To me of course.

I just found a new hate for drugs. They really do fuck up people. Jimi, Janis etc...

I wish Sly would've stayed on track. He was fucking cool. The image, the personality, everything. He's definitely my favorite artist of the 70's. And plus his interview are exciting. I don't like his image now. It looks like he's trying to be young. I don't like that.

And Prince hella remind me of Sly. It's like Prince pick up where Sly left off.

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Do you always have to start these stupid greatest threads? It was amusing at first, but now...

Along with Sly Stone, I would definitely add Steve Wonder & David Bowie in this heavy debate.

If it weren't for the drugs he took his music wouldn't be half as good

They made him experiment with music

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This is my favorite song.

"The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker"

Sly Stone was one of the greatest artists in music history. Sly's influence goes so above and far many artists, decades and generations.

TylerHippie said:

This is my favorite song.

That's one of my favourites too, but I only have 2 of their albums and I haven't bothered to listen to any of their other songs so I haven't really got much to compare it to

purplemonster04 said:

TylerHippie said:

This is my favorite song.

That's one of my favourites too, but I only have 2 of their albums and I haven't bothered to listen to any of their other songs so I haven't really got much to compare it to

Listen to his stuff from 67-79, pure genious. His first album is insane.

TylerHippie said:

To me of course.

I just found a new hate for drugs. They really do fuck up people. Jimi, Janis etc...

I wish Sly would've stayed on track. He was fucking cool. The image, the personality, everything. He's definitely my favorite artist of the 70's. And plus his interview are exciting. I don't like his image now. It looks like he's trying to be young. I don't like that.

And Prince hella remind me of Sly. It's like Prince pick up where Sly left off.

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You hating on astral travellers too?

Drugs + Music = Intergalactic resonance = Improved relations between cosmic governmental forces = Aeons of peaceful, tuneful, celestial cosmic tunesmithery.

elmer said:

TylerHippie said:

To me of course.

I just found a new hate for drugs. They really do fuck up people. Jimi, Janis etc...

I wish Sly would've stayed on track. He was fucking cool. The image, the personality, everything. He's definitely my favorite artist of the 70's. And plus his interview are exciting. I don't like his image now. It looks like he's trying to be young. I don't like that.

And Prince hella remind me of Sly. It's like Prince pick up where Sly left off.

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You hating on astral travellers too?

Drugs + Music = Intergalactic resonance = Improved relations between cosmic governmental forces = Aeons of peaceful, tuneful, celestial cosmic tunesmithery.

But the drugs hurt him in the longrun.

TylerHippie said:

Listen to his stuff from 67-79, pure genious. His first album is insane.

Oh cool I'll listen tomorrow then, I can't now cuz it's 1am and I'll probably wake someone up

purplemonster04 said:

TylerHippie said:

Listen to his stuff from 67-79, pure genious. His first album is insane.

Oh cool I'll listen tomorrow then, I can't now cuz it's 1am and I'll probably wake someone up

I'm guessing you don't live in America...

A couple of my favorites.

TylerHippie said:

purplemonster04 said:

Oh cool I'll listen tomorrow then, I can't now cuz it's 1am and I'll probably wake someone up

I'm guessing you don't live in America...

Nope, England

purplemonster04 said:

TylerHippie said:

I'm guessing you don't live in America...

Nope, England

That's cool

He was ONE of the greatest artists of ANY DECADE. Period.

Timmy84 said:

He was ONE of the greatest artists of ANY DECADE. Period.

True. I don't like his 2000's stuff. But the 60's, 70's and 80's stuff Incredible.

TylerHippie said:

elmer said:

You hating on astral travellers too?

Drugs + Music = Intergalactic resonance = Improved relations between cosmic governmental forces = Aeons of peaceful, tuneful, celestial cosmic tunesmithery.

But the drugs hurt him in the longrun.

They did, but when you look at it...they've led to the decline of every band or artist that ever touched them. The challenge is how they were going to wane themselves from it. Sly attempted to prove that he was "on the right track," but his light just burned out everytime. Tragedy, demons and excess destroyed him in the end.

silverchild said:

TylerHippie said:

But the drugs hurt him in the longrun.

They did, but when you look at it...they've led to the decline of every band or artist that ever touched them. The challenge is how they were going to wane themselves from it. Sly attempted to prove that he was "on the right track," but his light just burned out everytime. Tragedy, demons and excess destroyed him in the end.

Yeah your right. Look at how high he is.

Stevie Wonder Period!

JoeBala said:

Stevie Wonder Period!

I've been meaning to get into Stevie early stuff.

I can't say he was the greatest of the 70's or of the 60's, but he was still one of the greatest of all time.

NDRU said:

I can't say he was the greatest of the 70's or of the 60's, but he was still one of the greatest of all time.

Good call!

The message in his is still relevant and unlike many of his peers, his music endured time and remained to resonate with many different people. Just as he wished.

Personally though, I'd take Stevie over Sly any day.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Personally though, I'd take Stevie over Sly any day.

I can understand your reason for chosing Stevie over Sly especially in the seventies , however when it comes to originality, influence, and trending setting with ORIGINALITY, no artist compares to what the einstein of funk created wheather he was high or not. SLY STONE and his band were above all the rest!!!!!!!!!!!!

madhattter said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Personally though, I'd take Stevie over Sly any day.

I can understand your reason for chosing Stevie over Sly especially in the seventies , however when it comes to originality, influence, and trending setting with ORIGINALITY, no artist compares to what the einstein of funk created wheather he was high or not. SLY STONE and his band were above all the rest!!!!!!!!!!!!

Agree.

TylerHippie said:

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-If I ever was to ever meet Sly Stone, I WOULD FAINT!!

-Not even with Prince I would faint, but with Sly,

-I would hit the floor so hard, the earth would shake!

-GOD BLESS SLY STONE, he is a good man,

-May you live to be 107 Sly!!!!!

-If I hear about a Sly concert,

-I'M GOING!

-I don't care either, shit if I do faint, well at least I will have a story to tell my grandkids,

-I can just see the headlines in the paper too,

-"Some girl fainted at the Sly Kingdom Castle Concert"

-If it did happend, well at least ya'll will KNOW, it was me!

-Looking thru my Sly Stone notes, I found this:

-"Tuesday was a restless night.

-My television is set up for remote control and I punched the channel-selector button mercilessly,

-jumping from commercial,

-with an occasional thirty-second segment of a show.

-Everything was particulary dumb that night.

-Johnny Carson was picking his practiced way through the arid and rock-strewn mind of a young starlet.

-The late show movie was an Italian version of "The Cisco Kid" with delayed effect dubbing supplied by Mother Murky's Home For The Halting.

-Ralph Williams smiled himself into the ground with bull about the greatest automotive bargin of Your Whole Life.

-Other commercials were all the dirty laundry and stained sink variety, featuring Madge, the non-liberated space brain of old line advertising frame.

-Tuesday was a restless night."

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