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Groovy Tiger, Funky Dragon (part 2)

Posted about 4 years ago

[Ike & Tina Turner - Bold Soul Sister / 2:35]

In Funk the Fu #2, Sister Blootea warns us: "My friends, we're neglecting the true essence of music..."

The earnest M. would have abided by such wise words but Bartleby is a knave...

So grease with me...

Enters the Dragon Thandie

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Comments (24)

  1. bloodtea
    bloodtea says Thandie Newton, DAYUUM! Love that pic (I was going to post that someday... grrrrrr)! This post's too funkylicious.. I'm going blind (and deaf).
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  2. Bartleby
    Bartleby says Now just to prove that our funk-fu fists care about the music too, here are some notes about the cut from the highly funk-versed Funk16Corners blog: "Composed largely of blues & R&B covers (Albert King, Jimmy Reed, Barbara George and others), ‘The Hunter’ was also home to the funkiest record Ike & Tina Turner ever made, that being ‘Bold Soul Sister’. It’s important to note that Ike & Tina didn’t record all that much out and out funk. They made some “funk-y” records, some rocking soul, and a shitload of chittlin’ circuit R&B and blues, but not much to whet the appetite of the funk 45 crowd. ‘Bold Soul Sister’ on the other hand, is a record so powerful, so savage that it takes the energy of any ten other funk records and distills them down into a single, brutal cut. Borrowing the riff from Sly & The Family Stone’s ‘Sing A Simple Song’, ‘Bold Soul Sister’ opens with Ike’s rusty sounding guitar, some very “live” sounding drums and a scream from Tina. Tina then goes into her rap: Thangs and stuff and stuff and thangs and...and stuff I’m a Bold Soul Sister! BSS ! Then the Ikettes drop in with a:“Boooooollld Soul Sister!” Then Tina raps about a ‘sockitome biscuit’ (???) and a bunch of other crazy stuff, and the Ikettes are right there behind her ‘Doin’ whatcha wanna when ya wanna how ya wanna now, do your thing soul sister!’ And Ike and the band are funking it up the whole time in the background, sounding like Fat Alberts Junkyard Band coming down off a LSD , Jello Pudding and Cold Duck high. The overall feel , that of a revival meeting gone acid-fried can be attributed to some degree to the production of Bob Krasnow, who’s curriculum vitae was at the time was composed in it’s entirety of the first two Captain Beefheart LPs. It’s not too hard to draw a line from the sound of Beefheart’s ‘Zig Zag Wanderer’ to Ike & Tina’s ‘Bold Soul Sister’. Same jagged energy, same blues roots, same reach for psychedelic salvation folding back in on itself like some kind of demented Moebius strip (as any Moebius strip that started with Captain Beefheart and ended with Ike & Tina Turner would have to be)."
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  3. Bartleby
    Bartleby says BloodT, I stole Thandie from one of your funky Friday post :p - What did I tell you about the disreputable Bartleby?
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  4. bloodtea
    bloodtea says Hey, I wasn't being serious.. (Gee, you had to funk the mood with facts.. shame on you). Seriously, I appreciate your effort.. it's always nice to know a song's background. Well done, brother.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  5. bloodtea
    bloodtea says Youuu... mischievous creature.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  6. Bartleby
    Bartleby says You're the noughties' BSS - funk sista ;)
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  7. Jonh Ingham
    Jonh Ingham says That really cements in my mind Thandie as a serious actress. Indeedy.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  8. Marigold
    Marigold says That is some serious funk and facts there Michael.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  9. Bartleby
    Bartleby says *Jonh*: Thandie is a very fine actress... *Marigold*: Thanks, Mike. I must say I'm surprised that the facts impressed you more than the seriously curvaceous Miss newton :p
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  10. Marigold
    Marigold says Michael somethings go without sayin. BTW, I have noticed a trend more and more skin in the funk wars.....I am guessing that sometime within the next month or two we will be to full on frontal nudity.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  11. Bartleby
    Bartleby says I think you'll have to blame our tea sipping sister for that. She started posting a Miss Santa who was very scantily clad and wouldn't have survived 30 seconds in the North Pole. Original is here: http://mog.com/bloodtea/blog_post/132302 No frontal for me... I try to maintain a certain standard and I think Miss Newton keeps the bar pretty high.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  12. bloodtea
    bloodtea says Not my fault you're all hard to please nowadays.. And you're lucky I haven't uploaded some bushes.. grrrr!!!!
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  13. Bartleby
    Bartleby says You mean like this one? By all means, do. MOG could do with a little trimming here and there :p
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  14. Marigold
    Marigold says Personally I think nowadays a "bush" is actually an item of clothing and is like wearing a bathing suit or something.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  15. Bartleby
    Bartleby says So, Mike, pray tell, are you wearing a "bush" today? Or was it too cold?
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  16. Marigold
    Marigold says ...that was mean.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  17. bloodtea
    bloodtea says Yep, exactly what I was thinking of.. Mike, if I were you, I'd beat Michael black and blue.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  18. ivylander
    ivylander says Righteous song. Er, was there a picture that came with this post?
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  19. Augusts1
    Augusts1 says No *Mike*, Bartleby's bush comment was just plain hilarious! Damn B, Ike & Tina are turnin' da funk out. I think you have Andrea beat w/this song.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  20. xhable
    xhable says hmmmm with the bushisms. :p
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  21. Marigold
    Marigold says Andrea. Na. I like em too much. The world would be a less funny place if he was beaten black and blue. August. You are right. Wit like that is hard to come by.
    Permalink posted 02/01/2008
  22. Neill
    Neill says Ever thought of doing an alternative Mog calender Bartleby? LOL!
    Permalink posted 02/02/2008
  23. starrjammz
    starrjammz says tiger 2004-09-19arts_tina purple-dragon
    Permalink posted 02/02/2008
  24. Bartleby
    Bartleby says *Blootea*: My, my all these talks of tying me up and now beating me up. You're a Violent Femme, Andréa ;) *Marigold*: Sorry, mate. I wish there'd do bush my size -- Thanks for wanting to defend me against the vicious BloodT the Redoubtable ;) *Agust*: Thanks for the kudos. Glad you enjoyed the music as much as the non-sense. *Ivy*: You got me worried I though the picture was gone. *Xhable*: I know what you mean, my bespectacled funk-fu meister. *Neill*: I guess we could come up with a musical angle for Miss Newton's bed of roses. *Starrjammz:* Thank you for that cool cat. Tina's and the Ikettes, that's just funkalicious.
    Permalink posted 02/02/2008

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