Sly Stone Appreciation Thread

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[Dad]

 

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Everything about this album is brilliant!

The fact that Sly wrote, produced and arranged and recorded most of this album alone with overdubbing and using a drum machine just proves how much of a genius he is!

 

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[Azik]

 

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And just think, that version of the album “Ain’t but the One Way” isn’t even the one that was suppose to come out

That album was suppose to be a collaborative effort from both Sly and George Clinton but because George was at odds with Warner Brothers he left the label and Sly couldn’t be found so Warner Brothers had another producer (Stewart Levine) put the album together from what Sly had started and produce it.


With all that said, my favorite from the album is the 40 second clip of “Sylvester”

 

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the horns on here!

 

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No one can write songs like Sly








this performance!

 

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cover song of Doris Day's

 

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that influence!

 

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Sly didn't produce his song "Remember Who You Are" but he did co write it with Hamp Banks and i hear the influence it had on Prince's song, "Ballad of Dorothy Parker"

 

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of all the movie soundtracks for this song to be featured on

with that being said, one of Sly's best performances of the 80's is this cover duet with Martha Davis of The Motels





original version of "Love and Affection" is by Joan Armatrading

 

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Sly's Doo Wop era in the early 60's.

(group name, The Viscaynes)

 

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Love it! The statue they're sitting on in the cover art is the legendary "Green Monster" play structure near Lake Merritt in Oakland, for those who don't know.