"Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner" (Tina Turner, Ike Turner)
Rocket '88 was a great slab of vinyl, too bad Ike only got $60 for it. In fact, Ike Turner was a great guitar player who doesn't get the respect that other guitar heros do, mostly because Tina Turner was a compelling and talented victim who went public. Not excusing Ike at all (wife beaters are vile), but there have been a lot of troubled artists who enjoy post-humous success in spite of violent or unsavory aspects of their personal lives.
Ike Turner, who died Wednesday at age 76 in his suburban San Diego home, changed the course of modern music, scored numerous hits and yet is best known as the scoundrel who abused Tina Turner.
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When his days with Tina Turner were brought up in the 2001 Tribune interview, Ike Turner was defiant. "I did a lot of wrong things in my life, and a lot of good things, and I don't regret any of them,” he said. “The only regret I have -- I made one mistake in my life, during the time I was doing drugs -- I signed a contract with Walt Disney [makers of ‘What's Love Got to Do With It'] giving them permission to portray me in this movie any way they wanted, not realizing I was signing away my right to sue them. They totally exaggerated everything she said in the book on the screen, and that sabotaged my career."
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“It doesn’t matter if I invented rock ‘n’ roll, because it didn’t make me any money,” Turner told the Tribune. “I made $60 from ‘Rocket 88’: Six-oh. I don’t care about the glamour or the money. I don’t care about the nominations and Grammys, all that bull. I just care about making people happy --- getting onstage and getting everybody going.”
[From Music legend-turned-villain Ike Turner dead at 76]
Without Ike Turner, no Jimi Hendrix, and no rock music as we know it.
Speaking of Ike Turner, the track on the Atlantic Blue Guitar compilation
called I Smell Trouble is a smoking, 6 minute 58 second long workout, recorded live. (Parenthetically, this is one of those rare albums that the vinyl edition contains more songs, go figure).
