RIP Sly Stone

[DinoMikeSr]

 

[Honkridge]

Whew...really? Fuck. Rip. What a pioneer!!

 

[Chicken Man]

He made some incredible music.

 

[smurfco]

RIP

 

[Flamencology]

What a talent.

 

[Flatspotter]

So many great songs... RIP

 

[Gary Blanchard]

They did so many great songs. My favorite is Family Affair. So unique.

 

[jp_nyc]

There’s a recent (February) documentary about Sly, Sly Lives on Hulu. Directed by Questlove.

 

[GomezAddams]

Locking. Only need one RIP thread.

 

[jrockbridge]

Sad to see Sly Stone go. Still, 82 is not a bad run. R.I.P.

 

[Motorik]

Just about the coolest performer on the planet in 1969. Stand! is straight-up fantastic, And There's a Riot Goin' is such an oppressive, smacked out 'Sixties Dream has come to an end' album.

 

[pmc100]

Legend. RIP.

 

[Flamencology]

Just about the coolest performer on the planet in 1969. Stand! is straight-up fantastic, And There's a Riot Goin' is such an oppressive, smacked out 'Sixties Dream has come to an end' album.

Yeah. For a couple of magical years, they were the best rock band on the planet. They made everyone else onstage at Woodstock look and sound sleepy.

 

[bsman]

I remember seeing them on TV - whatever program my parents were watching - and they were mesmerizing.

 

[dmn23]

The performance captured in Questlove's Summer of Soul documentary is electrifying.

 

[Motorik]

The performance captured in Questlove's Summer of Soul documentary is electrifying.

That was a great documentary. Did she see Questlove's Sly Lives! doc? It's really, really good.

 

[Andrew Sak]

RIP.
I remember my Dad blasting Sly on the record player when I was a kid. He liked to play music really loud. That N word whitey song was too intense for me back then. It still might be. I haven't heard it since.

Incredible music that Sly.

 

[Mark Wein]

The more I learn about him the more I'm fascinated by him. I also have a second hand story about him I cant share here about how nuts he was several years aho.

 

[Dogsinplastic]

Not sure there's ever been an equal in the realm of how badly drugs can destroy genius without it killing them.

He was Prince before Prince was Prince. The band was his instrument. He was Zappa with a funkier and hookier focus. Sadly, he was also a debilitating addict. It a shame that he never really pulled out of it to come back on his terms, with his band, doing his music (ideally new music), and not as a side show.

Despite the greatness he created/achieved, he still had so much potential before he decided that being high was his favorite thing. The doc makes it seems like creating and playing music used to give him that high, but then it became easier to just do a shit ton of drugs...

It's like he was a member of the 27 club, but it's just his musical creativity that died...or at least his prioritizing of his music that he let die.

 

[DinoMikeSr]

Sad to see Sly Stone go. Still, 82 is not a bad run. R.I.P.

That’s what I thought. Home boy put away some substances back in the day so 82 is a heck of a good run.

Watched his documentary not to long ago.