Sylvester Concert - Castro Muni - GLBT Historical Society

[Rickerod14]

This Part was arranged by Zahn Artman,Bill Grahams out gat director of Public Relations. Everyone expected the party to be at Castro Bart Station, So you can imagine what every one boarded the new Bart Cars and were whisked to Church Street station., where the party took place on a siding, where a dance floor and a Graham Sound System was set up. Now THAT was a PARTY

[shellybellysf]

Shellybellysf..This was our church people!!! We will never forget you Sylvester..Thanks to all of you who stepped up to the plate, and took care of someone with AIDS. So many brothers were disowned by their families, We had to step up and take care of who ever needed us..Dignity, respect, and love to the end.

[27andkickinit]

get it sylvester!!! if some one has the "we were here" can u please post the link it I want to watch it and I watched Harvey milk movie I cried at the end it was so sad

[Garymorganfield]

It makes me long for my youth. I loved Sylvester, Patrick Cowley and Martha Wash.

[Toodles1218]

SYLVESTER WAS MY FRIEND...RIP <3

[2009ginasweetie]

Poppers ! LOL....

[Daethaqt3000]

One Of My Faves

[crgybby]

I definitely agree... there should be a movie made about Sylvester's life. what do you think? Who would play Sylvester and capture his/her genius?

[AveIvy]

@crgybby Lawd, I would love that. Someone has to do a movie on his life. That would be sooooooo incredible, but who could play him honestly? I know of know actor with the quality and talent to do a performance that would do Sylvester justice.

[4591381]

poopers....great fun....to old for that now

[loiraso]

My face sits five, my honeypot's on fire!

[discooriginal]

fantastic

[timbearcub]

1:56 poppers! LOL.

I miss Sylvester, as Sandra said, black angel.

[denshiblocks]

someone REALLY needs to make a documentary about sylvester!

[lalala020]

a documentry about sylvester would be fantastic and long overdue!!!

[Jahbril30]

@lalala020 Unsung on TV One look for it on Mondays starts March 22nd with Rose Royce

[dddontreal]

watch Unsung! coming soon

[MUZIKNFILMZ]

I wonder did the late Harvey Milk know Sylvester?--They were both icons in the Castro around the same time. Sylvester started to gain national fame right as Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone were tragically assasinated in November of 1978.

I can't wait to see that new movie called MILK starring Sean Penn on 11/26.

These people..Sylvester, Harvey Milk, Mayor Moscone and others were very brave and pioneering people and gave their all for gay rights and harmony in general!

[glbthistory]

They knew each other. Hopefully some of their contemporaries can share here more detail about the extent of their friendship.

[MUZIKNFILMZ]

That's great!--I hope someone will share their stories as well.

[robotorb]

Well there's the Milk birthday scene in the Gus Van Zant film with 'Sylvester' performing ; p

[ncalpay]

I was in attendance at Sylvester & 2 tons of fun concert at the War Memorial Theater in SF and it was an event of a lifetime. He touched so many with his up-lifting personality. He was truly a gifted artist. Miss him dearly.

[knucklehead66]

This the show for the Living Proof album, right?

[pronkking]

he was such a significant part of "those times"....I was stationed in San Fran (Alameda, before they converted the station into condos) and I can remember too many times, when I would fly across the bridge, in my litte Fiat, to be here, there and everywhere. I didnt make it out of SF, unscathed...but I am one of the lucky ones that was fortunate enuf to be alive to take part in the ea

[bearguySF]

Right around the corner was a park, where, after 2 a.m., it was a shopping mall of men. The party went on till the bars opened again at 6 a.m. Yes, that was B4 AIDS, & man oh man it was fun!

[bearguySF]

I left Connecticut (USA) in 1977 to move to San Francisco so I could be proudly gay. 30 yrs later I'm still here. Sylv. played many free concerts & Castro treet fairs. I saw him right before he died @ a benefit for animals, and he sang a few lines of this song. The audience gave him a standing ovation for 5 minutes. He'd be super-famous today, back then the music industry was still homophobic - even Elton John thought he was straight then ! We all miss Sylvester & his music lives on !

[carlosmiller]

I love Sylvester so much!! He was such a wonderful artist and too bad he is gone..........

[Yanadew]

Yes, I want the video of him singing "you are my friend," too! Oh where is it!

[wes85292]

i'd like to visit there one day

[roblettinVa]

God bless Sylvester.....

[rare9x6]

I met Sylvester 3 different times, once here in Atlanta and 2 times in Fort Lauderdale at a hotel that had a pool and you see inside the pool from the bottom. Cant remember the name. Got his sweaty dry off towl once. He was the best and those days are gone now..SAD>>

[SRStiens]

That was the Marlin Beach Hotel, and I had many a good time there on Spring Break, from Cincy -- at the age of 16 and 17, ha.

[crystalclear1]

its so tragic that AIDS was just right around the corner.

[frsfca]

Love it! Especially the guy doing poppers on the dance floor, er um Muni platform. I wonder how they kept people from falling onto the tracks! Amazing party - would love to go a party in Castro Muni station - how cool is that?

[jeffers1961]

God this takes me back! I was 17, and had been living in SF for about 6 months when this took place. I left the city in 92 to move to Europe, but I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could. But nothing could compare to SF in the 70s. What a great time to be alive and gay.

[glbthistory]

Were you there?

[obscuranta]

Thanks for the memories of a childhood spent in SF. RIP, Mr Sylvester, and too many others gone form us now.

[ajanij]

UGH!!! Im trying to find a video of Sylvester singing you are my friend..anyone have it?

[gaae2000]

im not gay but i wouldve loved to be at Castro st during the late 70s...

[glbthistory]

This was edited from take fragments by a volunteer.

[chillychenny]

ASTR4004: The song is "cant stop dancing" You can curently find it on Sylvesters greatest hits (2 disc) from unidisc )about 19.99) Has all the remixes and 12" mixes on it.

[astr4004]

I've got to know what song this is!

[Kinburst]

brilliant!!

[totutot]

Sylvester was a friend of mine and much much more....I miss him terribly ..AIDS took him from us way way too soon ... but his unique falsetto voice and dance music will live on forever... The SF MUNI Mega {subway} Party in the video you just saw was shot during subway station during construction just before it opened... Ask yourself and your feet..."Do You Wanna Funk With Me" WONTCHA TELL ME NOW?

[NUBIANHUNK]

Tot,

I remember going to the Paradise Garage on Friday nights in NYC.

[kd1s]

Uggh, the AIDS plague. I lost friends too, all the way out here on the east coast. Hopefully we can eradicate it in the next few years. That and cancer.

Medical science is making great leaps and bounds in understanding the body and understanding viruses and bacteria. I'm 44 years old and almost want to go back to school and get a medical degree now.

[Zoeler]

that was a whole other world, man...i used to haunt that area in the late 90s when i was living in SF, i miss the Castro a lot.

[ramiakin]

...a musical legend!! May you rest in peace. We miss you, Sylvester.

[kranpact]

awesome this needs to be released on dvd

[djmermaid]

WOW!!! Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! As a DJ who loves disco, rare groove etc, I just can't get enough of this stuff (especially legendary parties like this one.) What a THRILL! :-D

Incidentally, I was honored to spin at the opening of the SF LGBT community center - an amazing party itself. I was in an upstairs foyer, and the elevators kept opening and bringing more dancers to join the fun.

THANK YOU and More, Please!!!

love,

DJ Mermaid

[jimmyhobbit]

the guy is a legend!!!

[brainyntuff]

This shit is on fire. Why aren't there parties like this anymore?