OT: Sly Stone dead
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I saw Sly and the Family Stone at both Woodstock and Strawberry Fields festivals way, way back in time.
Not really my kind of music, but they did put on a good show. As best as I can recall.
Not really my kind of music, but they did put on a good show. As best as I can recall.
Read this way to fast on phone
Thought it said sly Stallone
Thought it said sly Stallone
Too bad it wasn't.Read this way to fast on phone
Thought it said sly Stallone
Pioneer and legend are two words that come to mind.
RIP Sly
you and the Family Stone are one of my favorite groups and
you and the Family Stone are one of my favorite groups and
Now I'll be singing all his songs today. Amazing I can remember the words to most of them.
www.rollingstone.com
Sly Stone, Family Stone Architect Who Fused Funk, Rock, and Soul, Dead at 82
Sly Stone, the wildly inventive musician and head of Sly & the Family Stone who fused rock, funk and soul, has died at age 82.
www.rollingstone.com
Plenty of very good rock bands also lost members due to addictions, accidents , etc. The music lives on.
Yeah, I am a Deadhead and I’m always amazed by the number of younger fans who have never seen Jerry live or who were born after he died still want to see the music live through Dead and Company or tribute bands. Led Zeppelin comes to mind too. Heard a live performance by LZ from Oklahoma City on Get the Led Out and it was insane. That music will always live on.
Legend. RIP. Here’s a good pod listen:
Nice that you got to both of those. Love Sly and the Family Stone and recall first getting into them when I was about 10, when "Family Affair" came out - was one of my first 45s. Didn't become a big fan of most of the rest of their catalog until in my late teens and beyond.
One of my all time favorites. Thank God there is still his music to listen to.
Hey @mdk01 was this the show. Not sure what night I went but I do remember Sly was also late the night I was there. Thought Rare Earth was great. Those days are long gone.
Not sure about the night as well but the poster is right. Rare Earth had a hot. The rest was OK
John Eddie, NJ based artist who had a 2 album deal and a brush with fame in the 1980s, posted this hilarious tribute and story on X
Similar for me, listing to WABC in the early to mid 1970s was the song Flashlight by George Clinton and P Funk. Clinton, Sly and James Brown are considered to be the three formative figures of funk.
Clinton and P Funk are playing the Stone Pony Summer Stage June 29 with Living Colour. A good night of music. Living Colour are fantastic live and Vernon Reid is a superb guitarist.
At MSG during the wait management inflated a few large beach balls and let the fans bat them all over the stands
The John Eddie story is hilarious. The promoter kept making announcements to keep things calm. If the story is true, Sly and the band were in the diner right by the venue.
Sly and The Family Stone were one of the earliest multi-racial bands. And also had a female horn player
The bass player was Larry Graham who went on to found Graham Central Station. Later on as a solo artist he had a hit with One in a Million You. Most people did not know he was part of The Family Stone. Very popular wedding song back in the day.
How many times on a 4th of July weekend would you hear this on the radio????
He also played with Prince (and Drake is his nephew).
Graham was a Jehovah Witness and got Prince involved - he got deeper into it as he got older
Sly himself was another musician who had young roots in the black church (they usually parents who brought them in). I don't like Pentecostal churches but people like Sly learned to play and perform in church early.
"As part of the doctrines of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), to which the Stewart family belonged, the parents encouraged musical expression in their middle-class household.[7] Sylvester and his brother Freddie, along with their sisters Rose and Loretta, formed "the Stewart Four" as children, performing gospel music in church. They recorded and locally released a 78 rpm single, "On the Battlefield" b/w "Walking in Jesus' Name", in August 1956.[8] Only their eldest sister Loretta did not pursue a musical career; the others, including youngest sister Vaetta or "Vet", would later adopt the surname "Stone" and pursue musical interests. "
"I Want to Take You Higher" has the churchy vibe
"Sly and the Family Stone played a crucial role in introducing Black church aesthetics to mainstream popular music audiences in the late 1960s. Sly introduced secular audiences to what James Cleveland called “the Sanctified Church” through his personal experiences in the Black Pentecostal church. In the foreground of Sly’s work was the recording Stand! (1969), particularly the single I want to take you higher. Furthermore, the band’s integrated gender and racial demographic along with an overall message that all people need to work together in harmony represent the epitome of post-Civil Rights culture. "
Back in the day people would often say black music was the best. I don't know who the best was but black rock/RB musicians grew-up at young ages learning music and performing live in churches. Obviously that's changed a lot
George "the Prime Minister of Funk" Clinton who inducted Sly into the Rock HOF grew up in Plainfield, NJ. 
a great story full of humor along with not letting disappointment overcome how you enjoy something.
That's how I looked at what John Eddie said about his first concert