Sly Stone in Vanity Fair

If you haven't checked it, pick up the remastered "Riot." It's a completely different record, like the difference between regular TV and HD.

 

Mr jones,

The one I got. It's ***** good. Now the murk is clear. Like mud with distilled water.

YHS, etc

 

Damn, TD.
There's nothing to believe in any more.

 

While I like Sly, do you all think he is really the Italian Stallion?

 

It truly boggles the mind. Half of you who have commented on Sly don't even know anything about him. If it weren't for google, which incidentally is not the best search engine on the net, you would be totally lost.
Hell, half of you aren't even old enough to recall the man playing before sold out arenas (when he showed up).
While I respect everyone's right to comment, I resent people talking smack about a true genius and pioneer of music.

 

And of course, there has been exactly one negative comment about Sly, and that was regarding Sly being too messed up to perform at a concert. Otherwise, nobody's "talking smack" about Sly.

Actually reading the thread might help.

 

I read the thread. More importantly, I read the posts of people just talking out the sides of their necks about a true musical icon they only know about by googling.
Again, I respect everyone's opinion here. I just wish those who talked what I perceive as smack about a true legend, knew what they were talking about.
Unless you are a musician or musically inclined, and you are under 40, you have probably never seen him perform live. You don't know what those three letters did to fans in the late '60's, early '70's. Jimi's dead. Janis is dead so are Lennon and Harrison but the force still lives with Sly.

 

Does this mean we can't talk about Mozart either ?

Story had potential but writer lost me when he used "I" twice in his first sentence. I wanted to read about Sly not about the writer.

Looking back what was interesting about Sly was that he was able to integrate his style into rock and roll era. I wonder if today sly would have been a rapper instead.

 

Boom, Sly, just like James Brown, was rapping before people know what rapping was. His musical rifts are legendary but it will be interesting to see if today's computer generation can relate to his style.

 

Sly was trippin not wrappin. Everyone know that Blondie invented Rapping.

Now can anyone track down The Chambers Brothers?

 

Yeah, he was high a lot but he was Sly.