I’ve been answering email today with a bunch of Isaac Hayes songs on rotation from the Stax years. Kept coming back to this one, and stumbled on a 1969 television performance with spectacularly mod staging. Walk on by that large pastel brick with the embedded mirror-donut! The audio in this YouTube clip stinks, but you can preview a better streaming version here. The full, funky glory of the extended 12-minute version is such a thing of beauty, though. Listen to that fuzz guitar! This masterpiece has been sampled to hell by many different artists over the years (Hooverphonic’s “2Wicky” may be the most popular). I think of great, timeless tracks like this as big cuts of high-quality meat that can be sliced into little pieces as they age, and made into lesser leftovers by lesser chefs. RIP, Chef.