What I wouldnt give for a fucking time machine right now!

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okay...there it is.

I think i have most of this show, I love it

My FAVE TV moment from them, along with Dick Cavett's

I can't believe how a man who could take full charge of a stage would be the same one who suffered those legendary stage frights. He sure knew how to mask 'em.

i have only recently started discovering their music, and oh what a band. I am surprised that they dont get mentioned more often. I still have alot to discover and hopefully more of their songs will make it to my i tunes. "If You want me to stay" is incredible, as is "dance to the music". And i only have their greatest hits album, better get busy and get the rest.

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hhhhdmt said:

i have only recently started discovering their music, and oh what a band. I am surprised that they dont get mentioned more often. I still have alot to discover and hopefully more of their songs will make it to my i tunes. "If You want me to stay" is incredible, as is "dance to the music". And i only have their greatest hits album, better get busy and get the rest.

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Ridiculously underrated.

There would be no P-Funk without Sly, and that says a lot.

hhhhdmt said:

i have only recently started discovering their music, and oh what a band. I am surprised that they dont get mentioned more often. I still have alot to discover and hopefully more of their songs will make it to my i tunes. "If You want me to stay" is incredible, as is "dance to the music". And i only have their greatest hits album, better get busy and get the rest.

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Good luck, its def worth it

Try to watch the documentary "Skin I'm In" in youtube, its about Sly & Jimi, I won't ruin it for you but somebody brought it to my attention when I was a Sly newbie, and it def induced my addiction toward his music.

StonedImmaculate said:

hhhhdmt said:

i have only recently started discovering their music, and oh what a band. I am surprised that they dont get mentioned more often. I still have alot to discover and hopefully more of their songs will make it to my i tunes. "If You want me to stay" is incredible, as is "dance to the music". And i only have their greatest hits album, better get busy and get the rest.

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Ridiculously underrated.

There would be no P-Funk without Sly, and that says a lot.

I don't think R&B/funk and even rock and roll in general would be the same without sly you know, in this day and age Sly's importance is way over looked.

Harlepolis said:

hhhhdmt said:

i have only recently started discovering their music, and oh what a band. I am surprised that they dont get mentioned more often. I still have alot to discover and hopefully more of their songs will make it to my i tunes. "If You want me to stay" is incredible, as is "dance to the music". And i only have their greatest hits album, better get busy and get the rest.

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Good luck, its def worth it

Try to watch the documentary "Skin I'm In" in youtube, its about Sly & Jimi, I won't ruin it for you but somebody brought it to my attention when I was a Sly newbie, and it def induced my addiction toward his music.

thanks, will check it out soon

The best performance I've ever seen of Sly & the Family Stone via TV was a live network music special. For the life of me I can't recall the network, the title of the 2 hour live show nor the context for the special. Even so, that night Elton John, Little Richard, Tina Turner, The Who, and Sly and the Family performed. It was sublime.

Sly and his family blew onto the music scene like a tornado and drew almost everyone into the vortex, but he nor his mates could sustain it. After the sky and wind retreated, came a scorch and burn which came from within and from outside. Forgotten / underappreciated? Maybe, but people moved on . . . At least that's how my brothers and I saw things.

I'm with TD3 on this. I don't think they're as much underappreciated as they were kinda self-destructing. All of the members could've continued to contribute had drugs, bad tensions and demons not got in either member's way. It wasn't only Sly that suffered over the years.

I think Sly hit his peak in 1971 and while he continued to have great moments with the next two albums he put out after Riot, he fizzled when George Clinton and them picked up where they had left off.

i still think they are underrated. even if they faded away early, they still made a pretty huge impact and yet they rarely get mentioned. Their greatest hits album alone has impressed me more than almost any other greatest hits album i've ever heard.

hhhhdmt said:

i still think they are underrated. even if they faded away early, they still made a pretty huge impact and yet they rarely get mentioned. Their greatest hits album alone has impressed me more than almost any other greatest hits album i've ever heard.

I would think people would be DUMB to not know who the hell they are.

Who don't know Sly, Cynthia, Larry, Freddie, Gregg and them... I have nothing to say to that person except "google them!"