Tina Turner Betty Davis

Acid Queen, United Artists

 Nasty Gal. Island

    Neither of these two nasty gals never, ever do anything nice and easy. They always do it nice and rough. Tina, along with husband Ike, has been doing it for twenty years. Betty has two excellent, overlooked, and now unavailable records to her credit on Just Sunshine, Records. She credits Tina's (and many others) inspiration on F.U..N.K.

    Betty's sole province is the bedroom and the struts about it with uninhibited relish, Her songs this time around display little  musical or lyrical subtlety and her band is a raucously competent sex machine and no more. The one exception to all this is You and I which Gil Evans arranged and conducted and on which Milos Dans (Betty's ex-) plays muted, spare trumpet. A little of this nasty gal is a revelation, a lot is monotony.

   Tina is coming off her appearance in Ken Russell's Tommy. His senses-stuffing excessiveness has rubbed  off on Tina. the production and and orchestration on side one is so dense and heavy-assed it practically ruins the exceptional job Tina does on the Stones' Under My Thumb and the Who's I Can See For Miles. Ike has a hand in the production of side two and cuts away some of the fat.