Sly Stone Appreciation Thread

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an unreleased song from his late 80's era

 

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i really wish Sly would've been focused enough to make a proper solo album in the 80's, simply because of the change in the music and just to see where he was as an artist with his sound in the 80's.

 

[TheMailMan]

Yea Sly Stone is musical genius in a lot of ways he was Prince before Prince. Like a prolific singer, producer, writer at a young age and Sly and the Family Stone, a lot of people don't realize how big they were in the 60s through the early 80s.

Just this song alone started so many waves.

Dead presidents soundtrack put me on to this and so much more when I was a kid

 

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It really gets no better in music than Sly Stone's music

Listening to B sides and non album singles

the way he infused so many genres of music together and made it so Funky and yet so Pop is beyond brilliant

so funky, so soulful

 

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his memoir comes out on October 17th of this year!!!!

 

[keond]

I felt this song inspired some of the ballads of Purple Rain era Prince. Just the chords of the organ

Its funny because folks always sight James Brown as the main inspiration behind Prince. He was a huge inspiration. But i think he was more influenced by Sly. James was not a virtuoso on several instruments (he played piano well), he did not have a multi cultural band. He did have a sporadic woman in the band (Lyn Collins) but it was never a fixture like the Family Stone. Finally Princes songwriting was complex and fuzzy just like Slys.

 

[feelosofer]

Just listened to this on the way back from the market.

 

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I felt this song inspired some of the ballads of Purple Rain era Prince. Just the chords of the organ

i do too!
yeah, you can hear it.

the more you go back and listen to Prince's music, the more you hear Sly all throughout it

and sometimes it's the most basic details too

like for instance


listen to the horns here




now listen to the horns here, 4:25 mark specifically!

(even the way Prince sped up his vocals with his Camile (alter-ego) sounded similiar to Sly's singing style)






another example of Sly's influence on Prince, is Sly's song "You Can Make It If You Try"




and now listen to Prince's "Alphabet Street"

 

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Just listened to this on the way back from the market.

This is one of my favorites off of his “Back On The Right Track” album

Another one of my favorites from that album is “Shine It On”

 

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Its funny because folks always sight James Brown as the main inspiration behind Prince. He was a huge inspiration. But i think he was more influenced by Sly. James was not a virtuoso on several instruments (he played piano well), he did not have a multi cultural band. He did have a sporadic woman in the band (Lyn Collins) but it was never a fixture like the Family Stone. Finally Princes songwriting was complex and fuzzy just like Slys.

Facts!

Most people really overlooked how much Prince looked up to Sly and he idolized him.

Prince studied Sly's music and image.

he borrowed A LOT from Sly.

that influence!

 

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[Nkrumah Was Right]

This thread popping up again had me worried that something had happened to Sly!