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Re: Ike Turner

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:25 pm
by colonel
His website has now had to monitor postings, as so many negative ones are being posted.

My favourite from 'Garnett'- 'I thought Ike would beat death- heck, he beat everything else'.

Huge cokehead, apparently.

Re: Ike Turner

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:01 pm
by stripeysydney
This gives a pretty good insight into Ike's behaviour, which goes someway to explain the way he was, as Cromwell once remarked, "Warts and all":




Re: Ike Turner

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:13 pm
by Pervert
That's a well-written article, and the Svengali analogy is a good one.

Maybe there are some cultural archetypes that we can't help becoming. Not so much as life imitating life, or history repeating itself, as perhaps an unconscious desire to become what we fear----or is that getting a wee bit too Olayish?

Re: Ike Turner

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:23 pm
by one eyed jack
Lets face it, do we really have to find artists likeable or even lovable to enjoy what talents they have? Most artists are miserable fucks anyway.

Just remember them for their most redeeming trait. Their music.


Re: Ike Turner

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:28 pm
by Pervert
"Most artists are miserable fucks anyway."

What---even The Proclaimers?

Re: Ike Turner

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:46 pm
by ATS
Caractacus wrote:

> That's a well-written article, and the Svengali analogy is a
> good one.
>
> Maybe there are some cultural archetypes that we can't help
> becoming. Not so much as life imitating life, or history
> repeating itself, as perhaps an unconscious desire to become
> what we fear----or is that getting a wee bit too Olayish?

Fine article that

Wonder what olay would read into his full first name sounding like a
furniture store + naming you first song after a car but only having a bicycle