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Cody's Band
Bar band from the 1989 action thriller Road House featuring Patrick Swayze (not the 2024 remake featuring Jake Gyllenhaal). Cody's Band is the house band of the Double Deuce in Jasper, Missouri, a roadhouse that attracts a particularly violent crowd and is described by the blind singer, guitarist and band leader Cody as "a toilet". Cody's band plays behind chicken wire to protect them from the bottles regularly thrown at them by drunken customers.
Cody is played by the successful Canadian musician Jeff Healey, a visually impaired singer/guitarist in real life, and the band in the movie is his actual trio with Joseph Rockman on bass guitar and Thomas Stephen on drums. The repertoire of Cody's Band consists of amped-up blues rock versions of bar band classics such as 'Roadhouse Blues' (The Doors) and 'Hoochie Coochie Man' (Willie Dixon).
