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Sly and the Family Stone: Greatest American band or no?
Posted on 5/8/16 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 5/8/16 at 3:51 pm
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Haven't listened to much of their albums with exception to their main hits(which are ace) so I couldn't unequivocally agree with that assessment. What I do know is how influential and cutting edge they were in the context of their time and Sly was a massive influence on Prince and the progressive funk movement of the 70s.
What are your thoughts?
Haven't listened to much of their albums with exception to their main hits(which are ace) so I couldn't unequivocally agree with that assessment. What I do know is how influential and cutting edge they were in the context of their time and Sly was a massive influence on Prince and the progressive funk movement of the 70s.
What are your thoughts?
This post was edited on 5/8/16 at 3:52 pm
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Posted on 5/8/16 at 3:55 pm to ThePTExperience1969
I think it is impossible to say who is the Greatest American Band or even try to give my opinion on who that would be. They are awesome though and certainly up there and to me are one of the great American bands.
This post was edited on 5/8/16 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 5/8/16 at 4:04 pm to ThePTExperience1969
quote:JOURNEY
Greatest American band
Posted on 5/8/16 at 4:14 pm to ThePTExperience1969
I think Aerosmith and the Eagles would rank far above them. Not saying they're bad but certainly not greatest.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 4:18 pm to ThePTExperience1969
quote:
Sly and the Family Stone: Greatest American band or no?
Good job giving the Backstreet Boys their just due.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 4:54 pm to ThePTExperience1969
quote:
Sly
One of the greats in r ' r. Enormously influential.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 5:42 pm to ThePTExperience1969
Uh, no.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 8:53 pm to ThePTExperience1969
quote:The Beach Boys
Greatest American band
Posted on 5/8/16 at 9:25 pm to ThePTExperience1969
Too much competition to say they are the greatest but their Woodstock set rivals the best live performances ever .
Dance to the Music, Hey Music Lover, Wanna Take You Higher
Dance to the Music, Hey Music Lover, Wanna Take You Higher
Posted on 5/9/16 at 9:07 am to ThePTExperience1969
Sly Stone was a genius who burned very brightly for a few years, and then his demons got the better of him. His music was an amalgam of other popular styles that achieved a unique crossover appeal. Sly and the Family Stone were not the best band ever, but they were the best at what they did.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 3:16 pm to ThePTExperience1969
By almost any metric, yes. They are a viable contender for the Greatest American Rock Band. Hugely influential, commercially successful, critically acclaimed, legendary live shows, and pretty good longevity. They'd score well on any ranking rubric.
Still not REM, though.
Still not REM, though.
Posted on 5/9/16 at 3:54 pm to ThePTExperience1969
Good, really good but no where near Tower of Power in terms of musicianship. And that's just staying in the genre.
Posted on 5/10/16 at 8:40 pm to ThePTExperience1969
The answer to any - GOAT? thread is always:
No.
Always.
No.
Always.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 10:11 am to ThePTExperience1969
They're truly solid and transformed music from the pop orientation of the 1960s to 1970s rock having lyrics of greater social weight and importance.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 12:02 pm to ThePTExperience1969
sly stone was a stone cold freak
raised on gospel songs
but when he got high on funk and skunk
he too us all along
the family stone was black and white
other colors too
he stormed the walls of prejudice
his music busted through
That's from a song I wrote about Sly, Hendrix and Arthur Lee: three psychalelicized black men who revolution-ized pop music.
Sly is truly that important--to me personally as a Mt. Olympic-level talent--and to the entire universe of pop music.
Sly ...
raised on gospel songs
but when he got high on funk and skunk
he too us all along
the family stone was black and white
other colors too
he stormed the walls of prejudice
his music busted through
That's from a song I wrote about Sly, Hendrix and Arthur Lee: three psychalelicized black men who revolution-ized pop music.
Sly is truly that important--to me personally as a Mt. Olympic-level talent--and to the entire universe of pop music.
Sly ...Posted on 5/22/16 at 6:19 pm to ThePTExperience1969
They were very good. I hear their hits today and they still sound fresh and new.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 10:35 pm to ThePTExperience1969
no
Posted on 5/23/16 at 9:16 am to ThePTExperience1969
I got to see them at Woodstock and they started playing when everyone was peaking on acid.
I never heard anything as loud as 400,000 people shouting "higher!"
The first time I got to see them live was in a small theater in Atlanta.
Sly was notorious for being late and he was late that night.
When they finally got on stage he apologized for being late and said the band only had time to play for one hour but they were going to play nonstop for that hour and they did.
He and his sister ran through the crowd singing like they did on the Ed Sullivan Show and it was incredible.
I loved that Sly didn't hate white people and always made it clear that black and white people should get along.
Maybe Sly and the Family Stone isn't the greatest American band but it is one of the greatest.
I never heard anything as loud as 400,000 people shouting "higher!"
The first time I got to see them live was in a small theater in Atlanta.
Sly was notorious for being late and he was late that night.
When they finally got on stage he apologized for being late and said the band only had time to play for one hour but they were going to play nonstop for that hour and they did.
He and his sister ran through the crowd singing like they did on the Ed Sullivan Show and it was incredible.
I loved that Sly didn't hate white people and always made it clear that black and white people should get along.
Maybe Sly and the Family Stone isn't the greatest American band but it is one of the greatest.
This post was edited on 5/23/16 at 9:20 am
Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:21 pm to ThePTExperience1969
Yes. The exposition of the early 60s led to a renaissance of soul.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 8:06 am to ThePTExperience1969
Three pages in and no love for Grand Funk Railroad?
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