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Here's a reall cool tribute to Ike Turner ....

It’s March 1951. Ike Turner & His Kings of Rhythm have just torn up about 50 miles of Highway 61 to get to Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Company on Union Avenue. They’ve set up their gear in the boxy space, about the size of a one-car garage, lined with cheap perforated paperboard tiles to keep the sound from bouncing around.

Turner’s at the piano. Raymond Hill and Jackie Brenston are hitting a few warm-up notes on their saxes. Willie Sims is tightening the heads of his drums and Willie Kizart has plugged his guitar into a little amp that’s spent plenty of nights turned up full in the juke joints around Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Maybe too many, because it’s distorting like crazy. Later a myth develops about the amp falling off the roof of Turner’s car on the way to Memphis, but nobody who was there recalls that happening. At any rate, it takes an executive .........................

Please read the rest of this article here:

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Feat...membering%20Ro/

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