Time for some Sly
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"Don't hate the black. Don't hate the white...if you get bitten just hate the bite" - Sly
"There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one. That won't accept the red one that won't accept the white one. And different strokes for different folks And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo" - Family Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kzyRM0Sjl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hvb1J6Wrc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nczKHDCyhNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2awdRKghKQY
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
Anyone see this band in their
Anyone see this band in their prime?
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Man, what a thing that would
Man, what a thing that would have been Alan
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Sly and the Family Stone was
Sly and the Family Stone was the real deal and "Stand" has to be in my top 20 albums of all time.
What a waste of talent though. I read that about ten years ago, Sly got his shit together enough to rejoin the Family Stone for a short run of shows in SF. About a third of the way through the first night of the run, the band noticed that Sly had slipped off stage and the band stopped playing, put down their instruments, and went back stage to see what was up. Sure enough, Sly had made off with the door money and had fled the building. The band piled into a car and started chasing Sly "Streets of San Francisco" style.
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I've seen the Woodstock video
I've seen the Woodstock video, which is as close as I'll get, since cocaine destroyed the artist formerly known as Sly. At their peak, they were a powerful force for good. Socially conscious urban music continued though, with Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, The Staple Singers, Public Enemy, The Roots and others picking up the torch for justice that Sly dropped for the torch of a crack pipe.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
the 2007 Vanity Fair article
the 2007 Vanity Fair article is worth a read
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2007/08/sly200708
"In 1964, Sylvester collaborated with Donahue on the song "C'mon and Swim," a Top 10 hit for the local soul star Bobby Freeman. Shortly thereafter, he became the house producer at Donahue's label, Autumn Records, working with, among others, the Great Society and the Warlocks, the precursor bands to, respectively, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. In the same period, under his new stage name, Sly Stone, Sylvester became a regional radio celebrity, hosting a soul show on the station KSOL from seven p.m. to midnight."
"Oh, What a Mighty Time is an album by the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Their sixth studio album and their seventh album overall, it was released by Columbia Records in 1975. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead plays guitar on three songs, and Sly Stone plays keyboards and sings on one song."
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Calling the Great Society a
Calling the Great Society a precursor to the Airplane is a stretch. Sure they snatched Grace and brought in Somebody To Love and White Rabbit from their repertoire, but they were already established and had released their first album for RCA before that happened. More like an adjunct.
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I caught this performance in
I caught this performance in NYC, not sure if it was one of his last.
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/sly-the-family-4/
Glad I went to the show.
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Oct 9th 1970. Frost amp
Oct 9th 1970. Frost amp
fucking amazing the best of the best a pure genius
image seated in brain. White leather jacket arms in air fringe dangling from the sleeves
pure rr funk n soul and lyrical content
big bottom beat and bass
After one of his recoveries. His parents and my parents sat at the same table at keystone Palo Alto They wandered over from their apartment
it was surreal. Cool and sad
long live sly
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Sly music is not pathetic
Sly music is not pathetic
Drug addiction is very sad
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"Fresh" is in my top 5 albums
"Fresh" is in my top 5 albums of all time.
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