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  • i'm shocked you can't hear sly sniffing this whole video

  • the White Media are a Pack of Trolls...

  • "you´re a magician with words" - well said, Dick

  • listen "Riot" and "Fresh: before you die idiots !!!

  • real genius and real yuppie

  • Wow..that's sad. His eyes are awful. Why didn't Dick Cavett kick him off the show?

  • GOD SLYS SUCH A FUCKIN TROLL

  • Who? (Deadpan look and silence)..........Graham Man! lol

  • Can you say trolling hard?

  • Sly was indeed one bad mf of a musical genius, no doubt about it, giving us a lot of the baddest funk/rock grooves ever made (no offense, Godfather). Pretty sad the way he was basically removed from the music scene by his own success, temptation, and his own addictions. At the same time, I'm guessing it'd be safe to say that ol' Sly probably had himself one hell of a time.

  • something about Vallejo man lol , you can see how growing up in this dudes neighborhood could influence a Mac Dre

  • Bongs out LOVE THIS@@@@@

  • Sly's brain is just taking him "HIGH...ER"

  • Sly was a genius, but wasted his talent, He coulda, shoulda, woulda been much greater than he was. He brought funk into the mainstream.

  • At 3:15 Sly says " that's discrimination" LOL!!

  • That other guy got really defensive about his legs being crossed the same way lol

  • high as hell! lol

  • sly was pissing me off and i wasnt even the host

  • Wow. Just WOW. Is this what "everyday people" look/act like? This fool looks like he fell off the mothership into a vat of acid.

  • graham cracker... hahaha, go sly!

  • Sly was on all kinds of stuff around that time. I saw one article which mentioned that Sly often liked to do a bunch of coke and take a tranquilizer to keep his head on reasonably straight; weird combo imho, though I understand the logic of it... energy without fear. He is certainly a fascinating character and helped make some of the best music of that era, but was/is also kind of a nut, in a way not many folks want to deal with. Cavett did a great job of keeping the interview moving.

  • Sly said he was loaded on coke for this interview, they couldn't get him out of the house cos he was in such a bad way. BUT THEY DID IT AND HE IS DOING FUCKING GREAT.

  • He was high but it didn't effect his charisma at all. Might have even helped it.

  • He was so high . But my niGGa .

  • It seems like Sly actually has a mean streak in the beginning of this interview. But really, it is just the playful sharpness and arrogance that cocaine can give people, especially people with minds like Sly's....He is truly unique.

  • this is just sad

  • this is james bond live and let die for real life.

  • yeah well there's a different way to live and if you're not into it you don't get it.

    or maybe you got it and got rid of it.

    or just maybe you're not supposed to know at all.

    ;-)))))))))

  • Dick Cavette sounds like Officer Swanhauser from Sanfor

    d and Son at 2:20

  • fuck that...before bozo the clown, there was sly stone.

  • Before Rupaul, there was Sly Stone.

  • Before there was Prince, and before there was the artist formally known as Prince.....

  • what kind of hat is that

  • he's just stoned

  • Hes not on Coke.Maybe Quaaludes.Or acid.

  • Man he must have done a LOT of coke! Sly is dope though.

  • @Nisp2 coke is an upper, this dude is DOWN.

  • @musicforchewfaygs I dunno he seems coked out to me just judging by the way he is interrupting and the general way hes speaking. Knowing Sly it was probably a mix of a bunch of shit though.

  • Dick..dick..dick...dick.you're­ great hahah

  • He talks like Mick Jagger.

  • @StarBrown08 Mick Jagger was highly influenced by black American musicians. They both have deep voices, yes, but Mick was also a stoner.

  • @StarBrown08 wrong mick talks like him lol!!!!

  • sly and the family is stoned 

  • this is fuckin funny

  • wtf does he have on ???? dude look like a used tampon covered in glitter

  • @jarvisthebox It's called glam rock.

  • Thats crazy how on face book i just read some shit an seen some an noticed my uncle and sly's son felix graduated in the same class of first grade lol, you guys should see the pic, His son was wearing a all gold suit with an afro. None of the other class mates new it was his son untill one of the former class mates told them lol

  • @LamarNinja his son sly jr? when did he grad?

  • @eazye07 Well being that I posted this 6 months ago, Lol that's a long time and I think he deleted his facebook so I can't see any info as far as remembering how everyone looked back then, but if I do come to see it again or ask him I will tell you.

  • @eazye07 Public School

    229

    Bronx NY

    1981 - 82 CLASS 1-151E

    Teachers name was Ms. Redick's in first grade

  • Greatest musical genius of the last third of xx century. Got it, kids?

  • he should of done match of the day

  • I wish Chappelle would have done a skit on Sly......

    damn look at how heavy he breathing....

  • @twentynothing fuck yo couch!

  • High and The Family Stoned

  • In 24 hrs. Sly -played cherry hill n.j.-went to Ali's house-woke up in NYC-flew to L.A. to score blow-knowing he had to be on cavett @6:30 est.-had to be forced to fly back to N.Y.-made it back late-with raging diahoo-hoo-and here you go..THEN somehow created the genius 'riot' record-my man

  • Absolutely love Sly's hat - goes great with the rest of his outfit too

  • Best burn ever.... I dig Cavett... he's a good dude, but Sly slams him at then end because Dick clearly does a ( 5:28 ) sneaky "bi"-maneuver, and my man calls him on it. Sly may be high... but he's a stand-up guy.

  • cool threads man

  • hey dick?

    yes.

    dick?

    yes.

    dick? hey dick?

    yes. you got my entire attention.

    hey dick...you're great.

  • LETS DO THIS!!!!

  • Lets DO THis!!

  • Lets do this!!!

  • lets do this!

  • LET'S DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • LETS DO THIS!!!

  • i feel you sly! youve gotta change positions!!!

  • There were so many gifted artists from that era who should have been the movers and shakers in the music industry today, but they got caught up in the drugs...

  • It's totally incomprehensible that an individual can be this "BLASTED", put on a great performance as he did moments before this interview.....and somehow form an entire career in a "semi-conscious" state of mind! Drug abuse took the lives of so many artists from the Woodstock era. Amazingly, Sly Stone has managed to survive a lifetime of self-destructive tendencies, and perhaps ONLY God knows how he's done it.

  • @1:12 "You say that's right??"" lol funniest part...

  • that was....interesting, to say the least. Dick Cavett looked like he was on the verge of cracking up a number of times.

  • you guys are all idiots.

    first, he's not drunk. It looks like he's probably on pot and cocaine.

    second, it was the 60s and theres no way they would of kicked someone as famous as sly off the set for being high on something. Racial tensions were really strong at this point and him being on the show would of been a big statement.

  • nigga's loaded

  • How he is still alive. Sly Stone did pcp, coke, weed, acid, and maybe some heroin. I'm supprise this guy is still alive.

  • phoneix91: I'm surprised Sly's still around, too. The dope was what ruined his career. It's sad to watch this because he was a musical genius. He smoked himself rightout of the game. Sly probably hasn't but a few working brain cells left. I don't think he knows what day it is. Kudos to Cavett for sticking and moving with Sly during the entire interview. Try talking with a doper...it ain't easy.

  • maybe?some? it was the 60s man, all that shit, they didnt even look at drugs the same way at all, at least young people didnt. parents were shitting themselves, but yeah, mad dope for sly.

  • So many great musicians... Gil Scott Heron, Janis Joplin, Jimmy, James Brown. So sad.

  • Anyone think that Dick knew that Sly was all fucked up on drugs?

  • @phoneix91

    of course he could tell

  • man he got some long thighs. Man he is tore back lol hahaha

  • He is a friggin musical genius. He used to produce write, and pretty much play everything also..I think he played every instrument on "FRESH". Today, he would be in rehab. This is indeed a tragedy. I have seen recent interviews, and despite all the massive amounts of PCP and whatnot he has done, it is a miracle he is able to still form coherent sentences. Such a shame people were not "intervening" back then

  • @christophergenovese You don't seem to get it. It is style whites will not understand.

  • @christophergenovese you r right until a little over a year ago i thought he was dead it's nice a old war horse from the 60's is still around i feel if he did a greatest hits tour he would be very realevant again ...i dont know what he does now i could be wrong. please inform me what he is up to if you know thanx

  • @christophergenovese But you see back in the day drugs were at the core of music creativity. Not that I'm condoning drug use, I'm not. Some of the greatest musical geniuses such as Sly were high on their drug of choice when their best works were written.

  • @christophergenovese -- Sly has taken a lot of credit for others' work, most notably the Family Stone. He definitely didn't play everything on 'Fresh'; that album, like most of his others, is great because the band was amazing. Sly can play decent piano, guitar and bass, but even some of the keyboard parts which I thought were him, are actually Billy Preston. You can't really 'intervene' with somebody like Sly or it would have happened already (and I haven't heard of him being into PCP btw)

  • @mythillogic sly played every single instrument on "high on you", and did mostly everything on all of the family stone's later albums. the band was amazing playing parts that he wrote.

  • @JarrodFilmology -- he didn't play everything on "high on you", look up the Wikipedia entry for it, there's like fifteen musicians. It looks like he played most of the bass and some keyboards himself, a little bit of drums, but he sure as hell didn't play everything, probably not even half of it. He has taken a lot of writing credit for the band's work, especially everything up through 'Stand'. After 'Fresh', the original Family Stone was mostly replaced by session players.

  • @christophergenovese You do not get it. He is in the moment. Music is the moment; only circumvented by a chord and/or percussion. His brain functions on whims not locrian modes. He is a genius. Thank god for Sly.

  • i have never seen anyone, and i mean anyone, this high in my entire life

  • Well U need to hit the ghetto more because folks are out there. I believe he was DRUNK on liqour...thats what it looks like to me or he was playing games with Dick since he was such a genius!!

  • What does the Ghetto have to do with it? I've seen some pretty fucked up ppl in the Suburbs, too.

    I agree with Dick handling the interview like a pro.

  • How do U know he was high? He could have been playing the camera...Because U can be high in the Suburbs and be considered as having a good time ..but as soon as a NIGGER gets high he is a LOSER...That's what the GHETTO has to do with it....HELL!!! 95% of ALL DRUGS are BOUGHT and USED by folks who live in Suburbs YET NIGGERS are the ones that take the FAULT....And thats FUCKED UP!!!

  • First, Imma need u to stop using that derogatory word. Next....nevermind I can see that you've had some of what he was smoking. Third, momma always said: Don't argue w/ a fool b/c ppl won't know which one is the intelligent one which would be me cause you're making any sense.

  • NIGER,NIGGER,NIGGER!!!...I say it just to brush my teeth in the morning PUSSY!!! What was he smoking? U are the TYPICAL WHITE SUPREMACIST...Accusing a man for doing wrong and U have NO PROOF!! Like Johnny said "if it don't fit U must acquit" But WHITE SUPREMIST ain't haven it so the lock O.J. because he tried to get HIS trophy? Your mother LIED to U ...U should of listen to your FATHER and maybe U wouldn't be pointing fingers like a little BITCH... U couldn't be half the man Sly is anyway!!

  • @zyruemusic grow the fuck up man who cares if hes fucked up or not its his life let the man be high if he wants hes obviously not hurting anyone

  • FUCK U BUB-O-BEE!!!! I CARE MUTHAFUCKA!!! I know the TRUTH HURTS GODDAMMIT but how in the FUCK DO U KNOW IF HE WAS HIGH?? SO now SLY is a LOSER in your eyes? I am growed the fuck up FAG!! And he must be hurting someone according to all these RACIST-ASS comments presented on this page yet U want to get up in my mutha fuckin face and talk shit? There are 525 comments on this mug...Go see how many people are calling Sly Stone a LOSER because he's on some drug...A PRE-JUDGE DISS!! BLACK!!

  • true that man. and he was SO HIGH!! getting high doesnt make u a loser, being a loser makes u a loser. and being high and glued to the sofa all day and night makes it way easier to become one. u those other bitches need to drop the subject and not go on youtube, if ur just looking for anyone who will coment back with a possible argument starter. get on with life people its fun!

  • shut your hating ass up. white people wish they had legends like blacks - coming from a white guy. u using NIGGER shows how u envy blacks as musicians. grow up

  • yeah u could actually be right on the money with that one.he shows all the charecteristics of a drunk, loose with words and body movement, slurring, not afraid to say anything even if its embarassing, and worst of all for a talk show host, not being able to stick to the subject.

  • "we are back,we are black" awesome guy,i hate the clean cut fuckers we get these days,the x-factor factory wankers......funk it up baby

  • yeah its true,but nowaday theyd just kick your ass off the set if they thought u were high, im sure in some cases like celeb status, theyd let u go on a talk show high,but def not as high as his crazy black ass.

  • "I broke into my house." ROFLMAO

  • @hiperateo class A interview hey.."IF IT WAS YOUR HOUSE YOUD BE A LITTLE LATE LMAO!!!

  • what a tragedy this guy

  • i agree with you totally i read this sorta stuff up on wikipedia

  • How could Dick ask a half decent question to a guy off his tree like this?

  • After research. This is what happened. Sly and Band sorta managed themselves so they missed alot of dates. (shoulda had a manager). People got pissed because they didn't show up. He missed Cavetts show 1 or 2 times so he was upset. But as you can see it doesn't matter cuz the man is there and all is well!

  • Sly's the man! Rocked Woodstock, great funky music. very intelligent and funny. Look how he takes on whitey!

  • yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! funk u bro!!!!

  • must be July 1971...after the commercial he talks about Bill Graham closing the Fillmores which they were closed in July 1971.

  • Sometimes people get on Cavett's case for being a square. But really, I can't think of another talk show host from the seventies who had such a diversity of interesting people on his show. Not to mention a host that would let drugged up folks on his show and let them run with it. Cavett is awesome.

  • And he actually encouraged intelligent conversation and allowed his guests, especially musicians, to talk about their music as art instead of just as pop culture Some of his best interviews were Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon

  • @bagbahbag  totally

  • @bagbahbag totally agree~~ he was great!

    

  • sly and the family stone were great-they were one of the very few groups to have 3 songs in the top 10

  • ahah my god hes so loaded that would be a trip with these crackers

  • Sly Stoned :)

  • i want some acid

  • HE IS COMPLETELY STONED!!!

  • man thats fucking great haha, hes zoned out but still thinking and funny

  • What a cool motherfucker.

  • He's destroying the minds of the people that have been led to believe the world is flat.;

    were back were black

    SLy is a legend, what is he doing now anyways?

  • high...but lucid and funny as hell.

  • These vids make me wanna see more of the show... and take some acid...lol

  • Sly's great - but an idiot. No wonder he is nowhere now.

  • Sly has had better interviews, but Cavett was the facebook of Corporate Understanding of Funk and peace thru music and they didn't get it then or now.

  • dick's a dick

  • I've watched robin wiliams perform on coke and wasn't that slow he's stoned or tripping

  • he free based cocaine and smoked crack. i think the effect is a little different. he could be high on anything .

  • That posed to sound cute??huh?

  • wow baked indeed

  • LOL.LOL.LOL.Great Musician,some Great music

    Very Fun video.555 Stars.

  • Sly is just as great as Hendrix to me as far as originality, style, writing music and performing. You should check out Sly Stone's Woodstock Performance when he almost outshines Hendrix!

  • Agreed; two inmortal giants! only Hendrix is more famous.

  • Sly is a forgotten national treasure.

  • Love the part where Sly says he calls Bill Gram by another name gram cracker, Bill use to get so F***ING pissed at Sly for not showing up for his shows he stopped booking him.. I can remember Sly driving through Hayward in his White Caddy with a heart shaped window in the back some times dressed like he is in this video (SLY ROCKS)

  • THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS!

    LOL -But damn he knew how to use it!

    Thanks for the upload!

  • He's probably pretty baked.

  • 72eneg: If I've translated your Ebonics correctly, you apparently want YouTube to remove this video because of its age. Why? Is there an expiration date on history? Do you suspect this footage of being altered in some manner such that it depicts a false version of events on set that day?

    Can't wait to hear your reasoning...

  • Well said, a thumbs up from me. 72eneg is 37 himself, which is surprising as I thought the comment was from an under-16. So in his world, I'm thinking any footage older than him is irrelevant.

  • this reminds me of the first time i ever took lsd..

    lmao the sad part is im serious.. =\

  • LEGEND

  • o shit he's trippin balls

  • God, he's so stoned. I love him. It would be really tough talkin to a guy who has barely any sense of what your saying though.

  • Pimp Daddy. He was in SUPER FLY. He's a bad mother fucker.

  • shut yo' mouth!

  • I love his look of bewilderment when being asked about Graham

  • yo my mom told me bout this dude on how my popz listened 2 this dude and on how my uncle got his nickname from him

  • these days you would have pheonix on tv acting super wierd and then letterman just teasing him!

    the 70's were the best! people smoked and drunk on TV and were just cool..

    now its all to clean cut!

  • "COCAINE IS A HELLUVA DRUG!"

    Rick James said it straight up, man.

  • That aint coke dude, that is smack. and drugs are first making fools out of people before killing them.

    Sly was one of the greatest composers of his days.

  • well it says coke in the description of the video so i was just goin by that. and i actually really appreciate sly's music, i wasnt sayin that bein fucked up on drugs is good or cool, i was just saying that its pretty intense.

  • Dick Cavett just let him run with it...

    Nowadays that would have been so racially sensitive or cut off way too early. You know hes wasted but hes funny as all hell

  • Are you slick, are you sly...are you stoned? (George Clinton) Sly Stone was and still is a musical genius, though! He was going through a hell of a lot of pressure back in those days, though.

  • coke is great.

  • DEstruction OF the world Not reall gratness, herb is GReat and as pure as a mothers love

  • High as a motherfucker . I mean, he's mad fuckin' high. High as hell. So ripped that he finds Dick Cavett entertaining.

  • i wanna be sly stone, he's too cool for words

  • What in the hell race has to do with a artist being on stage so fuck up he can't even do the interview.

  • do what u want sly u are the greatest

  • Sly forever!!

  • i like that tell another story

  • hehe! I wonder what Dik was really thinkin? HE always seemed to have the stoners on his show. Cool.

  • "In order to get to it, you gotta get through it."

    I'm gonna remember that quote :)

  • it. most crimes people dont hear about till they find a body. if you cant keep up with progessing culture..then go back to your insignificant ignorant life,and watch your fucking gay porn and stop overcompensating your not fooling anyone. we know you are a gay racist,cock sucking,ass gaping,cumswallowing ignorant cunt.you motherfucking bitch. you are such a pussy..too scared to culture yourself with cultures you dont know...get out of the 60's equality is here faget.racists are a minority now

  • wow what a saint... quality vehement language send a real positive message. keep it up soldier.

  • wow...you think just cause you dont hate hispanics and asians doesnt make you a racist. a racist is hating anyone person cause of his color or race you fuck. doesnt matter if its one race or the other. if you think it is ignorant to hate ignorant racist,then you are dumber than i thought. oh dont think people look away at african americans commitng crimes..we are in a new progessing culture where people are considered equal.look at who our president is. no crime goes unlloked if cops know about

  • yo you gotthe story wrong...i was pounding your mom and it didnt feel like you sisters ass you ignorant biget. why dont you culture yourself and comeback when you are liiterate you fucking cock juggling thundercunt.hope you get fucking curbstommped.

  • talk about a brotha loaded

  • ooh! a racist who can write?! how did he do that? maybe the one who molested him as a child was a teacher who tought him more than suckin cock

  • Probably.

  • What is it with you people? Why in the world do you think someone who is "racist" can't write? What, you think "racists" are stupid? First of all, I'm no racist, but I know people who are, and they are not stupid. They are educated, successful, and not fooled by the ignorant P.C. requirement to look the other way when "African-Americans" murder, rape, kill, and show their inferiority to other races, such as Asian, Hispanic, and White. That's right, I love Asians, and Hispanics. Think about it.

  • to fasterthanyou321,

    youre obviouslly a fucking judgemental racist little piece of shit faggot who needs to meet up with me, now im not black but i will make you pick up your teeth with broken knuckles and then i'll fucking kill you. i hate ignorant racists like you you little faggot. go suck a dick and talk more shit. youve obviouslly been through shit cuz youre not in your right mind. what happened? did daddy rape you when you were little? go get therapy and stay off of youtube dickhead.