I’m 62 now. Listened to this album every weekend! They had it all. Instruments, singing, dancing and no one saw the color of our skin. 😊 One of the Best bands in the 70’s!
@@tamaramadison7563 Music was good but You didn't see the whole picture! just a small slice of performers. Black ghettos were suffering from influx of drugs, Vietnam vets suffering PTSD on drugs with no unemployment was 12%, earning for Blacks were 50% of whites. police brutality was rampant.
That's such a blanket statement. Plenty of musicians are playing " real" music today . You just aren't listening . The world's music library and stage are at your fingertips. You just haven't learned to explore . I'm listening to great music out of New Orleans one hour, the next hour I'm listening to fantastic music from New Zealand.....and on. You got to learn to explore and learn to listen
Live LONG enough and maybe that "Black Mirror" episode where they "upload your conscieousness" to the cloud may become reality! 70s FUNK party forever! 💃💃🕺🕺💃💃🕺🕺💃💃🕺🕺💃💃🕺
Riding in the back of my fathers 71 Impala, Sly's greatest hit blasting from the 8-track. People can make fun of past trends and fashions but they can't touch the memories. I hope everyone on some level can feel what i still feel to this day.
The old 8 track, my dad had one in a '72 ford galaxie 500. He would let my brother and I listen to mountain and Alice cooper, no sly stone tape but we would listen to them on the radio.👍✌
When I hear songs like this I also think of riding in the back of my father’s car while he and my mother smoke a cigarette each with the windows up !😂Great memories of the music from the 70’s and great fashion from the artists who could play instruments
I remember when this song came out. Sly & the Family Stone...they just had a gift bringing rock and soul together making it funkadelic! I've been playing bass 50+ years. This was the kind of stuff that brought us all together where we truly appreciated our ethnic differences and indifferences...a brotherhood to be proud of. Yeah Sly Stone showed us how and it felt good. Wish you all could've been there to live it.
In the 70s we sang about love, being kind, hardships and broken hearts. Today they sing about hating everything and killing and beating up your momma. Times have changed
Dude u gotta do your research women have been playing as u say non traditional instruments since the beginning sister Rosetta Tharp is one greatest guitar players of all-time and their are others years before this
@@anthonytaylor7928 Then you agree they're non traditional instruments. 🤔Relax. Be cool like Sly. Never said it was the first time. I enjoyed the combination purposefully put together for the time of the 60s consciousness by Sly that YOU may be unaware of. Just enjoy the groove brother
@@kingdoc3262 oh I'm very aware of his music and everything else about him trust me on that and im very relaxed dude I'm just interpretating your comment
This track changed everything, Larry Graham and his thumb playing bass is the essence of FUNK! To see these musicians play the Funk back when music was music is just great.
Yep… Rusty Allen took a lot from him though… I want to say that the sly tried to have Larry killed in later years… So the story goes he jumped out a window and got away
Somebody done moved the pocket sonny. Can't find it, can't feel it no mo. from deez younguns. Sly's boy got my head and booty boppin moving shaking from beat one. Greb? I'm getting nothing from him, Fancy, light nice touch. But the deep groove that picks you up out you chair and MAKES you dance? nah. @@ericsisneros6117
Totally true. People who moan about music today not being as 'good' or today's singers not being up to the old standards just ain't listening. There's a shitload of amazing songwriters, musicians, singers today, in a wide variety of genres. If you're not hearing all that, it's all on you, because you ain't even trying @@ericsisneros6117
Sly absolute genius. Can't overstate how tight and funky this band was. I think this was the period when Sly started using heavily. Exhibit A: Sly calls a band meeting and announces that what this groundbreaking, visionary funk band is missing is an albino electric violin player. Love that man. Legend
Don't discount the talent that can play may instruments and master the latest tech, sequencers and such, amazing stuff, some real talent. But absolutely, the talent and vibe of the late 60s to late 70s may never be seen again, latest gen can't see it, rest of us are half dead or actually dead.
Am 70, 💕 loved funk, 🥰 still do..One of my faves along with Commodores, Kool & the Gang, Ohio Players, Parliament, Rose Royce, etc even Temps, Four tops, Drifters, Platters, O Jays , back when songs were listenable..Loved music to dance to, listen to, apply to times in life..Don't care for MOST Newer music
Music brings us all together! Screw this new world that wants us to hate each other. I’m a 68 year old man that loves music! Thank you for letting me be myself!
i am a 74 year old man who saw them open for Jimi Hendrix at the Fillmore East . They looked like they were actually singing back then and I was drinking Robotussin.
I loved all those early concerts. Nothing like it. It was the music + the times. If lucky you saw some greats just before they exploded in small venues.
thank you sly & da family stone! * have always loved your music folks! * and thank you soul train for headlining some of da most amazing talent of the day * peace love joy 🙏✨️🌙
As others have surely already said on this thread - real musicians playing live on TV. Sly was a master composer, musician, producer, and band leader. The band kills it on this show - as they did so many times.
I am 72 been to tons of concerts...including Isle of Wight where I saw Hendrix along with all others great one....but SLY you are my man....rock us best concert anywhere....rock on
This is a great version performed by the second version of the band. Demonstrates SLY’s blues-jazz literacy. MILES DAVIS saluted such with the ON THE CORNER album as did HERBIE HANCOCK on HEADHUNTERS. ROBERT JOHNSON would admire the opening stanza. “Lookin at the Devil” is a helluva circumstance to survive without a scar. The triumph detailed makes SLY SLY!!!
@@fransbuijs808 That’s obviously unkind to say but you said it. And I’d suggest MILES and HANCOCK’s music became banal after each worked through a few iterations SLY’s contribution to their art .
Yet, another dude in his 60s loving this music and presentation. 64 years and still kicking and listening to great music like this. Love that the band is full of black and white folks. ;)
This has got to be one of, if not THE only times a group performed live on Soul Train!!! Thanks for posting this. I remember seeing these guys perform in Munich Germany. I can still remember exactly what he wore. A rhinestone suit & cowboy hat, with red piping. Lol!!
Many Artist performed live with there Bands Name a few Frankie J. Jacki-O. Freddie Jackson. The Jackson 5. Janet Jackson. Jermaine Jackson. Jesse Jackson.
Wow!!!! Beautiful, and very talented young lady! Steven is obviously a grateful dad, I know Bob is all in her, his spirit just like its in her Dad!!!!!!!Marley 💯
I grew up listening to their music and absolutely loved it. But just like other bands and solo artists of the era, they succumbed to heavy drug use which effectively destroyed their careers. I miss them.
Born '67 and do Classic rock and mostly Blues. This is AMAZING!!! So dislike pop. This is so much more than what I thought pop was (Ignorance?). Sly & Family.. I never got it. GREAT! MEAN Music!! Talent! Ahh fiddle guy? So NICE! OK the Jimi sounding.. LOVE!
👍👌👏 UNBELIIIIEVABLY FANTASTIC! Funk music was/is/will always be my absolute favourite music (although I'm a big white German guy). Just look at them. More an orchestra than a band. OH WOW! That's really great! By the way: My most favourite song is the extended version of "Holy Ghost" from/by the group/band Bar Kays. From a D.J. I once bought a used yellow vinyl maxi single and restored it.(40 years ago). I still own and hear it from time to time. Now I will just do that although it's in the middle of the night. Thanks a lot for uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health in particular.
Sly, I want to meet you in LA ! Im in Buena Park ! Please make a great granny recovering from brain tumor removal so happy ! Ive loved u since Soul Train ! I hope you're okay ! Praise God tks. There's only one Sly ! Im an Irish great granny who loves you !😢😅❤🎉
Als kleiner weisser Junge Anfang der 70iger,habe ich heimlich unter meiner Bettdecke,American Forces Network auf Mittelwelle, gehört West-Berlin,mit Mauer drumherum das hat meinen Horizont extrem vergrößert. Isaak Hays,Curtis Mayfield,George Clinton,Bootsie Collins,Musiker,echte und Autentische Musiker, ich bin Euch so dankbar,für das was Ihr der Welt hinterlassen habt. Liebe Grüße zu Euch in die USA,aus Berlin-Wedding,Deutschland
This is how it used to be before the gov't got Sly we partied together we had Motown,Rock &Roll ,Blues n even Disco 😮 but we all Rocked it All. I'm 62 WM South Louisiana ❤ Keep On Come'n On Music is the Soul that keeps us all living for Freedom Together.Peace Out
I saw Sly and the Family Stone,the Isley Brother's, and (believe it or not)Spirit. A purely white rock combination. It was a weird lineup. About 69,but it was a awesome concert.
Thats some serious music. One tight band and awesome leader. Shorted a show in Tacoma in 74. Almost caused a riot. He showed late and part of one song and left.
Do folks have any idea how lucky we are to have this…record;documental memory of music??? We’ll never pass this way again, musically speaking.❤️✌️🎶🎶✨🤩💔✨✨✨
