Blues Brothers Month… sorta
Turns out several members of the original Blues Brothers band are still out touring thier asses off! Iggs and I met two of them recently: ‘Blue’ Lou Marini and Tom ‘Bones’ Malone.
Blue Lou (made famous for soloing on a counter top in the original Blues Brothers movie AND opening and closing every SNL episode with his crazy saxophone from ‘76 to ‘83) is out touring with singer/producer Steve Tyrell. Tyrell is out promoting his new album of standards and spends much of his time on stage telling stories about Frank Sinatra and the Sinatra family. There wasn’t a lot of room for Blue Lou to stretch out but he was still a huge asset to the band.
Bones Malone is moonlighting with the Fab Faux when he’s not on stage with the CBS orchestra at the Dave Letterman Show. The Fab Faux have a wild mix of musicians including CBS orchestra badass Will Lee is on bass and Conan O’Brien’s amazing guitar player Jimmy Vivino. Bones spent a lot of time switching between several horns throughout the show, sometimes playing 3 different instruments in the same song. It was an amazing show, can’t wait till I work with them again in October.