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  • That is SUPERHOT SUPER HIT #10

  • oh my gawd..........HEAVEN

  • top ten concert i've seen and at my age i've seen a few a very positive band

  • I love classic rock and 1970s funk and R&B soul music it brings me back memories of the by gone era oooh I am white I don't judge or crictizing someone skin color what is inside of that person all matter we all bleed the same sooo peace to all you!

  • Dey sound good but the looks yeeshhh:! Even if fatwas in da 60's

  • WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    

  • Is that bass player Rollo from Sanford & Son? :)

  • I'm white and I like this and I don't care and oh yes don't call me whitey!

  • @heavyrocknroll, I like at 3:54 he's trying to catch the groove but when he sees the camera is filming him at 3:58,he tries to catch the groove even more.He has that look on his face like,darn, I can't let the world see I ain't got no rhythm, that's to funny.

  • Definitely still some of the best music of all time no question whatsoever

  • Sly is looking like the transvestite black Elvis. LOL. He's just waiting for his silicone tits to come in and couldn't wait to wear his new halter top. Jungle Bunny, don't call me Cracker just cause I hoe a good row. I love the blonde chic playing the keyboard and singing the opening line. She's golden. Like all good Ferengae women, she should not be wearing any clothes.

  • @rolandrog I think you're just jealous because you could never rock that look as hard as sly and still look like a badass like he does....

  • @professormacdeezy you sound a little queezy, professormacdeezy. take it easy if you have a cold. I was just teasing, If I may be so bold. everyone's a poet but don't know it.

  • @rolandrog Lol touche...

  • I was probably the same age as the girl at 30 seconds. I miss the music, and can see now that I was influenced musically by Sly

  • what happened to his shirt?

  • Nobody could touch this group...probably still can't today. What a great sadness that Sly is so lost. Unbelievable talent!

  • This guy is legendary! As big a star as any of his peers. I'll never understand what happened to him. At some point you get up and dust yourself off.

  • The music is so smooth..

    I think the voices blend perfectly..the horn section come in just right time, and Slys baritone voice is as good as Jim Morrisons if not better I wish Sly could spend his golden years in a home instead of a van...

    He earned it..the music is as good as it was when it was wriiten..and we all still enjoy it day after day, decades later.

    Thanks Gang..you did well!

  • Boom Chaka Laka Laka.......Boom Chaka Laka Laka

  • I love this song, don't get me wrong, but the best part of this song always has been that it's written 12/8. So fun to play on the keyboard.

  • Yeah, it's sad that so many of us are rhythmically challenged but we did know enough to buy Sly's music and love it! And, even now, so many years later it moves me (in or out of the beat ;-)!

  • Them white folks is all off beat and out of tune, LOL

  • Hot fun living in the van during the summer time?

    Dont call me homeless..... richy?

    O DAMN I KILL MYSELF!

  • The dorky white guy at 3:55 clapping out of time to the music is the best part of this video.

  • During this time Northern California was very progressive, liberal and for equality all around. I lived their and can relate...stop calling each other names and grow-up. Listen to Sly and the Family Stone music, get the CD's and see what they were all about..Unity.

  • A musical extravaganza

  • The white guy at 3:54 is trying his best to catch the groove, lmao

  • @ccalll1 If he can't catch a groove at this concert he has no shot.

  • @ccalll1 He's searchin' for the Uh's and Ah's, as well as the triplets ... in a very cool way xD

  • @ccalll1 What a shame for all white funk lovers. Poor, unfunky human being ... hope some day he'll catch the groove

  • IF THIS SONG WAS SUNG TODAY IT WOULD BE.... DON'T CALL ME "N" WORD "W".

  • @HEARTHEANGELSVOICES listen to rap much?

  • It's time for a Sly and the Family Stone tour de force........

  • Only One Person That Doesn't know how music should sound.

  • I love that lady @ 0:30. She is so diggin' this.

  • @slickjilly shut up! is my mom...

  • @slickjilly people FELT the music back then ... if i were in that audience, i would reat the same way ... i did the same thing in front of the screen :)

  • music peaked with sly circa 68-73

  • magical- sing-along brilliance and at the same time making critical social commentary. term used too often applies to this man: genius.

  • that tall girl dancin in the audience reminds me of Mrs Obama, hahaha

  • @Mellowman53 Damn sure looks like her!! Go first momma go!!

  • @Mellowman53 LOL.  You weren't the only one...I thought it looked like her too! :)

  • this was good real music back then

    

  • @getula4003 - 1973/4 and 1975. I attended one show at which the band never appeared!

  • @getula4003 It was broadcasted on October 20, 1969, and the show was called "Music Scene".

  • Way Before there was The Black Eye Peas! We had Sly and the Family Stone................

  • it's funny....Can't jump and can't ...It's kind of true...Sly was the man...what a talent.!!!

  • I attended two different Sly & The Family Stone shows that weren't much longter than this video!

  • oh yeah, sun tanning in the yard with a transistor radio, slathered in johnson's baby oil. Life is good. Brings tears to my eyes. Makes me think of better days. Sly was cooler than cool. Funkadelic!

  • Jesus H this is some good music

  • This was circa 1972,,in okc, ok., a town not renown for Sly-led style music.( If ya know what I mean) in other words, We were a bunch-of-nobodies.. Now, this was around the time Sly was earning a rep for not showing up,Johnny Carson, etc Well,, here we were wondering in okc, ok if Sly would show.,Who are we?

    Then, just then,,Sly pitched right into 'Hot Fun'. Sly Stone Band put on the best show I have yet to see. Another poster had it down pat, 'you could not sit down'!

    My modest thanks.

  • What a great video. They were awesome. In person, you could NOT sit down when they played. Everyone was up and dancing at the Garden when I saw them in the 70's. Wish they were still around!

    

  • WHAT MAD LAND IS THIS. TAKE ME THERE ASAP!!!!

  • HEY WAIT A SECOND.THIS IS SHOWBIZ PIZZA

  • 0:27 :)

  • don't get any bettern this

  • whats wrong wit the dude in the blue jacket who is just standing there lol?!!

  • wow just imagine if someone made a song called dont call me nigger whitey in 2011 i think america would implode

  • 7 things deduced about the 70s from this video:

    1. Live entertainment was LIVE

    2. "Nigger" was tossed around freely for a while before we became PC.

    ...

    3. The metrosexual happened long before Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

    4. There were no fashion rules.

    5. Black folks had a fierce 2-step, White folks danced fiercely on melody

    6. The funk face was born (28 secs).

    7. Sly and the Family Stone were epic.

    GREAT VIDEO

  • @TheColourGurl Good thoughts. You might also deduce that folks of different races enjoyed the same music, that EVERYBODY DANCED, that nobody was posing. . And that the bass player was amazing, and his drummer (you know, the one who keeps the beat) was a white guy. I saw them in 1968 and again in 1969, and trust me, everybody danced all night, nobody sat a minute. By the way, this was the earliest 70's, probably 1970.

  • This is a Summer Blast

  • Truly beautiful music.

  • Sly and the Family Stone, so soulful, such a talented group of people lead by one of the most talented musicians ever: Sly Stone. What a legends!

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  • Sly Stone was amazing. He was Prince's predecessor in everyway. Amazingly talented, too bad drugs did him in.

  • Oh yeah, I think the black lady in the black dress @3:54 looks like Michele Obama. :)

  • I also want to say that I like the fact that S&TFS are enjoying themselves while dancing as much as the audience on the dance floor. How cool!

  • I love that the races can jam together like that, especially back in those times. S&TFS was the bomb.They put out some great music that will last forever. Thank you Stone family. :)

  • The best summer song ever!

  • awesome

  • This is quality.

    I'm just discovering sly and it's a joy.

    how cool is the girl at 29 seconds.

  • @a1974h i agree that chick is pretty cool

  • @darrylhaynes That's a stupid comment, I'd even call it a racist comment. I wonder what would happen if I'd say "Black people ...".

  • @SixtiesPopGold shut up...

  • @darrylhaynes No, I won't.

  • shut up...

  • @darryl...these particular white people sure 'cant dance' to the point that they are distracting..so i am gonna say i agree.with you here... and a lighten-up to others...lighten-up...take a dance class or sumptin

  • @SixtiesPopGold Because you're such a faggot I'm gonna say what everyone knows you're thinking. Niggers can't get jobs.

  • @SixtiesPopGold concur darry...racism goes both ways...shocking that condescending/disgusting rap chatter today is so demeaning with so may lyrics have the word "Niggas" in rap chatter hits these young poeple hear today.

  • @SixtiesPopGold Perhaps but now when I hear people say "Black people do this that and the other" I find more and more people either agree and/or laugh.

  • @darrylhaynes Not true and not all black people can dance. I can attest to that. At least they were out there dancing appreciating the music and rhythm. The other poster was right, you do need to shut up.

  • @darrylhaynes That's a stereotype...some white people CAN dance as well anyone else...I've known black girls who can't dance a lick! and there are racists of both colors...isn't that right, Darryl?

  • Darryl...you're not getting Sly's message on the last part of this video...stop stereotyping  and calling each other names...peace.

  • @darrylhaynes Apparently we can't JUMP either! hahaha

  • @TheMadviolinist5150 thats right.

  • @darrylhaynes It all depends on the person. I've seen it both ways.

  • @darrylhaynes Not all white people can dance.. Just as not all black people can dance..

  • @darrylhaynes lol that is so funny I was watching this white women not even clapping in time and I thought the same thing. I'm white!! (I can dance)

  • @darrylhaynes thats literally one of the most ignorant racist comments on here....congrats here is your stupidity trophy, wear it proud.

  • GREAT VIDEO,TO BAD NOT LOUDER.

  • All hell, all these racist comments are just plain ignorant! Music has no color. And it makes no difference: Sly and the Family Stone were awesome!! You also have to understand this was during a time of high racial tension. Most of today's music can't compare to these kind of classics. Now it's Justin Beiber and kiddie pop that burns out as fast as it came in. THIS is real music!

  • love sly & the family stone wish music like this was around today

  • 4:07 to end is my favorite part.

    Esprcially when sly getting down!

  • 1970s Androgeny FTW.

  • At 0.26 to 0.32, I love it.... PRICELESS

  • Coexist. Black, white, Asian, Latin, Muslim, Christian, Gay, Straight. Coexist.

  • too fucking COLD!!!!!!!~!~!!!!!  there will never ever be another thang like sly stone for a million years. can't say enough good things about them.

  • Only one Sly Stone. The epitome of cool to me. Them teeth, that smile, that voice. Where'd he come from?

  • The girl @ :27 was diggin' Larry's voice!!!! Awesome jam!!!

  • You all notice that when these older 60s and 70s acts are playing --- I don't care if it's the Carpenters or Sly or Zep or freakin' Dean Martin, it's all done **LIVE** and no lip-sync. It didn't matter back then what kind of music you were singing or playing, you had to be able to prove yourself everyday, every show by playing right to your audience without a pre-recorded vocal or backround. The music was REAL! Thanks Sly, we will always remember.

  • @wildnites558 Really? Can you show me where the drum mics are? I think you picked a bad example to state that as this is (at least instrumentally) mimed. IMO.

  • @wildnites558

    i totally agree. We need more bands/artists like this. Not performing on backing tracks and lip-syncing. But acually knowing to play live

  • i want slys shades so fuckin bad

  • man this is old....look at their hair...

  • at .27: Is that a young Melba Moore?

    

  • @basquait1 i'm not sure. go to an old video of the movie 'hair' and compare i guess.

  • @tranurse Is the girl with the blonde wig the singer in HAIR, I saw it on cable it looks like her without wig!

  • @TheGB1950 ????? i thought it was sly's sister.

  • @tranurse Im not sure, I found a video of the scene where the girl sing "how can people be so heartless" and she has more intense eyes, so my guess is probably wrong! ( HAIR scene: It's worth watching)

  • @TheGB1950

    no thats rose stone. Thats sly sister

  • Sly mixed Gospel,Funk,Rock!

  • Fuckin Phil Collins! Not that Tony or Mike would have ever caught it, but Phil straight ripped of the main riff for "Misunderstanding" from the Family...and im sure Genesis has an outtake of "Dont call me Whitey" left over from the Abacab sessions 'Don't call me Limey, Wanker'... Fuckin Phil!

  • Not only can Rose belt it out, she's hot too!

  • true vintage I remember this time in America; &my life;

  • love the way the song medley works together for a message on rascism.

    every body bleeds red.

  • Check out the white guy in the left corner. Case of White Guy Rhythm Disorder if I ever saw it.

  • Does Prince ever see this and say "Props!"

  • I just relived part of my childhood! That was a beautiful peace of footage and so well preserved! Sly and the Family Stone were the funkiest band of all times.!!

  • this was on Smothers brothers show--they cancelled them couldnt handle theim--too bad

  • Saw them about 1970 at a large new england state college.....an evening I'll never forget. Prior to them starting the show - their road crew unpacked about 20 brand new Fender Dual Shoman amps still in their shipping boxes.....Famous and powerful Acoustic

    amps as well.....When they came out on stage the entire arena (roof, floor, walls, our chests) absolutely shook with the wall of sound!! What a show.....the highs from the keyboards and horns nearly blew our eardrums out.

  • im not surprised that everyone in the room was dancing

  • Everything about this video is just unbelievabley ridiculous. Which is what makes it so cool :)

  • So nasty, it makes the sides of your mouth turn down. Funk does that.

  • that girl @ 0:26 - I know exactly how she's feeling.....actually I don't, because I wasn't there in the flesh....but mannnn this is just sooooooooooooooo funky!

  • Unfadeable

  • Alright - Love it!

  • Whooh! What a cool group they were and great songs too. Very engergetic and uplifting! :-)

  • 3:53 - 4:05

    I said now, I said now the , moment of truth has finally come.

    I'm goin'show you.

    Some o'that, some o'that, some o'that ollld white sense of rythm.

  • Sly was like "Do I look gay in this shirt?" [...] "What about now?"

  • @ppetracco you are soooooo funny. you know this was the style back n da day !!!!!

    I thought da same thing though !!!!!LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @onestep759 lol!

  • HOT FUN IN THE SUMMER TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Dang they sound so awesome live! Very very few bands so this damn good live. Wow! I love Sly and the Family Stone. I wish I could how seen them at a live show. They were rare since Sly had a serious time showing up to the majority of them due to extreme drug use. I still love this band though, love them!

  • I'd give my left hand to go back and be present at this concert!

  • 0:27 she's feeling it wish I grew up to music like this

  • @jaybob324 thats a dude with an afro :)

  • @johnnymitnick Or is it?

  • WoW!! Doesn't this great track really take you back!!

    Sly Stone was a one time DJ turned multi platinum artist!

    Hot fun N THE SUMMERTIME was there 2nd greatest hit!

    What Entergetic and great band !!!!

  • they looked like they was having so much fun on stage.

  • This is what I grew up with!

  • @hellsbelle66 Me too !!!

  • @hellsbelle66 Me too!

  • my husband grew up in the 60's, and is black. he thinks that things got bad when people stopped listening to each other's music. just a thought.

  • @tranurse Well he thinks that cuz he's a nigga.

  • @whitebloodcell305 you make ashamed of sooooo much. i'm ashamed to be from florida, i'm ashamed to be white and i'm even ashamed to be human. those things mean i have stuff in common with you.

  • Awesome!

  • Sly stone = genius

  • those outfits are unbelievable...

  • BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT

  • Excellent video*****

  • Awesome video. Actually, black kids make a distinction betwee "nigger" & "nigga." It may seem like semantics, but it's a distinction that ironically first came out of the 60s: taking demeaning words & using them as a badge of pride.

    Back in the 60s, using the word "black" was initially considered offensive. The favored term was "negro." But by the mid-60s, a younger more militant black activists began using the term 'black." Especially, with older blacks, the n-word is still controversial.

  • What Happened ???? Black people and White people all partying and having a good time together.Women and men playing music and accepting each other as equals...WOW... what a concept.Yeah,Sly had his problems and he ultimatly couldn't keep it together but his message and his music was purely AMERICAN.Baby boomers... we tried and we'll go down in history as the generation that attempted to change America and in many ways we did.

  • @bronxboy51 i'll tell you what happened, both races starting making awful music so people stuck by their own race. its not the people listening anymore, its the tools making it.

  • brilliant!

  • At the same time that this was happening my friends and I used to call each other by various ethnic slurs just to shock the straights. It was fun. ...looks like Sly and family are having fun with it too. We had the belief that If you used the words in love and not in hate that they would lose their power to hurt. We were wrong.

  • calling ppl 'whitey' and 'nigger' was NOT acceptable back then even though it was done. It was nothing like today when black youth use the word 'nigger' and it seems to be accepted . No one did that back then- at least not in public

  • Damn this is music at its best

    This is what seperates American from British music

  • Wow, who knew that Sly was rockin abs like that @ 4:22...forget exercise equipment just put on some music and work it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • The good old days when you could still say nigger and whitey without anyone getting their panties all tied up in a knot.

  • Wow look, it's Mitch Headberg on saxaphone, who knew?

  • Worst cameraman ever

  • CLASSIC BABY!!!!

  • i like the random white dude clapping out of beat at the 4:00 mark... hahaha

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  • @shaunsteel Hey we try to get it right but something is always a bit off...

  • Hot fun in the summertime is my summer jam!!!

  • You can tell the TRUE greatness of musical artists by how well they are "live". Sly ? -nuff said- a stone cold groove!! Outta sight!!!! -  Thank U SixtiesPopGold!!

  • one of the best bands EVER! Thanks for posting this awesome performance.