The Blues Brothers 2000 - For The Music - Green Onions

"No pharmaceutical product could ever equal the rush you get when the band hits that groove, the people are dancing, shouting, and swaying, and the house is rocking!" [...]
"You may go if you wish. But remember this: walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louie Jordon, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonnyboy Williamson I and II, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley, Lieber and Stoller, and Robert K. Weiss".
"Who is Robert K. Weiss?"
"Turn your backs now and you snuff out the fragile candles of Blues, R&B and Soul, and when those flames flicker and expire, the light of the world is extinguished because the music which has moved mankind through seven decades leading to the millennium will whither and die on the vine of abandonment and neglect".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Blues
• Brothers
• Music
• Musica
• Soul
• Elwood

[DrStrangefate]

@TheGrungeGamer

This is the reason why I looked up this vid. To see if anyone else found this moment of this movie as the most prophetic speech of the 20th century. Indeed no truer words have ever been spoken on the music industry. It saddens me that this is what music has come to.

[ImKenn]

So I was looking up all the musicians from this movie just for the hell of it. It kind of surprised me how many of them are dead now. Lou Rawls, Koko Taylor, Isaac Hayes, Bo Diddley, Wilson Pickett, Billy Preston, Clarence Clemons, James Brown and (being a bari sax player this is a pretty big bummer) Grover Washington Jr. The movie may not have been great, but it's a collection of singular people doing what they do best. That's gotta count for something.

[Chansulus]

OMG THANK YOU FOR THIS UPLOAD I did not completely understand this as a kid but now I know HE WAS RIGHT !!

[imaginepeace63]

Yeah who is Robert K Wies? lol

[Wajlonis]

It saddens me that this words turned out to be prophetic. The flame of the blues legacy is still burning, but it's slowly dying. I like to imagine blues musicians as candles who together shine one great light - but more candles are getting blown than fired up these days. And I'm not afraid that one day the mankind will wake up in a dark cave with no candle to shine a light - I'm afraid that I'll be a witness of this day coming. Here's to all 531002 who watched the video: DON'T LET THE FIRE DIE!

[Twistlock19]

well, he has a point, hasn´t he?

[TheKingClem]

My favorite part of this is when Willie sees them walk on and goes, "aw shit" and the whole band joins them with the exception of Blue Lou who goes to get gas

[Tucker8720]

I love this scene so much. And i love everyone commenting on this page agreeing with this speech. I'm 17 and i love the blues, a lot of people my age listen to some awful music...*sigh*. I saw Buddy Guy and B.B King live, great shows. I wish music like that was still being made and we didn't have half the crap we have on the radio now. I'm doin my best to keep good music alive!!!

[SamSchreiber12]

Can I get an amen?

[peterpamanez]

13 people quit the band

[UAL012]

I love this intro to Green Onions. GREAT sound!

[TheHyde55]

I'm disappointed that this video doesn't have more views & likes.