Never can say goodbye

First Bernie Mac and now Isaac Hayes. It's been a sad weekend for the entertainment world. These things always seem to happen in threes, so I'm waiting to see who's next.


A soundtrack for this post

I just clicked over to Isaac Hayes' website to see if the news was announced there of his passing, and oddly enough he was working on a movie project called "Soul Men" with Samuel L. Jackson and ... wait for it ... Bernie Mac. Weird, huh? I'm hoping this isn't an omen for Samuel L. Jackson.

I hate to think his legacy is going to be Chef and "Chocolate Salty Balls" or even the theme from Shaft. Don't get me wrong, I think both were great, but there's so much more to him than that. Before Shaft made him a household name he was a studio musician at Stax Records and co-wrote some of the great Stax tunes like "Soul Man." Shaft aside, most of his commercially successful music came in covers but he found a way to make each uniquely his own.

He also briefly had a restaurant/nightclub for in Memphis, which unfortunately was never very good. It did have a Hot Buttered Soul platter though, and it was exactly as you are probably imagining it.