Sly & The Family Stone Medley

[sacrowley11]

i love slys voice like damn

[Devildance1234]

Cynthia Robinson's voice has been terrifying the shit out of me since I started listening to Sly and the Family Stone...and I've love it!

[olskoolrich]

Before Parliament Funkadelic, War, Tower of Power...there was Sly and the Family Stone!

[batalion666]

after Hendrix death Sly was the King

[alastairjr40]

Funky bros.

[darkmoon24]

They dont make good music like this anymore </3

[a1974h]

This never fails to make me happy.

[BRICKHARRELL007]

RAW AND FUNKY ENTERTAINER--HE WAS A PIONEER FOR SURE! RHYTHM DOWN INSIDE HIS BONES!

[mickiew4]

Larry Graham!! Funkiest man of all time. Look at that feather, man, just look

[PiggusVomitus]

and the band was integrated!!

[SirDruhHu]

Damn, the drummers arms are crazy stiff. Ha. It's still all good though.

[grantgeertsmamusic]

@SirDruhHu I've always thought the same thing, but there's no denying that he was an innovator. I would never play drums like this though. Maybe I should start!

[richiitextex]

Ray Charles dancing in the audicence

[eddyb6666]

"ALL IS WELL , GO HOME"

[MrMickeybitzko]

Thanks for posting this. Sly is a legend and more people would know his name today if newer artists were covering his songs. For instance, check out Dicey and Paprika's version of "Everyday People" to see how two weird white chicks mutate a classic Stone tune.

[DrWGONZALEZ]

just read a story that sly is homeless, living out of van in LA, he is broke

[cro44magnum]

It comes as no surprise that a mushroom-eating, macrame-wearing longhair like Tommy Smothers would have such groovy and aware people on his show.

[sbolin]

This group had some of the great songs of the 70s. Hope Sly gets it together and gets another chance.

[drfink100]

Genius,

For all u Squares that found this via the news about sly.

This is F_U_N_K!

[jomdeluise]

I just read a news article that said Fly Stone is homeless and living in a van, Brittany Spears, The Assholes from U2 and Lil' friggin John are RICH out the ASS and living fat!!! THE WORLD IS COMPLETELY BACKWARDS AND FUCKED UP. ok...... i'm calm now......

[IshDat1KiD]

The 70s was definitely an awesomely odd age.

[crayc69]

whats up with the dude in the end giving that kid the pedophile stare down lol

[sbolin]

@crayc69 That's Tommy Smothers and the show is The Smothers Brothers. It was part of his goofy schtick

[wdooleyful]

message music I love it.

[Mellifleur]

way ahead of their time but some of the best music ever !!!

[olskoolrich]

Mushrooms anyone? LOL This was awesome!

[deb557]

A group of "everyday people" having a good time... what a wonderful world! :)

[bpsombekke]

1.56 thought for a second there I was looking at/listening to Gil Scott-Heron

[indeman17]

Takes me back. The 60 & 70's groups had it going on with style, class and talent. Look at that stage towards the end. No racism, just ppl having a good time!

[VinnWi]

Look at the clothes of everyone! OMG i want a society like that!

[agedude]

Got Roger dancing in the front row, where's Rerun?

[ColdOasisU2]

one of my favourite artists in rock

[350vette2003]

Same here. Would much rather hear the sixties or seventies music. Class, style and real performances. Took pride in the music and attire. The lyrics had meaning!

[350vette2003]

You gotta love the outfits! They took such pride in their attire back then!

[testaferro]

Dude! Can Larry Graham possibly be any cooler? I don't think so...

Sly was the funkiest mofo ever. You can almost see him oozing pure SOUL. The guy was ridiculously talented.

[AaronF526]

I did a cover of Everyday People on acoustic guitar. Check it out.

[jabbaJAWZ86]

soul > money. the concepts been lost.

[sjim1994]

music is not like this today,

back then there was REAL music, real singers, real musicians, real instruments.

connecting with the crowd

now its all auto tuned, and so staged.

[Mofudos]

@sjim1994 You're talking about pop music. Dig a bit deeper and you'll find that great music is still being made.

[sjim1994]

@Mofudos true, i listen to REAL music, im not very mainstream. But music kinda sounds the same these days. people who are getting discovered are unorginal, i like very few mainstream artist.

[TheDiscoDuke]

three people just can't handle the soul

[paultoner01]

EPIC!!!

[garyc2]

If I was in that audience and that trumpet lady shouted @ me like that. I would do as she said.

This is her " DANCE MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!" This is me "ok :( "

[JPfromFlint]

3:05 the guy in the cream suit was trying to do the funky chicken but looked like he was doing the timid turkey!

[Ctorres716]

love this LIVE performance! Sly n the Fam Stone AWESOME performance -- everyone is in great voice and they are handling it music wize -- if you have more live performances post them ... awesome.

[mutenkayasai]

Dance to The Music!! Wow That Voice!

[grantgeertsmamusic]

I have always liked Sly & the Family Stone, but this is maybe the greatest live performance I have ever seen in my life. I had no idea what they could do on stage!

[miggy221]

the entire audience are toffs.

[sky7sosa]

that drummer raped that song at 2:40

[lwarteman]

AWESOME!!!!



[jamesdewer]

Talent like this cannot be suppressed. It just shines through.

[Cowzilla15]

How can that dick talk about the Beatles after that excellent performance?

[yoginiclare]

now THATS CLASS! :) xxx

[Bongus75]

people today listen dubstep and other stuff...but I guess they will never feel what we did the first time we heard these tracks ;-)

[Cowzilla15]

@Bongus75 I'm 18 and I'm feeling it :)

[jasoneducator]

Two people have been frozen in time. They simply cannot dance.

[yipyipR]

hahaha hilarious

[nativeheartiAM]

Wowzers!...I love the diversity, unity and just plain fun these people were having in this vid. Sly is very talented to incorporate his dancing audience up on stage. He had them spellbound. Makes me wish I was there.....groovy man!

[lynfendleyfoster]

Even us white kids can dance to this, LOL! Sly is the coolest man in music. ;-)

[lynfendleyfoster]

I had that exact same outfit Sly's wearing...LOL!

[TheNewsoul2]

I didn't know that Sandy Duncan looked that hot in the late 60's great video by the greatest American Rock Band of all time

[dixielatino]

Music in america was never better than the 70's.

[olesne]

No Lip sincing! Wow what an amazing concept! People with talent playing music without pro tools and auto tuning. What will they think of next?!

[mashui99]

@olesne And with instruments not computers!

[BedStuyBro]

A-MA-ZING!

[MalLackey]

Then came along rap and ruined this funky of music.

[mrwustyle1]

oh god its just sooo good! damn

[renne411]

its good 2 see real gifted n talented "BLACK"musicians.. unlike this electronic crap..i mean rap thats being produced today *****

[chairjockey1]

If you watch this and your head ain't bopping and your body ain't flopping....then you are DEAD!!! Long live the 70's!!!!!!!!!!!

[stormin300]

@chairjockey1 Right on Brother!! I was gettin down to the boogy!!

[Cutter1018]

@chairjockey1 Ok... A decade of drugs, decadence, depression, Jimmy Carter, small hedges behind every pair of thongs, and people dressing like tripping transvestites... ya ok... You can have the 70's.. I'll keep the 90's, with the likes of grunge, hard rock, flannel, a booming economy, and shaved poonany, thank you very much

[Hildy2E]

Happy Birthday brother!!!

[jaggizle11]

the white guy at the end... LOL

[SFOBennett]

@jaggizle11 That's Tommy Smothers, part of the Smothers Brothers. This clip is from their show. He played dumb, but he was far left politically, and the reason the network eventually canceled their show (because of their anti-war stance during the Vietnam war.)

[jaggizle11]

@SFOBennett Sorry, I'm talking about the white guy who can't dance with the blue sweater on.

[TheNorthernSoulKing]

Man this was music if I had only grown up back than. Todays music stinks for the most part. Thank you for posting this

[tiana1017]

I could just imagine how innovated and cool they were considered to have music like this and to have dressed in threads or clothes like this.. they were something else, I love sly and the family stone

and I like the funky chicken, I like the way Marlon Jackson from the Jackson 5 would dance the funky chicken

[bencrea1]

he was the best, what a voice

[needname10]

i wonder what happened to the clothing....

[FreddMunster]

Her name is Cynthia... She rocks indeed!!!!

[sicilianwop]

Hey that's Reg on What's Happening...dancing cool...

[taliaoct1]

why dont we have groups like this anymore!! music today is not what it was back in the days!!

[Subwayguy98]

Nothing in the muisc worlsd can make ya feel as good as some great funk!

[theresadelight]

This just made my day!

[d025009]

Awesome!!!

[onabernie]

goin mad there was no yokes out back in the 70's....seen prince live a couple of times, closest i'll ever get to sly i think.........

[dewijones67]

I saw George Clinton with Funkadelic and Parliment last summer that came very close but this is really cool...!

[The1TCM1]

this is going to be blastin on Monday!!!!!!!!!!

[rjam1974]

Its safe to say you won't ever see anything like this on a stage again. I don't see any group in the near future that can incorporate a sound that brings people from all ethnic groups together like Sly&Family Stone did as seen in the footage

[ghm113]

The chick on the horn (Cynthia Robinson) is not Sly's sister. They actually had a daughter together many years later.

[maktye]

the chick on the horn is his little sister

[rjam1974]

@maktye His little little sister is on the piano next to him

[60sdude]

Y is rudeness takeing over the world. Can good music take Over its place?!

[freakystyley4000]

VERY diverse band... male and female, black and white. You couldn't market that today but who gives a damn. The music speaks for itself!!!

[8aPeach2]

I always had the hots for Sly and Freddie's sister, Rose ;-P

[DrMarmaladeWhoFace]

I AM BORN IN THE WROOOOOOOOOOOOONG TIME DAMMIT!

[RareBird0]

@DrMarmaladeWhoFace

My first concert was Sly at Madison Square Garden 1970. What a baptism into live music. 

[DrMarmaladeWhoFace]

@RareBird0

Aww Jealous man that's so cool!

[achellman74]

If the universe is always in balance, then at least 3 or 4 buzillion people had to give up all their funk quotient just for the first 20 seconds of that clip.

[cassettepat]

lol at the guy infornt of the drummer at 3:15

[Alexltavares]

@cassettepat

LMAO! Was that the funky chicken? Greg Errico must've been like, "who is this dude?"

[cassettepat]

@Alexltavares haha brilliant what a legend

[chimptor50]

Man oh man that white dude in the blue shirt couldn't buy any rhythm!! It was like watching someone who had never heard music before hearing it for the first time!!!

[ian7410]

the last 20 seconds is so wierd :P

[MaharishiMahaYogi]

Wonder what ever happened to Sly ?

[bapyou]

This was the Smothers Brothers Show.

[southernmagnus]

Sly's voice is like a soul flamethrower.

[southernmagnus]

This music can save your soul.

[starryian007]

I love that lady's Brooklyn accent as introduces them ....... heaars sly aynd da faymaly stown!

Great stuff!

[hechoenmexicoo]

asi o ms putos

[BALLYJUNKIE]

GOOD BY HIP-HOP POSERS WHO SAMPLE OTHER PEOPLE MUSIC ....TAKE A LESSON ....THESE CATS COULD PLAY .....JAMMIN UNTIL THE BREAK OF DAWN

[DanielSchmidt94521]

By watching this video you would think people were more together then they are today. I mean go watch this video, and then go watch Fox News. White and black people dancing together, now we have this Rap crap where people promote shootings, death, uneducation, violence, rape, and prison life.

[HumbertoPoubel]

esta trupetista que fica gritanto mora aqui em Sampa e vende coisas na rua...kakaka

[frank47hammer]

The inventors of Funk and the precursors to Rap

[tigerbull77]

miss this dancing on stage -great sly--last time did this was at bumbershoot with george clinton

[RMCDisciple]

Check out Roger from "What's Happening" at 1:29. Great stuff.

[JColeM7785]

Sly....Drake's uncle.

[12AXseven]

What was black folks thinking throw away all the instruments and just walk around speaking in rymes enough rap bring back the funk bands!!!

[exnewsanchor]

@12AXseven It wasn't all black folk . It was the recording execs who zeroed in on this little fact....Hmmm no band to play no band to pay. THEN THEY BURIED the REAL MUSICANS PROMOTED THE OTHER STUFF .And now most of them have to tour Japan or Europe if they want a long term gig.

[NEOSOUL722]

That hat that Larry was wearing was the coolest.......

[astroboirap]

what ever happened to music with meaning

[FunkyMonk31]

They just dont make em like that anymore - Dayum Thats Pureeeeeeeeeee !!!

[Tobiashreese]

:-) what it's all about!

[4JayeP]

I've seen this video, probably 100 times by now. It's the groove, man.  It's the groove!!

[Grasbott]

What the fuck is this? i never heard sometihng same

[bdfilms01]

why did people dance so dorky back then?

[CrowdPleeza]

@bdfilms01

It was the acid :)

[4JayeP]

@bdfilms01 For the same reason why in 20 years, people will be saying the samething about the way YOU dance. 

[olskoolrich]

Yes....Sly showed up for this gig...he's the best!

[mitchcumstine]

What's roger doing there?

[shatchett0]

I wanna stick it to that white chick at the beginning.

[mitchcumstine]

Is that Roger dancing?????

[rhussmann1]

Good God Damn!

[hotlanta71]

wow thats fucking epic

[garyc2]

@hotlanta71

You maen, Thats funkin epic! lol

[garyc2]

@hotlanta71

You mean, Thats funkin epic! lol

[DentlessDave]

What an amazing performance. Good music never dies.

[actiondown]

the lady introducing them reminds me of Carol Brady

[Alexltavares]

Greg gets down at 2:41. Listen to how funky that beat is!

[Lipsnx4u]

This is a great video. Clear picture and quality audio. Thank you, for posting.

[yiyi3000]

FUNKY !!!!

[iluvjazz7]

Damm, that band is still funky. Man that drummer was funky as hell and keeping the grove. Love the energy of the people and no color lines. Peace. That's what Obama wants to do. LOL

[imarockstarwife]

Sly & The Family Stone were my 1st concert back in 1974. STILL love them 2day!!

[gulfmar]

I believe Sly was the first group to have both black and white musicians.

[thedoggiesdaddy]

Damn ........ so, so sweat!

[greatlaw]

@thedoggiesdaddy SwEEt, like candy is sweet. Not sweat like a sportsman. :OP

[ggmoya]

IT IS  "DAGROOVIESTMUSICEVER"! <3

[frank47hammer]

Dance to the Music. Sly was the inventor of Funk music, and I feel he is not given enough credit. He is more influential than James Brown.

[obasaar68]

 I agree with gmanjam !!

[RG4242421]

I'M dancing with my headphones on right now! Hell to the yes!

[TraceHillside]

Yall that made everything alllllll righttttttttt...

[Repsej]

Man I wanna have the screaming trump-grils babies!

[gouni88]

at 1.35 the man want something , you know what ?

[TheMysticAudio]

I've just been dancin' round so much to this that i've put my foot through the damn door!! haha!!

[DRUMTOY2002]

@TheMysticAudio : Go ahead on and get down wit your bad self then!!!

[johanbove]

groovy!

[MinisterLynne]

I am proud to say I grew up in the era of "DAGROOVIESTMUSICEVER"!

Thank You 60's and 70's :- )

[genkijin]

Nice Hat! Dude at 1:59 lookin like pirates of the caribana.

[JPfromFlint]

Larry Graham is the G.O.A.T. (Greatest of all Time) when it comes to bass players with Bootsie being #2.

[JPfromFlint]

I WANT THAT HAT AT 1:57!!!!!

[luccafb]

far out man!

[ANDREBYNUM]

this is great

[edandcece]

WOW !!! As a kid growing up in the late 60's into the early 70's, I can still remember the BAD ASS parties that my mom used to throw listening to Sly Stone !!! TALK ABOUT A SMOKE-FILLED ROOM !!! Damn, watching this video really makes me appreciate how much the music of today REALLY SUCKS !!!!!

[MrSmokeydog]

I can see where Prince might have been

influenced by Sly Stone at least in his fashion.

[kasponya]

F.U.N.K.Y.!!!!!!!!!

[MoondogMayne]

Thanks for the great post. If you brought that many people from the audience on stage nowadays, somebody would open fire.

[megaforcemedia]

More or less fantastic. The chick on the horn screaming is just about the best thing ever.

[Lee1255]

@megaforcemedia Yeah, I think I'm kind of in love with her.

[Isela077]

@megaforcemedia brings back memories..thier f**kn awesome!!!

[jaimedolcesinnersole]

@megaforcemedia Cynthia!

[tiana1017]

@megaforcemedia  lol i agree

[KR8TZ]

And today they have Brittney Spears and that other hack who can't sing without the voicemaster 3000

[bellaimages]

Great music! I love these two songs! But you know Sly kept it on the low because he could really have cut loose if he weren't doing it on prime'time ... ya 'll know what I mean? Great performance though.

[hangover71]

This is so great it gives me chills and bring a tear to my eye

[pacotrips]

fantastico

[kornbelt]

marvelous

[cwphunky68]

Larry Graham............Dammmnnn!

[StraightTwoDVD]

that nigga sly was fucking wacked

SOOO MANY WHITE PEOPLE!!!! lololololol!!!