{"id":3407,"date":"2008-08-11T17:07:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T17:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/08\/11\/isaac-hayes-1942-2008-2\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T17:07:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T17:07:21","slug":"isaac-hayes-1942-2008-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/08\/11\/isaac-hayes-1942-2008-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

[<\/strong>\u00a0\"ListeningCurrently:<\/strong> Listening to Shaft theme!\u00a0]<\/strong>
I toyed with the idea of writing a piece about Isaac Hayes and what his death meant to me, but after reading Leon\u2019s Spill post<\/a>, whatever I had to say would sound trivial.<\/p>\n

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Isaac Hayes was Black Moses.
\nHe was Truck Turner.
\nGandolph Fitch
\nThe Duke of New York
\nChef.<\/p>\n

Isaac Hayes was my hero.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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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\u2019t know that Isaac Hayes was standing less than 50ft. behind me until my friends came up and told me later.<\/p>\n

In 2001 I drove to Dallas and paid the $5 entry fee for the Nokia-sponsored \u2018New Age Festival\u2019 to watch him perform outdoors in front of a full crowd of hipster 20-somethings that only knew him as \u201cChef\u201d from South Park and probably got most of his songs confused with Barry White\u2019s. It was still a great show even with having the Nokia Employee Band (which I heckled) as opening act.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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I was with Leon at that Noika show. A memorable evening.<\/p>\n

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Leon even exposes the unique Mike Judge-Isaac Hayes-South Park<\/span> relationship.<\/p>\n

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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 &amp; Butthead Do America<\/span>. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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The unique and amazing talent Isaac Hayes will be missed and never replicated. <\/p>\n

Thanks to my buddy Leon for the excellent tribute and putting what many of us were feeling and thinking into words. <\/p>\n

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You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother\u2013
\n(Shut your mouth)
\nBut I\u2019m talkin\u2019 about Shaft
\n(Then we can dig it)<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a complicated man
\nBut no one understands him but his woman
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Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[\u00a0Currently: Listening to Shaft theme!\u00a0]I toyed with the idea of writing a piece about Isaac Hayes and what his death meant to me, but after reading Leon\u2019s Spill post, whatever I had to say would sound trivial. Quote: Isaac Hayes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n