Slave - Slide (1977)

[lepoetress]

A party wasn't a party without this jam being played at least once. I didn't know that they had a solo at the end like that!!! Man, they were of the chain!!! This is the ish and it can blow the doors off this crap that is calling itself music today.

[wood7162]

Man I can skate my ASS off to this song!!!

[lepoetress]

I feel you!!! This was when music was fun and I didn't realize how hardcore that bro. was on the guitar/base. He was murdering those chords; shreadding 'em!!! The guitar work on this is off the chain!! This is Hendrix ish!!! I've always wondered, is that Steve Arrington singing lead on this? This song is 32 yrs. old and still kicks major &^%!!! And our grandmothers are still checking this out LOL!!!!

[musicmangalen]

Every word you said is real !!!

[mdllsmith]

my second favorite jam.

[mrmiznel]

MaNN !!!! we used to strut hard off this one--DEMONS of the MIND !!! THAT BAY ISH !!!!

[figurdyouout]

luv me some funk!

[rozozzy]

i wish i had this on a cd...

[davidsalmer]

Great bass and guitar sound.

[brown547]

Yeah this the Jam Dayton, OH in da House here

[mswain9899]

This was another one of those fast rollerskating songs -- LOL.  There were always casualties on fast songs. It could be sometimes like a 20 car pile-up on a freeway -- LOL.

[nwahearnunn]

CORNER MUSIC .if u know what im sayin. Sliiiide.. STRAIGHT CLASSIC!!!

[GilLindsay]

Dayton Ohio in effect!

[Teknishen04]

for sho! Midwest is definitely representing!

[bitzky77]

MIDWEST LOVES SUM FUNK!

Got a good MW gang sign....Three middle fingers down in front of three middle fingers up. "M" and a "W"

LOL

[Gullahboy]

This Song reminds me so much of the summer of 77 ...blocks parties and just care free times

[Crunchyblackisreal]

Now this is real good and funky!!!

[artistsavants]

this guitar is the shizzle..isleyinfluenced? jimi?

[leeann716]

OLD TIMES WHEN RADIO ROCKED!!!!

[drfaine]

O-o-oh yeah! That it. That "can you smell that" Funk!! I like I like!!

[LowRCS]

Who's the guitarist? DRAC

[hamptomrds]

how about these guys old school pure raw funk

[mysterybat35]

dang.. NICE Ernie Isley-ish solo.. who was the guitarist on this track?

[tibiafinger]

Baddest Bassline in the world,these guy rock the Charlotte NC

[reg61267]

now this was the shit right here

[archelleta]

this song is awesome

[mdb1008A]

reminds me of my high school band during football season..thanks for the wonderful memories......................

[lycanthrope1962]

and by the by, KING HENDRIX would have been proud of this guy...

[lycanthrope1962]

The guitar solo is just as killer as anybodies, including that loser eddie van halen.

[dockaiser]

totally agree, btw, who is eddie van halen ?

[notanumber6]

Agree it's totally killer - but no need to dis Eddie.

[mysterybat35]

agreed.. Eddie is no looser... This is a great solo very reminiscent of Ernie Isley!

[secondking76]

where's the auto-replay icon?

[babysinister]

In my opinion, one of the greatest funk hooks of all time. It don't get no better than this.

[DetroitD60]

High School house party memories....thanks!

[jvasai]

Serious Funk...haven't heard this in so long...but if anything, this takes you back to what old school and funk really is...this is the real deal....

[jhericurl85]

all day errrr day!

[califhardrock64]

number one shit i remember when this joint came out on tha dance floor slide slide slide come on an slide

[Division1985]

Last night I was listening to Kevin Eubanks (of the Tonight Show fame). He mentioned that he was in the band recording this song.

[rudielor]

I want to go slide in my Roller Skates!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mbrown116]

Could someone please post 'Happiness Days'! This is a slow jam from the same LP! Thanks!

[tubagee]

Mbrown , I agree I saw them back in 1977 , and they did that song . It was so beautiful . They're still around and play some shows . they came to hartford , conn . two years ago and they were Horrible !!! people started to walk out after the third song . This was not the group I use to see back in the day.

[Imakebeats65]

almost too dope for words!!! and snap shot is dope as well...Wait what did they make that was'nt??? Classic funk and always a part of hiphop

[kamesan]

I like this jam. I always blend this song @ the end of "Snap Shot"

[domineera]

Bomb ass beat!

[casperolewis]

Slave and Aurra are two top notch bands. Thanks for the share...

[viaggia83]

Aurra can't compare with Slave, I think..

[fleaaccela]

Can't we make you see?

I mean the factor is the key.

I mean devoted to the arts of moving butts so get on and up and think about what's yours.

I mean your culture and your laws.

I mean I'll label you a sucker, if you're dumb then just stay dumber

BUT stay in line and keep groovin'...

brilliant!

[archdukezeb]

I just recognized this sample. Luck of Lucien! Weird I was just listening to that song today.

[archdukezeb]

My bad I meant Go ahead in the rain. Ooops...

[LADBROKE2007]

Classic!

[NoelLozano]

old school a la madre!

[honeygood2]

1977 already huh? Wow! Luv it! Thx for the post!

[blacknuss6]

lady dorian ,i think its you aint got to SNEAK etc...

[kimegoraya]

This song, when I first heard it, really, really, got my body to dancin'! It's just the right lenght 7:09 on the one (1) of the versions, good warm up. Four,five, ten more, and I still love that sound. I didn't know that even 1/2 of the music I like was to be found under RB/Funk! Heard Prince, My Name is Prince, just yesterday, ahhhh. Put more like this in Central, we gotta learn somewhere!

[K1pufnstuf]

old school#1 K1pufnstuf

[4binlids]

My favourite Slade track. Saw them in London too many years ago. Oh...the good old days!

[kimegoraya]

All right, I am new to Slave, they go back to '77 when Slide was THE hot song. Wait until you hear a couple of songs I have,(you do like Funk?), oh, I am new, can you post tracks? Yea, I think, only have music. keg

[op2muspryme22]

i love this song!! nasty bassline, great guitar solo at the end, what more could you ask for.

[Starshanae10]

Where is my skates? Where is my Roller Skates. This was the Train Skate song back in the day, If you couldn't skate, Get the heck out the way! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!

[blacknuss6]

i saw these boys at school stadium in east orange,nj when this was out.the rain cut their set short but they did HIT this!!!!

[BURBROLLER]

damn this jam brings back memories of my childhood in the 70's.

[theylou]

Summer of 1977, I just graduated frm High school, I had a 1977 Grand Prix 2/tone cream and brown w/ the T-Top!!!! I was on and Popin!!

[weedkiller10]

just for this very reason alone, i wish i was alive in 1977...

[bsuminimo]

I saw these guys at the old Oakland civic center back in 1980 and they kicked ass with von mason and crew and Curtis Blow .....bad mother fuckers

[19eddie62]

in 1977 i was 15 years old and i was a truly bonafide funk master.when SLAVE came out with SLIDE, i screamed in pure ecstasy, for i knew right then that although bootsie collins and parliment and brother johnson were great; SLAVE was the true gods of funk. with SLIDE, they opened up a whole new element of funk.

[luvjaco]

Glory Be , The Funks On ME !!!!!!!!!

[Vincentdeep]

Oh Shit and a half, it's Drac and da boys. SOUNDED LIKE A GUITAR TO ME. The baddest funk rock jam of all time.

[theskounkmonster]

used to listen to slave on my portable cassette player-pure classic

[fstop77]

Ah.. the memories. The summer of '77. 12 years old. And FUNK ruled the day.

[mustafahajj]

That was the first riff I learned on the bass. My father would have my Granddad and many others over. Then he would call me in the front rm. I was no more than 11yrs old. Man, my big bro would 1,2,3 and bass riff I go, Man to look @ my grand fathers face when I hit that riff is priceless. Slave was a bands, Band! Damn where did all that good music go? Rapper 50cent sings about getting shot multiple times then recieving millions from it. Ol'skool bands never seen that type of money back then!

[kimegoraya]

Do you still do some of your stuff? I would love to hear something LIVE. We all would down here. We would pay you by showing you what good time is.

[mustafahajj]

Yes, I still play. But, Im more into the 808 drum machines and Yamaha Keyboards now. My Keyboard could make the sound of just about any instrument you can think of. Live instruments are the best. But the hip hop headz I know prefer that electro sound. Perhaps I could send to you one of my track demos?

[lammers962]

Cheetie72, in' 78 I bought brand new Black 1978 Camaro Z28,cruise this Jam on first Street San Jose, Ca.

[ATS68]

"They call me Drac... Here I come Baby... I ain't "gonna bite ya'... I just want you to hang on, alright" 1977, I couldn't have been no more than 9 or 10 - KGFJ in L.A. more than 30 years old and still as cold and funky as the first time I heard it!

[Braenchild]

Baddest funk groove of all-time. Sorry, Earth, Wind & Fire. I love y'all and all... but this joint by Slave is just straight-up relentless.

[MusicLova84]

Relentless, lol. Well put!!

[kimegoraya]

Don't be soooo quick to judge, wait till ya hear what I got! I am new, so don't know much about pcs, but MUSIC, a little.

[barriobajaj]

I remember cruising with my cousin in his '64 Impala, blasting this jam on his 8-track stereo.

True O.G.'s Baby! (You could by a '64 Impala for around $900.00 in '77.)

[dpkvwells]

some one from my era....i love it...i remember doing the same thing in my friends trans am (black of course), that was when music was music...no bitches hoes gats...just music

[cheetie72]

I heard that dpkvwells. I remember those days. My old man had a black '77 trans am he bought brand new in '77 and he use to play the shit out of this cut,and like you said music was music.

[akeenomahz]

Oh yeah! I remember turning up the 'bass' on our stereo on this one!...and those horns are sick!! Drac's guitar licks had our 'rocker' friends take notice like " Dude!That guy can play!"

[LadyDorian]

you aint got to speak everyone knows you're a freak!

[figio65]

un classico dei 70..

[perfhulm]

sensacional

brasil / sao paulo

[Britnney1021]

I was 13 and was in a project band..We tried to play this song..What memories!!..Brooklyn!!

[RawskiMaDawski]

The comment made by thelonious1 is on point like a motor scooter. The bass line is kickin, the horns on hit, the numerous cool ass brothas singin/talkin are runnin smooth game. But those guitar solos in the middle n at the end, sadly, get no love. That brotha should've joined a RnR outfit where his skills would've been appreciated.

[PeekaPeep]

Mark "Drac" Hicks, baby!!! Yup, brotha can rock the axe as well as anybody on the scene back then. Quiet as kept, I think Prince may have even copped a few licks from him while still trying to break through on the Warner Bros label around the same time...

[loviedovie222]

I remember catching my aunt and her then boyfriend smoking joints to this!

[freereid]

the bass is so funky,you justhave to move.

[rjam1974]

This song was sampled by Too Live Crew's "Me so horny" how sad is that lol. Luke and the crew actually had taste.

[loviedovie222]

Nope, that was firecracker. I forget the performer.

[halfndngyal]

MASS PRODUCTION....(oh mamacita)

[loviedovie222]

yep, that's it.

[phillydisco]

Did they also use this? I thought it was mainly, if not all, made up of 'Firecracker' by Mass Production?

Tribe either sampled this cut or Son of Slide on their first LP.

[rjam1974]

You are right I stand corrected. I get "Slide" and "Firecraker" mixed up. "Firecraker" is similar but its obvious that 2livecrew went full sample with this with "Me So Horny"

[jeditwinz]

Tribe used this for Go Ahead in the Rain

[theylou]

FUNK TO THE HIGHEST POWER!!!

[RABISO]

all the music in the 70s are the best from all the shit new music

[thelonious1]

The baddest under-appreciated guitar solo in history.

[koolfraser]

funky shit

[jamesmkel315]

That Solo Was OFF THE HOOK!!!!

THE SONG ITSELF IS JUST AMAZINGLY,RIDICOUSLY, COOL!!!!

[amd77j]

True F-U-N-K. "Nuff said, ya'll!

[Redskins1up44]

I was 12 when this song came out. Augsburg, Germany back in the day!

[JEANELIZHAS]

damn me too this stuff takes u back to some really good times!!!

[Redskins1up44]

Was you livng in Germany the time this song came out? Too bad they don't have music like this anymore.

[iStarlite]

I wasn't even born when this song came out, I'm 13! XDD

But I love it anyway. <3333

[drumma4lyfe06]

I'm 20 yrs old and I know somethin' bout this. Let me go to the rink and pearl it out real quick. This is my shit!!!!

[cheetie72]

I'm glad it's a few young bucks like yourself that know what real music is. I just wish alot other young bucks got into it, but it's a matter of time I guess.

[pam1caldwell]

I was 16 when this song came out now that was music backin the days this stuff today it history all ready

[Atlantaorl]

Goshhhhhhhhhhh, In New York jammin this song back in the day. I was 10 or 11.

[lvpl1]

Man, we slid on the block at Nellis Air Force Base to this jam, us in highschool and half the military feelin da funk of it all, Daym, those were the times, Big-S street block parties ...!

[Icepacalapse]

Man.....Jesse Johnson was probably influenced by this group.

Not many groups have that kind of heavy guitar other than these guys and the time.

[fairalways]

Ma wheels is loose and I broke a lace...but it don' slow me daownn...jus' do the one-legged slide thang......bustin' out!

[wke34]

The number one jam of my eighth grade: Class of '77!!! Thanks for the tune!!!

[jaikevinthomas]

I got my 8-track taped to my 10 speed riding with no hands! My chuck taylors on with two different colored shoe laces and my pick in my fro with the red and green handle...can you dig it! Chi-Town!

[heijasanaa]

this the shit

[heijasanaa]

this the shit

[heijasanaa]

it dont get no better than this TURN IT UP

[heijasanaa]

it dont get no better than this

[NINJAHARO]

My low rider days

[mangozumo]

screw ya wig on tight?

[demopa]

I'll let my Grandmother check that out!

Nice Post, thanks.

[TLDavis1230]

Excuse me, I am sliding by with my bicycle horn while I am jamming to this..thanks for posting!!!!

[annalatejana]

I REMEMBER THIS SONG BACK IN THE 80'S IN CALIFORNIA THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLE DAYS MY DAYS ANYWAYS ANYWAY annalatejanna

[altadena2660]

I'd let my grandmother, check that out..lol..what a line..hell of a song..damn...ole school is still the shit

[basssman]

They call me Drac HA HA here I come baby!!

[montey1]

Please. Please.veewee or anyone. Please can anyone post stone jam? Anybody remember that one? Good old days of funk.

[veewee]

it's already on here. see "related videos".

[urfixed]

Please some post Just Freak by Slave it was by far their hardest song but did not get the great air play. Mark Adams....you the man!

[veewee]

I just posted the song. enjoy!

[georgeelaster]

The Original I call the best. Oh the days 1977 in Fort Clayton, Panama. Fun, Fun, Fun,

[BOSSUP206]

I dig, Slave funks it up!

[DaVinciCelone]

That's the real funk, man! I remember sliding to this all day.

[Braenchild]

The sound on this is fantastic. Good ol' funk right here.

[2channeltv]

True Black Rock n Roll

[tacommanche]

Slave is the funkiest band EVER! Mr. Mark, Drac, Steve, Tim and the rest of the funksters from Dayton will never be duplicated --Funk dat!

[BWizer]

thats right bro! Drac wear a guitar out! remeber Stellar Funk? dayum man!

[cherriesandicecream]

I love this track I thought I had it in my favorites somewhere...SLIDE :) ~so great~

[tacommanche]

This is good ----but in ranking it with cuts like 'Just a Touch of Love', 'Snapshot' 'Baby Sinister', 'Watchin' You' and 'Stone Jam' --it's just a taste of them at their best! Peace 2Ya.

[tacommanche]

Yessszzir, 'Everybody knows who we are---we are STELLAR--Stellar Fungk" Good old days before 'sampling'! Slave had talent that was off the 'chain'!

[crouchhill]

Agreed.

[Mossdog32]

Trueblack funk at it's best!

[RLW1967]

Tim Dozier was the baddest drummer in Slave before Steve Arrington took over the drum chair. Plus, Steve Arrington was a great drummer, too. Peace.

[myfootinurass]

i love to play this bassline the song inspired me to pick up the bass guitar and now i play it all the time

[meccalecahymeccahyny]

Ooops..Shaky

[meccalecahymeccahyny]

"U a lowdown lady but your game is kind of shady" HaHa

[jackson1460]

Funk-n-Roll, that's was slave was. And they were great "live". About nine members--and they jammed!!!

[gabbie42]

"Yeah-BAY-BEH-BAY-BEH!"

[pablopcasso]

Slave is straight out of Dayton, OH along with Sun, Roger Troutman & Zapp, Ohio Players, Lakeside, and of course Dayton. Gem City, Baby!

[danequake]

old school rules.

[icon200]

welcome to planet Funk Funk

hold on tight you mutha funkaaas!!

[misterdtqt]

that's the real stuff there! This ain't the new school sampling!Real music played by real people! Not todays rapper trying to turn a platinum record into a platinum record 20 years later then bragging about being the best around!

[OldDiscoChick]

This song takes me back. This is real party music. MAY THE FUNK BE WITH YOU!

[kheir01]

Janissi42- I know that's right! Since I've joined YouTube, I've been collectin' these precious gems. Hell, I don't even listen 2 the radio anymore. Jam on!!!!!!!!!

[shaftieboy]

Slave 'give it to ya the way ya always wanted it' Ha.

[skillet54]

a whole lot of youngheads dig on our music from back in the day..especially if they watch video of it..actually seeing brothers playin' instruments and singin' shows how youngsters are being short-changed nowdays..peace

P.S.

dig that bass line

[Janissi42]

You all remember this - the summer of 1977. These brothers were bad and if I'm not mistaken, they were right outta high school. Nope, music and talent like this is long gone. Thanks to youtube, old schoolers have something to listen to.

It seems like on every street in the hood someone, somewhere was playing Slide, including me!

[dlong100]

watch out now. I was 6 when this came out and i picked up on the dummm dum dum dumdum dum dum dummm back then.lol..lol..lol

[unitedblacknation818]

i heard this song in slaves studio in mount clare nj and no steave washington he us to date my sister east orange newjersey

[mikebott]

yes ! slave are the funk band that no-one else but me seems to know about, or pay respect to.

i wish there was a video for 'you and me'...

[specialchloe49]

this song takes me back to my high school days

representing Broad Ripple H.S. class of 81. holler back!!

[kissmylayoff]

Wooo this was one helluva JAM from back in the day! Love this song!!!

[ogcapkiller]

what a good song from back in the 70's

annnacostillaaaaaaaa

[cheetie72]

This is real music 4 yo face party people, guaranteed to get the dancefloor jumpin'.Party on blackfolk.

[cheetie72]

This brother is tearin' that guitar the fuck up.They don't jam like this anymore because they are scared the music industry will take away their bling bling, ha ha ha ha. Party on party people.

[3811iberis]

Excellent point, when you're funkin' to music like this, you don't think about shootin' people and boning hoochies!!

[cheetie72]

You got that right.These mothafuckers today has lost their damned mind with all that shit talkin'. This is real music right here. Ol;school forever.

[opusnone]

They don't jam like this anymore because true musicianship is rare and takes effort. Sampling, scratching, etc. is simply laziness diguised as talent. A rhyming dictionary and an attitude is what counts as talent these days.

[cheetie72]

You got that right opusnone,and it's damned sicking too.

[tkeitt43]

This was the Sugar Honey Ice Tea=SHIT

Thanks 4 posting this hit VeeWee............

[cheebacheetah]

Yeah, ridiculously funky! laid down, purple-coloured funk