Is it possible that Bob, on seeing how drunk they were, inflated the price on the presumption that they were in no shape to do the math to correct him?
What drunk? The band packs up and leaves without any problem, and Elwood doesn’t drink at all. Jake was not slurring or staggering either. Bob didn’t seem like he was running a scam - he looked like an inn-keeper who’d been screwed over before and wanted his beer money.
Correction to my last: Elwood doesn’t drink. But he does sip champagne from a flute when he and Jake are trying to pry Mr. Fabulous out of his high-paying restaurant gig.
I’m gonna stop you right there.
Why did **The Good Old Boys **think showing up well after closing that they still had a gig to do???
I don’t care. I fucking love this movie.
Chicken Wire???
I remember a trombone player in the band, but I also remember a tenor saxophone in addition to Blue Lou on alto. So that makes one more drinker, and I can attest that tenor sax players can put away a LOT of booze.
I don’t know what time closing was in 1980, but in 1974, in Peoria, many of the clubs had 4:00 licenses. I remember staying until 4:00 and then going to a neighborhood bar that opened at 5:00 am.
I remember drinking 50 cent ten ounce drafts at George and Harry’s in New Haven in the late 70s, and cheap 12 ounce bottled beer at the Anchor Bar on College Street just south of Old Campus, but can’t remember what we paid.
I see the Anchor, which was a dive bar 1978-82, is now a craft cocktail lounge. (sigh)
Kids, this is proper Time Management. Take notes.
If the band thinks the beer is free, they will buy anybody a drink, especially ladies.
The reason Paul Schaffer wasn’t in the movie was, he was the music director for Gilda Radner’s one-woman show IIRC. He’s there on the soundtrack, but not on film.
I was told there is also a missing horn in the film. The sound is 4 horns but you only see three players. I don’t know, I’m just a guitar player.:rolleyes:
I think on the Blues Brothers DVD commentary track, it’s stated that Shaffer couldn’t be in the movie because he was under contract somewhere else.
I thought Elwood also took a swig of that bourbon (or whatever bottle he had) before handing it to Jake in his hotel room. He also insists on filling the big water glass with champagne.
IIRC, their name for that gig was The Good Ol’ Blues Brothers Boys Band.
The horn section was:
Alan Rubin (Mr. Fabulous) - trumpet
Tom “Bones” Malone - trombone
Lou “Blue Lou” Marini - sax
Tom Scott - sax
IIRC Lou Marini was the one who worked in the diner with Aretha and Matt “Guitar” Murphy. So, Tom Scott would be the one the OP missed.
That’s still a lot of beer.
2% beer is a thing in the Rust Belt, especially Ohio and Kentucky (Was it clear whether they were in Illinois the whole time?) and Cowboy Bob strikes me as the type to try and pass it off as 6% hi-test beer.
Jesus, I had no idea that was Tom Scott on tenor. Look at some of the other artists he worked with: Carole King, George Harrison, Tom Waits, Joan Baez, Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton…he was the equivalent of the Wrecking Crew on the saxophone.
I guess if your ambition is to play sax AND bring home a fat paycheck, you could do worse than emulate Tom Scott.
I beg your pardon. It was Nickle-Beer Night.
Tom Scott played on the soundtrack album, but was not in the film. But Tom Malone also plays sax. He’s on tenor sax when they do Minnie the Moocher with Cab Calloway, then back on trombone when Jake and Ellwood show up.
The thing is, there were originally more than one 10 cent beer nights scheduled. The first one went off without notice or incident. The second one was when the riot occurred. The teams, Cleveland and Texas, had had a fight recently in a game in Texas and the rematch (simultaneous with the beer night) was heavily promoted by the local sports talk guys. The subsequent beer nights were cancelled after the riot.
Oops, my mistake. I was going off the credits from “Briefcase Full of Blues”. I thought it was the same band in the movie except for Shaffer -> Murph and Steve Jordan -> Willie Hall.
So why wasn’t Steve Jordan in the band in the movie? I know he later went on to play drums in “The World’s Most Dangerous Band” with Shaffer on Letterman’s NBC show. Was he also tied up with the Gilda show?
They had 5 cent beers in previous seasons but this one was 10 cents