Ike Turner

He thought this was a guy who had something that nobody else had.

Ike Turner, to some extent, had this going on with the Kings of Rhythm.

B.B. King had it going on, but none of them had this narrative thing, and none of them had the teenage focus.

I think those were the two things that were important.

The distorted sound of the guitar was new by mistake.

Ike Turner actually plays on the track.

And that song was sort of the roadmap for what would come later and what people would draw from to create what would become first R&B and then more of an amplified version of R&B, which became rock and roll.

And so this song kind of does the same thing for Yacht Rock.

If you're

curious and you want to hear the

monumental song that was Rocket 88 by Ike Turner from 1951...

Adam's not saying this is Yacht Rock.

I want to still just enjoy your content, but now I have to fucking hate you on the premise that you...

So you're telling me when you were playing Ike Turner, you weren't playing Ike Turner.

Oh, no, yeah.

There's a scene where there's one of the actresses where they said, like, just slap her for real, and he slaps the...

He thought this was a guy who had something that nobody else had.

Ike Turner, to some extent, had this going on with the Kings of Rhythm.

B.B. King had it going on, but none of them had this narrative thing, and none of them had the teenage focus.

I think those were the two things that were important.

I was prepared to go

through whatever I had to go through with Ike Turner, even if it was death, because I would never go back.

But the people in the middle, the people at the bottom, the ones who lived quiet, difficult, and dignified lives, they disappear.

Institutions like stories that fit neatly into categories, civil rights, slavery, jazz, sports, politics, art, But the story of a black woman cleaning houses for white families, that doesn't fit neatly anywhere.