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Ok, so we all know Stand, There's A Riot Goin' On and Fresh are classic, but what else can the discriminating fan look for? Is it really all downhill after Fresh? Are records like Life really all that? And are there any interesting boots out there of outtakes during that period?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

Small Talk from '74 is pretty good.

― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

i actually like "back on the right track", not as much as riot, fresh, small talk, but its fine if not groundbreaking. the slurryess of those records is replaced by a tighter groove and hilarious/sad lyrics about mental rehabilitation, all illustrated by his goofy photo on the cover.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

If It Were Left Up To Me from Fresh(1973)

― bert, Monday, 24 March 2003 22:20 (10 years ago) Permalink

Agreed re. BOTRT. There's a song on there called "It Takes All Kinds" that just has the most strung-out vocal of all time -- and we're talking about the guy who sang "Just Like A Baby" on TARGO...

How about High On You from 1975? The critics seemed to like it around the time it came out. It just...tanked.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ha! As soon as I read this thread title I had that song in my head!

Small Talk is very good, High on You is spottier but still nice-sounding. W/r/t to the critical consensus, I think Fresh is the last great record, but the stuff that followed isn't as embarrassing as many lazy critics would have it. It's sort of a shame that the records I mention have all but been written out of history. Although the inclusion of some tracks from Small Talk and High on You (in remastered versions!) on the recent Essential Sly and the Family Stone set bodes well.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

Crosspost. "If It Were Left Up to Me" is the song in my head.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

Which reminds me: does anyone have the UK-only "remastered" version of Riot? The one with the original (flag) cover art?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

Years ago I had TARGO on US CD, and couldn't believe how awful it sounds. Weird tape hiss sounds kept rising and falling, and things seemed to be randomly distorted. I have the orig LP now, and while by no means a sonic spectacular, it destroys that CD. And what was up with changing the cover art?

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

re; UK remaster...er, maybe...i'm not sure. mine has the flag. its a digipack. is that it?

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:30 (10 years ago) Permalink

i love 'dance to the music', especially the long-assed medley at the end... good tight stax-y psychedelic soul.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

Riot is my favorite album ever, hands down. Greatest Hits ain't too far behind. Fresh is wonderful. You could go further, but I'm not sure why you'd need to. (nb I have the new Essential comp but haven't played it yet)

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:54 (10 years ago) Permalink

It's sort of a shame that the records I mention have all but been written out of history.

No kidding. I remember having some cassette hits compilation in college that had "Loose Booty" from Small Talk, easily one of the tightest little jams he ever did (and famously sampled on Paul's Boutique). It's almost embarrassing that the song has been available exclusively on those Rhino funk comps until this recent comp.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

And Re. Riot: I thought it always sounded as bad as that Epic CD. I thought that was the point with all his overdubbing and recording over the tracks of girls he "auditioned." Does the British CD actually sound better? Or the LP even?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

Re the CD vs. LP; on the Epic CD there are definately washes of tape hiss you can hear fading in and out. Granted the overall level of surface noise on my vintage LP copy is higher; maybe it's enough to make that those washes of hiss less audible.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 March 2003 23:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

<>especially the long-assed medley at the end...<>

Maybe on the end of side A, it's track 4 on my CD. Anyway, terrific, yes! It's called Dance to the Medley and it's over twelve minutes long. A great album, Dance to the Music.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

especially the long-assed medley at the end...

Maybe on the end of side A, it's track 4 on my CD. Anyway, terrific, yes! It's called Dance to the Medley and it's over twelve minutes long. A great album, Dance to the Music.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

pre-Riot Search: A Whole New Thing (first album, amazingly varied, tons of great tunes, a lot very weird experiments/arrangements that didn't resurface in his music for quite a while), Life, Stand! I don't think "Dance to the Music" is all that great actually, singles aside.

post-Riot Search: Fresh is fantastic, as is High On You, Small Talk, and Back on the Right Track. This stuff is *all* up there with his best work in my opinion.

Destroy: Heard You Missed ME, Well I'm Back.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:27 (10 years ago) Permalink

"I Get High On You" is a wonderful song.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 05:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Que Sera Sera." Nuff said.

― , Tuesday, 25 March 2003 06:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

Search "Rock Dirge" from pre-Family San Francisco Days. It's heat!

― Cub, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 06:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

HMV in Londonn has a quad vinyl copy of 'high on you' going for £8.99 - i think they have japanese import CDs of the same album going for £££s....

why are these late-mid period Sly CDs out of print, and his last coupla albums relatively easy to track down now??

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

I still really like A Whole New Thing, about half of it is just brilliant poppy psychedelic funk that I can't resist. I guess Stand! is my favourite album, but Greatest Hits (the one from 69 with the car and multiple 'echo' images of the band on the cover) is my favourite record of theirs, the one that gets played most.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

Also search: Joe Hicks' "Life & Death In G & A," and Little Sister's "You're the One" and "Somebody's Watching You"--all written & produced by Sly, and awesome.

Plus, from the late records, the aforementioned "Crossword Puzzle," the title track of "Small Talk," "Same Thing (Makes You Laugh, Makes You Cry"), "Loose Booty." And from one of the early ones, "Advice."

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 11:30 (10 years ago) Permalink

"High On You" is a great record, it's actually one of my favourite Sly albums. "Small Talk" is pretty good too but look at the sleeve with Sly lying bombed out on his bed - I think that sums up that album pretty well that and the track "Can't Strain My Brain"! I'm even rather partial to Side One of "Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back". Haven't heard any of the later ones. In contrast, a lot of the early Sly albums are kind of irritating - there's a kind of constant musical and lyrical fixed grin going on which is a trifle wearying.

― Dadaismus, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 12:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

Is that Joe Hicks song the same track that the Chairmen of the Board do as the centerpiece of their Skin I'm In record?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 16:57 (10 years ago) Permalink

Destroy: the album he did with George Clinton in the 80s. I can't remember what it was called, but it was a bitter disappointment!

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

Matthew--yes it is. It was also covered by somebody called Abaco Dream, in a much more rock style...

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

for someone who's been so universally adored + copied/imitated over the years, I am shocked and depressed at the lack of actual documentation of his music out there. There is no Sly Stone Songbook, almost no tabs/transcriptions (that I can find) on the internet, no sheet music, no comprehensive overview of his working methods or gear, etc. Compared to people like the Beatles and Zeppelin et al this seems criminally wrong to me.

(Plus I really want to know what the fucking chords in Family Affair are).

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

theres singnificantly less books/documentation about soul artists in general though, shakey.

i rate his albums like this:
riot
stand
whole new thing
fresh
dance to the music/life

i like the others in the 70s but his songwriting was going down the pan a bit, already.

― ppp, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

well on the bio end at least there is the "Off The Record" book, which is fucking unbelievable. Probably the best rock n roll bio of its kind (yes, miles better than Please Kill Me and We've Got the Neutron Bomb). Would make such a great movie, but it'll never happen...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 22:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

D: Ain't But the One Way, the embarrassingly bad record from '81 or so (not the Clinton collab). The only listenable song on it is "Ha Ha, Hee Hee, and Sly's so out of tune he's nearly pushed out of that song altogether. Insipid new material, a pointless cover of "You Really Got Me," and a theft of Nikki Giovanni's poetry for "We Can Do It."

S: "Underdog," a song I love to kick a mixtape off with.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 00:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

Shakey,
I remember reading somebody's website several years ago and they had visited Sly at his house (actually I think an apartment) and saw him working on new tracks. Evidently he continues to record stuff all of the time. The person mentioned that he would record tons of tracks and then play the mutes rhythmically to create an arrangement by letting certain parts peek through which I thought was interesting. I also seem to recall reading that he used a Flickinger console in the '70s so that's probably what Riot was recorded on.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 00:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

Destroy: the album he did with George Clinton in the 80s. I can't remember what it was called, but it was a bitter disappointment!

Presumably this isn't referring to the Electric Spanking of War Babies. The tracks from that album that Sly collaborated on are brilliant!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 01:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

There is no Sly Stone Songbook, almost no tabs/transcriptions (that I can find) on the internet, no sheet music, no comprehensive overview of his working methods or gear, etc. Compared to people like the Beatles and Zeppelin et al this seems criminally wrong to me.

(Plus I really want to know what the fucking chords in Family Affair are).

Shakey Mo, do ya know what I own? The "Riot" SONGBOOK, with all 'em in it. I can't believe I ever found this, but I do have it, and if you want the chords to any of the songs, be glad to e-mail them to you, make copies and regular mail them, whatever. ("Family Affair" is actually quite simple!)

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 01:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Ha Ha, Hee Hee, and Sly's so out of tune he's nearly pushed out of that song altogether.

the lack of a closing quotation mark here had me thinking that sly had recorded a song entitled ""ha ha, hee hee, and sly's so out of tune he's nearly pushed out of that song altogether"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 01:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

is out of print too, and fucking hard to track down.

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 08:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

sly might be working on new material, but something tells me its going to be a big Dud. if he ever finishes it or peeks out his homemade crack den, that is. its probably all dated 80s-styled robo funk. i hope he proves me wrong.

― ppp, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

"dated 80s-styled robo funk"

yeah. no market for that.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

the perfect sly album would be a 50 minute take of 'babies makin babies'

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

"do ya know what I own? The "Riot" SONGBOOK, with all 'em in it. "

ILM, I KISS YOU!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

Off the Record — a chapter about Sly? Or all about him? I feel like I've heard of it, but I can't remember...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

i have various excerpts from off the record if anyone wants them. i can even cut and paste them here!

― ppp, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

I actually brought the Off the Record book w/me today... it's a bio covering Sly and the Family Stone up through '74 or so, constructed entirely of first-hand quotes and interviews (the only relevant person who didn't contribute is, of course, Sly himself.) It's unbelievable.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

the p-funk one is amazing too.

― ppp, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

cast of characters:
Jerry Martini
Larry Graham
Freddie Stewart
Cynthia Robinson
Rose Stewart
Sly's parents and siblings
Hamp "Bubba" Banks
Dave Kapralik
Stephani Owens
Bobby Womack
Stephen Paley
Ken Roberts
Pat Rizzo
Rusty Allen
Clive Davis
Vernon "Moose" Constan

many others...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

"I tried to kill myself severral times. The intensity of my relationship with Sylvester Stewart and Sly Stone was unbearable for me, this disintegrating relationship. No one would touch Sly. My lawyer, Peter Bennett, had suggested I bring in Ken Roberts, who promoted Madison Square Garden and other gigs that were trouble but successful. I knew that if I continued I would be dead. I turned over the management to him, so I could live. I had no choice but to die or make a paradigm shift. I recall going in on my knees before Sly, engulfed in tears, imploring him, begging him to let me go, so I could live. I was doing so much cocaine. I was in so much pain, confusion." - Dave Kapralik

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

"I remember Sly and I going over to CBS Records and the executive saying to us, "This is what you should listen to." They gave us some shit and Sly threw it down and he looked at me and said "Okay, I'll give them something." And that is when he took off with his formula style. He hated it. He just did it to sell records. The whole album was called Dance to Music, dance to the medley, dance to the shmedley. It was so unhip to us. The beats were glorified Motown beats. We had been doing something different, but those beats weren't going over. So we did the formula thing. The rest is history and he continued in his formula style." - Jerry Martini

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

Wait — I think I read this some years back. And yeah, some of the quotes and the stories about his dogs were positively frightening.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

there was a lot of press when it came out - I remember the Bay Guardian ran lengthy excerpts of it.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

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^^^wouldn't be so sure about that re: GC and sampling royalties - Clinton gave away a lot of stuff, and ownership of his publishing rights went back and forth a lot (so many lawsuits, I can't keep track)

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

IIRC, Clinton has been/is being royally screwed by Westbound Records, and not in the normal ways labels screw artists: his signature was forged on a re-up of a contract.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Actually, he's devoted a whole blog to that subject: http://www.funkprobosci.com/

― Melle Mel and the Coconuts (thewufs), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

wow

'Coming to you from George Clinton better known as lethal lip the linguistic full metal jacket of vernacular ballistic shooting off at the mouth without chapped lips, hairs on my funk while others flunk diaper rash.’

love

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

the article above suggested sly had been screwed over by the label, etc, and that his publishing had been sold off back in the 80s, so that, combined w/his legendary untogetherness, means this sad situ shouldn't be too much of a surprise.

seriously, after reading that 'in their own words' book a few years back, i'm amazed sly made it to the 80s.

― Joe Romeo, Concerned New Yorker (stevie), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

that book is so good

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

I think Sly played on that Material/Maceo EP back in ... 1990? With Bootsy, Bobby Byrd and Bernie Worrell, among the Laswell ringers.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

i've always wondered if george and sly had any memory of making this. i just imagine everyone waking up on the floor of the studio at 4 in the afternoon trying to remember what happened the night before.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sly shows up on the Axiom Funk comp with that crew...on the worst track of the bunch unfortunately. xp

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^^

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Xpost- the audio on that YouTube clip ain't the 12 inch version of "Hydraulic Pump," which has verses and is 12 minutes long. It beats the shit out of the version above, which was on the otherwise excellent Urban Dancefloor Guerillas. And yeah, they musta been high as kites.

― Melle Mel and the Coconuts (thewufs), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

long version is on Spotify btw

― Melle Mel and the Coconuts (thewufs), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Joe Romeo, Concerned New Yorker (stevie), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

missing a minute and a half tho

― Joe Romeo, Concerned New Yorker (stevie), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

You pump up and down, you pump up and down, you pump up and down and then you break it down!

― Melle Mel and the Coconuts (thewufs), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

I mean, how much did Sly make off Janet Jackson?

probably fuck all since Michael Jackson owned Sly's publishing by then

― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

yep. sold 'em to MJ some time in the early 80s iirc

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sly shows up on the Axiom Funk comp with that crew...on the worst track of the bunch unfortunately. xp

The worst part is that at the end of the song, an old school drumbox kicks in, Sly starts comping on electric piano and just as he starts counting the band in the track ends.

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

exactly!!!

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

I know!!! ARRRGHHHHH SLY

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

wtf is Sly doin on this 1974 Elvin Bishop album...?

― The Radioheads are massive in the Man community (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 August 2012 19:51 (9 months ago) Permalink

All of the box set was good wasn't it? The early lesser known psychedelic funk stuff included. Pretty weird in places.
Was surprised to find out that the last lp in there was still pretty good, just maybe not in comparison to other stuff by the same band. I think that's Small talk

― Stevolende, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:39 (9 months ago) Permalink

hadn't realised that box 'a Collection' was a limited edition though. Or maybe had forgotten

― Stevolende, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:40 (9 months ago) Permalink

Small Talk is totally a good album. dunno what else is in the box

― The Radioheads are massive in the Man community (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:29 (9 months ago) Permalink

small talk is great!!

― j., Friday, 24 August 2012 21:33 (9 months ago) Permalink

there's a couple half-assed tracks on it imho but all the weird string stuff makes it stand out in his catalog and is really quite lovely

― The Radioheads are massive in the Man community (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:37 (9 months ago) Permalink

a Collection was all the lps up to Small Talk remastered and expanded. So all the discs that appeared separately in around 2009.

― Stevolende, Friday, 24 August 2012 21:43 (9 months ago) Permalink

that they left the singles out of that Collection box set is so irritating

― The Radioheads are massive in the Man community (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:55 (9 months ago) Permalink

well I didn't buy it I guess I'm not irritated but it is sort of stupid

― The Radioheads are massive in the Man community (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:56 (9 months ago) Permalink

I thought most of the singles were present as the bonus tracks on the relevant lps

― Stevolende, Friday, 24 August 2012 22:01 (9 months ago) Permalink

referring to Everybody is a Star, Hot Fun in the Summertime, and Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - all of which are key, peak-period works, especially the latter

― The Radioheads are massive in the Man community (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 August 2012 22:06 (9 months ago) Permalink

Right, odd exclusions. Were they on the Greatest Hits set that came out in the band's lifetime? In which case it might be a bit odd that that wasn't included in the set since it has been thought of as a classic lp inits own right, obviously there would be at least some amount of duplication but it might at least mean everything was included.
Not sure why they weren't stuck on as bonus tracks. Looks like what was in terms of singles was different edits of lp tracks that had come out as singles.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 26 August 2012 10:51 (9 months ago) Permalink

Sly on the radio in '67: http://airchexx.com/2012/05/17/archives-sly-stone-on-ksol-san-francisco-1967-828-scoped/

― Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 26 August 2012 16:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

Those singles are on the greatest hits set from 69/70, whic got remastered and released after the other albums.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 26 August 2012 16:49 (9 months ago) Permalink

You know what's a good single? "Time For Livin'."

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:39 (9 months ago) Permalink

that air check of Sly on the radio is awesome, thanks for posting.

― tylerw, Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:13 (9 months ago) Permalink

I finally got around to watching the Sly episode of Unsung on my DVR and I had no idea they'd interviewed on camera for it! Took me a minute to accept that was actually happening.

― da croupier, Sunday, 26 August 2012 21:06 (9 months ago) Permalink

interviewed him on camera for it, I mean. Played little bits of new music on his laptop, too. Dude has discovered autotune.

― da croupier, Sunday, 26 August 2012 21:07 (9 months ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Happy bday Sly (70 yrs old today)

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:23 (3 months ago) Permalink

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:25 (3 months ago) Permalink

Big boxed set coming out this year, supposedly.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:29 (3 months ago) Permalink

His birthday is a week today, the 15th. I just happen to know that because, in advance of said birthday (happening over our March break), I played "Everyday People" for the class today. And then, subbing for a health lesson on substance abuse that we skipped to watch a movie, played a clip of him interviewed a couple of years ago.

― clemenza, Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:30 (3 months ago) Permalink

lol so do those come out every few years now or what

I stumbled across some alternate versions+outtakes from Back on the Right Track awhile ago that were pretty interesting. I think they came off some Japanese expanded reissue or something.

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:30 (3 months ago) Permalink

His birthday is a week today, the 15th

fuckin Chronicle lying to me again eh

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:30 (3 months ago) Permalink

also lol @ Sly as cautionary drug tale

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:31 (3 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, what I read about the box was "nearly 25% unreleased material!"

Now, if they'd actually release the live album that was supposed to come out about 10 years ago...

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:36 (3 months ago) Permalink

also lol @ Sly as cautionary drug tale

"Kids, you wanna end up with a blond Mohawk and a hunchback?"

― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 10 March 2013 19:43 (3 months ago) Permalink

If that means I have the mohawk and the hunchback is my sidekick, then yes.

― The Jacket Bastard (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 10 March 2013 23:23 (3 months ago) Permalink

That was the exact question I posed to the class, and surprisingly a third raised their hands "Yes."

― clemenza, Monday, 11 March 2013 00:09 (3 months ago) Permalink

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