Me. I am. Love Sly F. Stone. Epic.

Doesn't get any better than this

I am I love Sly I listen to this all the time 6/24/24❤

@@annettesternberger9230 yassssssss

Some o the best times in my life, included this song!❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

The king and influence of musicianship is the Stone.. Slys music is church influenced funk

Yes! And most of us who have lived, loved and learned, understand it to a T!

Amen!!🎩✨✨👏🏽👏🏽2022!!

I couldn't of said it no better than that. Peace.

@@michaelanderson9820 I'll take it as it comes. I was there I am STILL SMILING 😃 AND DON'T FORSEE ANY IMMEDIATE CHANGES!😉

I’m 69 and still rockin it!😎

Michael, Prince, New birth, Dramatics, Commodores, Al, Otis , Luther, Frankie, Marvin, no need for last names we already Know

Drummers were white, horn section...😅

I say YES, YES, and YES!!! That was real music. I got your back! 🤞❤️😘👍

This is CYN, and I need to give a shout out not only to the Platters, the Drifters, and ALL of the unsung groups that I grew up listening to, but to remember our past we MUST embrace our future. Yes, I sit by myself listening to "old school music" and I am okay with that! There should be some middle ground. That's all I got, thank you for listening, Cyn 😅🎉😅

Jimi ain't black music, most blacks don't have a clue who he is.

Larry Graham on bass

@@linusthexy6245 drake uncle lol

@@linusthexy6245 Fun fact- Sly wrote the bassline!

@@linusthexy6245 Rustee Allen was on Bass at this time and Sly wrote the original bass line and that's him playing on the studio version

I think that's Larry Graham, check him out.

Thanks bro', it's a wicked tune indeed, makes me bite my tale, spinnin' for weeks too, Tryin' to make me believe I'm in love... Sad Insane Romeo.

💜💚💛🤣

outcast had to have listened this as kids( well' sept for big boi he was born grown) I hear the flavors

Truth!! I play on repeat now…so much easier than lifting the record needle and placing it in the groove over and over….I think In Time was the next song!

mine too

Black funk band? Huh?

I'm here in 2024

@@wmorris189 lol what I said. Blk band, my blk friend, blk neighbor, blk music?? Wtf is going on biden is accomplishing his goal or what?

I’m 69, same!❤️😎

I know bcz he was really into DRUGSSSS big time. I feel the same about George Clinton.🎺🎺🎺🎺

Respect my brother respect!! I work at a club in Baltimore, MD. It’s a young Mexican brother that comes through and does as you did. On open mic night he plays the lead guitar singing Stevie Wonder songs. If life play fair and the right person sees him, he gone go big. He definitely a student of the sweet science.

It is!!

Really hard to argue with that

It literally is my favorite song of all time

Um....ok. smh. LOL

Agree

@@stevienicks2894I remember those Sumner's in the early 70s. Things were much more cool relatively to today. I digress Sly and the Family Stone was plain old good music. I don't care if a Man is white, black, red, green, purple... We're all the same inside, Sly knew that, and it came out in his music.

@@MikeMizz1963 it sure did!

Right on !

Sly Stone aka Sylvester Stewart was born in the early ‘40s in Texas. He was raised in the Bay Area. He was one of the most influential artists of his era and a primary innovator of funk.

Facts

GOD BLESS AND STAY STRONG!!

Is a fact

Agreed great music Sly

I will always love this song until the end of time

yeeeesss

How about Bootsy and Larry Graham? New recording like, two days ago? Well done too. Larry still got it!

Ready to go back in a time capsule, love it!!

i'm still jammin' to it , Youngblood...my favorite band of all time...

Pp

How was Sly "underrated?" Sly and the Family Stone was always on mainstream TV, and turned the biggest live music concert of all time Woodstock inside out. Drug addiction, unfortunately, took a toll on his career.

@@carlwalker9635 I would say sly is slightly forgotten these days, maybe in the past 15 20 years. . I dont think he was underratted per se especially at the time, but perhaps after Stevie Wonder eclipsed his stardom in the mid 70s and particularly as his erratic live performances and no shows piled on. . . it seems like he kinda wrote himself out of the history books, or his poor management did, but the circle of history will write that hopefully. . .

@@JustinEdwordsSteve wonder was very different, sly Stone is step forward ,

Hello donnah How are you doing? It's nice meeting you here!

@dhitz01 Sly has been one of my favorites since early 70s when I was in high school lol. They had great uplifting but honest lyrics combined with awesome musicians, especially that bass and those horns! For me, the added sheer funkiness is still what grabs me and keeps me dancing, even though these days, I'm dancing in my chair lol.

My 5th grade son is singing in a choir, and has been asking me why sections get to sing alone in some arrangements while others sit (i. e. the sopranos sing while the altos sit out, and vice versa). I used the Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop" as an example of layering (the last part of the intro is shout vocals and drums, with bass added, and then guitar kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nJaclsSf2J3QZX0.html). This will have to be another example for him!

​@@cherylalt101Yep, I heard it in the 70s when it first came out, too, and it still blows me away. I defy anybody to sit still listening to this song.

62, I’m still in the boat wicha…

Yes noticed the chords

Amen, that's the truth.🌷

Clearly. That church organ

Was Sly the prototype for Prince? Both their styles overlap with rhythm and soul, but where Sly has it coming from the F.S. Prince has it coming out of his pores. Both are in a class by themselves.

@@petersonlafollette3521 and Rick James.

I hear you

Yes! up in here dancing by myself, thinking of those days when people really danced & socialized 🙂

Always thought him and jimi were the best at Woodstock

I loved it then too, I was about 13..1971?

I'm 66 & still listening to Sly. Ah the memories ♥ My little transistor radio rocking the tunes lol

Did Sly ever get the awards recognition that he deserved???

Amen!! Ultimate!!👏🏽👏🏽

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@@ellaluke4028 Probably not, but it doesn't matter. Awards people think that Boyz II Men is R & B. Whatever. They sound nothing like it

Right even fucked up SLY was the coolest guy in the room Groovy funky and FRESSSSSHHHHHHH!

Hello Lisa How are you doing? It's a pleasure to have you here!

too melodic for a funk song

My favorite all time song

Mine, too

I was there! Always loved his songs!!

I was there too!

I'm 62 also I loved Sly and family stone, I used to rocked out doing homework.

Not underrated in my book.Any music fan who ain't got a copy of Sly's greatest hits is not much of a fan.

especially johnny!!

perfect analogy...two of the greatest!!!

Sly influenced the best ever. Fleetwood Mac, Hendrix, Prince, and the list goes on.

@@jeffreywells3884 I think Fresh is his best album. Even though it was during the downward spiral.

I didn't know he was a Pisces!! It makes sense now. The only other guy I wished we had was Hendrix. He was a Pisces at heart.

Go head!

You lucky son of a gun so jealous 😂❤

Let's go black Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🌵 yes I keep on keeping on Africa we are all African 🍄🦁🍄🇪🇹🍄💧🍄🇯🇲🍄🇺🇲🍄🇺🇲🍄🌞🍄🐟🍄

Jeannette, May the good Lord continue to Bless and keep you, and you always, Always enjoy the music you grew up with to make you happy. YOU ARE LOVED!!!! 😘❤😇😇😇🌈

God Bless you Jeanette.

Smile..

May you...Heal... May you move everything in the Direction of Healing

Ditto, suffering with this terrible disease #stage4thyroidcancer This makes me smile, when things were so much easier ...

I remember them days...like yesterday GREAT TIMES 😊

Sly Stones last top 20 hit. Peaked on Billboard at #12, 50 years ago, September 1973.

My 2 favorite FUNK masters, both were so different, but their music made everybody get on the dance floor with no hesitation...70s BEST MUSIC 🎶🎧🎶

You can't leave out George Clinton, he changed music just as much

You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!👍🏾

@@darienhigh yeah but sly had a bigger impact. Remember parliament was a do-wop group. Funkadelic came well after sly

@@rodmoore1577 not WAY after, Sly was active from 1966, Funkadelic formed in '68. But I agree Sly appealed to a more diverse crowd considering they were a multi ethnic band.

You learned about that in your music class I'm one of the jealous fellas LOL look up the song Time by something BrothersI forgot their name but it is wild some knucklehead play that for me when I was little kid it was Halloween it was dark and they were playing a certain part it was not cool for about 10 seconds and then I thought what have I ready for I haven't done anything better life I'm not going to heck? They're all black so that'll give you an idea if you're on the right page there is one white drummerat the very least I'm very sure your mom or your dad or your grandmother or your grandfather nose there were very a very popular band you will either love it or hate though LOL

slayer 1 Time has come today by the chamber brothers, I found the song lol...it’s really good. Thank you 🙏🏾

@@melaninade3402 you're very welcome it's always a pleasure for a musician to be of service think I might icon in check out the music there's a bunch of goody's and by the way your picture rocks

@Ronald Williams that's where it all started and that's where it's at

The funkiest tune out there

That would been the drummer in this clip the legend Andy Newmark who left the band when Sly bounced a cheque on him.

I saw them in 71 in a small venue in Tacoma,Washington. They were great then 👍and still listening to them.

Funky drummer and he really gets some good licks in between it all

Yes!! 🤗

Fresh. One of the best albums I've ever heard

Hello debera How are you doing? It's a pleasure to have you here!

Cool! What was the venue?

@@MrBKings That was so long ago, but I think it was the San Jose fairgrounds? I remember we were sitting on a blanket on the ground.

I just need to know, how much weed smoke was in the air?

@@Alexwhatisit Not much at all. It was a daytime concert, outside, and cops searched everyone as we entered.

@@melinda3369 That makes sense. Hendrix played there too, there weren't other venues in SJ back then as far as I know.

Prince learned everything from Sly. The racially integrated,sexually integrated band of white,black, male and female members.Prince wrote,arranged and produced like Sly. Played multiple instruments and sang like Sly.Played funk,soul,rock with horn arrangements at times too. As talented as Prince was,I would take Sly and the Family Stone over him every time.

Hello Ann How are you doing today? It's a pleasure to have you here!

I'm happy to hear he received his royalties, I prayed for the day. I simply love this guy, plus we got the same bday.

Same!! 😍

Will ALWAYS be THE JAM!! 😍😍😍

2022 ♥

My song in my last days

I am number one Slayer 1 but it is very cool to be number to considering what number two implies number two would be the isht

Twwwwooooo ;)

To be honest, it's my favorite funk group