous (or infamous) for heavy drinking and cocaine use back then. But I had never heard of the heroin angle.

malmo wrote:

Kaiser wrote:

What is "The Blues Brothers"?

Only movie released in 1980 I can think of.

Belushi met Eugene blues musicians Curtis Salgado and Robert Cray at Taylors Bar during the filming of Animal House. Salgado is credited by Belushi as being the inspiration for the Blue Brothers -- the songs, the swagger and the sunglasses. He is also credited for introducing Belushi to heroin -- a habit that would eventually kill Belushi.

Ryan Foreman wrote:

A quick google search says nothing about that.

When did a quick google search become a legitimate source?

It doesn't. That is why I asked. Duh. Obviously if I had found a source on google I wouldn't have asked. He still should provide some source of where he got that from.

huh? Huh?! wrote:

Ryan Foreman wrote:

A quick google search says nothing about that.

When did a quick google search become a legitimate source?

Its actually: "Orange whip? Orange whip?...3 orange whips?"

The Stache wrote:

I'll have an orange julius. Orange julius? Orange julius? Orange juliuses all around.

Best lines of the whole movie:

"So what kind of music do you all play here?"

"Oh we have both kinds: Country AND Western!"

Ryan Foreman wrote:

Salgado is credited with introducing Belushi to heroin? Have a source for that? A quick google search says nothing about that. Salgado was famous (or infamous) for heavy drinking and cocaine use back then. But I had never heard of the heroin angle.

This has been in print in the Register Guard and the Willamette weekly (before the internet.)

I have posted links in the past on this subject, the only one I've found today is.

Bob: Yeah, and yet everybody thinks that they know everybody else and it's a small town. Yet I was just introducing the jazz people to some of the rock 'n' roll people and some of them have never heard each other play. See, now there was that whole Animal House scene going on in Eugene, where they shot Animal House in Eugene, you know. That's where you got the Blues Brothers. That came from Robert Cray. The Cray band was a local in-house band in Eugene at that time and Robert was my next door neighbor on College street. So I knew Cray and all those guys for a long time. And then when Belushi died, you know, it was really bad because they were associated with heroin. I was with Robert when Belushi died. Curtis Salgado?

Jim: Yeah....

Bob: He's got his own band now but he was the one that had the original goatee and the mustache and the porkpie hat. And he's the one who got Belushi and those guys into heroin. They were into shootin' that down there. And a lot of people knew that and it didn't come out until Belushi died.

Jim: Think they were shooting heroin on the set?

Bob: Oh yeah, they were shooting a lot off set.

Jim: God that's wild.

Whenever my wife asks me if I want a beer she says, "Orange Whip?"

Thanks for the link. I wasn't necessarily questioning it. It seemed very plausible to me. Just hadn't heard about Salgado and those around him doing heroin. And I'm still a little skeptical that Belushi was introduced to it then. Obviously when he was in NY on SNL in the 70s heroin would have been around.

When I saw this thread, I thought it was going to be about the Summer of Malmo, another blockbuster.

And the hair salon where Jake's ex fiance' works?

"Curl Up and Dye".

"We'd like to thank all the members of the Illinois law enforcement community who have chosen to join us tonight in the Palace Hotel ballroom."

This came out my senior year of HS... thanks for the memories.

Mr. Fabulous: "No, sir, Mayor Daley no longer dines here. He's dead, sir."

"How much for the leetle gihrl?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvZgwtpPmLY&feature=related

You traded the Cadillac for a cop car?

No, I traded the Caddy for a microphone. I got this at a policeman's auction.

I can see that.

It's got good pick up ... Fix the lighter.

They have SCMODS... state county municipal offender data system

We'll talk to Bob.

Car 55. Um... we're in a truck!

How the the train run by?

So often you won't even notice it.

Don't you blaspheme in here! Don't you blaspheme in here! This is my man, this is my restaurant, and you two are just gonna walk right out that door without your dry white toast, without your four fried chickens, and without Matt 'Guitar' Murphy!

2000 bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I'll throw in the black keys for free.

You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you, and your brother.

Belushi is dead, so I don't think he has an opinion either way....

And thanks again for SAVING US!.... HALLELUJAH!!!

You get smart. You get to church!