Does anyone know of any good Sly Stone biographies?

okaypimpn said:

If it's stiill in print-
For the Record: Sly & the Family Stone
by Joel Selvin, edited by Dave Marsh
Avon, paperback

...tells the story of sly entirely through interviews with Sly's parents, his family members and band members (sometimes one and the same), and rock figures including Grace Slick, Sal Valentino, Bobby Womack, Mickey Hart, Clive Davis, Bobby Freeman, and many more. Unfortunately the one voice missing in all these interviews is Sly himself; although the author certainly tried numerous times to interview him...

Good lookin' out, paligap.

For the Record An Oral History by Joel Selvin covers the beginning, however it stops at Small Talk which the author considers the last authentic "Family Stone" album.
[This message was edited Tue Jul 6 8:57:55 2004 by psykosoul]

psykosoul said:

that's a good point - it should have at least gone up through "High on You ", or "Heard ya Missed Me", although, without Sly to interview, maybe there wasn't much else for too many outsiders to say...

paligap said:

'Cause I sure would like to know what the hell Sly was thinking when he made "Le Lo Li"

okaypimpn said:

well, to quote Sly:

"...a drug is a drug is adrug is a drug..."

'Cause I sure would like to know what the hell Sly was thinking when he made "Le Lo Li"

okaypimpn said:

If it's stiill in print-
For the Record: Sly & the Family Stone
by Joel Selvin, edited by Dave Marsh
Avon, paperback

...tells the story of sly entirely through interviews with Sly's parents, his family members and band members (sometimes one and the same), and rock figures including Grace Slick, Sal Valentino, Bobby Womack, Mickey Hart, Clive Davis, Bobby Freeman, and many more. Unfortunately the one voice missing in all these interviews is Sly himself; although the author certainly tried numerous times to interview him...

okaypimpn said:

No problem! actually, if you can find it, there's another book from the same "For the Record" series called:George Clinton and P-Funk: An Oral History (For the Record) by my boy Larry Alexander, Dave Mills, Aris Wilson and Thomas Stanley (edited by Dave Marsh) that manages to talk to Everybody still living(at the time) about P -funk--George, Bootsy, Bernie Worrell,Garry Shider,Mike Hampton, Billy Nelson, Roger Troutman, Blackbird Mcknight, Dennis Chambers, Amp fiddler, etc.-- again, telling the entire story through interviews--- a short book, but it has a lot of illuminating info about the Funk Mob, including a couple of Wild, almost "Chapelle-Rick James- like" accounts of Sly stone's behavior onstage and backstage with PFunk...
[This message was edited Tue Jul 6 9:07:25 2004 by paligap]

okaypimpn said:

That song is so cheesy, but I love it.

psykosoul said:

Likewise.