Last year, while bringing down my laundry basket, a fella smiled and said hello while parking his car next to my building. Sure enough, it was Ike. In case I didn't recognize him, his license plate read: IKETURN and he had bumper stickers proclaiming such.
Bizarrely enough, one of the former Kings of Rhythm drummers lives across the street with Tina Turner's older sister, Allene. Ike was a regular visitor.
James "The Hound" Marshall is a former WFMU deejay (1985-97), music writer and bar owner (Lakeside Lounge NYC, Circle Bar, New Orleans). He has contributed articles to dozens of mags and newspapers including the Village Voice, NY Times, LA Weekly, Spin, Penthouse Forum, New York Rocker, Newark Star-Ledger, East Village Eye, High Times (columnist for ten years), Kicks, and worse.
He also wrote liner notes to CD re-issues by Larry Williams and Johnny Guitar Watson, Ray Price, Eric Ambel, Challenge Records,The Okeh R&B Box, and others as well as compiling three volumes of the early rock'n'roll compilations Jook Block Busters (Valmor). At age 17 he edited two issues of the punk fanzine New Order (1977) He was born in Paterson, N.J. and raised mostly in Broward County, Florida, moving to New York City at age 18 in 1977 and has resided there ever since except for 1998-2002 when he split his time between New York and New Orleans. He has been acclaimed in print in the New York Times, Village Voice, Time Out New York, New York Magazine,The Manhattan Catalogue, and other publications you wouldn't be caught dead reading.
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Last year, while bringing down my laundry basket, a fella smiled and said hello while parking his car next to my building. Sure enough, it was Ike. In case I didn't recognize him, his license plate read: IKETURN and he had bumper stickers proclaiming such.
Bizarrely enough, one of the former Kings of Rhythm drummers lives across the street with Tina Turner's older sister, Allene. Ike was a regular visitor.
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