Sly and the Famliy Stone appreciation thread...

[SidDithers]

found some great old clips on youtube tonight. Sly before the drugs got too serious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkP5roFukKY&mode=related&search=
The energy in Hey Music Lover is incredible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzwbKhRvD8&mode=related&search=
"Don't call me nigga, whitey! Don't call me whitey, nigga!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrt2RAnOyBo&mode=related&search=
Ohio State Fair 1968, Freddie Stone and Larry Graham getting funky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4heLtbICBg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMmGf7JTrwE
2 parts. Anyone know which music festival this is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ig-6f0g55c
And finally, the tour de force, Higher at Woodstock. "Say Higher and throw the peace sign up, it'll do you no harm!"

Happy weekend, everyone.

Sid

[Richardo]

1. Here!

:hi: Love the Sly. "Thank You Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin" may be the funkiest song ever written.

I arranged "(I Wanna Take You) Higher" for our jazz band in high school. :headbang:

[davsand]

2. I'll second that.

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) is some major funk, and I love it still. I remember listening to it on WLS (AM radio out of Chicago) and none of my friends liked it. They didn't get it. (Come to think of it, they never understood George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic either...)

Wow. Thanks for a blast from the past!



Laura

[Patsy Stone]

3. Always, anywhere, anytime

Give it up for Sly and the Family Stone!

[MilesColtrane]

4. Thanks for taking me to church.

If only I could find a video for "The Same Thing (Makes You Laugh Makes You Cry".

Sly Stone: THE best export of Denton, Texas.

[datasuspect]

5. blood's thicker than mud

sly stone is a bad muthafucka

[BlueIris]

6. "If You Want Me To Stay" is one of the best songs ever.

Just sayin'.

[abq e streeter]

7. Saw Sly

and band at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago; three weeks before Woodstock... Steve Miller Band was the opening act , too ; seems to me still had Boz Scaggs in the band , but I wouldn't swear to it. Anyway, Sly and the Family Stone were incredible; still to this day one of the best shows I've ever seen.