Sly turned the world on it's ear. It may be hard for people to understand now, but hearing this music at 5 years old in the time it was and still is hard to describe. He crossed all these boundaries and people did not know how to handle it. I feel his music still is not fully understood.
Well I'm 37 years old from Scotland and grew up always listening to this in the car with my dad as a young kid through to a teenager. Still love this band.
I listen to Riot every summer. I hear new things in the mix constantly. It's probably, along with The Beatles, Exile on Mainstreet, Electric Ladyland, Bitches Brew, American Beauty, and Station to Station, one of 10 records to make my Desert Island Discs selection, if I had to, foregoing all the rest of recorded music for the dusky crystalline beauty of these records. I like them dense and druggy. Even for a now sober person its heady and hypnotic, yet melodic in a way that gets branded onto your brain synapses, and rhythmic in a way that creates a joyous expectation for what's around the next dark corner.
I remember one concert where they were late coming out and people were getting annoyed; some left. Then Sly (after the band did something to get him at least a little straight) came out and they went right into "Dance to the Music'. That crowd did a 180 and people were just dancin' away. I never saw anything like it.
Listen to rhythmic interaction between Sly on the tambourine and drummer Greg Errico between 6:23 - 6:30. That little snippet is a wonderful example of the rhythmic genius of Sly...
Last televised performance with the original band. At this point, drugs had ravaged this group, especially Sly. I still have no idea how he survived through the 70s. If you can handle the cringe factor, watch the drug induced interview after the performance. Wow!! Still, by all accounts an awesome show!
Dick Cavett was a brilliant host! For that time most TV show host were horrendously insulting and ignorant. He always gave his guests the benefit of the doubt , even when it may land upon his head.
I learn a lot from my man Sly Stone. I don't care what anybody say about my man Sly. He really help change the world back in the mid 60s & 70s. And he was just what this fuck up society needed. He pull the blacks & whites together. with his good old funky psychedelic music. A musical funky genius.....Sincerely, Billy Bee McConnell. And Iam funky right along with it.
It's not that he did drugs, which he obviously did - but that he accomplished ten times what other musicians could do -- and while he was on drugs. They couldn't even do it dead straight. He was incredible. His best - "There's A Riot Going On" was ahead of its time, and involved a fair amount of drugs.
The fact that somebody makes great music doesn't mean that they know how to handle finances, constant pressure from the public or all the sleazy people who are just out to make anything they can off of them. It only means that they play great music. The music business is a nightmare world.
I saw the performance with my maternal grandmother. I might not had been or just turned 12. I learned much about American popular music history watching the performance. For example, this song is a secularized Pentecostal church performance. Also comps LOUIS JORDAN and LOUIS ARMSTRONG’s HOT FIVE and HOT SEVEN. This configuration of the band births PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC in a year or two. My MAMA was tapping her foot after a few minutes. Confirmed I’d $pent well to own the STAND! album.
I think this performance really speaks to the magnitude of just how cool a cat Sly was. This is right before the original line up separated. You can see it at the beginning of the performance it does seem like everyone was going through the motions there was a ton of pressure on the group from Sly's rampant paranoia from drug use. You can really see the strain on Greg's face during Sly's harmonica solo. Then just like magic, Sly gets it together and the band kills the rest of the song the whole vibe changes!
I Was Influenced. By SlyTo Become Who I Am Today When I Saw Him With The Family Stone In Concert At Symphony Hall In Newark, New Jersey In 1970 Now I Am A Singer, Musician, And Songwriter. I Will Allways Love This Band. Sly And The Family Stone.
Comparing a Beatles performance to a Sly Stone performance is like comparing a lukewarm soup to a volcanic outburst. Beatles were not funky at all, not saying they were bad, but too different to be compared
I suggest this is the best performance on television. I saw original band twice at Madison Square Garden. This song was closing number both concerts and not until I attended two Grateful Dead shows did I witness and participate in pandemonium prompted by musical performance. I’d imagine only James Brown or Elvis Presley or bobby sock era Frank Sinatra or the Beatles or the Rolling Stomes or Prince….
This performance still enthralls me. My ma's ma allowed me to stay up to watch the segment. I was still an elementary school student but I owned STAND and GREATEST HITS and I convinced mama to sit with me for the segment. This wasn't her blues, I could tell looking at her face; however, she did tap her left foot in time with the drummer. I didn't follow well the interview post performance, but as an adult I suggest the FUN is a tribute to SLY's days as a dj in SF. He bests Cavett, and he's under the influence, too. Could had been a great interviewer and host for a music show on radio or television. Or he could had been a more prolific artist with better guidance and care. Besides COLTRANE and BOWIE and IVES, who else? Oh, REED, MILES and GLASS deserve kudos.
This song gets better as it goes. Sly live did that a lot. At first you would be groovin' , then suddenly you were lost in the ozone and not wanting to come down.
Ethan Hill I was a 10 year old white female. I fell in love with Sly and The Family Stone. I use to imitate Sly. They were so great . Cynthia Robinson on her horn. All of them ! The mix of it all. The Black and White. , The music. , the horns , funk , clothes. The band was the first of its kind to mix race. All the songs were so good. I bought my first record , a 45 of "Every Day People " for 99 cents in 1968. .......To bad Sly didn't collaborate with Prince like Larry Graham did.
April West: I recall where I was when I first heard EVERYDAY PEOPLE. A fourth grade classmate, the other good student nerd, said "I bet you'll like this song" as he pressed to my right ear the transistor radio. I saw this performance live on TV. Saw the band five times. You have excellent taste in music.
@@brötzmannsax Greg Errico left the band in either late June or early July of 1971. If you reference the bands appearance on Dick Cavett in April 1970 performing Thank Ya, you will see the resemblance between the two drummers. This is clearly Greg. ua-cam.com/video/yH1FHrwLYZw/v-deo.html
Larry Graham on bass, Freddie stone on guitar, Cynthia on trumpet, sister rose on keyboard and the great sly stone in front and your focus is on the drummer? That's about " whyt".
At woodstock this nigga was high AF, one of the promoters had to come into his dressing room and shake him really hard to get Sly to go on stage. It worked, and his performance was legendary.
@phoneix91 No offense man, but Sly had to be the biggest genius on the music scene. He was also the most pressured, the most under-pressure musician out there. What do you expect was going to happen? He was the only black/white group, he had the double pressure of being black and very big, and in R&Roll. Do some reading!!! There's a reason for the drugs.
Those people were bad. This must be one of the last times they were all together. Cynthia Jerry Craig Freddie Sister Rossie Larry Sly The Church Of The Family Stone
Just don't see this kinda transcending live energy on talk shows anymore. Probably cause they'd never be allowed to play live/stoned or unhinged in an artificial studio environment which robs them of all natural poise
He's alive, just like you are. Do you know why you are alive? Only God can answer. Take off your blinders, free your mind, and just thank God that today, you read this. PEACE
@lilyslimit That's interesting about success/stardom being a gateway drug. It makes perfect sense. I think the people who have the skills to handle that kind of fame are very few and they have to be surrounded by good people who will look out for them.
@endofsomething Rick James said it best..."Cocaine..." Yeah, the band were much better on Ed Sullivan and a lot of their earlier TV appearances. ...and WHAT is up with the dead animal on Larry's head?
Could not argue against point regarding live performances; nonetheless this performance is as grand and important as the Woodstock performance. Woodstock is still relevant point of cultural relevance. Ed Sullivan Show? Not so much.
The drummer's either Greg Errico or Gerry Gibson. Greg was the original drummer, but he left in 1971. This was around the time they did There's A Riot Goin' On, everyone was on lots of drugs, and Sly had Mafia gangsters managing the band.
this may be the final tv performance with Larry Graham on bass
Sly turned the world on it's ear.
It may be hard for people to understand now, but hearing this music at 5 years old in the time it was and still is hard to describe. He crossed all these boundaries and people did not know how to handle it. I feel his music still is not fully understood.
Well I'm 37 years old from Scotland and grew up always listening to this in the car with my dad as a young kid through to a teenager. Still love this band.
I listen to Riot every summer. I hear new things in the mix constantly. It's probably, along with The Beatles, Exile on Mainstreet, Electric Ladyland, Bitches Brew, American Beauty, and Station to Station, one of 10 records to make my Desert Island Discs selection, if I had to, foregoing all the rest of recorded music for the dusky crystalline beauty of these records. I like them dense and druggy. Even for a now sober person its heady and hypnotic, yet melodic in a way that gets branded onto your brain synapses, and rhythmic in a way that creates a joyous expectation for what's around the next dark corner.
Nothing touches the original lineup of Sly, Freddie, Larry, Cynthia, Greg, Rosie and Jerry!
I remember one concert where they were late coming out and people were getting annoyed; some left. Then Sly (after the band did something to get him at least a little straight) came out and they went right into "Dance to the Music'. That crowd did a 180 and people were just dancin' away. I never saw anything like it.
ya he did a lot of PCPand would occasionally pass out and have shows canceled. but he hit back w cocaine
Listen to rhythmic interaction between Sly on the tambourine and drummer Greg Errico between 6:23 - 6:30. That little snippet is a wonderful example of the rhythmic genius of Sly...
Incredible Performance...Sly inspired everybody that came after him...they all copied his foundational and musical blueprint
Last televised performance with the original band. At this point, drugs had ravaged this group, especially Sly. I still have no idea how he survived through the 70s. If you can handle the cringe factor, watch the drug induced interview after the performance. Wow!! Still, by all accounts an awesome show!
Check out the 1968 Fillmore East recordings. Best live audio of Sly's band that I've ever heard.
@@1blastman That's a great suggestion. My brother gifted me those shows for a birthday present. I love that guy.
This is a treasure. Two years after Woodstock. Wow.
Dick Cavett was so hip and corny at the same time
Good LOOKING OUT
He’s a YALE legend, by golly.
Yalies are hip and corny. Princtonians are corny. harvards are plain arrogant.
Dick Cavett was a brilliant host! For that time most TV show host were horrendously insulting and ignorant. He always gave his guests the benefit of the doubt , even when it may land upon his head.
Sounds like THE PARTY was still going on for Sly and FAMILY !
I learn a lot from my man Sly Stone. I don't care what anybody say about my man Sly. He really help change the world back in the mid 60s & 70s. And he was just what this fuck up society needed. He pull the blacks & whites together. with his good old funky psychedelic music. A musical funky genius.....Sincerely, Billy Bee McConnell. And Iam funky right along with it.
4:08 drum breaks makes me to listen this version over and over, Greg is best.
It's not that he did drugs, which he obviously did - but that he accomplished ten times what other musicians could do -- and while he was on drugs. They couldn't even do it dead straight. He was incredible. His best - "There's A Riot Going On" was ahead of its time, and involved a fair amount of drugs.
The fact that somebody makes great music doesn't mean that they know how to handle finances, constant pressure from the public or all the sleazy people who are just out to make anything they can off of them. It only means that they play great music. The music business is a nightmare world.
THAT PART
Sly is High but DAMN I love him and his music.
This IS BEST live performance of ALL TIME on broadcast tv.
Someone FINALLY put this up!!!! Thank you I never seen the actual performance but I dread watching the interview following it.
I saw the performance with my maternal grandmother. I might not had been or just turned 12. I learned much about American popular music history watching the performance. For example, this song is a secularized Pentecostal church performance. Also comps LOUIS JORDAN and LOUIS ARMSTRONG’s HOT FIVE and HOT SEVEN. This configuration of the band births PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC in a year or two. My MAMA was tapping her foot after a few minutes. Confirmed I’d $pent well to own the STAND! album.
I think this performance really speaks to the magnitude of just how cool a cat Sly was. This is right before the original line up separated. You can see it at the beginning of the performance it does seem like everyone was going through the motions there was a ton of pressure on the group from Sly's rampant paranoia from drug use. You can really see the strain on Greg's face during Sly's harmonica solo. Then just like magic, Sly gets it together and the band kills the rest of the song the whole vibe changes!
My favorite band and is this my fav performance of Sly's funky dancing!!
The Camera Man didn't have a clue.
The ultimate ✨soul music✨ innovator
and historic 🌟game changer🌟
The One 🎼 And Only 🎇 Sly Stone 🎇
Love the red horn
oh i think Sly and the Family Stone are definately in the ranks of The Beatles
You are correct.
Accurate
The Stand!/There's a Riot Goin' On peak is one that very few bands ever matched
I Was Influenced. By SlyTo Become Who I Am Today When I Saw Him With The Family Stone In Concert At Symphony Hall In Newark, New Jersey In 1970 Now I Am A Singer, Musician, And Songwriter. I Will Allways Love This Band. Sly And The Family Stone.
Comparing a Beatles performance to a Sly Stone performance is like comparing a lukewarm soup to a volcanic outburst. Beatles were not funky at all, not saying they were bad, but too different to be compared
I never get tired of watching this. They are all so talented. Love how they're always gettin down and in synch. Magic!!
sly is the man.
Not the best performance by the Family, but still a splendid performance nonetheless.
I suggest this is the best performance on television.
I saw original band twice at Madison Square Garden. This song was closing number both concerts and not until I attended two Grateful Dead shows did I witness and participate in pandemonium prompted by musical performance. I’d imagine only James Brown or Elvis Presley or bobby sock era Frank Sinatra or the Beatles or the Rolling Stomes or Prince….
This performance still enthralls me. My ma's ma allowed me to stay up to watch the segment. I was still an elementary school student but I owned STAND and GREATEST HITS and I convinced mama to sit with me for the segment. This wasn't her blues, I could tell looking at her face; however, she did tap her left foot in time with the drummer.
I didn't follow well the interview post performance, but as an adult I suggest the FUN is a tribute to SLY's days as a dj in SF. He bests Cavett, and he's under the influence, too. Could had been a great interviewer and host for a music show on radio or television. Or he could had been a more prolific artist with better guidance and care. Besides COLTRANE and BOWIE and IVES, who else? Oh, REED, MILES and GLASS deserve kudos.
Ethan Hill one of the obsolutely greatest songs ever penned I wish I could have seen him live
This song gets better as it goes. Sly live did that a lot. At first you would be groovin' , then suddenly you were lost in the ozone and not wanting to come down.
Ethan Hill I was a 10 year old white female. I fell in love with Sly and The Family Stone. I use to imitate Sly. They were so great . Cynthia Robinson on her horn. All of them ! The mix of it all. The Black and White. , The music. , the horns , funk , clothes. The band was the first of its kind to mix race. All the songs were so good. I bought my first record , a 45 of "Every Day People " for 99 cents in 1968. .......To bad Sly didn't collaborate with Prince like Larry Graham did.
April West: I recall where I was when I first heard EVERYDAY PEOPLE. A fourth grade classmate, the other good student nerd, said "I bet you'll like this song" as he pressed to my right ear the transistor radio. I saw this performance live on TV. Saw the band five times.
You have excellent taste in music.
Fresh is one of the 10 best albums on the planet
Clapped before the introduction..Let's Go!!
think fronting that band was the only thing that made sense to Sly. it was his zone to thrive in.
Sly at his grittiest and his funkiest. This version has Cynthia and Larry Graham and Rose's vocals. This just can't be duplicated. love it.
TOTALLY AGREE
OMG what an incredible performance, Greg Errico on the drums and the entire band really cranked it ...
Yes AMAZING drum performance.
Greg Errico had already left, this is Gerry Gibson who would later be replaced by Andy Newmark.
@@brötzmannsax Greg Errico left the band in either late June or early July of 1971. If you reference the bands appearance on Dick Cavett in April 1970 performing Thank Ya, you will see the resemblance between the two drummers. This is clearly Greg. ua-cam.com/video/yH1FHrwLYZw/v-deo.html
@@brötzmannsax no it's Greg
Larry Graham on bass, Freddie stone on guitar, Cynthia on trumpet, sister rose on keyboard and the great sly stone in front and your focus is on the drummer? That's about " whyt".
YES! YES! YES!!!!!!!!!!
The Sly's the limit!
🌺 Love it !!
What an awesome comment !!
such crazy funky music for the day! So excited in a pre-dominatly drugged, spaced out type musical atmosphere.
This is another Gospel SONG
This IS hands down all time best live televised music performance in American history. Fcuk We Are The World or the Beatles on Sullivan.
At woodstock this nigga was high AF, one of the promoters had to come into his dressing room and shake him really hard to get Sly to go on stage. It worked, and his performance was legendary.
Goddamn that was tight, thank god they had the good sense not to just use a backing track
Wasn't actually expecting it to be that tight. Even the vocals.
Wow, That is as funky and joyful as music can be. Too bad Sly took to drugs. Ruined a career that still could be today.
@phoneix91
No offense man, but Sly had to be the biggest genius on the music scene. He was also the most pressured, the most under-pressure musician out there. What do you expect was going to happen? He was the only black/white group, he had the double pressure of being black and very big, and in R&Roll. Do some reading!!! There's a reason for the drugs.
Those people were bad.
This must be one of the last times they were all together.
Cynthia Jerry Craig Freddie Sister Rossie Larry Sly The Church Of The Family Stone
Pure funk and soul. undiluted joy. Fuck yes.
When did Greg leave? I thought he left in 1970 but that looks like him on drums in 71
@Alexltavares go to any Pentecostal church (where Sly grew up in) and you'll hear rhythmic genius like this all the time! ;)
The roots are in the jungles of old Africa
Yes !!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life
Almost like Sly was throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what would stick...
Sly be wasted.
Then he went and sat down for the interview and was so stoned he couldn't follow anything going on at all. Unreal.
I love when he gets carried away with his tambourine at the end of the song...Sly rocks !!!
Natural genius.
He studied music theory in junior college so well-schooled natural genius denotes perfectly SLY STONE.
That's right, I don't give a Funk.
hey does he have a kid with cynthia i didnt know they were freaking tho
...s-w-e-e-t fedora. hand crafted to fit that sassy afro eh!
Must have been really foggy in the studio that day.
Yup, Sly was definitely taking it 'higher'.
;-)
Legends!
What on Earth is Larry Graham wearing?
FUNKY BEAT DROPPED ON 4:36.White dude killin' those drums!I LOVE IT!!!Give the drummer some-6:23
God bless you. Great footage
Just plain Bad Ass Funk!
sly must have been recording "there's a riot goin on" right around this time
Legendary 😎
Feet dont fail me now!
I'm so glad they were sober!!!
Don’t do drugs y’all
Is that Larry Graham on bass?
Yes.
is tht wolfman jack in the group
Mel Jones The Wolfman is everywhere.
Yes, that was Jack
I don't think Sly could have been much higher here & still been Coherent
Just don't see this kinda transcending live energy on talk shows anymore. Probably cause they'd never be allowed to play live/stoned or unhinged in an artificial studio environment which robs them of all natural poise
He's alive, just like you are. Do you know why you are alive? Only God can answer. Take off your blinders, free your mind, and just thank God that today, you read this.
PEACE
Sly❤
@lilyslimit That's interesting about success/stardom being a gateway drug. It makes perfect sense. I think the people who have the skills to handle that kind of fame are very few and they have to be surrounded by good people who will look out for them.
Stupendous!!!!!!!
@Omegasupreme1078 The drummer here is still Gregg Errico; he must have left shortly afterwards
@bluewine1 I was thinking the same thing. How in the hell did he keep his leg from cramping? Dude was on fire.
i think the eagles copied that riff they play at 1:51, in the song "witchy woman" released 3 years after higher
what's wrong with drugs?
Look up on Google about Sly Stone and how he is now.. he is homeless and broke
What is soul?
@Chuckdeezul Well his band let him sound good. If they were all in his state, it be chaos
@leedrennan Stick to Clapton and leave the FUNK to those who dig it, ah-rite???
Not the tightest performance, but great vibe nonetheless..
@endofsomething Rick James said it best..."Cocaine..." Yeah, the band were much better on Ed Sullivan and a lot of their earlier TV appearances.
...and WHAT is up with the dead animal on Larry's head?
Could not argue against point regarding live performances; nonetheless this performance is as grand and important as the Woodstock performance. Woodstock is still relevant point of cultural relevance. Ed Sullivan Show? Not so much.
The drummer's either Greg Errico or Gerry Gibson. Greg was the original drummer, but he left in 1971. This was around the time they did There's A Riot Goin' On, everyone was on lots of drugs, and Sly had Mafia gangsters managing the band.
Omegasupreme1078 That's Errico, it is in fact the whole original band.
Church Fonk!
How could two cretins dislike this funk extravaganza ??
sly seems out off ...is mind ! ahaha
Great performance..........but somebody's on dat stuff!
Oh Man That Tops A Lot ~ Energy ~ Aaaahhhhh
Past, Present, N FUTURE
lol Sly is too high for T.V.
@ratbasket his music still stands
@Alexltavares that's awesome. Great catch
Back in the day, man!
Can't get no funkier
6 mins 33 secnds..
I disagree
such a brilliant musical mind
threw his life away
remixing? fuck that, JAM
wow that drummer is the bomb! what's his name?
R.G. Stentje greg errico
it sounds bad!!!
Eduardo thoreum not really
And this is considered talent?
it depends on your definition of "elite".
If this is your definition...well.
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