Looking for something funkalicious on Friday nite I found Sly and the Family Stone, Tokyo Jazz Festival 2008 -

Damn...I saw Sly at the Newport Festival....uh...I think it was 40 years ago this summer...:shocked:

Anyway, Sly and Rose Stone, with some nice scat singing by Rose's daughter Lisa at the end:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0kSlORbAnQ

Ed Sullivan Show medely ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJYM-Xz_JAg

Love this first song ,,seldom heard .. Sly definately had his own thing going on ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq7Ed0Sk8DI

so good ...classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBIGLIU8W8

Wood Stock 1969 .. Sly Stone invented Funk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBIA7hZE0l0

Thank You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF24CaUrNSI

Everybody is a Star ...pre tour jam session ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5vH-msvN4

Eddie in the u tube If you want me to stay. Check out the other keyboard player. White balding guy, that has to be Paul Shaffer. You think?

Eddie in the u tube If you want me to stay. Check out the other keyboard player. White balding guy, that has to be Paul Shaffer. You think?

Paul ...googled Paul shaffer and Sly Stone ... came up that Youtube clip is from the David Letterman Show and that is Paul Shaffer sitting in ... Learned something eles..,. a biggy ... Larry Graham the bass player for Sly was the first one to Slap a bass and often played percussion on bass that became synonymous with Funk .... Now I have to google and find out what ever happened to Larry Graham ,,, sure its good ..

I knew that was him, although he is younger in that video.

here you go. Became a Jehovahs Witness and toured with Prince for a while too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pbhxB7cGbw

love them - sing a simple song is my all time favorite tune

Nice alternate version of If You Want Me to Stay - a little jazzy Ray Charles type of thing going on -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm2zG7_Ou0U&feature=player_embedded

Found this interview with Sly that preceded that performance - interesting, he talks about what it might be like in the future - the future being 2009...this was in 1974 -

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfCFT9aN5L4&feature=player_embedded

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmoUuo_bQhQ&feature=player_embedded

Really good thread! Vintage stuff.