Sly Stone in Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair catches up to Sly Stone in its August issue. Long but worth it...

If Rolling Stone still gave a shit this is the kind of story they'd hit out of the park.

http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2007/08/sly200708

 

The greatest soul-funk band ever.
Nobody's close.
All the squares, go home!
On the other hand, the writer seems pleased with himself.

 

Agreed, but George Clinton and Paralamint are a close second. Sly's music is still kicks today when you hear it. Hope his new album is a great as his old stuff.

 

I happen to love OutKast, but younger people who claim that band is original... forget about it! The minute I heard "Mrs. Jackson", I was like "They sound like Sly!"

I'll have to check this out. Thanks.

 

I do dig on the Funk Mob, as the kids say, but every trick they know they learned from Sly.
"Stand/Don't you know that you are free?/Well, at least in your mind, if you want to be."
Not a bad sentiment for the 4th, now that I mention it.

 

So, how's the family?

And Parliament isn't bad, either.

 

The only thing I will say Funkadelic didn't cop from Sly Stone was the guitar stylings of Eddie Hazel (Maggot Brain, etc.).

Of course they copped that from Jimi Hendrix.

Parliament was definitely a Sly & The Family Stone antecedent. But both are great.

As for the article, I couldn't get through it since the writer kept making the story more about his observations than Sly's. Insufferable.

 

LOL!

 

Nice.

I love Paralamint's song Cap Gun.

 

If someone works in a baseball reference, I think this thread would count as an Official Outing, Senior Division.