Let’s get real, for more instinctual rhythm and energy is James Brown and his varying bands. Sly was more in the loose era where the energy isn’t as intense. Not to take away from anything they did put it’s more leading off from funk that was solidified before it, and they made it more “modern”
Seen all 3 numerous times. Saw Little Feat from the first row of a small club with my feet on the stage. Wet Willie and the Marshall Tucker Band were also on the bill.
No overdubs, auto-tune, recorded samples. What a great time for music. Today's generation hopefully appreciates these performances are the real deal. Five years later Prince would appear on the scene and channel the entire Family Stone with his multi-instrument talent and stage presence.
A lady at the "Bark in the park" festival today with a terrier named "Dixie" in a chicken suit. she says, "Little Feet" is one of my favorite bands, 🤣 You can't make this stuff up!
So many great musicians on one show. I was 7 years old. I probably thought music was always gonna be this good and diverse PS… I like the hat Lowell George was wearing
I saw them in about 77 or so and the harmony slide was completely unique and so wel done. Can't remeber the other guitarists name but they were really good together
Very cool surprise. Bill Lordan (Robin Trower) playing drums with Legendary, "Sly" and the Family Stone. Little Feat, what a stellar addition. So many great legends on this show. Thank you!
@@St63420, Good heavens. Bad mistake. Did actually mean, Bill Lordan. Saw Trower during "In City Dreams" '77 tour in San Francisco (Winterland). Corrected. Yikes! I'll never post comment again, while in altered state from surgery meds. LOL!
And on bass here with Sly, Rustee Allen who went on to join Bill Lordan in Robin Trower's band for 2 albums (In City Dreams & Caravan to Midnight) plus touring. My dad saw one of those Trower concerts in late 1977 and was raving about the bass player.
Tricky Dicky, wow, thanks for the reminder. When I was 14 in 1973, I was visiting my grandma in a small town in Wyoming. She baked me and my cousins a delicious pistachio pudding green cake, called “Watergate Cake.” I asked her why it was called this? “Because it has Secret Ingredients” was her reply 🤭 😁 grandma had a great sense of humor. Thanks for the memory jolt.
Wish I’d have been in the audience here, tonight. This show is ONE of the very best EVER! I saw Little Feat in Tulsa, OK in ‘78 @ the Cain’s Ballroom and LOVE Tulsa’s other favorite son~ Elvin Bishop 😍 that man can sure play the slide 🎸…! He’s performing a show in Tulsa at Will Rogers High School his alma mater, graduating in 1960, on 11/24 and I’m gonna be there, I hope! 😘
I'm jealous, I would love to see that. On the subject of foosball, my brother and I would "supplement" our paychecks by hustling others out of theirs playing foosball. We would start Friday at the youth group game room, then we would take our winnings and head down Charles Page BLVD to the back of a barber shop and pick up some cash there, then head to a bar around 11th and Peoria, head over to a pool hall on Admiral. The owners never carded use because we were tall. We would end up with a couple of hundred bucks, you know: Gas, dope and whiskey money (I stole my beer from the Quik Trip I worked at 😮). One night one of our frequent victims Geoff came to the table with a guy we had not seen before, kinda looked to old to be in youth group. Geoff's dad was a senior vice president of Williams oil, so he had much money, but hated that he couldn't beat us. This was in January of 1977. Geoff asks, "Got your tickets to the Led Zeppelin concert at the Myriad in OKC?" I told him no, cause all the tickets sold in Tulsa were gone in less than half an hour and the resulting riot wrecked the Fairgrounds ticket booth. He says, "I have 2 here that I'll wager against your paychecks", then sets them on the table. My brother and I were excited, we beat this guy SO often. We served and got a quick point, we were ahead. My brother and the unknown guy faced each other up front Geoff and I were goalies. We served the ball and new guy makes an instant goal. Then he serves and hits the ball SO HARD it comes out their goal and he shoots it into our goal again, my brother is screaming at me to block the ball, but you can't block what you can't see! They or I should say HE scored 9 more unanswered points, Fame over. Geoff then grabs our cash and says," thanks for buying my dope for the concert" and walks off. Later his sister,who lived with her mom and didn't much like Geoff told us she thought it was dirty that he FLEW in a foosball champion from Dallas just to beat us once, his ego couldn't take us poor boys being better at anything than him. Long story I know.😁
@@robmatlock7675 Oh. My. Gosh. WTH? A rich daddy-baby boy, too?! Sounds like a Narcissist. Since I worked at the Williams Companies for many years starting in 1981, am curious if I knew Geoff’s dad? Do you remember his last name? What a story, Rob! You foosball hustler-entrepreneur. It never occurred to me to play for $$ back then, Cindy & I could have made some serious dough. We used to play at Siggy’s, Tornado of Tulsa and Good Times. When I came home my mom would condescendingly say “you smell like you’ve been in a pool hall!” because of the cigarette smoke, it stuck to everything. We sure had fun socializing and hanging out with friends 😁😁
@@KittyGrizGriz Geoff's last name was West. We also bet on pinball and sometimes pool, but foosball was our major talent!🤓Geoff cosplayed Robert Plant, there was a slight resemblance with the blond hair. He was even a bigger doper than me, and my nickname in high school was "Smokie". He was so wasted onetime he almost fell down the stairs at the Climax Blues Band/Bad Company "Burning Sky" concert at the assembly center, lucky for him a rather large man was right behind him to catch him!🤕
He closed out the Newport Jazz Festival in 1969. I was there and it more than electric. He stopped the show with Dance to the music. The crowd went wild. Unforgettable night.
What a great time for music! These Midnight Soecial episodes are gold! Live & uncut! Sly & the Family Stone, Elvin Bishop, Little Feat on the same card - - - incredible performances!
they where the best. no competion. raw soul power, total openess and the talent in that band.. oh boy. prince would not have been possible without sly.
It's no surprise to hear Sly sounding great but the revelation to me here is Henry Gross, being only familiar with his hit Shannon it was very surprising to hear him rocking like this. They definitely have a great, authentic rock sound imo.
Henry Gross's sound is totally unexpected, not only because of how different it is from "Shannon" , but also considering that he got his professional start as a member of Sha Na Na!
How lucky you were to have seen S&TFS live! I’d have died and gone to Groove Funkadelic heaven! I love Crabby Appleton too and their ‘70 song “Go Back.” I was on a YT channel watching a performance of CA and it said they toured with Three Dog Night who were my 1st concert in 1970. I posted “I wonder if CA opened that show & I didn’t remember as I was only 11 yrs old?” Their lead singer~songwriter Michael Fennelly reached out to me. Pretty Kool! The bass is my favorite instrument 🎸❤️
This was just great times before drugs ruined and corrupted everyone, you can see the love everyone had for Sly as he was the man. Just beautiful times and beautiful music, everyone just vibing off each other and jamming out. Now this is what I call a real jam session! Amen
@@bernardk5189 No, Sly was getting high as a kite and still putting out great music. At first the weed scene in particular was pretty nice and loving. Until it became a greedy business. I don't know how old you are but I remember a different time. I'm 71.
@@scottwilliams8334 you know you shouldn't ask a man his age....lol Well I'm 70 and I remember those days, well some of it. Yeah the weed was there but when they moved out to L.A. in the late 60s the heavier drugs kicked in. Not just for him, others in the band too. Yes they continued to make great music, make money and spend it as soon as he got it. Not showing up for concerts, fighting with band members. That's not greed, that's drug addiction. Drug addicts don't think about greed, they think of just getting their drugs.
Bill Lordan..! 2:39 Guitar Geekery - Sly has a brand new Late 1974 Telecaster Thinline - 3 bolt neck!! and Rustee Allen looks like he's playing a brand new (1974) Jazz Bass, too..
Sly and the Family Stone were so damned funky! This just might be the best episode start to finish released so far! Little Feat's performance of Willin' gave me chills!
Man, this group was funky. Sometimes I forget to watch/listen to them for a couple of months, but then I return and am in awe again. Thanks for the upload indeed!
Next Friday night premiere is a good one. I saw Episode 81 on the members page abought 3 months ago. Little Richard so full of Energy. He opens with the Midnight Special by CCR. Aerosmith does Train kept rollin' and Dream On. You can hear its live. Real rough sounding. Golden Earring only does Radar Love, Love the song. Just wish they would have done another song from the Moontan Album.
Little Feat factoid: Lowell George, founding member of Little Feat, played with/for Frank Zappa in 1968 and 1969. Conflicting stories about why George was released from The Mothers. One is that George wrote the song "Willin'", a song about drugs, while with Zappa and Frank didn't like that and let him go. The other story goes that Frank saw so much talent in Lowell George that he told him that he should go out and be the leader of his own band. Little Feat started up soon after. Lowell George died in 1979 at age 34 while on tour. He had gotten very hefty (to put it kindly) and often ate an entire pizza. A bandmate confirmed that he did, indeed, eat a whole pizza on the tour bus a couple of days before he died of a heart attack. The version of Little Feat that you saw in the late 80s or early 90s was, sadly, without the great Lowell George. One of my favorite songs is Dixie Chicken and they have a stellar live version from the 1978 album Waiting for Columbus, with solos thrown in by some of the players. If you're not familiar with it, look for it on YT. This is obviously too much info and text for the live chat. See you there!
@@Royalle_with_Cheese Wow! Thanks for the info! Yeah, sadly, I wasn't very impressed with them or War at that concert. War wasn't quite the same either. See ya!
@@StephanieJeanne For me, bands who were great in the 70s were also best to see in the 70s. That applies to rock music. Blues and Jazz musicians remain valid no matter how old they get, as long as they still have their chops. Tell me if this is improper or not. I just saw Stevie Nicks on SNL last week. She's making a solo comeback after Fleetwood Mac officially called it quits after Christine McVie passed (R.I.P., Christine), and Nicks is back out there. Here's my thing: ROCK music is young people railing against the establishment. When the people playing rock become old geezers, jumping around acting like they're still young, swilling Geritol backstage and rubbing the aforementioned liniment on their aging bodies, it's time to call it a day. A 76-year-old woman out there doing the same just looks sad. That's not to take away from her talent. Just looks sad. If a woman of any age is a jazz or blues artist, that's fine. They're not up there looking the part of the ROCKER. What do you think?
@@Royalle_with_Cheese I saw that she was on there, but I haven't watched the clip. I don't know, Royale, I see your point, but I also think these rockers, that's their life and career. Unless they sound really bad, why not keep going? I think they keep going not only for themselves, but for their fans (or maybe they just tell themselves it's for their fans). It is painful when you see them and their voices aren't the same or their energy is diminished. Rock is definitely a rebellious youth kind of music. So, if they stop performing, should we stop listening too, because we're getting older? Are we not denying our aging process when we still listen to our fave rock bands? That's why I can't judge these people too harshly.
@@StephanieJeanne Very fair point, Stephanie. I don't think it's wrong for older people to continue listening to rock. There will always be younger people to play it, although it's all auto-tune and flash nowadays, more than the halcyon days of yore. I supppose you have a point about it being the aging rocker's livelihood, and if they can draw an audience, power to 'em. I first felt this way when, a long time ago on SNL, I saw AC/DC and Angus Young wearing the schoolboy outfit looking ridiculous in his 50s.
@@covers_girl Your comment reminded me of Robert Palmers fantastic 1974 2 part song “Sailin’ Shoes ~ Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley.” A Great show tonight! 😊
@@covers_girl I did some “digging” and just read that Lowell George played guitar on Robert Palmers song(s) I mentioned. And wrote “Sailin’ Shoes.” Wow, I feel like the village idiot now. I had no idea. Ha! Fabulous guitar slinger~slide player~writer~singer. It’s so fun learning new musical information, with like minded people.
@@Royalle_with_Cheese I don’t get notifications to join the pre-show on Friday nights, anymore? Wonder what’s up with that? Noticed you and Brotz talking about messages disappearing, I’m just curious? And kinda upset tbh
Uau grande noite como sempre! Estou aqui no sul do mundo me preparando para lavar as louças do jantar e pronto para acender a velha chama , aquela que nem bombeiro consegue apagar . Um forte abraço para todos envolvidos nesse projeto maravilhoso de restauração desses episódios mágicos. Os anos 70 foram incríveis quem viveu viveu curtiu, dançou, ficou alto e decolou ...
I just bought my 1st album of Elvin Bishops at a thrift store for $1. I actually picked up 48 of them. 1974s “Let It Flow” and I love it. When I’m at the cabin in the summer; w/o wifi, cell phone, tv, news etc…I read, watch dvds, listen to albums & get in touch with nature, in other words I get “reset.” I’m the dishwasher too, ha! Elvins great music playing on the turntable, sure makes the chores more enjoyable!
This episode was incredible! I love that channel is one of the reasons why my spotify playlists have grown so long!😭😆 So excited for the podcast and the discussion about "Bee Gees memories"🥰
Really hope the Little Feat segments (their 1st appearance on MS) get uploaded as stand-alones. Have been looking forward to seeing them for ages. Make no mistake, the Feat was one of the very very few truly great American bands of the 1970s.
I did some demos for Ed King from Skynyrd back in '99 and I asked him if LS did any gigs with Feat and he told me they were the one band that opened for them that they would sneak their way to the back of the hall to watch. How's that for an endorsement?
@@bloozedaddy Yes, the vast majority of professional working musicians in the 1970s who were at all aware of LF were awestruck by the power of this band. Terrible shame that they didn't experience the commercial success their music warranted.
Sly Stone a true renegade. What a great artist, and beautiful human being. "Want to take you higher" still a stand out performance from the original Woodstock.
With bigger names like Elvin Bishop, Little Feat, and Sly & the Family Stone, I was pleasantly surprised by Henry Gross. I thought he gave a very good performance with, "Come On Say It!"🧔♀
This is Classic and whateva you think of Mr. Stewarts shortcomings it's okay to me in my opinion he wrote some of the most classic Music in his Glory Days he would definitely make my Top 20 all time Songwriters... Thanx 4 Sharing!
@@peggysmyth6110 He sure did! While looking mighty hot 😍 himself! Sid reminds me of Gregg Allman. It’s my 1st time seeing him and hearing of the “Hot Licks” 👅 band as I wasn’t exposed to them, when young. A Great show all the way around! 👍
Sly and the Family Stone released their second record "Dance to the Music" in 1968. The cover has a photo of the band on this modern art type piece kids can climb on. This is installed on the beach of Lake Meritt in Oakland CA. It's still there.(!)
In my school,students formed clicques and rivalries over just about anything: music, clothes, sports, cars...you name it. But there was one thing that almost everyone could agree on: Sly Stone was baaaad, and that was good. All you had to do was put on a Sly and the Family Stone record, and any room would transform into an instant party. This Midnight Special performance is a perfect example. Check out the intro, where the band members boogie onto the stage, each one adding a layer to a thick, monstrous groove. And then Sly makes his grand entrance, looking as of he just stepped off the Mothership. In their best years, Sly and the Family Stone gave us so much good music and so many good times, all delivered with showmanship and funk beyond the call of duty.
25 minutes in. If this don't move you there is no hope. If your feet ain't tapping and your head ain't moving from side to side check your pulse. What a talent. What a man.
The original and best funk band of all-time! Sly was such a ground-breaking musician. Can't overstate it.
100% Correct. e pretty much invented Disco, but was sooo much more than that. Rock /jazz/fumk
Absoulutly ... and Stevie Wonder
One of the greatest shows I've seen!
Let’s get real, for more instinctual rhythm and energy is James Brown and his varying bands. Sly was more in the loose era where the energy isn’t as intense. Not to take away from anything they did put it’s more leading off from funk that was solidified before it, and they made it more “modern”
His earlier pre-fame music is even more interesting. He even wrote a song in Locrian mode!!
Sly, Elvin and Little Feat on ONE show?! Holy Sh**! Too much greatness!
Saw Zappa a dozen times. Saw Bishop nearly 20 times Permanent opener.
Exactly
Seen all 3 numerous times. Saw Little Feat from the first row of a small club with my feet on the stage. Wet Willie and the Marshall Tucker Band were also on the bill.
🔥 👍
High as a kite and I love him! Rose and Cynthia too! No one will ever compare to sly and his band!
And, some of the audience members were probably high too
The 70s wouldn't have been the 70s without Sly and the Family Stone. Right On Brother. 🪩
No overdubs, auto-tune, recorded samples. What a great time for music. Today's generation hopefully appreciates these performances are the real deal. Five years later Prince would appear on the scene and channel the entire Family Stone with his multi-instrument talent and stage presence.
Little Feat was on every turntable in every apartment and dorm room when I was in college. Good times never to come back.
A lady at the "Bark in the park" festival today with a terrier named "Dixie" in a chicken suit. she says, "Little Feet" is one of my favorite bands, 🤣 You can't make this stuff up!
Watchin Lowell and Little Feat bringin a tear to my eyes. God bless you brother.
Bill Payne on keyboards is insane.
never forget Richie Hayward!!
Weed, whites and wine on tv in ‘74!
I saw SLY and Spirit together in concert in San Francisco in "69". Absolutely the BEST concert I have ever seen! What a night I'll never forget!
More talent on one stage than in most of the music industry today.
Cheering Nixon out of the White House, he had left earlier that day. :) Amazing round of the programme, indeed!
No way. But I get your drift.
Elvin was the most fun concert at Winterland. Entire place would rock its socks off. That melody n harmony double slide work was unique to that band!
So many great musicians on one show. I was 7 years old. I probably thought music was always gonna be this good and diverse
PS… I like the hat Lowell George was wearing
This is SO GREAT that someone is uploading these episodes! And FREE! Thank you! These old shows need to be preserved and RE-PREMIERED
That performance of Willin is out-of-this-world good.
Think it was Sam Clayton with the mouth effects. He's finally after all these years fronting the band singing classic blues
Dallas Alice and Two-Cum Carrie!
My girlfriend and I traveled Route 66 recently through New Mexico and played this while driving Tucumcari.
Linda Ronstadt did a really good recording of that song. It appears on her “Heart Like A Wheel” album.
Great show - was this actually broadcast live at the same late hour as it aired, or was it taped a day or two earlier?
Fantastic show, what great performances.
Got to love seeing Sly in his get up, beautiful !
he's so cool, taking the stage like a pro ... man he was cool
Nice to see Elvin Bishop perform songs before his big hit "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" a year later.
I saw them in about 77 or so and the harmony slide was completely unique and so wel done. Can't remeber the other guitarists name but they were really good together
tight! always a motivator ole elvin. these guys really rocked it in the day. nice mix from the day.
Oh Sly! In all his sequin glory! We love you so much ❤❤ the genius of funk nobody was ever as exciting to watch!!
Sly those outfits are so cool. It was good to be alive in the 70s. Thanks Midnight Special. Another Rocker.
Sly and a great collection of 70's musicians. Thanks Midnight Special
Very cool surprise. Bill Lordan (Robin Trower) playing drums with Legendary, "Sly" and the Family Stone.
Little Feat, what a stellar addition. So many great legends on this show. Thank you!
@@St63420, Good heavens. Bad mistake. Did actually mean, Bill Lordan. Saw Trower during "In City Dreams" '77 tour in San Francisco (Winterland).
Corrected. Yikes! I'll never post comment again, while in altered state from surgery meds. LOL!
@@St63420That's James Dewer. I'm James Dewar lol.😂
And on bass here with Sly, Rustee Allen who went on to join Bill Lordan in Robin Trower's band for 2 albums (In City Dreams & Caravan to Midnight) plus touring. My dad saw one of those Trower concerts in late 1977 and was raving about the bass player.
Could you tell us how that came to be ? The situation with Gregg and how long you stayed ? I guess Andy Newmark maybe came after you ?
man this is new stuff from Sly, ... never seen this before ... the hottest and coolest stage walk on ever
Check out James Brown from Kinshasa 74.....you ain't seen nothing yet!.....
The day this aired was Nixon's last day as president.
Shame . Love Nixon
Tricky Dicky, wow, thanks for the reminder. When I was 14 in 1973, I was visiting my grandma in a small town in Wyoming. She baked me and my cousins a delicious pistachio pudding green cake, called “Watergate Cake.” I asked her why it was called this? “Because it has Secret Ingredients” was her reply 🤭 😁 grandma had a great sense of humor. Thanks for the memory jolt.
Who cares?
That's what you get from all of this great music? You must be a Dem
@@barrymorgenstein201still coping 50 years later?
I was an italian 10 yo at the time and already loved funky, r&b and soul since then.
This is an awesome performance.
Thanks for uploading!👍
What a fabulous show. Superb line-up. Funky Sly..
MUSICAL TREASURE! Plain and simple. I sure miss the 70's.
Artists of a level unthinkable today, but I fear that those times of the 70s, for the value of the musicians, will never return.
Wish I’d have been in the audience here, tonight. This show is ONE of the very best EVER! I saw Little Feat in Tulsa, OK in ‘78 @ the Cain’s Ballroom and LOVE Tulsa’s other favorite son~ Elvin Bishop 😍 that man can sure play the slide 🎸…!
He’s performing a show in Tulsa at Will Rogers High School his alma mater, graduating in 1960, on 11/24 and I’m gonna be there, I hope! 😘
I'm jealous, I would love to see that.
On the subject of foosball, my brother and I would "supplement" our paychecks by hustling others out of theirs playing foosball. We would start Friday at the youth group game room, then we would take our winnings and head down Charles Page BLVD to the back of a barber shop and pick up some cash there, then head to a bar around 11th and Peoria, head over to a pool hall on Admiral. The owners never carded use because we were tall. We would end up with a couple of hundred bucks, you know: Gas, dope and whiskey money (I stole my beer from the Quik Trip I worked at 😮).
One night one of our frequent victims Geoff came to the table with a guy we had not seen before, kinda looked to old to be in youth group. Geoff's dad was a senior vice president of Williams oil, so he had much money, but hated that he couldn't beat us. This was in January of 1977. Geoff asks, "Got your tickets to the Led Zeppelin concert at the Myriad in OKC?" I told him no, cause all the tickets sold in Tulsa were gone in less than half an hour and the resulting riot wrecked the Fairgrounds ticket booth. He says, "I have 2 here that I'll wager against your paychecks", then sets them on the table. My brother and I were excited, we beat this guy SO often. We served and got a quick point, we were ahead. My brother and the unknown guy faced each other up front Geoff and I were goalies. We served the ball and new guy makes an instant goal. Then he serves and hits the ball SO HARD it comes out their goal and he shoots it into our goal again, my brother is screaming at me to block the ball, but you can't block what you can't see! They or I should say HE scored 9 more unanswered points, Fame over. Geoff then grabs our cash and says," thanks for buying my dope for the concert" and walks off. Later his sister,who lived with her mom and didn't much like Geoff told us she thought it was dirty that he FLEW in a foosball champion from Dallas just to beat us once, his ego couldn't take us poor boys being better at anything than him. Long story I know.😁
@@robmatlock7675
Oh. My. Gosh. WTH? A rich daddy-baby boy, too?! Sounds like a Narcissist.
Since I worked at the Williams Companies for many years starting in 1981, am curious if I knew Geoff’s dad? Do you remember his last name?
What a story, Rob! You foosball hustler-entrepreneur. It never occurred to me to play for $$ back then, Cindy & I could have made some serious dough.
We used to play at Siggy’s, Tornado of Tulsa and Good Times. When I came home my mom would condescendingly say “you smell like you’ve been in a pool hall!” because of the cigarette smoke, it stuck to everything. We sure had fun socializing and hanging out with friends 😁😁
@@KittyGrizGriz Geoff's last name was West. We also bet on pinball and sometimes pool, but foosball was our major talent!🤓Geoff cosplayed Robert Plant, there was a slight resemblance with the blond hair. He was even a bigger doper than me, and my nickname in high school was "Smokie". He was so wasted onetime he almost fell down the stairs at the Climax Blues Band/Bad Company "Burning Sky" concert at the assembly center, lucky for him a rather large man was right behind him to catch him!🤕
No one hit harder than Sly and the Family Stone in the 70’s
😎🏆⭐🙏🤗
If you looked in the dictionary for COOL, you'd see SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE. 😊
Damn it! Just took a shower an hour ago and now I listened to this and I am all FUNKY! Good God!
SLY and the Family Stone. Beautiful spirit! Real musicians, WOW!
Great memories! God blessed me to live and witness Great musicians.
These shows are incredible
Yes, and this was the very same day that Nixon had left the White House. The feeling of relief must have been huge...
He closed out the Newport Jazz Festival in 1969. I was there and it more than electric. He stopped the show with Dance to the music. The crowd went wild. Unforgettable night.
What a great time for music! These Midnight Soecial episodes are gold! Live & uncut!
Sly & the Family Stone, Elvin Bishop, Little Feat on the same card - - - incredible performances!
Missed the premiere, but this may be the strongest episode yet! 👍👍 Strong from start to finish. Talent end to end. Thanks TMS!
You and I the same thought about 6 minutes apart based on the time stamps of our comments. 😅
Finally....been waiting for this Little Feat appearance! Great to see.
I think Sly set the tone in the opening and got all the bands fired up. Elvin killed it!
It was amazing, great performers
Great to see Sly in his boogie-down amazing.
they where the best. no competion. raw soul power, total openess and the talent in that band.. oh boy. prince would not have been possible without sly.
Sly And The Family Stone Puttin' it Down for the Git Down!
That piano lead on Willin' is just awesome.
Love what Sly says at around 30:35 “Might as well get along. We ride together, we can get by together. What about that?”
It's no surprise to hear Sly sounding great but the revelation to me here is Henry Gross, being only familiar with his hit Shannon it was very surprising to hear him rocking like this. They definitely have a great, authentic rock sound imo.
I was impressed too! Love great that great power pop sound!
Henry Gross's sound is totally unexpected, not only because of how different it is from "Shannon" , but also considering that he got his professional start as a member of Sha Na Na!
My very first concert was in 1973 Sly and the Family Stone in Austin, Texas. What an awesome show !
The Midnight crowd couldn't stay seated for any of the Family Stone's tunes.
I saw Sly and The Family Stone in San Diego in June of 1970. Crabby Appleton open for them.
I remember the whole show and it was great.
How lucky you were to have seen S&TFS live! I’d have died and gone to Groove Funkadelic heaven!
I love Crabby Appleton too and their ‘70 song “Go Back.” I was on a YT channel watching a performance of CA and it said they toured with Three Dog Night who were my 1st concert in 1970. I posted “I wonder if CA opened that show & I didn’t remember as I was only 11 yrs old?” Their lead singer~songwriter Michael Fennelly reached out to me. Pretty Kool! The bass is my favorite instrument 🎸❤️
This was just great times before drugs ruined and corrupted everyone, you can see the love everyone had for Sly as he was the man. Just beautiful times and beautiful music, everyone just vibing off each other and jamming out. Now this is what I call a real jam session! Amen
It wasn't before drugs and drugs didn't ruin everything. Greed did.
No, it was drugs.
But no one will ever take Sly and his great music from us.
@@bernardk5189 No, Sly was getting high as a kite and still putting out great music. At first the weed scene in particular was pretty nice and loving. Until it became a greedy business. I don't know how old you are but I remember a different time. I'm 71.
@@scottwilliams8334 you know you shouldn't ask a man his age....lol
Well I'm 70 and I remember those days, well some of it. Yeah the weed was there but when they moved out to L.A. in the late 60s the heavier drugs kicked in. Not just for him, others in the band too. Yes they continued to make great music, make money and spend it as soon as he got it. Not showing up for concerts, fighting with band members. That's not greed, that's drug addiction.
Drug addicts don't think about greed, they think of just getting their drugs.
Everybody on stage was probably high. Where do think all that great music came from? Drugs have always played a big role in American music culture.
Gettin ready to watch The Midnight Special @1am (EST) THX for posting !!!
Bill Lordan..! 2:39 Guitar Geekery - Sly has a brand new Late 1974 Telecaster Thinline - 3 bolt neck!! and Rustee Allen looks like he's playing a brand new (1974) Jazz Bass, too..
Sly and the Family Stone were so damned funky! This just might be the best episode start to finish released so far! Little Feat's performance of Willin' gave me chills!
Powerful performance by Sly and His Family
Saw them @ Woodstock 😅
Man, this group was funky.
Sometimes I forget to watch/listen to them for a couple of months, but then I return and am in awe again.
Thanks for the upload indeed!
Next Friday night premiere is a good one. I saw Episode 81 on the members page abought 3 months ago. Little Richard so full of Energy. He opens with the Midnight Special by CCR. Aerosmith does Train kept rollin' and Dream On. You can hear its live. Real rough sounding. Golden Earring only does Radar Love, Love the song. Just wish they would have done another song from the Moontan Album.
Saturday Night Was Rocking On NBC 4
I Was 14 Years Old The Good Old Days
NBC 4 ?! SOUNDS LIKE DETROIT TO ME!
Great live show. We miss you Sly.
I love Sly and the Family Stone! 😎💜 I saw Little Feat in the late '80s or early '90s at a show with War. I'd never heard of them before then.
Little Feat factoid:
Lowell George, founding member of Little Feat, played with/for Frank Zappa in 1968 and 1969.
Conflicting stories about why George was released from The Mothers.
One is that George wrote the song "Willin'", a song about drugs, while with Zappa and Frank didn't like that and let him go.
The other story goes that Frank saw so much talent in Lowell George that he told him that he should go out and be the leader of his own band.
Little Feat started up soon after.
Lowell George died in 1979 at age 34 while on tour. He had gotten very hefty (to put it kindly) and often ate an entire pizza. A bandmate confirmed that he did, indeed, eat a whole pizza on the tour bus a couple of days before he died of a heart attack.
The version of Little Feat that you saw in the late 80s or early 90s was, sadly, without the great Lowell George.
One of my favorite songs is Dixie Chicken and they have a stellar live version from the 1978 album Waiting for Columbus, with solos thrown in by some of the players.
If you're not familiar with it, look for it on YT.
This is obviously too much info and text for the live chat.
See you there!
@@Royalle_with_Cheese Wow! Thanks for the info! Yeah, sadly, I wasn't very impressed with them or War at that concert. War wasn't quite the same either. See ya!
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For me, bands who were great in the 70s were also best to see in the 70s.
That applies to rock music. Blues and Jazz musicians remain valid no matter how old they get, as long as they still have their chops.
Tell me if this is improper or not.
I just saw Stevie Nicks on SNL last week. She's making a solo comeback after Fleetwood Mac officially called it quits after Christine McVie passed (R.I.P., Christine), and Nicks is back out there.
Here's my thing:
ROCK music is young people railing against the establishment. When the people playing rock become old geezers, jumping around acting like they're still young, swilling Geritol backstage and rubbing the aforementioned liniment on their aging bodies, it's time to call it a day.
A 76-year-old woman out there doing the same just looks sad.
That's not to take away from her talent. Just looks sad.
If a woman of any age is a jazz or blues artist, that's fine. They're not up there looking the part of the ROCKER. What do you think?
@@Royalle_with_Cheese I saw that she was on there, but I haven't watched the clip. I don't know, Royale, I see your point, but I also think these rockers, that's their life and career. Unless they sound really bad, why not keep going? I think they keep going not only for themselves, but for their fans (or maybe they just tell themselves it's for their fans).
It is painful when you see them and their voices aren't the same or their energy is diminished. Rock is definitely a rebellious youth kind of music. So, if they stop performing, should we stop listening too, because we're getting older? Are we not denying our aging process when we still listen to our fave rock bands? That's why I can't judge these people too harshly.
@@StephanieJeanne
Very fair point, Stephanie. I don't think it's wrong for older people to continue listening to rock. There will always be younger people to play it, although it's all auto-tune and flash nowadays, more than the halcyon days of yore.
I supppose you have a point about it being the aging rocker's livelihood, and if they can draw an audience, power to 'em.
I first felt this way when, a long time ago on SNL, I saw AC/DC and Angus Young wearing the schoolboy outfit looking ridiculous in his 50s.
This is gonna be funky, y'all.
Get out your dancin' shoes for this one and some liniment for the sore joints after...
Speak for yourself, old man! --Just kidding, Royale! Should be some funky fun. 🎉
No Sailin Shoes this show
@@covers_girl
Your comment reminded me of Robert Palmers fantastic 1974 2 part song “Sailin’ Shoes ~ Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley.” A Great show tonight! 😊
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I did some “digging” and just read that Lowell George played guitar on Robert Palmers song(s) I mentioned. And wrote “Sailin’ Shoes.”
Wow, I feel like the village idiot now. I had no idea. Ha! Fabulous guitar slinger~slide player~writer~singer. It’s so fun learning new musical information, with like minded people.
@@Royalle_with_Cheese
I don’t get notifications to join the pre-show on Friday nights, anymore?
Wonder what’s up with that? Noticed you and Brotz talking about messages disappearing, I’m just curious? And kinda upset tbh
Uau grande noite como sempre! Estou aqui no sul do mundo me preparando para lavar as louças do jantar e pronto para acender a velha chama , aquela que nem bombeiro consegue apagar . Um forte abraço para todos envolvidos nesse projeto maravilhoso de restauração desses episódios mágicos. Os anos 70 foram incríveis quem viveu viveu curtiu, dançou, ficou alto e decolou ...
I just bought my 1st album of Elvin Bishops at a thrift store for $1. I actually picked up 48 of them. 1974s “Let It Flow” and I love it. When I’m at the cabin in the summer; w/o wifi, cell phone, tv, news etc…I read, watch dvds, listen to albums & get in touch with nature, in other words I get “reset.” I’m the dishwasher too, ha! Elvins great music playing on the turntable, sure makes the chores more enjoyable!
Funny you mention Elvin. His 82nd birthday is today (Oct.21)!
Happy Birthday, Elvin!
@@Royalle_with_Cheese
Yea! Happy Birthday ELVIN!!! 🎂🎈🎂🎈🎂
I sure hope he’s watching this.
Gosh, he’s great! The WHOLE show is outstanding! 🤩
This episode was incredible! I love that channel is one of the reasons why my spotify playlists have grown so long!😭😆 So excited for the podcast and the discussion about "Bee Gees memories"🥰
Music was awesome in the 70's. Great times unmatched to this very day!
Really good episode. Not a weak moment throughout.
Really hope the Little Feat segments (their 1st appearance on MS) get uploaded as stand-alones. Have been looking forward to seeing them for ages. Make no mistake, the Feat was one of the very very few truly great American bands of the 1970s.
I did some demos for Ed King from Skynyrd back in '99 and I asked him if LS did any gigs with Feat and he told me they were the one band that opened for them that they would sneak their way to the back of the hall to watch. How's that for an endorsement?
@@bloozedaddy Yes, the vast majority of professional working musicians in the 1970s who were at all aware of LF were awestruck by the power of this band. Terrible shame that they didn't experience the commercial success their music warranted.
Absolutely PHENOMENAL performances and capture of these greats in their prime!!
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you !!!
Sly Stone a true renegade. What a great artist, and beautiful human being. "Want to take you higher" still a stand out performance from the original Woodstock.
Rose Stone is the MOST beautiful woman to ever grace a stage 🙏🏼🌹
@@barrysmith8920 I would say , second most, Gladys Knight has my ♥️ and 👁️
@@robmatlock7675
Good choice!
With bigger names like Elvin Bishop, Little Feat, and Sly & the Family Stone, I was pleasantly surprised by Henry Gross. I thought he gave a very good performance with, "Come On Say It!"🧔♀
Top of the line show. Early Little Feat not seen enough. Henry Gross almost like a Raspberries power-pop sound, as contrasted to his hit Shannon
who was Henry Gross drummer?
His second song had a bit of Shannonesque vocalizing.
@@cliffford I do like his singing and vocal range and risk-taking
Sly is an under rated musical genius!
He’s not underrated by anyone who knows anything…
definitely not by musicians ...
Such a great episode!
This show killed it! Thanks!
STILL MISS SLY & FAMILY❤❤❤
no rappin here. just gorgeous Afros. gota love the 70's. recon most of them performers would b in their 70s by now.
Elvin Bishop! 2 time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee!
completely epic performance by Little Feat. Bill Payne goes completely off, I’ve never seen a keyboard breakdown like it. The rest on fire, my god
Rockin' that Super 400 with Sly!
Or L-5?
S&TFS = pure genius
Thank you Sly Stone, thank you man
Thank you Sly Stone, thank you man
Thank you Sly Stone, thank you man
Thank you Sly Stone, thank you man
Each band member is so gifted and has a glorious presence.
This is Classic and whateva you think of Mr. Stewarts shortcomings it's okay to me in my opinion he wrote some of the most classic Music in his Glory Days he would definitely make my Top 20 all time Songwriters... Thanx 4 Sharing!
Can't wait, The Midnight Special!
Get back to me here after you listened to Blessed Relief.
Sid Page playing fiddle with the Family. Previously played with Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, which had recently disbanded.
I thought Sid looked familiar. I was a Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks fan. He sets the violin on fire!
I was wondering if that was Sid!
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He sure did! While looking mighty hot 😍 himself! Sid reminds me of Gregg Allman.
It’s my 1st time seeing him and hearing of the “Hot Licks” 👅 band as I wasn’t exposed to them, when young.
A Great show all the way around! 👍
Sly and the Family Stone released their second record "Dance to the Music" in 1968. The cover has a photo of the band on this modern art type piece kids can climb on. This is installed on the beach of Lake Meritt in Oakland CA.
It's still there.(!)
That’s BILL LORDAN who later went to ROBIN TROWER on drums🙏
Midnight Special youtube channel. Hell yes. Need this more than ever right now.
In my school,students formed clicques and rivalries over just about anything: music, clothes, sports, cars...you name it. But there was one thing that almost everyone could agree on: Sly Stone was baaaad, and that was good. All you had to do was put on a Sly and the Family Stone record, and any room would transform into an instant party. This Midnight Special performance is a perfect example. Check out the intro, where the band members boogie onto the stage, each one adding a layer to a thick, monstrous groove. And then Sly makes his grand entrance, looking as of he just stepped off the Mothership. In their best years, Sly and the Family Stone gave us so much good music and so many good times, all delivered with showmanship and funk beyond the call of duty.
Great to hear Lowell George. I've only heard Linda Ronstadt sing "Willin'." I like his version too.
His is the original!
Wow, Little Feat is one of my favorite bands...but I'll only be able to watch it after I get back from the football game 😁
Sly Stone is awesome.
If you ever get the chance to listen to Little Feat at Ultrasonic Studios, it's wonderous.
Awesome show!
Thanks for posting this gem!
25 minutes in. If this don't move you there is no hope. If your feet ain't tapping and your head ain't moving from side to side check your pulse. What a talent. What a man.
Sly and the Family Stone 💯
Super! Excellent! Still 23.10.2024
One month and two days after I was born! God made me sho nuf foooonkeeeeee!!
ICONIC! 🔥🔥🔥
Man, their Afro’s were tight and together!! I wish I could’ve have one that nicely shaped and round back then.
Amazing! Been waiting for this! 😎
The coolest cat in town
Whenever Sly is the main guest
You Just have the best