Legendary Stax recording artist Isaac Hayes is playing this Saturday at the Music Center for Performing Arts in Detroit.  I have much respect for Hayes’s older stuff on Stax, he really helped redefine that label’s sound, like his Hot Buttered Soul album or his work in doing the soundtrack for Shaft (at the time, he was the first African-American to win in that category, and just the third overall in history)…

Other interesting things about Hayes are that he played the chef in South Park, he’s recording a new album on Stax, but the one thing I can’t get past is that he is a Scientologist. 

I think maybe I’d be more interested in seeing him perform live if he did a show based on this crazy religion.  You know, with lights beaming down and aliens taking over the stage and jamming with him or something.  I mean, if you’re a Scientologist, why not be like Bob Marley was to Rastafarianism?  And then you could get all the Anonymous folks showing up to protest and all the Scientologist folks showing up at show - and it could be great fun.

So, c’mon Mr. Hayes - make it happen!  It will be good for entertainment, and it may help us sell a few more of your records.