I played that record over and over and learned to play guitar by playing along with him.. That was a very important time for me. The best advice I ever got is to breath when you play, play like you talk and play from your heart. TRADING PLACES, TOO? And then there’s “Trading Places”, directed by John Landis (National Lampoon’s Animal House, Blues Brothers). —Richard Schickel, Time Magazine called Trading Places “one of the most emotionally satisfying and morally gratifying comedies of recent times,” adding that Murphy “makes Trading Places something more than good-hearted comedy.