Sly Stone on Dick Cavett 6-8-71 UNCUT 2of2 TheBadCause.com

[3636Clarence]

Sly is totally broke now and living out of a van. Still loves his pipe though.

[rsohlich1]

Sly is blown off his ass here, but he's still articulate and likeable.

[69zenos1]

Dick Cavett is SSSOOOOOOoooooo boring!!

[Funkdogg]

i don't know what he took that made him act that way, but i'm sure it felt good!

[ukimalefu]

Boom shakalakalaka boom shakalaka!

[bronncohowie]

I want to take ME higher !!!

[maxeythecat]

Wow....if he ain'ta flyin' I'ma dyin'! Fucked up batshit crazy and absolutely hilarious!

[MrKirkenstein]

"someone's gotta go over the edge so everybody else knows where it is".

Hendrix

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[leedrennan]

Sly is stoned; much more lucid in the Mike Douglas interview.

[spitoncat]

I really like Sly's music but this interview is another one that he should have skipped. He just didn't come off like a person that had any credibility. Cavett cool as usual.

[photoman2004]

dick "sphincter clamp" cavet

[62wtg]

you have a graham cracker!!!

[62wtg]

Were Black!!!

[EvilMatters]

“They’re a very musical people” – Randolph Duke

[unfortunatebeam]

I hear he and jimi hendrix and janis joplin beat him up after this show

[Exilemainstreet]

High or not, Sly is a national treasure who never got the recognition he deserved.

[eazye07]

Sly is so sexy

[ameroux]

Dick could never be "cool", he was always a little awkward, but he knew that. The great thing is he loved the music and the people who made it and gave them opportunities that nobody else would at that time. None of these acts like Sly, Janis, Jimi, Bowie would have been seen on TV if it hadn't been for Dick Cavett.

[ekocentric]

@ameroux I especially loved his interview with Janis Joplin. She made fun of Cavett's square clothes. LOL

I think that his staid demeaner was due to bi-polar disorder. Jane pauley and Mike Wallace were also sufferers. It didn't seem to deter any them from doing their jobs...they just didn't always seem "cool".

[phoneix91]

Did Dick Cavett know that Sly was high?

[pbrucpaul]

'My house was broken into, I broke into it".A little loaded there, Sly? . Cavett looks like he's trying to understand a controversial lecture at Yale. LOL

[BloomdidoBandigrass]

@pbrucpaul yea - he's either all loaded up on heroin or qualudes judging by his behavior. Very interesting to see how Cavette reacts to it, though. Very tolerant & proceeds to get a great interview out of it & even some laughs, as well. Letterman would have been outta there in a minute in...off "to go check on the top 10 list" as they cut to commercial by the time sly started mentioning that he broke into his own house

[closertotheheart]

You know what happens? You just change positions....

[sonwamac]

that's why his name was Stone (d)...Dig the Lord Buckley impression at 8 Minutes...nobody there knew what the hell he was doing..but if youused tolisten to his radion show (KSOL) in Frisco you knew waht he was doing....not many folks could do a too dead on impersonation of Lord Buckley

[nat00ben06]

@solnwamac dig my buddy Hank Harrison is good friends with LadyLordBuckley. Buckley's daughter (not Tim or Jeff) although they were father and son but dig here's some more small world f'd up stuff, my buddy Hank is father to rock's stupidest conning beotch Coutney Love.

[sonwamac]

Get the fuck outta town...for real? GTFOT on two counts. First count... you know the father of Courtney Love? that's a trip. Second count...I never dawned on me that Tim Buckley or Jeff Buckley were sons of Lord Buckley...am i getting you right? that's another trip

[1killahead]

"Let me say it man!! " The stare down after that is priceless

[xxdrew333xxx]

looks like he's just a lil drunk and stoned...nothin major

[xxdrew333xxx]

"you're right I'm not so bad" LOL

[bigdog0800]

Dick was mad he was late and tried to act like Sly was incoherent like he had been before but Dick realized he was fucking with him and had nothing to smart or funny to say so he just acted like Sly was so high when its obvious he was only slightly fcked up but probably normal for him. Dick was an out of touch wierdo who was never comfortable around the musicians of the day.

[dancingdiplodocus]

you absoloute idiot trying to sound hip liek you are in the sixties.

were it not for dick cavett fighting for these artists to appear on his shows, when the tv people wouldn't let them on, we wouldnt even see this.

these stars of the day wanted to appear on his show.ecause you are twenty eight and raised over the past fifteen years on audiences that clap at anything, witless humour and shouty news programs, you don't get dick cavett and the humour which janis joplin and others took so well to.

[sonwamac]

"Dick was an out of touch wierdo who was never comfortable around the musicians of the day"...What makes you say that dude? I'll say this...Cavett was the late night talk show host who first went after acts like Sly. Hendrix, Janis Joplin. He made a point of having those guys on just like Arsenio Hall made a point of having Hip-Hop cats on. You wouldn't see those cats on Johnny Carson or even Steve Allen..though Steve did have Zappa on once long before anybody knew who Frank Zappa was

[royaltenenbaum23]

Loved the Sly clapping Dick's hands!

[Econobrick]

4:45-5:00: fucking MAGIC!!

[mootbooxle]

I love Sly! I love him! Sly is my hero!

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

Sly 1, Dick 0.

[youvebeenthunderstru]

He does honestly appear to be on some kind of drug, not that you can't be relaxed without but it does look like he's high on something here.

[destituteillusion]

i want a hat that hat so badly, i'm rockin' a fro..would look great. funk is my lifeblood.

i live in sf, and i was walking on the street once and an old homeless guy said 'hey, sly stone!' to me once. made my day to remind him of this great man. sly stone is a hero of mine..i only hope i could make a song as good as one of his. what a legend.

[TuckerEatsBabies]

You see that business at 5:25? One of my friends pulls that kinda shtick every time he's really high, we call it "channel changing". I'm pretty sure dude isn't quite on ground level but yeah, he definitely took charge of the interview and was genuinely funny. I love Sly

[jasonpchesney]

That sweet little rap that Sly goes into at 5:25 comes from Lord Buckley, who he was a fan of. The routine is from "The Bad-Rapping of the Marquis de Sade". A great version of this can be found on the album, "A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat". It's fantastic that Sly whips this out. He does a great impersonation of Lord Buckley, too.

[mizjk]

i like it 2 jasonpchesney...kool comment :D

[Vociferor]

I think he was definitely on something, but you're right in that he was playing around. He was not out of it at all; and took control of the interview. He's quite funny - I wish there were more interviews with him, and wish he'd do a talk show, or DJ again. God - if Alice Cooper can DJ, Sly certainly can! Alice is a sellout, and boring.

[slyfonk]

Actually sly's funky cool attitude that night was not due to drug, I feel that He was really playing and havin fun. The guy that night was not Sly stone but Sylvester Stewart. Sly when he's natural used to be like that:funny ,playing characters