Ten Favorite Blues Brothers Lines: Goat Pee to Gasoline (#3)

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Oh, it's so, so good to see @teamfreak16 back here with not one but two countdowns!!! I need to look through my list to see what evil's lurking in the heart of hillbilly in terms of a new music theme. Meanwhile, here's another line from the great music/comedy classic The Blues Brothers that's on my list of favorites from that film. #3: We Had a Band Powerful Enough to Turn Goat Piss Into Gasoline Jake and Elwood are beside themselves when they find most of their backing back playing as "Murph and the Magic Tones" in a sparsely-populated Holiday Inn lounge. He drops the news on them that they're putting the band back together (which had disbanded after Jake went to Joliet for robbing a gas station to pay for the band's room service bill). The band (a group of top-rank musicians playing themselves) is reluctant because of all the bad luck they'd encountered as a member of the Blues Brothers. Yeah, the music sucks (before leaving the stage Murph starts a tape of them playing a Muzak version of "Just the Way You Are"), but, as Willie "Too Big" Hall says, "At least we've got a change of clothes." "Who here at this table can honestly say that they played any finer, or felt any better, than they did when they were with the Blues Brothers?" Jake asks them. The silence from the band members answers Jake's question. Despite the reservations of making another stab at the band, bass player Donald "Duck" Dunn, in a beautiful southern accent (Dunn was from Memphis), proclaims the greatness of the band by saying they were so good they could produce gasoline out of goat urine. If you know anything about music, you know that the members of the Blues Brothers band, as session men, could do just that on any record they played on. Dunn was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T & the MGs. He died while on tour in Japan in 2012. He left behind an unbelievably large body of work...and one of the best lines in The Blues Brothers. We Had a Band Powerful Enough to Turn Goat Piss Into Gasoline -- Donald "Duck" Dunn Jake ain't lyin':