Or was Sly Stone actually BIlly Preston? Only kidding

But I've just started getting into him, and can't help thinking 'Will It Go Round In Circles' and 'Nothing From Nothing' sound eerily like the Sly-meister.Those tunes especially could easily slip onto 'Fresh' without anyone kicking up a fuss. They sound just like him!

That's a good thing, by the way. Anyone, or anything, that sounds like Sly is good to me.

Anyone a fan of Preston? Know of any good solo songs/albums to get of his?

Sly produced an early Billy Preston LP, and they Often jammed. It was rumored that they would jam w/a Bible & cocaine between them!!!!! But NO: Billy Preston is/was his own person.....R.I.P. Billy!!!!!
As far as LP's, try finding "Everybody Likes Some Kinda Music"!!!!!

I seem to recall "Organ Transplant" being the main one with Sly all over it. Don't forget that Billy played on quite a few tracks on "Riot".

Outa Space




http://www.youtube.com/wa...Glu5KtpVa4

He's also another "fifth Beatle"


From BILLY PRESTON entry in wikipedia....
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...atle.22.3F


"The fifth Beatle"?
He met The Beatles while on tour in Little Richard's band in 1962. The then-unknown Beatles were the opening act. The Washington Post explained their subsequent meeting:

They'd hook up again in 1969, when The Beatles were about to break up while recording their final album, "Let It Be." George Harrison, always Preston's best Beatles buddy, had quit and walked out of the studio and gone to a Ray Charles concert in London, where Preston was playing organ. Harrison brought Preston back to the studio, where his keen musicianship and gregarious personality temporarily calmed the tension.
In bootlegged "Let It Be" session tapes, one can hear several heated arguments between John Lennon and Paul McCartney about making Preston a group member (Lennon was all for it) McCartney said there is no point since the group was near its end anyway. It would have made Preston officially "the fifth Beatle," a title he was not loath to exploit over the next three decades. Perhaps as consolation, "Get Back," the only Beatles single (depending on which chart you believe) to enter the British charts at No.1, was credited to "the Beatles with Billy Preston" -- the one and only time the band shared the spotlight with a sideman. Preston also accompanied the Beatles during their famous rooftop gig in London, the Beatles' last public performance. [1]


He went on to play on their 1970 Let It Be album and on the songs "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and "Something", from 1969's Abbey Road.
[Edited 12/6/06 3:12am]