John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (from "The Blues Brothers")

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[@BernieMadoff-qv5in]

This movie is more than a comedy. It’s a love letter to soul and blues.

[@eb2675]

And a salutation to loving each other, doing something right, making amends, and to honour America.

[@jimisi7424]

Yeah, I grew up in the 70s in England and this music changed my life. The blues brothers were on another level. long live the ten hole diatonic harmonics.

[@misterx8592]

Rythym and blues

[@022171]

"We got both kinds. Country and Western."

[@soulheaven1964]

So true

[@emilypetsche1]

It's 106 miles from Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it!

[@jeremyscungio16]

@Shards of Shattered Halos Lacerate My Skin what?

[@FishTheJim]

To Chicago

[@ARCtrooperblueleader]

@Emily Petsche - Classic.

[@theF1oracle]

106 miles yet took them until like 9am the next morning to get there 🤷‍♂️

[@milwaukeetweed4843]

@@theF1oracle They had to go through Racine.....it happens...

[@meangene98]

Aside from The Blues Brothers and being funny as hell, what really makes this movie an absolute classic is that it preserved incredible performances from legends like Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, James Brown, and Chaka Kahn.

[@kc8tby]

That is absolutely correct!!

[@donnaidontwanna]

& they were going to cut this performance because they were afraid white people wouldn't watch the movie..this is MY personal fave in the movie though it's difficult for me to pick a favorite

[@meangene98]

@@donnaidontwanna I thought Aretha’s rendition of “Think” was the best performance in the movie.

[@TheMrDan-ys4to]

You couldn’t have said it better. Such amazing talents from real musicians

[@tomtiernan8134]

Bulushi and Ackroyd were big blues fans and gave credit to the musicians who brought us much of what we know as American music, rock and roll being at the forefront.

[@andrewlane4766]

That is John Lee Hooker in front of the greatest of Muddy Waters' bands. Shakey Horton, Willie Smith, Pinetop Perkins, Fuzz Jones and Luther Johnson. The very apex of an art form right there on celluloid. Beautifully directed and integrated into the movie too.

[@MrJIMMYDANUB]

Underrated comment

[@sandragriffiths9692]

Great info, thank you👌💙🎵🎶🎸👏👏👏👏

[@Carlschwamberger1]

Really appreciate the musicians identified here.

[@Malama_Ki]

The real deal right there! Live and direct

[@marcomodena8076]

Thank's Man , i wish to say the same that you said !!! Really, Really Big Band , they know how to play the Blues like no one else 👍🙋🏻‍♂️🤙🎸🤙

[@captain_hat6247]

1:10 Holding a microphone, harmonica, and a cigarette at the same time. Old school.

[@yortukfenstruk]

That's Big Walter Horton -- he was the real deal, maybe the best of all time.

[@Alex-vr2yf]

Captain_Hat Eddie Van Halen adopted this playing method when he picked up the guitar

[@stevenj2108]

When woke ment getting up in the morning 😎

[@yding82]

@@yortukfenstruk Sunny Boy ??

[@feoyjodido1372]

One big máster

[@Smyth_Films]

One thing I love about Blues Brothers, especially with the extended cut, is scenes like this - you’re forced to take in the atmosphere of Chicago and vibe with the music being played - it enhances the core themes and messages that the movie brings to the table. You’d never find movies nowadays where you’re allowed to stop for a moment and take in the setting and vibes, everything has to be so tightly-paced and action packed when stuff like this is just as effective. Love this movie.

[@deeferguson9272]

I’m so thankful to The Blues Brothers for introducing me to so many legendary artists when I was a child. John Lee Hooker’s legend lives on !!!!

[@iluvdaguitar]

If I had been walking down that street that day and came up on John Lee Hooker performing I would have thought I died and was experiencing my biggest wishes and fantasies! As a guitarist that loves the blues and tries to honor it, and honor the true bluesmen who lived it. I play blues guitar, but I will never be, and would never call myself a bluesman. I just try to copy what they did and hope it's just a little bit worthy of a listen. John Lee Hooker is like a blues god to me! ❤✌️🙏👍

[@mauricecase7899]

THIS FILM WAS AN ABSOLUTE CLASSIC MASTERPIECE FOR SO MANY REASONS.

[@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x]

just, yes.

[@Peanutdenver]

It's a fuckin great comedy that just happens to be a musical with some of the greatest R&B artists of all time.

[@theplayingcomputer]

IS

[@shaibullard8870]

No remakes 🤦🏾‍♂️ please Hollywood

[@jonathanproft3042]

Amen Brother

[@primtones]

What a great presentation of the real Maxwell Street Market. The cuts between people, the knick-knack on display and the brothers Blues are perfectly executed. I feel like there's more culture in these 3 minutes than most full movies made today.

[@WillieDuitt1]

You may appreciate the Scorcese classic Mean Streets. There are many scenes that show case small Italian-Amer. bands playing traditional music.

[@alessandrosouzzasouzza7881]

Oi ALESSANDRO DE SOUZA AXÉ AXÉ PRIMTONES BELO NOME BONITO

[@jamesmcnally886]

Being from that " part of the World ...Oh Yeah..Maxwell Street alright

[@andrewcastillo3110]

I appreciate that, too❤

[@ahuman3642]

Probably

[@dannytheman1313]

This movie was made at the perfect time when these legends were still with us.

[@zchris87v80]

I cannot fathom to this day how so much talent was packed into a single film.

[@arthurbiniss5432]

My dad took me to see John Lee hooked when I was 14. I count myself lucky to have seen him.

[@drexelmarz7144]

A Huevo!

[@pault1964]

That is why the film was made

[@bryangoodwin6626]

Very thankful!

[@firstsergeantcandiobelleus6546]

Not many people have any idea the power & strength of the performers who appeared in this movie. There wouldn't be genres of music if it wasn't for these legends. Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklyn, Jonnny Lee Hooker, Chaka Khan, James Brown & the like. There wouldn't be any rock-n-roll and their bands who perform them if it wasn't for the blues and soul and gospel. What you're watching here are the pioneers of music.

[@TomFynn]

Well, they were on a mission from God, so...

[@FlyingZeroAGL]

Don’t forget Joe Walsh…

[@Payne427]

I've been rewatching this movie since I was 5 just for the love of the rusty 74 Monaco (Shit Box Dodge) I'm now a 24 year old auto body and mechanic nerd and I found one of those 74 Dodge Monaco's In a junkyard and I had to have it. I tore it down to the frame, dumped a 440 police pack in it, undercoated the frame, repainted it to a faded Mt Prospect reject, rewired everything (even shoved a 8-track in the dash) and I bought a ripped and beat up dash, steering wheel, front and rear bench seat and door panels to give it that Blues Brothers feel. When I take it for a drive, theirs only one of two things that go through my head... ♪Boom Boom Boom Boom♪ or " Pfff... Illinois Nazi's. I hate Illinois Nazi's " lol. Even after 30+ years This movie never gets old.

[@tommyv4980]

Good for you man, I like the dedication. That car became an icon for me, and one day I will have one too!

[@tynryder27]

Gaht damm son! I fucking love this post. (33 y/o former first responder with a 2005 freightliner 7.2l cat 3126 w/a 6 spd Allison transmission in a 26’ Thomas built schoolie) source: cool shit😎

[@urmanthenascarfan5847]

I wish I get one when I'm older

[@jwsaxe]

Did you fix the lighter?

[@Payne427]

@@jwsaxe funny story behind that. The lighter was missing and I kept it that way. Lol

[@Holybloodfull]

BEST FUCKING MOVIE IN THE WORLD !

[@xthefirefighterx2152]

Sacha Vogt You're so right xD

[@empereurjustinien2082]

Sacha Vogt crossroads is better

[@backstabba1200]

Sacha Vogt I'm from Calumet City

[@salarfazel4652]

lol

[@jamesbaker7166]

Miss the blues bros,and it's the only movie I like.

[@billcox8870]

Never forget that the blues gave birth to rock and roll. Without John Lee Hooker and others, we wouldn't have the great music that we know as rock and roll. God bless all those creative people.

[@Mohamed_hey]

That’s right black people crates the blues in America that’s facts ✊🏼✊🏿

[@becka_thack]

Yes thank you 😎

[@markyoung9493]

God bless that man my father took me to see him when I was a young kid and that’ll never be duplicated ever. God bless him rest in peace.

[@jbolo5378]

This makes me want to eat 4 fried chickens and some dry white toast

[@ichiban308]

You better think....

[@giorgiodainese2713]

And don't forget to drink a cola

[@starsky8614]

And a coke

[@MrIHATEYOU1TUBE]

no. no ...no.... A liter of colaXDD

[@Gunny_101st]

What are you, some kind of Hasidic Diamond Merchant?

[@ivandamico93]

I grew up in Chicago in the 70's and used to go to Maxwell street (where this scene is) it was the largest and oldest open air flea market in the country, it had been there for 120 years and you could literally buy anything you needed for cents on the dollar, and Blues was EVERYWHERE on every juke box in every tavern on every corner you could hear the best music, it was really as magical as it looks here, people were friendly, it was a great time to live there. I live in L.A. now and there's no comparison, Chicago is the greatest city in the world, Bangkok is pretty freakin incredible as well as Paris but Chicago is truly amazing. Well it was when I was growing up there. When the Blues Brothers movie came out we had to sneak in to see it because it was an R film, but we did it about 14 times. And bought the album and learned every song.

[@eriksandbergen4913]

Some people watch 'It's a wonderful life' every year. or whatever other film gives them the warm and fuzzies. I watch this at least yearly. And I bought the album. And the VHS. and the DVD. And then torrented it. Never bought the shitbox Dodge though. Got the Chrysler Newport instead. Yeah, Chicago. The quintessential American city. The good (and great), the bad, and of course to complete the triptych, the ugly. The trichotomy of mankind.

[@carolynwestlake2246]

Ivan Damico thanks. Didn't realize it was a real place. Nothing like that in the UK 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@georgealaniz2140]

Cool story, thanks for sharing it. Wish I had a time machine!

[@Qaosbringer]

I envy you so much Ivan...

[@CaptainCalculus]

Ivan Damico yup. All that needs to be said

[@giusepperaciti1591]

I’m a Sicilian guy, that watched the movie the first time as a little kid. This movie provided me with good taste in music and I feel a huge nostalgia for an era that I missed…

[@freedomworks3976]

Nothings beats John Lee Hooker ❤❤❤

[@journeystarr]

The guy at the end yelling at John was none other than the legendary Pinetop Perkins

[@edmel144]

Yeah, was that part in the theatrical release. I cant remember it.

[@twostroke8151]

@@edmel144 no, the song didn't last this long either.

[@danburrill8716]

I've just noticed that the other guitarist looks suspiciously like Taj Mahal.

[@edmundyepp8429]

@@danburrill8716 It's Luther Johnson, AKA "Guitar Junior", part of Muddy Water's band

[@fionnagrant6636]

The argument was scripted obviously, but it was a reference to a real dispute that the two men had about writing the song.

[@genevievecoxon6916]

John Lee Hooker is ridiculously Cool

[@bsg2112]

And he's from the Motor City.

[@utahrailroadsofamerica1991]

😠 That Is Not Really True At All, John 🎖 Lee 🎣 Hooker ⚓ Is One ☝ Of The Greatest 👍 , Bad Ass 💪 , Master Blues 🎹, Jazz 🎷 & Rock 🎸 For Life 😇 ( 😠 Like Why Doesn't Anyone Listen 👂 To ME Anymore? )

[@carlosmatos9848]

JLH took blues to a whole new level. It was all about the feel and the rhythm, and it insprired a ton of musicians like ZZ Top and George Thorogood.

[@kevincampbell5785]

@A.P. Guaschino I saw John Lee and Miles Davis' picture.

[@kevincampbell5785]

He sure is. I can only aspire.

[@neilphelan145]

I saw this blues master back in 1973 at a small auditorium in Long Beach, Ca. John Lee came out, played for about an hour, then Canned Heat played for another hour. When they were done John Lee and Canned Heat played together for about another hour. What a show!! It still stands out in my memory!

[@happygolucky4394]

They had quite a career collaborating together. I just found that out the other day kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4ioeYFnnpVjedU

[@happygolucky4394]

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[@davidg.9932]

I was blessed enough to meet Matt Guitar Murphy in Downtown Denver an underground blues club he was playing at. I was a light tech for Amarillo Productions and had connections. I shook his hand and told him that I was a big fan of his. He was so cool and laid back. Then I thought how many blues greats shook the same hand I did.. Including John Lee Hooker..

[@stevetrivago]

Those look like better times compared to 2020 👑🙏🏼 R.I.P. JLH

[@NANNO_FMBY]

for you tf

[@moiraoneill8031]

Yes it was; like the French Quarter

[@USNVA-yn6cp]

its what you make it/

[@MayitoTamps]

Lord Take These New Rappers And Give Us Back All These Badass Bluesman From Back In The Day!!!!

[@chrispile3878]

Preach that stuff!

[@roberthidalgo4321]

I met John Lee Hooker after a concert he walked up said hello and shook my hand swim to those things that you never ever forget It was very nice and approachable a wonderful person

[@petebachelder1131]

I envy you...!!! I wish I could have met John Lee Hooker !! He's amazing, and has a great voice !!

[@martinstevenson4740]

Big Walter Horton on harmonica, some real legends there 👍🏻

[@jamesmathes3357]

a little Son Seals on rythm, and you got a band.

[@pashamorris1497]

I SHOLLLLLLL WISH LIL WALTER WAS STILL WITH US AT THE TIME OF THIS MOVIE AS WELL!

[@tarek1991]

thanks for pointing that out man! this makes me appreciate this masterpiece (the blues brothers) more and more

[@drexelmarz7144]

Thanks a lot brother, imma look him up. Long love the BLUES !

[@mrb4886]

Thank you.

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

One of the coolest riffs ever... if you don’t tap your feet to this then you’re already dead!

[@michaelmaringer7565]

Absolutely💯👌🖐

[@jobracci4583]

oh Yeah👍, Merry Christmas

[@MunhuAfro]

Even the dead are tapping their bones to this....

[@bobpruss263]

Hell yeah

[@misterschubert3242]

If you're dead, and you made it into Heaven, then you'll be tapping and nodding to this at least a few times throughout eternity....

[@monahawk]

I had dinner with Hooker at his home - my band opened for him a couple of times. He was an absolute HOOT ! No talking to him while he had a baseball game on the tv though.

[@vanamq2459]

I am beyond jealous, I styled my playing by studying him for years! Saw him play but never got to meet him. Was he playing with Ry cooder, John Hammond or Bonnie Raitt? I think Hammond is a genius on guitar.

[@daisyreilly2331]

😃

[@MP-pl1ik]

Music that transcends generations is timeless..loving this in 2023

[@marktime9235]

Massive respect to JLH and John Landis for bringing everyone this classic ))) Every person with an appreciation of great humour and a love of blues should watch this movie!

[@ivanstayner8818]

I grew up in Illinoi. And my mother also grew up in illinoi. And she became good friends with John Lee in his early career. He would invite her over for dinner, and concerts, and parties. And when my mother meet my dad. My dad took a beautiful picture of my mother holding John Lee's hands with his altigraph on it. I never meet John. But from what my mother tells me. He was alot of fun to be around. She got to meet some other blues artist like Van Morrison, BB King, Earl Hooker, and a few others that I cant remember off the top if my head. Alot of you probably wont think this is true, but I can assure you this is 100% all true.

[@Tyler_Durden_562]

The amount of music legends they were able to get in the movie franchise was so epic. Will never stop loving these movies

[@elchechogonzalezvila6896]

❤❤❤❤ The Blues The Mother of Rock And Roll!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@dozer6448]

All this was gone back in 99 wish it was still there then I would've got out and jammed

[@Julia-lk8jn]

The music in that movie is just bliss, and I love that they didn't waste time and money one glitzing & glamouring up every extra to look like a super model. Does anybody else feel that the characters look like everyday human beings is amazingly soothing?

[@TheaterPup]

Amazingly soothing is a great way to put it!

[@lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x]

yes, Ma'am.

[@sage9836]

Absolutely. Realistic presentation is great.

[@AnnaLVajda]

Well Elwood trys to pick up Twiggy who was a model and Carrie Fischer was Jakes ex and she was pretty well known for her gold bikini costume in Star Wars people need to stop getting so star struck because actors are just people.

[@hammurds]

@@AnnaLVajda she wouldn’t dawn the gold bikini for another 3 years from when this film came out. She was mostly known for the white gown

[@DwyattA]

Do you know how cool it would be to walking down the road and see John lee hocker preforming

[@Ad1Juan]

that would be a $500 show by now

[@1dkappe]

Could have been even better. Muddy Waters was too sick to perform, so one of the sidemen - Hooker - stepped in. Boosted his career just like it did all the other featured artists.

[@mjc11a]

The least you could do is get his name right.

[@1dkappe]

@@mjc11a :D

[@jamespfitz]

You used to could.

[@DaBlazesUSay]

John Lee Hooker; God rest his soul and bless his memory!

[@rickmoore8293]

I love America, as chaotic as we are I don't believe this music and film could have been created anywhere else in the world.

[@117117halo]

Thank you ladies and gentleman, that was Boom Boom, the song that I wrote back in the 50's..

[@kungfulender8733]

Those polish sausages and mountain of onions is just awesome.

[@ironworkerjeff8574]

I grew up in Chicago(1964-1989)-2 miles west of Navy Pier ,right down Grand ave;I tell my kids & everybody that the movie locations shots in the Blues Brothers captured the true Chicago from the late 1970s-early 1980s so well! It brings back/keeps alive alot of great memories I have from back in the day.

[@gyuluskatrabant]

The 80's was better, that our times, ibthink so. And this song is the best! Greetings from Hungary!

[@davidleebls1874]

Thank you Blues Brothers you showed respect to the black people

[@danichicago9140]

I can still smell it like it was yesterday. Onions, old style , 🐫 smokes. How far we have fallen

[@jimmyjames8611]

I learned so much from this movie.

[@gaddyify]

Couldn't get any better in close vicinity of a soul food restaurant.

[@brainscott8198]

I saw Lightnin' Hopkins open for J L Hooker here in Houston at Liberty Hall in 1980. Lightnin' was stoned drunk outta his mind, couldn't even get thru a 15 minute set...just trashed...stumbled and mumbled his way off the stage. John Lee Hooker comes on around 11PM, apologizes for LIghtnin's performance and proceeded to do about 2 hours of non-stop boogie, just him and a drummer...fantastic night.

[@casserinetoussaint9719]

The little girl in the pink dress (2:01) is so cute it brings tears to my eyes.

[@angrysilence1234....]

At.. the "CHEAT YOU FAIR"!!! I GUESS IT IS A "BRAND NAME", COS..IT IS EVERYWHERE!! Me and my dad got a real kick, and a few chuckles, outta that when we first watched this movie together. I STILL get a chuckle outta that!!

[@Malama_Ki]

So I was barely a teenager and see the song remains the same and the Whole Lotta Love medley, clueless about who they were covering. Then I see this and my head almost exploded!!! John Lee Hooker may have been illiterate, couldn’t write his name, and yet he was larger than life to me. The voice, the soul, the shoes! He was the baddest man alive to me. I wore out some of his cassettes in my Oldsmobile and he was the soundtrack to me working on my night moves. I was living in the Virgin Islands when he passed and I cried like momma died. That man had pure, raw, unadulterated soul. I still get choked up listening to I Cover the Waterfront. I’m Going Upstairs is one of the baddest breakup songs ever written; you get a sense he’d actually been through it. That’s a one chord boogie that if you don’t move to you know you’re dead. R.I.P.

[@Kashed]

Nothing portrays Maxwell Street better than this scene. When I was a kid my uncle use to take me to the flee markets there. This is exactly how it was before they were forced to move. As I got older I would hit Maxwell Street for the food after a long night of drinking. Best damn polish sausage in the world cooked exactly as they show it, next to a mountain of onions. Cars would pull up three deep in the street for a polish or a pork chop sandwich. I miss those days and that place.

[@chris1pdx]

This is the best recorded version of this song ever made.

[@rodmaiorano2115]

And it is the extended version, not the chopped up one from the original theatrical version

[@kenholland911]

And there are certainly no two versions alike!

[@ivaralvarezalvarezriano162]

@@kenholland911 u

[@psychodelicrock12]

Amen

[@izeltavallai8147]

i disagree just to lyk, the one half a step up is a better guitar sound imo but thats only cus i play guitar. also i say this not to argue or nothin, but just to comment on a great song

[@philiphatfield5666]

John Lee Hooker was a real Blues Brother!

[@MattTheLizard]

The best version of this, in my favorite track on the soundtrack of my favorite movie.

[@Adam-oy4ix]

What a decade the 80's was for music and musicals. Great to be a teenager growing up in this era

[@gordroberge3824]

Dan Aykroyd on John Belushi and The Blues Brothers kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5bMkKKGndOeqcU

[@jimw.4161]

Mr. John Lee Hoover - 100% pure American icon! One of the greatest regrets in my life is that I had an opportunity to see the great JLH at the Golden Bear in Berkeley in 1971..... and passed it up. Much to my lifelong regret. RIP Mr. John Lee Hooker

[@matalicgypsywizard7575]

i'm 22 and this area looks like heaven, o hell yea

[@charlesdalton6262]

You see these people ,they are authentic .They love food,music and if they like you your in .As they move about,they all know their place in life. They love their family and friends celebrating each other daily .They know and respect each other’s strengths and weakness Don’t think you can play anyone .From the oldest to the youngest ,there values are to be respected. Retired FDNY here served my city and its people gratefully Bess our next generation Don’t ever hold back in sharing how its done 🎶

[@sallybowles2781]

This movie fulfilled the divine task of bringing this music to the ears of the general populace - long live the Blues!

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Amen

[@bobabooey285]

They were on a mission from god

[@BITEMYLEFTBOOB]

I need to watch this movie again. Brilliant.

[@Jameslopez5682]

Hello Tracey how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family

[@user-xr1gt5vu1d]

Wow what a great way to document how good real music use to be. Most music today SUCKS!

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

My favorite Movie of all time [[Im 85 years old]

[@tylercaskey1931]

I've loved John Lee Hooker since I discovered the blues at about 10. This is definitely the best version of this song.

[@bryangoodwin6626]

Raw. Sounds great!!!

[@ukprepper9330]

All these films had the very best musicians that are at the top of there game, you will never find anything like these films ever again 😢 😭

[@ned_1963]

Best comedy film & best sountrack ever too! 🎥 🎸🎤🎶

[@JoanElizabethDerrig-qt8kg]

Chicago my home town. All artists welcome.

[@temelerdinch528]

One of the best films ever

[@elainehinton6876]

This is my childhood. I grew up in the south burb's, and went went to Maxwell Street during the 70's when this shit was going on. Good stuff

[@jbharrell7598]

Is there anything more cool ass bluesman than John Lee Hooker singin haw haw haw

[@donpaladino]

This video should have at least 10x times the views it has.

[@mooneyes2k478]

Backing the great John Lee Hooker is the Legendary Blues Band, featuring the no less great Calvin "Fuzz" Jones on the bass, "Guitar Junior" Luther Johnson on the guitar, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith on the drums, and Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins on the piano. And, lending his amazing skill on the mouth harp, "Big Walter" Horton.

[@scottprince6546]

Damn you know your bluesman, like that bout ya 🤘🤘

[@utahrailroadsofamerica1991]

John 🎖 Lee 🎣 Hooker ⚓ The Master Blues, Jazz & Rock For Life 😌👏

[@sunshinesova11]

That dude playing the harmonic and smoking that's some serious multi tasking!❤😂❤

[@martinlansdell9886]

This is cool class love the groovy moves of the brass section

[@Nugnugnug]

Hard to believe this movie exists. Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker? Incredible.

[@SilverSting420]

Not to mention Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Carrie Fisher, and John Candy. So many legends in a single moive. Amazing.

[@aaronnelson7702]

Frank Oz and Steven Spielberg too in rare camera appearances.

[@gr6e]

This scene was probably the most iconic musical moment I've ever seen in a movie growing up. Today I got to play a guitar that was owned by John Lee Hooker, and goddamn it if I was any good at the guitar I'd have tried playing this song.

[@ruff1draft]

That is cool. Where were you when you got the chance to see this guitar owned buy John Lee Hooker

[@beircheartaghaistin2332]

This film was a love letter and I loved it for it.

[@robertvanderclock2657]

LOOOOOOVE the Hooker man!!!!! He had it "right" , years before anyone else coming after.

[@busara45thevillain22]

Blowing smoke through the harmonica gives it the blues. . . Hookers voices is golden!

[@sandragriffiths9692]

Gutterally gorgeous👌💙🎶🎵

[@Bigfoot42794]

I'm just gonna say it: this is the best version of "Boom Boom", hands down.

[@mikejaygreen]

With a the luxurious we have in the 2020's.. cant help but feel there was a simpler time

[@gootarguy2320]

Black America's gift to the world. You cannot fake soul like this! Thank you to these Gods who gave us this incredible music and the culture they created.

[@GenGamesUniverse]

"That was Boom Boom, I wrote that back in the fifties!" "NO YA DIDN'!" XD I love that bit between John Lee Hooker and the person listening to the song.

[@johnsnyder9033]

That argument was about John Lee stealing the song Pinetop Perkins allegedly wrote.

[@ramsesfunes7246]

They laugh when make the fake fight 😁

[@ssurfcity]

That was Pinetop Perkins, Muddy Waters' piano player from 1970-1980.

[@charleyvoncount9999]

I WROTE BOOM BOOM!!!!! I WROTE BOOM BOOM!!!!

[@S2Cents]

That guy, no ya didn't! 🤣

[@delirium11]

This scene is a masterpiece. The whole movie is, but here you just get the whole place's atmosphere, the sense of the place. Amazing direction.

[@blahblahetcetera]

Thank you ladies and gentlemen, that's a song I wrote back in the 50's NO YOU DIDN'T! It's the subtleties of the blues brothers I love.

[@glenncurley680]

So fortunate to hang with him in the 70's along with Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, James Cotton, Willie Dixon, Luther Allison It was fun for sure.

[@allansmith2155]

Tell us more Glen

[@EdwardH-mk9cp]

Holy cow. Proper American sounds.

[@calif1mc]

Classic blues, classic Chicago, awesome movie!

[@bluesrockguitar93]

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[@user-gi7pb7lp8j]

My favorite movie of all time!

[@roberthidalgo4321]

Actually met him John Lee Hooker was a very nice and approachable person

[@hermandagger1564]

A little bit "Boom Boom". a little bit "hmm hm", a quarter "how, how" and a short "heyyy hey". You never need more for a good blues, if hou have the blues like John Lee Hooker. UNFORGETABLE

[@mii6619]

The second he first says "boom boom boom"... I get goosebumps...

[@samil5601]

Yes, can totally relate to that. I was only a kid when I first saw the film and this bit changed my life, for sure.

[@mikimiyazaki]

Shivers down my spine

[@jamiebriscoe6445]

Love The Boogieman. John Lee Hooker was awesome.

[@stevenmoeller7617]

THOSE WERE THE DAYS.....WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD NEVER END.....BUT HERE WE ARE

[@tomtrick7051]

Little did we know 😭

[@user-ed1jw3qs1z]

I Love Hooker style blues! Rest In peace john lee hooker..

[@russellham2094]

Classic film... Just drive down town, and John Lee is jamming in the street 👍👍👍

[@wickedways1291]

I grew up in the early 60's. There was always something special about people back then. Class was more than money and a pretty face.

[@markhenry6622]

What the hell are you talking about? There are many pretty white people. Maybe not as many as other races but, it's not a competition.

[@wickedways1291]

@@markhenry6622 What the fuck are YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! Talking about?

[@Cambu17]

THAT, boys and girls...IS THE BLUES !!