Sly Stone S/D

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kef7gR6bhUA

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

^^^^

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.

long version is on Spotify btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkPci47b2EQ

missing a minute and a half tho

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

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

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

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

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

exactly!!!

I know!!! ARRRGHHHHH SLY

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

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

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

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

small talk is great!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Happy bday Sly (70 yrs old today)

http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/20/31/26/4298133/0/940x583.jpg

Big boxed set coming out this year, supposedly.

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.

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.

His birthday is a week today, the 15th

fuckin Chronicle lying to me again eh

also lol @ Sly as cautionary drug tale

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...

also lol @ Sly as cautionary drug tale

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

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

He's gonna do 3 shows with Rufus on the US east Coast

sure he is

i was thinking about it, but having lucked out with a previous sly gig at bb kings (i.e. he seemed actually engaged for a portion of the short set, so it wasn't a total wipeout), did not want to press my luck for what could turn out to be a one or two song guest appearance by sly. if i hear later that chaka dropped in, i will regret my decision terribly.

sure he is

― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier)

haha.

my thoughts exactly ..

The Howard Theatre publicist asked me if I'd like to do an interview! I said sure and then of course it got cancelled.

That was your interview.

It's the interview equivalent of "There's A Riot Goin' On" (the song).

He did a NY show with Rufus. It did not go well. DC show was postponed.

http://ginzburgsgab.blogspot.com/2013/10/rufus-with-sly-stone-bb-kings-supper.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zosHA330xyg

Sly comes on about a minute in, wearing a curly blond-haired wig and headband