COB : Dan Aykroyd kept blumo

[sigmfsk]

Here:
bluesmobiles.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=information&action=display&thread=1067
I talk about Jim Post's eyehook blumo.

If the summary there is correct, I think the only loose end is Jim's statement:
> As far as the real Bluesmobiles they were all shipped to California after
> filming and crushed. I know Aykroyd did keep one and the letter I had
> confirmed that.

Before getting the letter from Jim, El-Wood reported that:
> Jim Post told me (when I visited his museum in AR) he sold his
> Bluesmobile to Dan.
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/3491-where-are-they-now/#entry41211

But maybe Jim or El-Wood got the story mixed up a bit, and Jim wasn't trying to say that Jim sold his eyehook blumo to Dan, but that Dan had his own blumo.

Either way, we have this tidbit about Shotgun asking Elwood on his radio show and seemingly getting an answer that Dan doesn't have one:

From Shotgun Blues 2007:
> I asked Elwood through his forum on the House of Blues Radio Hour. He
> said that if anyone ever asked him if he had one of the original
> Bluesmobiles, he'd deny it. Now, I have no idea if Danny answered this
> email or if it was somebody else, but it sure was a cryptic answer.
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/4163-where-are-the-real-bluesmobiles/#entry48783

and Scott added:
> E-mails to Elwood on the HOB Radio hour web site are answered by a
> guy named Brian who works for Ben Manilla Productions. When Brian
> doesn't already know the answer, he asks Ben. Ben and Dan are good
> friends. In some rare situations, they may ask Dan, but only if they
> don't know the answer and think it's worth asking Dan about. Brian's
> answer is a little cryptic, but I think he means to say that Dan doesn't
> own one of the originals, at least not anymore.
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/4163-where-are-the-real-bluesmobiles/#entry48805


But Jim was quite clear:
> I know Aykroyd did keep one and the letter I had confirmed that.

Has anyone asked Jim about the letter confirming that?

I read:
From TK826
> The "Aykroyd kept a Bluesmobile" was actually dis-proven, right here on
> the [old BBC] site .
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/8274-the-original-bluesmobile-found-sort-of/#entry114727

Was it disproven based on the radio hour response? Or someone asking Jim Post about the letter?

your friend in catching up on old theories,
arthur

[sigmfsk]

I see Steam posted:

> Dan has contradicted himself on this topic, I don't think he knows. If he
> does ... he's doing an excellent job of keeping it a secret. Dan himself has
> told board member Huey that he doesn't know of any survivors. Then in
> another article Dan will say he thinks a cop in Illinois has the surviving
> movie Bluesmobile.
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/6237-original-bluesmobiles/#entry86629

Allright, where's the info on this Illinois cop blumo?

edit - info here:
www.bluesmobiles.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=rumors&thread=1085&page=1

[pomybloke]

Actually I asked the man himself at a gig last year were I worked with him, the truth he said was he did keep a 1974 dodge Monaco but it was not a Bluesmobile just ordinary 74 Monaco, he gave the car to his sister and many years later they dressed it up like the Bluesmobile and sold it at a charity auction.

[sigmfsk]

Jan 5, 2013 8:58:30 GMT -5 pomybloke said:

Actually I asked the man himself at a gig last year were I worked with him, the truth he said was he did keep a 1974 dodge Monaco but it was not a Bluesmobile just ordinary 74 Monaco, he gave the car to his sister and many years later they dressed it up like the Bluesmobile and sold it at a charity auction.

Thanks, Pomy.

I think Dan gave you and Huey the straight scoop - that all the blumos were simply destroyed at the end of the movie.

I think Steam captured the feeling with:
> I'll bet he enjoys any sort of mystique associated with the
> Bluesmobile, that's why he gives cryptic and contradictory
> answers on the subject.

Read more: www.bluesmobiles.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=rumors&action=display&thread=1086#ixzz2H7L6xE96

and when you read things like this:

> “You could tell there was confusion,” Landis says. “I told some of
> the crew, ‘This is a musical.’ They were so confused. They didn’t
> know what the fuck they were making.”
...
> The studio is not helping things. It wants “fresh” contemporary
> acts. It wants, in place of Aretha Franklin, Rose Royce, the band
> that sings the hit theme from Car Wash. The creatives refuse.
...
> Belushi is in free fall. “John was fucked up,” Landis says. “It
> became a battle to keep him alive and to keep him working on
> the movie.”

www.bluesmobiles.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=moviestuff&action=display&thread=1174

it's easy to understand that nobody really knew how or if the movie would actually be finished, let alone become a great classic. We're lucky that anything exists from the original movie.

But one thing that does remain from the original movie is the spirit of the blues, which drives our blumo recreations and camaraderie!

[Ghostbluesman (Ghostsoldier)]

Hear, hear! ;D

Rob