Thread: The Blues Brothers, Born in Toronto

Was just reading an article in a local paper, The Toronto Star.

I've always known Second City was a huge comedy force, Dan Aykroyd, Mike Myers, and many others, but what I didn't know was that Dan Aykroyd lived on Queen St East, about 15 minutes away from me in a place that saw the Blues Brothers born, and some epic parties with famous comedians, actors, musicians and directors, and is still there to this day, drive by it almost every day, and never knew the history of the place.

"In a century-old row house in Toronto’s east end, a budding comedian named Dan Aykroyd partied with friends into the wee hours, then climbed the steps to his bedroom upstairs to sleep it off. It was there that the Blues Brothers were born.

Aykroyd, an Ottawa native, came to Toronto in the summer of 1969 with writing partner and comic collaborator, the late Valri Bromfield, and moved into 505 Queen St. E. near River St.

The pair had been hired by legendary Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels, who was then developing comedy for the CBC."

Cool article here about it....fyi:

https://www.thestar.com/entertainmen...were-born.html

Cool-That's still one of my all-time favorite movies, Phrank. "We'll never get caught, we're on a mission from God."

A true class and comedy gold! I couldn't wait to see "The Blues Brothers" in the original 16:9 perspective ratio that DVDs + HDTV finally brought. It was so much better than the 3:4 chopped version I had seen countless times.

"full pack of smokes, 1/2 tank of gas, we're wearing sunglasses and it's dark out!!! HIT IT!!!!"

One of the all-time epic movies.

Any movie with Aretha singing in it has to be great.

I remember a friend & I went to see it at the theatre when it first came out. It was great then & still is.