Ike Turner Deaded.

[TopCat]

Ike Turner was a musical genuis and will be sorely missed by me but no doubt not by his ex wife. His work with Tina shone brighter than any of their contempories and will stand out in a class of it's own for ever. RIP Ike.

 

[Jografer]

Cracking musician. Crap man. RIP.

 

[nightowl]

If Nutwood fucking City fucking Limits is number one I'm firebombing every radio and tv station in the country.

Well, I don't listen to music radio or watch the tell so I don't really give a shit but that song is fucking awful.

wouldn't say it was awful but incredibly overrated. they released some remix version a few years back that was utter shite though

 

[Orang Utan]

I love how he'll be remembered as a Musical Wife Beater

 

[phildwyer]

anyone that beats their woman gets fuck all sympathy from me.

When he was 13 the KKK beat his father to death.

 

[Bonfirelight]

he was ace in Boys N The Hood

 

[Orang Utan]

he was ace in Boys N The Hood

He wasn't in it - or are you making a funny about Larry Fishburne?

 

[badseed]

He wasn't in it - or are you making a funny about Larry Fishburne?

I got you babe is still a classic

 

[Bonfirelight]

He wasn't in it - or are you making a funny about Larry Fishburne?

oh wasn't he?
That's a shame. He'd have been excellent IMO.

 

[Mallard]

A wife beater and a man with serious problems but thanks for some fantastic music. RIP.

 

[killer b]

RIP. he was a true musical great.

 

[danny la rouge]

A bad human being with one famous tune that was shit. No tears here.

 

[El Jefe]

A bad human being with one famous tune that was shit

He had dozens of less famous tunes that weren't shit, though. Doesn't excuse his behaviour in any way, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

 

[killer b]

why does everyone have to include a caveat that he was a bad man? does unreserved liking of his music imply support for wife beaters?

 

[danny la rouge]

does unreserved liking of his music imply support for wife beaters?

No, not at all. It's the "devil effect" (Or negative halo effect). I don't like his music, and therefore his character is an additional justification I can use for not liking him. I can say: "Hmm, figures. How would you expect the man responsible for Nutbush to behave?" Whereas I can cheerfully ignore tales I hear about people who produce music I like.

 

[chooch]

He had dozens of less famous tunes that weren't shit, though

he did. think otherwise and you're probably a fuckwit.

 

[Magic Sam]

He was a genius, the only person who could play guitar and piano to such a high standard.

Can't over state his influence on modern music as a talent scout for Sun (introduced Howlin' Wolf and Little Milton to Sam Phillips amongst others) as well as his own work with his Kings of Rythym. Not a fan of the Ike and Tina stuff and it is a shame that he will be remembered by most for the wife beating thing.

He became ruthless bastard in order to survive as a black man in a white dominated world (50's and 60's music industry), when he finally gained some sort of financial reward for his work with Tina he turned into a self confessed meglomaniacal coke fiend. No excuse for his behaviour but others have done similar or worse and been forgiven, (Elvis for example).
Great musician not a great person.

 

[Orang Utan]

"Sure, I've slapped Tina... There have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. But I never beat her."
Lovely man

 

[danny la rouge]

think otherwise and you're probably a fuckwit.

Why mess around with the "probably" if you're going to say people who don't share your taste are fuckwits?

 

[chooch]

Why mess around with the "probably" if you're going to say people who don't share your taste are fuckwits?

Kicks

I'll rephrase. If you think the sum of his contribution to music was producing one famous tune that was shit, then you're a fuckwit. Clearer?

 

[ohmyliver]

Oh no. I loved Ike and Tina

when I was very little I thought it was "I can tina turner"

but yeah, nasty bloke, top musician...

 

[breasticles]

interestingly, ike turner didnt write nutbush city limits. tina did.

 

[veracity]

When he was 13 the KKK beat his father to death.

He was indeed a deeply troubled man. It doesn't excuse some of the terrible things he did.

He was one hell of a musician though.

RIP.

 

[Reno]

interestingly, ike turner didnt write nutbush city limits. tina did.

...it's the production which really makes it though.

 

[TopCat]

I can't belive what your saying is a track from the gods.

 

[rhod]

For me, Ike Turner's best track was an instrumental he did called "New Breed part 1". You can hear a clip on Amazon.

He pioneered Rock'nRoll and the distorted guitar sound, and for these things alone his place in musical history is assured.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Ike Turner: a man best known for beating his wife.

 

[brianx]

Ike Turner: a man best known for beating his wife.

That's very sad Johnny that a man that did so much will be remembered as a wife beater. Still he who is without sin can cast the first stone I suppose.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

That's very sad Johnny that a man that did so much will be remembered as a wife beater. Still he who is without sin can cast the first stone I suppose.

He didn't actually do that much.

 

[brianx]

Ike Turner: a man best known for beating his wife.

I wasn't referring to you by the way Johnny. It was the judgemental tone of people. I remember when I was a kid the biggest bastards used to have a few days where no one spoke ill of the dead. He did some awful things but....