Sly Stone Interview

radioman66 Says:

Apr 11, 2009 - I believe this was 1979

tdal007 Says:

Apr 15, 2009 - Most influential bay area musician ever. More than Santana, tower of power etc...

mark321123 Says:

Apr 26, 2009 - Nah.

samtrap99 Says:

May 20, 2009 - i hope that's a joke.

inachu Says:

May 25, 2009 - Jan the interviewer is hot!

u2ubeT Says:

Jun 6, 2009 - Great music, and Larry Graham was a monster bassist, but brotha was so lit most of the time he could get lost mid-stream. This was actually a pretty good interview for him.

bckicksbutt Says:

Jul 1, 2009 - what an amazing man, apperently "the family stone" is possibly gonna come out with an album sort of soon

miljenko1 Says:

Jul 3, 2009 - 4:18: Why is this chick so obsessed with "stress"??? Boo-hoo, of course there's gotta be some stress involved in whatever you do.

Zeitgeist74 Says:

Jul 27, 2009 - Absolutely! But look at what cost!

Zeitgeist74 Says:

Jul 27, 2009 - People, especially the media, were so confounded as to why this genius burned out like he did. Drugs helped fuel his downward spiral, but there was also pressure (from multiple sources) that forced him to retreat from the business. Thankfully he didn't OD from self-medicating.

tdal007 Says:

Jul 27, 2009 - Fame is a bitch... it gets most everyone.... Michael Jackson, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Elvis, etc.. If you fall down from such a great height you are worth more dead than alive.. If you can come down gradually to a normal level you may survive... Sly is still alive, Santana, I guess Sly did fall more slowly than the others..He may be smarter...also

ToastMasterJamn Says:

Aug 16, 2009 - Nah Nah this is not the early 80's - check those collars - that fashion is mid-late 70's - some of us was there... Too bad they didn't put the sound on when he was jamming there - big mistake - that's the stuff that's golden...watchya' gonna do?

Funkdogg Says:

Sep 6, 2009 - i was just thinkin the same

sonwamac Says:

Sep 30, 2009 - the founder of The Funk? it started in the Black church and with the old blues cats but among the founders of the modern version I would say the three most inlfuential are James Brown, Sly Stone, and George Clinton

exnewsanchor Says:

Oct 15, 2009 - Sly grew up in the church ELEMENTS of Funk is in black church music but not funk in those days Church music had Blues overtunes see Thomas Dorsey not the band leader...Sly started FUNK in the 60's . George Clinton didn;t get into Funk until the 70's,

sonwamac Says:

Oct 16, 2009 - I know who Tommy Dorsey the gospel composer is. Do youknow of what you speak? Modern day "funk" incubated in the pentocostal church. Thatt's where Larry Graham learned to play like he did. You ever pass by those tents in the summertime? in any city? Detroit Chicago Oakland?Funkadelic the funk arm of Parliament Funkadelic was launched by the end of the 60s. They came to public attention in '71 with Maggot Brain. My statement is George Clinton was one of the 3 most influential. A true statement

sonwamac Says:

Oct 16, 2009 - some more about Sly supposedly starting funk...you seem to have forgotten about the Godfather James Brown if anybody deserves credit for starting funk (which NO one person does) J.B. would be the one. Also there was a reason why the Motown band was called "the Funk Brothers"..there was also the Stax Volt contigency Booker T and the MGs et all. There was Dyke andThe Blazers, The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band. Tthis is just to name SOME. And not to take ANYTHING away from Sly Stone. He is important

exnewsanchor Says:

Oct 16, 2009 - THE FUNK BROTHERS were session musicans for motown they play motown hits which is different from Funk. James Brown and Sly produced FUNK. Maggot Brain was in 71 Sly TFS started playing Funk in the 60's. Funk is a mixture of Blues, Rock n Roll , Black Gospel music and I left out Jazz...George Clinton started with Paralament in 1959 but they were a do wop group that changed their sound several times before setteling on Funk and by the way Maggot Brain is Rock my Brother. Jimi H style .

exnewsanchor Says:

Oct 16, 2009 - Do I know of what I speak? I was raised Pentecostal my father was a preacher as was my Grandfather and I covered the death of Thomas Dorsey when I did TV news in Chicago. When he first presented his style of Gospel it was rejected by the mainstream church because of the Blues chords. Mahalia Jackson Albertina Walker learned under him they were rejected too. Oh I was also a Gospel music and Jazz Disc jockey before i got into TV NEWS.

exnewsanchor Says:

Oct 16, 2009 - Today FUNK music is in the Black Church..Fred Hammond, Rose Stone and the Elder Fredrick Stewart a Pastor of a Church of GOD in CHRIST in THE BAY AREA aka Freddie Stone have FUNK CD's that have a Gospel Message,. Larry Graham used bass rifts that was straight out of shouting music ie, Release Yourself . George Clinton pushed his version of FUNK as STFS were breaking up. At 1st Funkadelic was more of a hard rock band until Bootsy Collins and James Brown's horn section joined P-FUNK.

sonwamac Says:

Oct 18, 2009 - I have responded to you in detail on your own youtube page...I think I know a degree or two more than you on this topic my friend...Not cuz I'm smarter or better than you but because I'm a handful of years older than you and i was there when a lot of this happened. I went to school with members of Graham Central Station. You sound like you are reciting a lot of stuff you have read about. That's not a put down cuz reading is fundamental. But respectfully I think I'm better versed on this than you

sonwamac Says:

Oct 19, 2009 - "and by the way Maggot Brain is Rock my Brother. Jimi H style".. .I thik you may be too exacting in your definitions bro...Funk is the Black version of rock...like rock is the white version of rb...but Sly was marketed as "rock" or at least to the "rock" market when they came out same as Jimi and same as Buddy Miles and the Chambers Brothers and folks didn't know what to call their music at the time - Clinton had a jam in the 60s "I Just Wanna Testify"..it was NOT do wop or rock.

cavaleer Says:

Oct 22, 2009 - Everything y'all are arguing about back and forth is AMERICAN. Distinctly, exclusively, and uniquely American. You don't hear it anywhere else in the world, but it influenced and continues to influence the world. But y'all are still talking about the myth called "race".

ManilaSyndicate Says:

Nov 19, 2009 - Nice to see the man speak.

dUenDecIyA17 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - jo que guay.. me encanta este hombre