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Tony Coleman, Gillespi
& Pappo , Argentina.
GZ: What was it like playing for Ike? That must’ve musical genius. It’s a thin line between genius
been super high energy. Was Tina with him at the and crazy. But Ike was not the Monster he has
been made out to be. We have many great famous
time?
people today who can destroy the world we live in.
And that’s ok. But Ike Turner admitted he nee-
Ike Turner is the man who invented Rock and
ded help from the abuses he had growing up as a
Roll, do not let anyone try and tell you anything
different. Ike taught me how to be a better Drum- nigger in Mississippi. Not a Black American Man
mer and Musician. He produced and played piano or a Man but a nigger in Mississippi and that’s the
on BB’s first hit record. 3 O’clock Blues. I recorded abuse a lot of Black people died from in America.
and toured with Ike Turner on his Here and Now Somewhere there is someone living a millionaire
record. And I spent many days and nights talking life because of Ike Turner so he wasn’t that damn
to him about his life and his wife. Tina. He was an bad.
abused boy who became an abuser himself. But he
GZ: Do you have any anecdote about a show or an
cried many tears to me about how he wished he
could have been a better person. He regretted his important artist you played with on any stage in
evil ways. But he was a musical genius. A fucking the world?
Tony Coleman - B.B. King