― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)
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― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)
― my teeth are horrible, I'm gaining weight, I don't understand twelve-tone (dubpl, Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)
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― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)
Fans of the genre-busting pop funk group Sly & the Family Stone can take heart. To mark the 40th anniversary of the band's first release, Sony Legacy is celebrating with a long-awaited upgrade of the Sly & the Family Stone catalog with a special re-release of seven classic albums in March 2007.
Each of the seven studio albums will be available in limited-edition, lavish digipaks with restored and expanded packaging that includes rare photos, memorabilia, and new liner notes. A number of bonus tracks, many of them previously unreleased, will be spread across all seven titles.
Being released throughout March will be their 1967 debut A Whole New Thing, 1968's Dance to the Music, 1968's Life, the 1969 smash Stand!, 1971's There's A Riot Going On, 1973's Fresh, and 1974's Small Talk.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)
The bonus tracks on "Riot" are meh.
I'm excited about these reissues even though they were better when I was younger.
― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)
Questions are raised.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)
meh /= TRACK TITLES.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:22 (eighteen years ago)
― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:37 (eighteen years ago)
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 5 January 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)
― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)
The Essential comp was awesome, yes. But High On You isn't brilliant.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)
but anyway, HURRAH!
― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)
― totph (Totph), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, that's what I was hoping for too, but no luck. The Little Sister singles on Stone Flower are fantastic
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)
― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)
I'd imagine the Stone Flower stuff isn't included cuz a) they were never credited as Sly & the Family Stone and b) there's probably licensing issues or some bullshit like that.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)
The "Riot" reissue does have an alternate version of "Running Away," and "Fresh" has five tracks from the alternate version that accidentally got released for about five minutes in the early '90s, so that's something.
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)
oh wow, i have those mp3s and without any background info i was thinking "wow, it's amazing how close of an imitation of riot-era sly stone these are!"
so these were outside productions sly did?
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)
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― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-et-sly9jan09,0,3883490.story?coll=cl-music-top-right
Stone is at work but he keeps it on the sly
By Jeff Kaliss Special to The Times January 9, 2007
NAPA VALLEY, Calif. — Living among the cool, sweet sloping vineyards here, Sly Stone is at least as secluded now as he was for three decades in the warm, celebrity-dotted Hollywood Hills. But he may be about to come down to his adoring fans for something more than his brief and elusive appearance at the Grammy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium last February.
The new Family Stone band, so named by Stone, will appear Saturday at the House of Blues in Anaheim. This is not the group Stone piloted through a string of hit singles and albums from 1968 to '73. That legendary group began to implode even before its final hit at least in part because of Stone's erratic behavior, both public and private.
Still singing the songs of the old, the new Family Stone is headed by Sly's youngest sister, Vet Stone. It includes Cynthia Robinson, trumpet player from the original group; Lisa Stone, daughter of Sly and Vet's older sister Rose; and seven other young players. Sly himself is not in the band's lineup. But he's planning on attending the Anaheim performance.
"I've been writing songs, new songs," Stone, 62, said in an instantly familiar bass-baritone, relaxing in a seat beside his kitchen table. "Some are on tape, some on paper, and some on tape and paper."
It's been more than two decades since Sly has allowed the media to visit him, and almost as long since the last time he performed more than a song fragment in public. On a crisp New Year's Day, he sat down for an interview at his large country home. After a handshake and a shared holiday greeting, he responded warmly and casually to a dozen or so questions. Wearing a knit cap and loose, comfortable clothing, he looked much mellower than the flashy, Mohawked specter who showed up at the Grammys. Asked whether he might join the new Family Stone on stage this weekend, he leaned his head on his hand and smiled suggestively.
Sly's intimates, few in number, report that he rarely leaves his isolated property, except for the occasional shopping trip. Although he is said to be taking good care of his health, he hasn't much availed himself of the equipment in his exercise room, instead working late into the night on his Korg Oasys keyboard synthesizer, in his studio.
Some of those labors may be showcased at the House of Blues on Saturday, and more completely on an album due this summer on Sly's own PhattaDatta record label. (In the meantime, Sony BMG plans to begin reissuing the original Sly & the Family Stone catalog on CD in March.)
Years of reclusiveness were part of his response to negative media attention three decades ago. His reputation for missing performances also damaged his standing with fans and concert presenters, as did his cocaine-related convictions in the 1980s. Stone opted to retreat within the walls of his Hollywood Hills mansion, work on his music and let the world go by.
Sister Vet had in mind Stone's unstoppable and prolific love affair with music when she helped him move north last year, after the Grammy salute to Sly. She positioned him not far from her own place in Vallejo, the small city where she was raised in the 1950s as Vaetta Stewart, along with Sylvester (Sly) and their three music-making siblings, Loretta, Rose and Freddie.
"I was taking him on the walk-through," Vet recounted about Sly's first visit to the house in Napa County, "and there's this lake by the side.... And he pointed to it and said, 'I could write a song right here.' And I thought, 'Whew! Wow! This is right, this is his home.' "
For both siblings, and others of the Stewarts, the move has been a family affair. "Before my mom and dad [died], they told me, 'Go and get your brother,' and that's exactly what I did," said Vet.
"I went to L.A., and told him what Mom and Dad told me, and he thought about it and said, 'Find me a house. I'm ready to come home.' "
Does Vet consider the wine country an improvement over the Southland? "Oh, yes. The area, for one thing, is just beautiful. He's got more privacy, it's larger.... And he has space to put all of what I call his toys, his bikes [motorcycles] and things."
"I see a lot of them now," said Sly about the members of the extended Stewart family, "and they always have music on their minds. It takes more of the time up than conversation."
Among his visitors for the New Year's weekend was daughter Phun, a tall, graceful young woman resembling her mother, Cynthia Robinson. Phun, the mother of two of Sly's grandchildren, sings urban contemporary music.
Her father has been credited (and his band extensively sampled) as a potent influence on hip-hop, as well as on funk, soul, jazz fusion and rock. The diverse artists who sought him out included Miles Davis, Bobby Womack and George Clinton. Contemporary R&B stars John Legend and Joss Stone (no relation) are up for a Grammy this year for their recording (with Van Hunt) of Sly's "Family Affair." They performed the song on one of two albums of Sly & the Family Stone material recently distributed by Starbucks, and were among the medley of young artists who dominated the Grammy tribute. Of that performance, Vet said, "I didn't think it was necessarily his platform. I thought it made stars of other people."
Aside from reviving his own recorded output, Sly now wants to disseminate his new songs through his family. "My daughter, maybe my son, my nieces, and a grand-niece [are] all willing to do what it takes." His sister Vet had considerable experience with his classic material, as a backup singer for the original Family Stone and later as part of the trio Little Sister, which Sly produced and wrote for.
Her new Family Stone is the only performing ensemble which Sly has authorized to present his music, and he assures that "they do it perfect." He witnessed them in 2005 at L.A.'s Knitting Factory, for which he outfitted his sister in leather and transported her on the back of one of his motorcycles.
Longtime fans "tell me that [the older material] brings back memories that they thought they'd lost," said Vet.
"It brings back clarity to them.... They tell me all types of stories. 'I was getting engaged when this song came out,' or 'When I was getting divorced, Sly was singing, "For me to stay here/I gotta be me." ' "
The new Family Stone also plans to introduce some of Sly's latest creations. "Before, my songs had a lot to do with dealing with unnecessary fighting, and that's still the case," said Sly, offering a sample from one of his new lyrics: "When you wind up/ Making your mind up/ That's when you find up/ Instead of down."
He hopes to give the public, including those who turn out to see Vet's group this weekend, tangible proof that "I'm still doing music [that's] still representative of the truth."
Bay Area writer Jeff Kaliss is working on a biography of Sly & the Family Stone.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)
― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzE9KWz89B4
Now that's something.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)
― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Friday, 23 February 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)
― jam, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.mercurynews.com/shayquillen/ci_5607063
After two decades out of the spotlight, reclusive Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Sly Stone has decided to return to the concert stage. His first confirmed booking? An outdoor show in downtown San Jose.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)
yeah
haha you know I still haven't heard any of these
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)
the bonus tracks on Riot initially struck me as light, but I've actually been listening to them a lot, like a lot
the bonus tracks on Fresh are basically earlier work mixes of the home studio tracks before they were built up with the other musicians, you can hear sly's voice more clearly
packaging is great
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)
soo good.oh, and if you live in bristol, the full set are going for a couple of quid each in the relaunched head.so despite having the original cd of riot .., and hating digipacks, i still got the lot.miles of smiles.
― mark e, Friday, 14 May 2010 08:14 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/goingson/2011/08/quick-pick-17.htmlhas anyone heard this, the extra things on this, the archive stuff on thisy/n thumbs up/thumbs down &c
― sweatpants life trajectory (schlump), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago)
samples :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Back-Family-Friends-Sly-Stone/dp/B0057JWWFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313585546&sr=8-1
umm .. dubstep mix anyone ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 12:53 (thirteen years ago)
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/sly-and-the-family-stone-greatest-hits-round-25-nicks-choice/
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:40 (thirteen years ago)
I've always meant to pick up the pre-Riot stuff--would you recommend just getting the GH or all the albums?
― rob, Thursday, 12 April 2012 17:18 (thirteen years ago)
get the GH AND all the albums. incredibly key non-LP tracks on the GH.
imho the only actually bad album Sly ever made is Heard Ya Missed Me, which is just a really sad listen
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 April 2012 17:29 (thirteen years ago)
Oh man, apparently its OOP now, but a few years back Best Buy had The Collection box for $35 and it had remasters of the first seven records. One of my favorite purchases.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 April 2012 04:12 (thirteen years ago)
grr, tragically flawed collection!
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 13 April 2012 04:47 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah, get GH and the first 4 albums, and Fresh, too. And Riot, of course. A Whole New Thing is way underrated.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 13 April 2012 05:16 (thirteen years ago)
I quite like it!
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 13 April 2012 11:54 (thirteen years ago)
why is it tragically flawed? other than missing the non-album singles that i had to pick up the remastered GH to get?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:24 (thirteen years ago)
Exactly that! Leaving off three CRUCIAL songs in favour of pointless things like edited single versions of "Higher" and "Runnin' Away" and whatnot = aggravating. (Woulda been nice to have High On You in there as well but at least there's a reason for excluding it.)
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 13 April 2012 17:22 (thirteen years ago)
Also woulda been nice if they'd thrown in the planned-but-cancelled '68 (?) live Fillmore set. And those of us who also wanted the epochal Woodstock set are the proud owners of two copies of Stand!
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 13 April 2012 17:30 (thirteen years ago)
fair call, but its not as if it was advertised as "complete" or anything, i thought it was a great and cheap way to pick up 7 remastered albums! it did annoy me that i had to pick up GH separately, but i don't know, still far cheaper than shelling out $80+ for all of them individually
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 April 2012 17:36 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah, still a nice set and you got a great price, obv. I just get so pissed off at record labels not making that little extra bit of effort.
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 13 April 2012 17:57 (thirteen years ago)
Lots of used copies of this on Amazon:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eowv07q5L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
I think it's got everything on GH, and it extends into the key early-'70s stuff. I bought a vinyl copy when they were everywhere cheap. Never knew about Collection, but I'd have to agree that omitting "Hot Fun" and "Everybody Is a Star" because they weren't on regular albums is needlessly rigid at best.
― clemenza, Sunday, 15 April 2012 11:20 (thirteen years ago)
so excited for this, a reissue I've been waiting for for 20+ years:http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1451-i-m-just-like-you-sly-s-stone-flower-1969-70
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:09 (ten years ago)
Oh, wow, that's awesome. Was just listening to some of those 6ix and Little Sister tracks yesterday for the first time in forever.
― Portly Backgammon (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:21 (ten years ago)
I hunted down 45s of the originally released stuff but had no idea there was more in the vaults
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:22 (ten years ago)
looks really similar to this comp http://amzn.com/B0037M5X1E
― wk, Thursday, 2 October 2014 17:18 (ten years ago)
there's at least 8 songs on this that aren't on that tho
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 October 2014 17:20 (ten years ago)
nice! I didn't look that closely
― wk, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:16 (ten years ago)