RIP Ike Turner

Extremely busy with work, but couldn't let Ike's passing pass me by.
Oh, and yes, this is the same Ike who slapped the same Tina.

How many other people are known for hitting their wives?

1. OJ
   

So to everyone that feels the need to mention that particular fact in the second sentence (after "Ike Turner died." Who? "You know, that guy who hit Tina "We Don't Need Another Hero" Turner?" Oh. Yeah. That asshole.), there are sovereign countries and respected religions that sanction and even encourage wife beating and punishing rape victims. They can't play blues for shit, and yet they get away with both.

Saudi author and cleric “Dr.” Muhammad Al-’Arifi, the "Dr." Phil of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, recently reached out to all those young, recently married kids who may not yet have gotten the hang of the whole "wife thing", or better yet, the whole "woman thing." “Admonish them – once, twice, three times, four times, ten times. If this doesn’t help, refuse to share their beds. And if that doesn’t work? Beat them.”

Ok? Ike had already tried admonishment. And I think at some point he also probably refused to share his bed with Tina. What else was left???

(Seriously, I love all this moral relativism that Ike somehow brings up every time he's mentioned. When it's a whole people that beat their wives we say, "well, that's their culture," as if it were some complex, yet beautiful, mosaic of ancient traditions and aromatic spices. Ike, though, should have been hung by his balls. OK!)

A New Breed, Ike.

PLAY: Whole Lotta Love - Ike & Tina Turner
PLAY: Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

PLAY: Keep On Pushing - The Impressions
PLAY: Keep On Pushing - Ike & Tina Turner

Mean Old World

Marion Walter Jacobs, or Little Walter to you, wrote this anti-Thanksgiving song. Well, it wasn't really directed at Thanksgiving per se, but while fighting traffic in the supermarket today, hating everyone and everyone hating me, I couldn't help but think of this song.

Mean Old World is dedicated today to all the people at the loose spices section this afternoon in Central Market. They're just spices, people! Your turkey will be still be ok if we share the last bit of ground ginger, ok?

PLAY: Mean Old World - Little Walter
PLAY: Mean Old World - Ike & Tina Turner
PLAY: Mean Old World - Duane Allman/Eric Clapton