Ike Turner RIP

damn son

shut the fuck up bitch

lolz wifebeating etc whatever this dude made a LOT of amazing shit

true

RIP dude.

He was also the source of one of my favorite quotes:

"It took every decision I ever made, the good and the bad, to make me who I am today. And I like me today, man. So no, I have no regrets."

caveat etc yada yada given that said "bad decisions" included beating his wife and getting hooked on various white powders, obv.

http://thebestsportsblog.com/images/2006/12/wii.jpg

skinniest girl you ever dated?

I just listened to 'Funky Mule'.

Was that mule rented, per chance?

the dude was an awesome musician

Very sad. What a monumental figure.

Supposedly Sam Phillips called this the first rock and roll record:
Rocket 88

Sometimes woman I wanna get a sharp stick
But when I take a second look, you too big to lick

Sometimes woman I think you plumb outta yo' head
All day long you feed my kids wieners and bread

Very sad. What a monumental figure douchebag.

Shakey Mo fever has gripped ILM.

RIP Ike.

where IS shakey mo, anyway?!?

I'm right here

I like that song "Funky as a Moskeeter's Tweeter"

RIP

That I Like Ike! compilation on Rhino carries more than a hint of defensiveness, but there is great music on it.

My favorite guitar player ever.

Shit. RIP!

Your music was beyond classic.

A better musician than James Brown, and roughly about as kind towards women as James Brown was.

RIP. My dad toured with him for a while and said that when he wasn't crazy fucked up, he was a nice and almost meek sort of dude.

xpost: GO AWAY

why do people think I wish everybody was dead

The photo the LA Times used for the story:

http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/photo/2007-12/34236427-12140245.jpg

So what's a great Ike record?

what's the one with the razor on the cover...? I always kind of marveled that such a notorious cokehead had the balls to do that.

Re: a Great Ike rec - the Ace compilation 'Ike's Instrumentals', credited to Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm, leads off w/ 'Ho Ho' (by 'Icky Renrut'), Ike's hottest ever guitar 45

"It's Gonna Work Out Fine" = GOLD

So what's a great Ike record?

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/t/turner_iket_blackmans_102b.jpg

is that the actual cover?

rip for the music of course...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRMi61NkrXY

Great music, unfuckable with. Knowledge of the guy's behaviour makes the duo sections more than a little bit creepy tho.

"every woman's lovin' man"

"that's me!"

Uh...

RIP.

Another perspective, from the XXL comments section:

JONATHAN says:

THIS FROM THE NIGGAS WHO LOVE JAY Z WHO BEATS UP BEYONCE ON THE REGULAR! T.I. WHO KILLED A WOMAN AND PUT HER AND HER SON IN A TRUNK! AND ALL THE OTHER RAPPERS INCLUDING GUNIT WHO KILL WOMAN! LOLOLOL! AND YOU TALKING ABOUT FIGHTS I HAD WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL! OR ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT FIGHTS FROM WHEN THIS GIRL PUT SOME DUMB SHIT ON MY DICK! OR WHEN I CAUGHT HER CHEATING WHEN SOME DUDE CALLED HER CELL! WHATEVER IT IS YOU SOUND COOL! BUT IM SURE YOU DONE SHOOK THE SHIT OUT OF SOME GIRL AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER! I AINT SAYING ITS RIGHT! BUT IF YOU HAVENT DONE IT! YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE!

I didn't realize that Tina really brought it like that. That was serious.

Man... RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdg4xeK9F9Q

"RIP Big Man, Heaven needed a wife beater, etc."

dude was one of the awesomest guitar players ever and a giant of a musician. for that, rip.

Best headline ever

*guffaw*

RIP.

Also, anyone with a MILES DAVIS record or two shouldn't be getting too smug about Ike.

yeesh, that headline ... ! Wow. No one should make any excuses for his treatment of women, but it's not like he's alone on that front by any means -- miles, james brown, jerry lee lewis and plenty more had major, scary issues in that regard. they just didn't have a spouse who went on to become more famous ... Ridiculously flawed people? Absolutely. Genius musicians? Absolutely.

sad that all people remember or even KNOW about him is that he beat tina turner. hes not the only one in music to do questionable things in their private lives. it would be nice if people at least talked a bit about his greatness as a guitarist and contribution to rock n roll.

having said that, despite a few ike and tina records (which are great), i dont know many of the other songs he played on, apart from the a black mans soul album and rocket 88.

classic murdoch/uk tabloid style but that headline is insane.

Ike Turner & His Kings of Rhythm, Ike's Intrumentals, '54-'65, all good stuff. Ike Turner's Family Vibe did one not a lot of people talk about probably because "Excuse Me" is an instrumental--a bit like some Sly Stone track leaned toward Edgar Winter or Billy Preston--about farting, with loud air-hose farting sounds throughout. It's a great groove.

oh, and the Gorillaz, right?

http://www.slate.com/id/2180162/

donald fagen's obit

Phil Spector's Eulogy for Ike

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317986,00.html

Spector Rips Tina at Ike Turner's Funeral

Music legend and murder suspect, Phil Spector, isn't trying to make friends or curry favor with old pals while he waits for a second trial. He turned up at reviled R&B legend Ike Turner's Los Angeles funeral on Friday and gave an impromptu speech that laid into both Tina Turner and Oprah Winfrey.

Spector, according to our spy in the Greater Bethany Community Church in Gardena, Calif., was among several celebrity mourners including Bonnie Raitt and Little Richard who gathered to say good-bye to the Grammy-winning musician.

"I'm so sorry, I wasn't prepared to say anything," said the thin and frail-looking music producer. "Nobody had told me that I was going to speak. This is a very sad occasion for me."

Spector rambled, but he had points to make. Here they are, for better or worse:

"First of all, the things that were said about Ike, that were in that piece-of-trash movie they made about him were ... (applause), it was a piece-of-trash movie. I haven't seen the movie but it was told to me, and Kessel was the world's greatest guitar player in the world and the only reason that Ike didn't play on 'River Deep, Mountain High' was because Ike was the second greatest guitar player in the world. I treasured him and everybody knew it except Ike. That's how good he was

"B.B. King told me at a party with Doc Pomus and Joe Turner and Ray Charles sitting there that Ike Turner was the only guitar player he wouldn't play behind. That's how good he was. But Ike never boasted. He came to parties with me and I'd say, 'play, play' and Ike would never play.

"Ike could play circles around Eric Clapton and Eric knew it. I had someone once ask me what's the difference between Ike Turner and Eric Clapton. I said, 'you don't know the difference between Eric Clapton and Ike Turner? That's funny, why don't you ask Eric, Eric knows.'"

"Ike made Tina the jewel she was. When I went to see Ike play at the Cinegrill in the '90s after his absurd reason for being sent to prison for no reason other than being a black man in America, there were at least, and I counted them, five Tina Turners on the stage performing that night, any one of them could have been Tina Turner."

"And sell-out, whom you really love and respect but I have an ambivalence towards Oprah Winfrey. She made Tina Turner's book into a bestseller, which demonized and vilified Ike. The book wouldn't have sold 10 books. It was badly written. It was a piece of trash and because Oprah idolized Tina, she didn't feel it wrong to vilify a 'brother.'"

"Other black sisters did the same thing to Ike and there was a very famous story about Whoopi Goldberg, who had a television show for about five minutes, interviewed Ike. Ike had called me and said, 'Shall I do the show?'

"I said, 'You can't get hurt.' And he said, 'OK, I'm going to do it.'

"And we figured it would be good because it's Whoopi and Whoopi asked him, 'I understand before you were married when you were living together, you beat the hell out of her and she tried to commit suicide because she was so terrified of you and she tried to jump out of a window,' and Ike said, 'Yeah, but it's hard to jump out of a window from a basement floor.'"

"It was only one Ike. I learned more from Ike than any professors I've been around. He never, ever bothered me. He never interfered with me. He never got in my way."

"When we did 'River Deep Mountain High,' people said you can't put Ike and Tina Turner's name on that record. It won't sell because they are rhythm and blues and it's a pop record. I said I signed Ike and Tina Turner, it won't even say featuring Tina Turner; it's Ike and Tina Turner."

Spector said part of the reason he became disillusioned with the record business was because he could not make Ike and Tina as big of an act as he wanted.

"I wanted them to be the biggest revue in America. They were the first act that I recorded that ever could play big-time and break it in Vegas and America."

damn son

"rocket 88" is awesome.

is there a good compilation of his best early stuff?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7193080.stm

US soul legend Ike Turner, who died last month at the age of 76, was killed by a cocaine overdose, Californian coroners have established.
"We are listing that he abused cocaine and that's what resulted in the cocaine toxicity," said an official at the San Diego County medical examiner's office.

Cardiovascular disease and pulmonary emphysema were also given as "significant" factors in the death.

Turner's daughter Mia said she was shocked by the report.

The singer had waged an "ongoing struggle" with drugs, she said, but the coroner was "overstating the situation".

"Daddy at that point was not doing drugs to the level it leads to believe," she told the North County Times in a telephone interview.

New York Post's headline for this: IKE 'BEATS' TINA TO DEATH

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