Sly Stone left us very recently (June 9). He's essentially been a recluse for several years prior, but his historical impact in the music industry during his active years is remarkable and undeniable.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/1209525990/sly-stone-obituary
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/1209525990/sly-stone-obituary
It's a family affair. SAFS should be in all personal discs library.
I always wondered if Fela Kuti, Chic,Kool and the Gang or even Prince have existed without them as well as the hyppie culture.
He was born in Texas as Sylvester Stewart, 3 years before Sylvester Stallone.
I like also to see him with the grup in Soul Train entertainment TV...
RIP
I always wondered if Fela Kuti, Chic,Kool and the Gang or even Prince have existed without them as well as the hyppie culture.
He was born in Texas as Sylvester Stewart, 3 years before Sylvester Stallone.
I like also to see him with the grup in Soul Train entertainment TV...
RIP
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I just found this thread! Sylvester Stewart was just absolutely a music genius. I love his production of the early Beau Brummels, and he was always dedicated to the idea that there is just good music, not White people’s music and Black people’s music. Without Sly and the Family Stone, there would be no Prince, no Earth Wind and Fire, no Herbie Hancock’s electric phase starting with Headhunter, no Miles Davis electric phase starting with In a Silent Way and culminating in Bitches Brew, no Kool and the Gang, a different Stevie Wonder perhaps, etc. etc. etc.
On the day his passing was announced, I played the first album and the CD greatest hits collection. Family Affair is so, so drugged out; it is a good counterpoint to John Lennon’s Come Together.
Honor Sylvester by playing great music and supporting great musicians, and look beyond race so that we consider ourselves all brothers and sisters, Moms and Dads, part of the Family of Man. Is it too much to ask?
On the day his passing was announced, I played the first album and the CD greatest hits collection. Family Affair is so, so drugged out; it is a good counterpoint to John Lennon’s Come Together.
Honor Sylvester by playing great music and supporting great musicians, and look beyond race so that we consider ourselves all brothers and sisters, Moms and Dads, part of the Family of Man. Is it too much to ask?
That is what is reported. It is sad that Sylvester Stewart was the engineer of his own disintegration.
How many influential artists of pop of the 20th Century went down that path. It is extremely sad, but should also serve as a warning to all of us. We usually are in charge of our path through life; “successful” or not, we need to choose life, love, and courageous moral/ethical ways. I’ve just started reading The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper, and even though I’m only 50 pages into the book, it sets out two contrasting ways of living. Arguably, Sylvester went down one path and Natty Bumpo/Deerslayer went down the other.
How many influential artists of pop of the 20th Century went down that path. It is extremely sad, but should also serve as a warning to all of us. We usually are in charge of our path through life; “successful” or not, we need to choose life, love, and courageous moral/ethical ways. I’ve just started reading The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper, and even though I’m only 50 pages into the book, it sets out two contrasting ways of living. Arguably, Sylvester went down one path and Natty Bumpo/Deerslayer went down the other.