Isaac Hayes R.I.P.

he'll never get to arizona now :(

phoenix i mean

Damn damn

What a freakin' horrible weekend.

RIP and then some.

;_;

one of the best parts of wattstax

http://www.wattstax.com/press_images/press_jpg_full/IsaacHayes_Triumphant.gif

Thanks for the memories thetan dude.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38107000/jpg/_38107996_isaac_hayes300pa.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auZV2myICts

r.i.p.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5tqAbrZeX0

;_;

I don't want this.

http://www.celebrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/Darth%20Chef.jpg

:(

RIP, Chef.

Sadness. RIP.

u_u

Damn....Isaac Hayes is one of those people who it would never occur to you they might die someday. We have truly lost someone special.

Weirdly enough, the Shaft episode of Father Ted is on E4 tonight.

I need to post this again.

http://www.wattstax.com/press_images/press_jpg_full/IsaacHayes_Triumphant.gif

I couldn't think of anything to say except RIP but the Rev's post up there is cock on, really.

RIP

Goddammit all to hell, I hate that we're slowly losing our legends.

RIP Mr Hayes.

Is it Shaft or Hot Buttered Soul tonight?

np: "Precious, Precious"

is there a woman coming over? xp

Dammit. I'll be listening to Hot Buttered Soul, the good half of Black Moses, and all the Hayes/Porter songs.

Interestingly, though truly the voice for his age, over the span of his four-decade career, Hayes has managed to mean different things to each new generation. From his early days with Stax Records as one of the foundations of Memphis Soul, to his piloting of a funky 70’s R&B, to his role in creating the music that became synonymous with the Blaxploitation movie genre to his resurgence in the 90’s as the unmistakable voice behind South Park's animated Chef, Hayes has managed to leave a different personal stamp on each decade. from an online bio

am cranking hot buttered soul now -- eesh, sweet record

yessss "walk on by" -- that's what obits should be talking about rather than "theme from Shaft." nothing against shaft, mind you!

Yeah, the Reverend is right. Rest in peace and . . . WTF.

I heard "Shaft" as a 9 year old when it first came out and it floored me like few things have done, then or since. Oddly, the Detroit Red Wings hockey team used it as bumper music for its between-periods TV show. Blaxploitation-flick score + hockey highlights = genius.

RIP, Mr. Hayes.

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/2631/soulmenso2.jpg

Urrrrgh! Horrible news. What a shitty weekend it's been. I will now play "Hyperbolicsyllabicsequedalymistic" in tribute.

And while we're at it:

'One...rib?'

Somebody really didn't like this film:

Soul Men (2008)
Cast (Credited cast)

Samuel L. Jackson ... Louis
Bernie Mac ... Floyd
Isaac Hayes ... Himself

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111948/

Very sad. A legend and a humble, beautiful person. Met him once when he came in to the studio I was working at to do some recording. We got to talking about Wattstax - this is when it was only around as a bootleg on VHS - and he said "You're too young to have seen it in the movies! How'd you see it?" I sheepishly admitted I had a boot and he laughed that deeep, beautiful laugh followed by, "Can you make me a copy? I haven't seen it in years." Needless to say, I handed him one next day.

Damn that's a great story.

this might be a little grim, but has any prominent sci3ntologist died... ever? apart from LRH.

Sonny Bono?

Weirdly enough, the Shaft episode of Father Ted is on E4 tonight.

-- The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 10 August 2008 20:40

Weirdly enough, 'Shaft' (remake) is on now on film 4. It was scheduled.

goddamnit, i want to write more about this, but "walk on by" is the closest thing i've ever had to a religious experience. it is o my ears the most perfect song i've heard, nothing else i've heard has come close to approaching the kind of catharsis it provides. he's got such a range of great material, but "walk on by" is a masterpiece in the truest sense of the word. he's the only person whose sc13nt0logy i've ever overlooked.

Damn -- totally unexpected. Let me demur a little: he was more iconic than classic, to these ears. "Chocolate Salty Balls" is my favorite one, honestly.

REAL TALK

"walk on by" sounds like a personal apocalypse

"walk on by" is amazing

he wrote "hold on i'm comin'"!

Yeah, that's to me his best songwriting stroke. Bryan Ferry did a great version!

RIP, Isaac! even just for fashion alone, he was one of the coolest people to ever walk among us.

cool picture taken last year of isaac and my brother-in-law ben at some function in seattle:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/253/521271138_2d856dbf30_b.jpg

his songs with porter (jeez wikipedia says they wrote 200!) sort of get overshadowed by his solo stuff, mostly because a lot of people don't even know he wrote them. either way, classic classic classic.

bummed that i can't find a clip of his "shaft" oscars performance online.

omigod Hayes' shirt/blouse is genius!

And to think last night I was going to post at Popular about how it was so unfair he never got to #1 in the UK. RIP, indeed.

With "Theme From "Shaft" of course...

(xpost to self)

his 1971 grammy performance blew my young mind. everything he recorded in the 70s has aged so well.

despite my fanatic anti-cult obsession, his scientology fades in the face of his musical contribution,

in other words, a SOUL GIANT and a great american. RIP.

(also can't find the grammy performance online. if these awards shows are going to guard their rights so closely, they oughta at least show the clips themselves. when isaac hayes dies i should be able to go to the oscars and grammys sites and SEE ISAAC HAYES.)

;_; ;_; ;_;

Somebody really didn't like this film:

Soul Men (2008)
Cast (Credited cast)

Samuel L. Jackson ... Louis
Bernie Mac ... Floyd
Isaac Hayes ... Himself

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111948/

-- James Mitchell, Sunday, 10 August 2008 22:07 (Yesterday) Link

even stranger:

Plot

Two former backup soul singers who haven't spoken to each other in 20 years reluctantly agree to travel cross country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently deceased band member.

IIRC, Sam and Dave (whom Hayes worked with) didn't speak to each other for many years, although I don't know if they ever reluctantly agreed to travel cross country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently deceased band member.

the first time i visited memphis i was lonely and bored and i got into my rental car and turned on the radio and there was the lovely mahogany voice of isaac hayes doing his radio show and telling anecdotes and introducing songs and it was like he was sent to earth to save my life, and it wasnt even the first time i had felt like that

No joy in Soulsville :(((((

His best music was as a songwriter/session guy in the 60s -- the Sam&Dave stuff/etc. -- this will all be sadly overlooked in many appreciations.

I have to reluctantly cosign the demurrals in a couple of the posts above, though. I do think the attraction to his 70s work for most people has more to do with image and iconography than with music (a lot of which is pretty dull). I also think that attraction is rooted in a very racialized notion of "cool" that, while ostensibly positive, I worry is a little bit dehumanizing. (which is not at all his fault)

RIP big man

xenu needed a thetan

According to Hayes' official Web site, the music icon was set to play himself in a musical comedy starring comedian Bernie Mac, who died Saturday.

fuckin hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymystic hot damn this track

We were just in Memphis today. We found out about Black Moses upon our return in Little Rock.
RIP

I also think that attraction is rooted in a very racialized notion of "cool" that, while ostensibly positive, I worry is a little bit dehumanizing

if you ain't gonna get it on then take yr dead ass home

Yeah, it's often bothered me that he wasn't more remembered as a songwriter and key figure in the SIXTIES soul sound but I guess that's sort of the nature of going from faceless songwriter to iconic performer. When you say the name Carole King, most people think of Tapestry, not her Brill building co-writes.

Aw shit man, another giant gone. Being captivated by "Shaft" on my parents' car radio as a 4-year-old was one of my earliest musical memories. And that cat named "Chef" was a bad mother.

Time to pull out Hot Buttered Soul...

RIP

this is terrible

RIP

RIP. No more chocolate salty balls for the kids in South Park.

'by the time i get to phoenix' is astonishing. that whole album is good stuffz, and there's gems across all the rest. RIP.

When I first bought Hot Buttered Soul it was the summer I turned 18. I was staying with my friend in Yakima (mid-size town in Eastern WA). Dude is a great drummer. I had gone back to his place and put the cd on his stereo, which was in the same room as his drum set. He comes back to the house during "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymystic", freaks the fuck out at the awesome music he is hearing, grabs his drumsticks and starts jamming along with the cd. That is how I first heard that song. It was awesome.

Very sad.

The long version of "Joy" is probably my favourite slice of solo Hayes. I may play that tonight, although it doesn't seem all that appropriate in the circs.

So many great songs he wrote for others while at Stax too.

RIP

I love this post:

http://todgertalk.blogspot.com/2008/08/mr-sex-we-deal-with-love-now-on-more.html

That's awesome.

RIP big man, will be playing some of yr songs when I get home tonight

shit fuck RIP

he played free show in Brooklyn 2 months ago! Missed it. :(

RIP. I don't know what else to say.

do britishes say 'shoft' like the beeb presenters? like, when they're singing along?

RIP

:( super RIP

Some Sam & Dave (and Hayes/Porter) goodness:

Soul Man

Hold On, I'm Comin'

When Something Is Wrong With My Baby

And then there is this famous Sam & Dave cover.

wtf is "shoft"

How do I shoft web

"shahft"

RIP

http://blog.rhapsody.com/2008/08/so-long-soul-ma.html#more

i heard a rebroadcast of an interview with him on "fresh air" tonight. they played "by the time i get to phoenix" and it made me sad. :(

I feel real bad about this, my friend mentioned it to me on the phone, my good friend from ILX. He was incredulous.

he played free show in Brooklyn 2 months ago! Missed it. :(

I was there: he and the band and orchestra were fab musically, but he was kind of low-key, didn't seem to talk or joke between songs. (Then again, I was loopy on weed and absinthe, so I may have missed much.)

Heard an Algerian/French version of "Shaft" on public radio last night ('Marketplace' news show maybe, not NPR) but did not catch the artist's name

uh, anybody else seen this:

The latest from Roger Friedman....

Isaac Hayes, died on Sunday, and his passing leaves many unanswered
questions.

The great R&B star, actor, DJ, performer and family man, the composer
of “Soul Man,” “Hold On I’m Coming” and other hits by Sam
Moore and Dave Prater like “When Something Is Wrong with My Baby,”
also was a member of the Church of Scientology.

Isaac was found dead by his treadmill, but conveniently missing from
the wire stories was a significant fact: in January 2006, Isaac had a
significant stroke. At the time, the word went out only that he had been
hospitalized for exhaustion.

But the truth was, Isaac, whom was seen just a couple of months earlier
when he headlined the Blues Ball in Memphis, was in trouble. Having lost
the rights to his songs two decades earlier, he was finally making some
money voicing the character of Chef on “South Park.” But “South
Park” lampooned Scientology, so the leaders wanted Isaac out.

Push came to shove on Nov. 16, 2005, when “South Park” aired its
hilarious “Trapped in the Closet” episode spoofing Tom Cruise and
John Travolta. “South Park” creator Matt Stone later stated that
Isaac had come to him in tears. “He said he was under great pressure
from Scientology, and if we didn’t stop poking at them, he’d have to
leave," Stone said.

The conversation ended there. Isaac performed Chef’s signature song
at the Blues Ball a week later with great delight. Although he was
devoted to Scientology, he also loved being part of “South Park.” He
was proud of it. And, importantly, it gave him income he badly needed.

But then came the stroke, which was severe. His staff — consisting of
Scientology monitors who rarely left him alone — tried to portray it
as a minor health issue. It wasn’t. Sources in Memphis revealed at the
time that Isaac had significant motor control and speech issues. His
talking was impaired.

In March 2006, news came that Hayes was resigning from “South Park."
On March 20, 2006, a column appeared called “Chef’s Quitting
Controversy,” explaining that Hayes was in no position to have quit
anything due to his stroke. But Scientology issued the statement to the
press saying Hayes had resigned, and the press just ate it up. No one
spoke to Isaac directly, because he couldn’t literally speak. "Chef”
was written out of the show.

Isaac’s income stream was severely impaired as a result. Suddenly
there were announcements of his touring, and performing. It didn’t
seem possible, but word went out that he’d be at BB King’s in New
York in January 2007. The show was abomination. Isaac was plunked down
at a keyboard, where he pretended to front his band. He spoke-sang, and
his words were halting. He was not the Isaac Hayes of the past.

What was worse was that he barely knew me. He had appeared in my
documentary, "Only the Strong Survive," released in 2003. We knew each
other very well. I was actually surprised that his Scientology minder,
Christina Kumi Kimball, with whom I had difficult encounters in the
past, let me see him backstage at BB King’s. Our meeting was brief,
and Isaac said quietly that he did know me. But the light was out in his
eyes, and the situation was worrisome.

But the general consensus was that he needed the money. Without
“Chef,” Isaac’s finances were severely curtailed. He had mouths
to feed to home. Plus, Scientology requires huge amounts of money, as
former member, actor Jason Beghe, has explained in the past. For Isaac
to continue in the sect, he had to come up with funds. Performing was
the only way.

In recent months, I’ve had conflicting reports. One mutual friend
says that Isaac had looked and sounded much better lately at business
meetings. But actor Samuel L. Jackson, who recently filmed scenes with
Isaac and the late Bernie Mac for a new movie called “Soul Men,”
told me on Saturday that Isaac really wasn’t up to the physical
demands of shooting the movie. (Neither, it seems, was Bernie Mac.)

Sam Moore, who recorded those Isaac Hayes songs in the '60s and loved
the writer-performer like a brother, told me Sunday when he heard about
the death: “I’m happy.” Happy, I asked? “Yes, happy he’s out
of pain.” It was one of the most beautiful ideas I’d ever heard
expressed on the subject of death.

But there are a lot of questions still to be raised about Isaac
Hayes’ death. Why, for example, was a stroke survivor on a
treadmill by himself? What was his condition? What kind of treatment had
he had since the stroke? Members of Scientology are required to sign a
form promising they will never seek psychiatric or mental assistance.
But stroke rehabilitation involves the help of neurologists and often
psychiatrists, not to mention psychotropic drugs — exactly the kind
Scientology proselytizes against.

What will come next, I’m afraid, is a wild dogfight among family
members for Isaac’s estate. His song catalog (with David Porter) is
one of the greatest in music history. Isaac lost the rights to his big
hit songs in 1977. But thanks to something called the Songwriters Act,
his heirs — whoever they are determined to be — automatically get
the rights back as the songs come up for copyright renewal. I guarantee
this will not be pretty. Isaac Lee Hayes has over 300 original
compositions listed with BMI, from the Sam & Dave songbook to Carla
Thomas’ “BABY (Baby)” to his monumental instrumental “Theme from
SHAFT.”

None of this should ever take away from who Isaac Hayes really was: a
great friend, a warm congenial man with a big heart and a big laugh. He
had married again right before his stroke, and was very happy. If he
hadn’t had the stroke, I am certain he would have recorded a new
album. There was talk of it after the stroke, but nothing materialized.
When we made and promoted “Only the Strong Survive,” he was a
masterful musician with a great mind and a wicked sense of humor. His
loss at 65 is simply way too early and very tragic.

This is a really terrible shame, great man, great musician. Bad weekend.

My friend Bob is the music writer for the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Yesterday morning he received this telephone call:

http://www.derekerdman.com/ilovemilkshakes/august2008/talkin_cory_race_cteak_sandwich_blues/HAYES.mp3

I'm just saying.

woah.

whisperedinhurt, do you have a URL for that posting? would like to read more...

I had an Isaac Hayes moment this morning. I listened to the rebroadcast of the Fresh Air interview with him night before last (which is really great, if you've never heard it), and today on some kinda random-ish shuffle the song "Galveston" comes on, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb. And, oh man, what a great goddamn song. There's this moment that's no accident at all, where he sings, "I am so afraid of dying" ...one beat ...two beats ..."Before I dry the tears she's crying." Like, I'm in some seriously godforsaken corner of hell, cleaning my gun, and I might not make it out alive, and I'm so afraid of dying... and oh yeah, my girl. It hangs in the air for these perfect couple of seconds, where all he is in the world is afraid of dying, full fucking stop. It gives me a chill, it really does. I think it's supposed to. Anyway, so that song comes on, and I remembered how my grandparents would take me to Galveston beach when I was a kid, and they would sing that song (just the chorus, of course), like it was a cheerful little pop tune about how nice the place is, which seems pretty sick to me now. They didn't know. And then I thought of Hayes' explanation of why he he decided to spend 8 1/2 minutes of his version of "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" telling this long-ass and frankly rambling story that he totally made up in order to set up the scenario of the song: people just didn't GET it. Sometimes you have to hit people with a rolling pin. But when he did that, Hayes explains in that interview, "not a dry eye in the house." So I thought of "Galveston" and Galveston and all of a sudden I really wanted him to be around to explain to somebody, "This is a deep tune."

By which I guess I mean, RIP.

A little love for The Duke:

http://www.theefnylapage.com/efny/misc/photos/isaac_hayes.jpg

here's the link to Friedman's story on Hayes. They report, you decide

RIP Isaac.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/03/entertainment/isaac-hayes-donald-trump-song/index.html

Isaac Hayes estate preliminary injunction barring Trump using “Hold On I’m Coming “ in future rallies