R.I.P. Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart) at 82

[felser]

Just hit the wire services.

[gvopedz]

R.I.P.

[Hardbopjazz]

I was a big fan. Rest in peace Mr. Stone.  

[jlhoots]

Big fan too. R.I.P.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

 

[JSngry]

I remain a fan.Glad that he had one last burst of public awareness.

RIP and if there's been anything funkier than this, I've yet to hear it!

But this is fun too:

 

[mikeweil]

R.I.P., funkmaster.

[JSngry]

 

[clifford_thornton]

Damn, too bad. I very much enjoyed the documentary and learned a lot.

[JSngry]

Those song where Sylvester talked to Sly (and vice-versa) are my favorite.

 

[JSngry]

 

 

[JSngry]

 

[John L]

RIP to a true One-Of-A-Kind. 

[romualdo]

RIP Sly

The recent doco is essential viewing IMHO

[BFrank]

Went to this show, waited a few hours past when he was supposed to hit the stage. Finally went home about midnight.

RIP, Sly! 

[rostasi]

 

[sgcim]

RIP.

[MomsMobley]

Sly (& Jerry Garcia) with New Riders of the Purple Sage in 1975, gospel song written by Don Nix

 

Edited June 12 by MomsMobley

[david weiss]

On 6/10/2025 at 9:11 PM, JSngry said:

 

The pride of Denton, Texas.

Jim, did you know Sly was born in Denton. I don't know how long he lived there before his family moved to the West Coast though.....

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Not a bad cover as covers go...

 

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, david weiss said:

The pride of Denton, Texas.

Jim, did you know Sly was born in Denton. I don't know how long he lived there before his family moved to the West Coast though.....

I did know that. Denton was a pretty booster-heavy community back in the day. 

IIRC, also Pat Boone was a Dentonite.

 

 

I read somewhere that Sly always had his nose in the Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration book. That would not surprise me. The guy's songs very often had SOME kinds of twists in there, and sometimes a lot of them.

Beautiful. Too beautiful for this world.

1 hour ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Not a bad cover as covers go...

 

This is a VERY good record. I kid you not and I don't say that lightly.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I just finished watching "Sly Lives (aka The Burden Of Black Genius) and I left it feeling a bit bummed out to see his decline laid bare like this. It was a bit weird to hear George Clinton chuckle about him & Sly getting hooked on crack cocaine. Really George? You think that was funny?

I never knew Sly was a DJ and a record producer before he formed The Family Stone. I guess that's likely because by the time I was getting into his music, all that was in the news by then was all of his drug arrests. To see what he did in a relatively short period of time was quite eye-opening.

I did get a chuckle the first time that Mark Anthony Neal's face showed up on the screen. They say everyone has a doppleganger. Neal's would definitely be retired NBA player Paul Pierce.

[John L]

Sly spent some of his initial down time with Bobby Womack who was on a similar drug-induced skid.  Bobby came out of it OK, but Sly didn't.