#Lou Marini

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round Two

The Blues Brothers

Defeated opponents: The KLF

Formed in: 1978

Genres: Blues

Lineup: "Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi) – lead vocals, backing vocals

Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) – backing vocals, harmonica, lead vocals

Steve "The Colonel" Cropper – guitar

Matt "Guitar" Murphy – guitar

Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar

Steve Jordan - drums

Willie "Too Big" Hall - drums

Lou "Blue Lou" Marini – tenor and alto saxophones, backing vocals

Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin – trumpet, backing vocals

Tom "Triple Scale" Scott – tenor and alto saxophones, backing vocals

Tom "Bones" Malone – tenor and baritone saxophones, trombone, trumpet, backing vocals, horn arrangements

Albums from the 80s:

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Made in America (1980)

Best of the Blues Brothers (1981)

Propaganda: Go watch The Blues Brothers movie

Scorpions

Defeated opponents: Pat Metheney Group

Formed in: 1965

Genres: Hard rock, heavy metal

Lineup: Klaus Meine- vocals

Rudolf Schenker- guitar

Matthias Jabs- guitar

Francis Buchholz- bass

Herman Rarebell- drums

Albums from the 80s:

Animal Magnetism (1980)

Blackout (1982)

Love at First Sting (1984)

Savage Amusement (1988)

Propaganda: 

[chipou-art]

Ladies and Gentlemen : Blue Lou, Murph and Mr. Fabulous from the Blues Brothers <3 🎷 🎹 🎺 

[rock--band]

Karen Lawrence, Mary Weiss, George Young, Louis del Gatto, Lou Marini, Barry Rogers, Neil Thompson, Paul Harris, John Turi, Reinhard Straub, John Lievano, Drew Arnott, Ian Putz, Henry Christian, Scott Fairbairn, Mike Fraser, Morgan Rael, Jim Vallance, Christine Arnott ......

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[longliverockback]

Blood, Sweat & Tears No Sweat 1973 Columbia ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Roller Coaster 02. Save Our Ship 03. Django (an Excerpt) 04. Rosemary 05. Song for John 06. Almost Sorry 07. Back up against the Wall 08. Hip Pickles 09. My Old Lady 10. Empty Pages 11. Mary Miles 12. Inner Crisis —————————————————

Dave Bargeron

Bobby Colomby

Jim Fielder

Jerry Fisher

Lou Marini

Tom Malone

Lew Soloff

Georg Wadenius

Larry Willis

* Long Live Rock Archive

[turnonyrlovelight]

AUUUUHHDUHDUHFBF !!!!!! BLUE LOU MARINI U HAVE MY HEART N SOUL U SILLY LITTLE MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mitjalovse]

You release an album after a lengthy pause and something happens to your reputation as well – you are somehow no longer an underdog waiting for your big break. However, the situation remains similar to the latter circumstance, since no one can really tell, if anyone missed you. Of course, what I mentioned was probably the last thing on the mind of Steely Dan, they rarely seemed to be the type of group that would care about the reception of their work. Two Against Nature, their comeback, doesn't really move from their usual tricks, yet they do them with a certain ease that wasn't present in their early platters. I am not shocked they followed up that one with another, though I am saddened they are no longer a duo thanks to Becker's death.

[thewizardsarcasm]

After C3E99 I would also fall for The Lord of the Hells nonsense... #zerxeswasright #betrayerswerebetrayed #hotbrennanbadguys

[nationallampoonlemmings]

this one is for my Band mutuals, went to see chest fever do the last waltz at massey hall and it fucking kicked ass

[reallyndacarter]

What was it like being in the audience at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012 when Heart performed Stairway to Heaven? I remember Lou Marini who played with you was also playing with them on stage

As magical and chilling as it is on video... think of that, times ten.

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round Three of The Hottest 80s Band Tournament

The Blues Brothers

Defeated opponents: The KLF, Scorpions

Formed in: 1978

Genres: Blues

Lineup: "Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi) – lead vocals, backing vocals

Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) – backing vocals, harmonica, lead vocals

Steve "The Colonel" Cropper – guitar

Matt "Guitar" Murphy – guitar

Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar

Steve Jordan - drums

Willie "Too Big" Hall - drums

Lou "Blue Lou" Marini – tenor and alto saxophones, backing vocals

Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin – trumpet, backing vocals

Tom "Triple Scale" Scott – tenor and alto saxophones, backing vocals

Tom "Bones" Malone – tenor and baritone saxophones, trombone, trumpet, backing vocals, horn arrangements

Albums from the 80s:

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Made in America (1980)

Best of the Blues Brothers (1981)

Propaganda: Go watch The Blues Brothers movie

Fleetwood Mac

Defeated opponents: X

Formed in: 1976

Genres: Rock, pop rock, folk rock soft rock, blues rock, art pop, British blues

Lineup: Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, vocals, additional keyboards, lap harp

Stevie Nicks – vocals, tambourine

Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals

John McVie – bass guitar

Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

Albums from the 80s: 

Live (1980)

Mirage (1982)

Tango in the Night (1987)

Greatest Hits (1988)

Propaganda: In the late 70s and through the 80s, everyone attracted to women was enchanted by Stevie Nicks at one point or another, even Prince. And if Prince went out of his way to try to get with someone, you KNOW they're hot stuff! Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie were easy on the eyes as well, and Mick Fleetwood got tons of action. They were also hugely successful musically.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Heading into the 50th season of Saturday Night Live, fans of the show and its original cast may feel they already know all of the lore surrounding them and their iconic characters, such as how Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi took two white guys in black suits and rocketed The Blues Brothers to the top of the charts with a multi-platinum album in 1978 and a subsequent movie in 1980 that co-starred Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and James Brown—and in doing so, revitalized the careers of those music legends. And yet, somehow, there are revelations aplenty in a new two-hour oral history, Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude, debuting Thursday exclusively on Audible.

Aykroyd, now 72, narrates and presides over the retrospective, which features previously unheard audio from Belushi (who died in 1982), some of the last testimony of his widow, Judith Belushi Pisano (who died earlier this month), as well as anecdotes from Blues Brothers musical director Paul Shaffer, band members Lou Marini and Steve Jordan, plus drummer Willie Hall, Belushi’s real-life inspiration Curtis Salgado, filmmaker John Landis, and his wife, costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis.

As Belushi’s widow explains, the real origin story of The Blues Brothers involved a lot more than what we saw on screen.

“They were characters. No doubt about it,” Pisano recalls. “They were somewhat alter-egos, as well. They were sort of characters on the stage of life. It wasn’t a bit, exactly, that they ended up doing. I know that it’s often referred to The Blues Brothers as developed from a skit on Saturday Night Live, and you know, that’s really just not true. It’s not how it happened.”

From road trips to roadhouses to 30 Rock

While the Aykroyd-Belushi partnership officially began on stage in Toronto at The Second City—after which they did listen to a live blues band that very first night and share their common tastes in music—the idea for them to perform music in addition to comedy came a bit later when the duo drove cross-country. “They sort of jokingly said, let’s do a band,” Pisano recalls. Belushi, then already a star of The National Lampoon’s off-Broadway musical, Lemmings, as well as The National Lampoon Radio Hour, had recruited Aykroyd from Toronto, and he was sleeping on a mattress on the floor of the studio apartment Belushi shared with Pisano on Bleecker Street.

Belushi would get up onstage with bands in NYC or on road trips and sing the old Robert Johnson tune, “Sweet Home Chicago,” which Pisano says “was a well-known, popular, easy to play song.” Lorne Michaels saw one of Belushi’s performances and suggested he do it to warm up the studio audience at Saturday Night Live. Belushi got Aykroyd involved. Willie Nelson gave Jake and Elwood their first big break

Belushi already had befriended Willie Nelson, according to Aykroyd, and they laid out their initial concept for a blues band to Nelson backstage during his residency at The Lone Star Cafe, a former nightclub on Fifth Avenue. “Within a few minutes, Willie had agreed to lend us his band as a backup for a trial show in which Jake and Elwood would open for him,” Aykroyd says. He and Belushi learned a few songs for the gig. “The reaction was favorable, although clear that neither John nor I were conservatory-trained artists, we had a good feel for the music, and we knew how to feature an all-star band.”

Comedian Lenny Bruce helped inspire their signature look

“The wardrobe was inspired by Lenny Bruce, who always wore a dark suit, black string tie and white shirt,” Aykroyd says. “The hat and shades were meant to emulate John Lee Hooker from the photo on the cover of his album House of the Blues. It delighted us that we were compared to IRS agents, Men in Black, and the reference in the movie when Aretha Franklin says that we resemble Hasidic diamond merchants.”

“They found the stuff in thrift shops,” Pisano adds, “and then once the movie hit, they were on—you got yourself a designer, and custom-made suits before you know it.”

Enter Landis’s wife, costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis, who had outfitted Belushi’s “COLLEGE” sweatshirt for National Lampoon’s Animal House, and later picked out the fedora and jacket for Indiana Jones, as well as Michael Jackson’s red Thriller jacket. She recalls how haphazard their early outfits looked as Jake and Elwood: “They were using any jacket and any pair of black trousers, usually didn’t match. So they were not in suits, they were unsuited. And any hat, and any tie, and any shirt, and any glasses that looked OK.”

Lorne Michaels was initially skeptical the idea would work

That their first blues song onscreen happened in their SNL “Killer Bee” costumes? Not part of the plan. “Which John hated,” Landis alleges. “And I think it was Lorne sticking it to him.” But after that performance of “I’m a King Bee” on the Jan. 17, 1976, episode, SNL’s musical director Howard Shore dubbed Aykroyd and Belushi The Blues Brothers, and they were off and running.

Belushi tasked Paul Shaffer, an original SNL house band member (and later longtime band leader for David Letterman’s late-night reign), to hire the rest of The Blues Brothers band, which originally included Shaffer on keys, Marini on sax, Al Rubin on trumpet, Tom Malone on trombone, and Steve Jordan on percussion. “I just knew I was having a better time than I ever thought I would have in my whole life,” Shaffer recalls. “Everybody was having so much fun.” And of Aykroyd and Belushi, Shaffer says: “They were explosive individually,” but together, “like a tornado, that’s what the two were like.”

Malone suggested getting Otis Redding’s guys, Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn on lead guitar and bass to fill out the rhythm section, and then they added another guitarist, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, after seeing him perform elsewhere in the city.

“An odd mixture of people, but man, it worked,” Marini says. “But Lorne didn’t dig it. And then one of the shows late in the season, they were short, and he said, you guys want to do your silly song? Go ahead and do it. And so we did it on the show. And it was a tremendous hit. People just went crazy for it.”

Belushi was furious at anyone who dared criticize the band When The Blues Brothers scored a #1 hit with their debut album, 1978’s Briefcase Full of Blues, Belushi found himself that fall with the top album, along with a box-office smash in Animal House, to go with his fame on SNL. But he was not without his critics.

In a previously unheard interview conducted with journalist Steve Bloom for a 1979 profile in the Soho Weekly News, we hear Belushi brushing back criticism of The Blues Brothers as a novelty act or appropriating black culture.

“It’s just weird, you know. Why would I do these things?” he says. “First of all, it has nothing to do with ego. It has nothing to do with money. Or the need to be loved by an audience. I don’t have any of those feelings. What the fuck do these people think I am, anyway? I can’t fucking understand why they would attack—see when they attack me, they attack the band. And I hate when they attack the band, because then it makes them look like schmucks for doing what they did for me.” One famous scene from ‘The Blues Brothers’ film was inspired by real life

Aykroyd reveals that one scene in their 1980 film is a nod to their actual record deal: “Where we are about to escape from the Palace Ballroom and commence the final run for Chicago. A 350-pound, 6-foot-4-inch man resembling a Turkish spa attendant lunges out from the wings to offer a record deal. This scene is a direct reprise of what happened when John and I left the stage as The Blues Brothers that first night. In the dressing room halls of 8H, at the page stand, Michael Klenfner, who played the guy in the film and was an acquaintance of John’s, grabbed us and said, ‘You guys should do a record. I’m Michael Klenfner from Atlantic Records. Ahmet (Ertegun) will love this.’” Klenfner died at 62 in 2009.

Film distributors didn’t think Southern audiences could handle the film’s ‘Black’ music

Landis says he intended to make a 70mm “road movie” complete with an intermission, but he and Universal couldn’t even convince cinema distributors to roll out the film nationwide. He and Aykroyd claim exhibitors—Landis singled out Ted Mann of Mann Theatres, who’d bought the Fox Theater chain—worried that audiences in the South and elsewhere would object to a film filled with predominantly “Black” music and performers. So they only debuted in 600 cinemas instead of 1,400, and tried to mount a live concert tour to promote it.

Aykroyd saw none of the film’s massive box office profits

Even though the movie brought in more than $115 million at the box office, Aykroyd saw none of it. He says he received a $225,000 salary for writing and performing in the movie, “for which I was grateful then and am now, as I was only a net points participant in the proceeds, this is all the fee and money I have ever received from The Blues Brothers movie. Universal’s position is that due to the high costs at the time, my net points remain worthless.”

The Belushis fared a bit better, as Pisano said John Belushi used $150,000 he’d received as a bonus from Animal House’s success to subsidize the 1978 album recordings, which took place live at Universal Amphitheatre while they served as Steve Martin’s opening act. “We weren’t repaid [by Atlantic] until well after we recorded everything and they’d heard it, so I think we were probably a little naive to assume we were getting that money back,” Pisano says. “But: Best investment I ever made.”

Sean L. McCarthy @thecomicscomic

[chipou-art]

New year, new sketchbook 🥳

I’ve been drawing a lot in my sketchbook lately! Lot of Blues Brothers fanarts and some OCs redesigns :) all of these are from January!

On a side note, I hope that you appreciate my sketchbook pages as much as my finished illustrations 💖💫

[doedipus]

the period from thanks to news is jazz season. I'm going to make you listen to jazz fusion albums I like.

this one has a cool owl on the cover

I also don't like how a lot of these albums just have the composer's name and not any of the rest of the musicians on the project, so I'm gonna stick the full credits from rateyourmusic under a read more

深町純 [Jun Fukamachi] keyboards, arranger, producer, composer

Hidenori Taga executive producer

Katsuya Yasumuro assistant producer

Isao Sakai cover design

Masashi Takamura photography

Kevin Hargerty photography

Richard Tee piano

Gordon Edwards bass

Tony Levin bass

Anthony Jackson bass

Steve Gadd drums

Chris Parker drums

Howard King drums

村上"PONTA"秀一 [Shuichi "PONTA" Murakami] drums

'Crusher' Bennett percussion

Eric Gale guitar

Cornell Dupree guitar

Steve Khan guitar

Barry Finnerty guitar

Ernie Watts tenor saxophone

Richard Wagner composer

Lou Marini tenor saxophone

Barry Rogers trombone

Randy Brecker trumpet

[projazznet]

Tropea ‎– Short Trip To Space (1977)

Bass – Richard Davis , Will Lee Drums – Rick Marotta , Steve Gadd Guitar – David Spinozza , John Tropea Keyboards – Don Grolnick Organ – Leon Pendarvis Percussion – Ralph MacDonald, Rubens Bassini Reeds – George Young , Lew Delgatto, Lou Marini, Michael Brecker Trombone – Dave Taylor , Sam Burtis Trumpet – Alan Rubin, Jon Faddis, Randy Brecker Tuba – Tony Price Vibraphone – Mike Mainieri

[turnonyrlovelight]

Hello !! :) do you have any hcs for Blue Lou ? 👉👈 i love him a lot

HELLO I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HIM !!!!!

- after he moved out of mrs. tarantino's with tom, he moved in with matt n mrs. murphy- he's stayed with them ever since. why need a housecat when u have lou ???

- goes to jazz clubs with the homies, can sit there for hours and hours watching new, old musicians or would be the one on stage jamming

- i think this is sort of a matt n mrs. murphy hc but they have a "no lous on the counter" policy after blues bros 1. why's he not on the counters in the car dealership ??? not age, bro just keeps with the no lous rule

- this man is absolutely closest with matt, tom n elwood. him, tom n elwood are the band's token Quiet Guys™

- lou likes books ! reads quite a bit [see the elwood hc post abt the books !!] and he's strangely drawn to mystery and horror books. when carrie, the shining and pet sematary came out in cinemas he was first in line

- one of the more experienced members of the band when it comes to performing on stage and ethics surrounding that; hence knowing why the lights turn off at bob's

- had nightmares about queen mousette for at least a month or two after the battle of the bands, left that place absolutely believing in magic and absolutely being scared of louisiana

- him and matt are absolutely inseparable- besties for the resties, absolutely refusing to leave each other unless necessary. fries before guys except they're the fries and the guys so there's no way out of the matt and lou spiral

- likes dogs ! he seems like a dog guy and dogs may be his favourite animal [partly because he finds it funny how he looks like a lot of curly haired dog breeds] but he also likes cats as well, thinks they're sleek and admires their style

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Eve Babitz, Senta Berger, Richard Brooks (The Impressions), Joe Brown, Buckethead, Gil Evans, the 1848 debut of “Maamme” the Finnish national anthem, Carolyn Franklin, Red Garland, Alison Goldfrapp, Keith Hartsell, David Hollestelle (Herman Brood & His Wild Romance), Harvey Keitel, Rashford Kings, Danny Kirwan, Joe Louis, Michael Madden (Maroon 5), Magic Dick, Lou Marini, Daphne du Maurier, Beverley Owen, Robert Pattinson, Witold Pilecki, Teddy Randazzo, guitarist/bandleader Carmen Ratti, Dennis Rodman, the 1966 UK “Paint it Black” 45 by The Rolling Stones, Darius Rucker, Arthur Sullivan, Buck Taylor, one of my Top 10 all-time favorite drummers Paul Thompson (Roxy Music), Ritchie Valens, Pete Overend Watts (Mott the Hoople), Mary Wells, Lari White, Stevie Wonder, and the 1938 Louis Armstrong recording of “When the Saints Go Marching In.” Most people know the first 3 verses, but the full version (8+ verses and 2 refrains) is a chronology from The Book of Revelation. Satchmo’s recording of it imbedded it permanently into mainstream culture. There is no “official” version of the song, and the current lyrics (sung by Satch) are “the modern version.” The song rose out of a mist of hymn writers and black spiritual singers, theoretically inspired by a 15th Century painting by Fra Angelico. The lyrics envision end-times judgment with a promise of freedom from the horrors of ecological blight and corruption, fulfilled in a destiny of love. One of my favorite lines: “When our leaders learn to cry, when our leaders learn to cry, well I want to be in that number, when our leaders learn to cry.” Early versions of the song were usually slow and stately. Satchmo put the New Orleans spark on it and made it a standard around the world. Here’s my take, joined by lively folks at a party... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvRavPFptM

#saints #maryknoll #fathers #brothers #louisarmstrong #neworleans #revelation #bible #fraangelico #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge