Sly Stone on The Mike Douglas Show 1974 - Muhammad Ali, Richard Pryor and more 

What an extrordinary performer Sly Stone- is-He was a tremendous influence on other R&B performers most notably Prince.

Sly is such a sweet , beautiful soul.

I was utterly Unable, to stop watching this 2 plus hours brilliant compilation . Kudos, to Mike Douglas for having Sly Stone co host for an entire week, and giving Sly full freedom of expression, to bring guests He wanted, and let the chips/ truth, fall!

Mike had the best 'booker' in the biz..imagine getting Sly & Family Stone AND Ali on an afternoon chat show together. Couple years earlier, he had John & Yoko & Chuck Berry on same show, only time John ever played with Chuck...& on & on. And Sly genuinely seemed to like him..or maybe appearing several times was his way to thank Mike for letting him be his self...again...damn, I miss the 70s..

Sly and the Family Stone. Muhammad Ali. Richard Pryor. Three of the greatest pop culture icons of all time, bar none.

Love how Sly counts everyone in at 9:58 and then says, “Faster! Faster!”

So amazing how he got that studio audience to stand with him. Power of music unites.

GOAT ❤

I cannot stop watching this gem....Ali is simply brilliant, timeless, and constantly speaking truth to power!!!!!

I was the middle class white teenager. Guess I still have that mentality because he still does it for me.

There could have been so much more amazing music that could have come from Sly and his band if they hadn’t got into drugs. It’s sad! Even so, I’m so glad that we have what we do have though.

Oh man Sly and Richard Prior are the recipe for Disaster ... Sly was such a great musician, just love his music

Back before talk shows were silly ...Mike Douglas , Dick Cavett , Johnny Carson allowed guests to talk "

It's hard to understand, how Sly aloud the drugs too mean more to him than his music. I remember George Clinton 😎, who also has a serious drug problem, but I also remember, George Clinton saying, that nothing was going to get in the way of him and his music. That might have been 20 years ago that George said that, and true too his words, it's 2022 and George is still touring with his band PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC 🎸. At the age of 81 years old, George Clinton, has stood the test of time. George Clinton and Sly stone are still with us, and I believe, Sly is older than George, but the 2 of them are Legendary and pioneers of some of the greatest music of all-times. Let's give up the funk to Sly & the family Stones and George Clinton and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC Thang, along with Bootsy Collins 🤩, and his Rubber band.

Mike had a nice Band...

so curious that Mike asks Sly "Are you worried about the big bubble where you're now could someday burst and how will you get your bread?" ...it was like a forecast of what it really become to be

This is some seriously awesome history! When popular music was authentic and played by musicians using actual instruments. Hopefully authenticity will make a come back. There are quite a few actual musicians out there but they are overshadowed by a lot of manufactured, over choreographed pom pom squads, posing as musicians.

I remember after hours of waiting, Sly's no show at Grant Park, in Chicago provoked a huge riot

YEP SLY THE INVENTOR OF PSYCHEDELIC SOUL🎸

What a beautiful illustrative voice omg

Sly was slipping but still looked great and still had the awesome charm in 1974 likely only lines and (because of the time maybe the ludes) He still had some great thoughts and his silly ways,but it sickens me that his creativity(or his work and ethic was being tarnished by partying so much) within a short period the disgusting freebase crap started and he was on his way to nowhere.That shit killed everything and the people like Freddy were also too drugged to lock him down and keep him from himself. The man was a genius composer,"Sex Machine" still blows my mind (maybe the beginning of Jam music,Funk and Jazz fusion all in one instrumental) So in one composition he influences, George Clinton, Stanley Clarke,Prince, and even Jerry Garcia) Between the late sixties and the first few years of the 70s, he is the greatest lyricist on earth in a time when people like Dylan, McCartney, and Lennon were at their best also. By the early 80s he was owned by the pipe and his brain is being slowly crisped.It kills me that we missed so much more from him because of only that crap.As time goes on his junky conduct reduces a genius to a clown type on the petty hustle for pennies.I thank nature for what was created but resent the shit that ruined a legend in everyday from missing gigs(at the beginning) to the paranoid conduct of bizarre crap and isolation he was so typical in his "slipping" witch really hurts because the furthest thing this genius was in this world was typical (prior to the coke and base) he was a treasure of creative genius. Love him to this day but resent him (selfishly) for doing what made him happy or gave him relief from some pain within.I think we need to celebrate him more while we still have him here not once he's gone.Richard was still fast of mind and Ali was giving morality lessons while not being the best husband or father.I am a white Jewish 60 year old who likely watched Richard,Sly and Ali when these shows aired and didn't realize how significant these 3 African American fellas were as entertainers and how special their minds were.

Im here for Sly🙌🏼❤ Thank you for posting this😃

Thanks man!!!

Also missing: Sly and Rose singing Family Affair

omg i wouldve loved to have seen them perform in person

it's called a talk show for a reason. exchange of ideas and not everyone agrees. it's great

Best, Thankyou so much for publishing. So precious, I’m so grateful to have seen this. Utterly fascinating. ❤️🏆🥰✨🌙 xxx

Sly n Richard together...... as a show host or producer , damnn....that HAD to be like super intense. Like, “I hope they don’t get TOO far outta pocket.

Awesome video, thanks for sharing this story with us

Very interesting. Classic angry Muhammad Ali and consummate diplomat Sly Stone.

Sly and Mike Douglas come off as good guys.

Sly wuz brilliant. So sad how drugz ruined thingz.

Ali wanted nothing to do with Sly.......for whatever reason.

Can only imagine the nerve damage that Sly and Prior did that night.

@1:36:30 Richard Pryor! 😊 👋🏽 🙏🏾

when Bowie lived in LA in the mid 70s during his period of peppers, milk and coke he stopped by his dealer's place where Sly was couched. Sly didn't recognize him but Bowie knew him. Sly started winding Bowie up mocking him on his choice of attire. Bowie's fashion sense was acute and left feeling deeply annoyed and underwhelmed. Could only be 70s LA.

Check out the Tokyo Jazz 2008 performance by The Family Stone on RU-vid. Sly is elderly but the family is going strong. You'll love it !

great! thanks for this upload! do you have the footage from the same show with Sly in January 1980?

I’m at the beginning of this. These interviewers are asking some really stupid questions. His answers are great though. Always loved sly and the family stone.

Bill Lordan went on to Robin Trower, great video.

There's a missing episode from 1974 too - saw a clip of Sly wearing a red jump suit and totally off his nut singing Dance To The Music

Richard: "And I been falling in poo poo ever since." Oh man, what a comedy legend!

Wow. Sly's movie concept, in 1974, of how a black majority would handle a white minority is fascinating, especially in our current climate. Beautiful, humanistic man.

Sly made that audience get their dead square asses up and jam!

If you read this SLY I LOVE YOU

Magical

I saw this when it aired!! This is great!! Please post the Muke Douglas episode with Johnny Winter if you have it. ☮️💟

He was sp cpp; and a musical genius. ☮️💟

15:53 - 20:35 is the most king shit i have ever seen, trolling so hard all over that dude's entire segment

I wish then that people would have just let black people use the words they want to use, but even the congressman has control and power over words. I know it is still like this, but we call it more how it is now.

What y’all think of ASAP Rocky portraying Sly in a movie?

alis look on people helping ,we are our brothers keeper not just who you want to help

This was last great show　tv performance of some the familly stone.

Of course Bob Einstein sent me here...now tell the folks at home who Bob Einstein was...

Los Angeles at the time

OMG HE NAILED THE YEAR FOR HIS MOVIE EXACTLY WHEN OBAMA BECAME PRES 2009..SCARY!

90,000 is what a senator or congressman was worth... bribe wise.

Michael Jackson meeting Prince for the first time on Phil Donahue,

Where's Greg and Larry?

I know that I’m critical on sly but not his craft but he’s a genuine good person but deception among other things played a part into vision of self

Now if SLY don't remind you of Bootsy Collins.

Dude looked high as f**k sad that drugs ruined his career. Such a talent…

Why would Ali have rebuffed Sly?

sometimes

I watched the whole week Sly Stone co-hosted with Mike Douglas and it was very entertaining; but the energy level of Sly's music had entered a steep decline by this point. It was too laid back; almost like elevator music!

You can see the racial tensions are definitely high..and at one point sly is actually trying to keep Mohammed calm..😂

Who's the chipmunk sidekick?

The sad truth of letting fame get under you...and dogs get at your. Stash...from a Hollywood house..to living in a RV

this dude was higher then bob Marley. damn Muhammad hated this dude.

Sly said he love Muhammad but he seemed disrespectful of him, he also seemed drunk at this stage of the show Muhammad also didn’t seem eager to greet him when he came out

So quit being Hypocrites on this TV Muhammad was too real in those days you don't have TV shows like this no more

Too much tension! I didn't enjoy watching that.

Mohammed Ali (Islam) & Sly (Black Hebrew) does not mix.

Get down brother! Listen to the Democratic, trying to Patronize Mohammad Ali about fair equity and Jobs for his brothers and sisters.

Raciest jokes a shine ; TRY IT WITH ME 2023 walk off or slap him

That Hays guy is pretty wack

I had this album en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(Sly_and_the_Family_Stone_album)#Personnel

Well 2009 already happened