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Currently: Listening to Shaft theme! ]
I toyed with the idea of writing a piece about Isaac Hayes and what his death meant to me, but after reading Leon’s Spill post, whatever I had to say would sound trivial.
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| Isaac Hayes was Black Moses. He was Truck Turner. Gandolph Fitch The Duke of New York Chef. Isaac Hayes was my hero. |
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| I blew it on my first chance to see him. At the Million Man March and I was so busy staring at M.C.Hammer that I didn’t know that Isaac Hayes was standing less than 50ft. behind me until my friends came up and told me later.
In 2001 I drove to Dallas and paid the $5 entry fee for the Nokia-sponsored ‘New Age Festival’ to watch him perform outdoors in front of a full crowd of hipster 20-somethings that only knew him as “Chef” from South Park and probably got most of his songs confused with Barry White’s. It was still a great show even with having the Nokia Employee Band (which I heckled) as opening act. |
I was with Leon at that Noika show. A memorable evening.
Leon even exposes the unique Mike Judge-Isaac Hayes-South Park relationship.
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| One of the things I bonded with Mike Judge over was our mutual man-crush on Isaac Hayes. It was he that introduced Hayes to Trey Parker and Matt Stone after having him sing the theme to Beavis & Butthead Do America. |
The unique and amazing talent Isaac Hayes will be missed and never replicated.
Thanks to my buddy Leon for the excellent tribute and putting what many of us were feeling and thinking into words.
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| You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother– (Shut your mouth) But I’m talkin’ about Shaft (Then we can dig it) He’s a complicated man |