Sly Stone Interview

jo que guay.. me encanta este hombre

Nice to see the man speak.

Everything y'all are arguing about back and forth is AMERICAN. Distinctly, exclusively, and uniquely American. You don't hear it anywhere else in the world, but it influenced and continues to influence the world.

But y'all are still talking about the myth called "race".

"and by the way Maggot Brain is Rock my Brother. Jimi H style".. .I thik you may be too exacting in your definitions bro...Funk is the Black version of rock...like rock is the white version of r&b...but Sly was marketed as "rock" or at least to the "rock" market when they came out same as Jimi and same as Buddy Miles and the Chambers Brothers and folks didn't know what to call their music at the time - Clinton had a jam in the 60s "I Just Wanna Testify"..it was NOT do wop or rock.

some more about Sly supposedly starting funk...you seem to have forgotten about the Godfather James Brown if anybody deserves credit for starting funk (which NO one person does) J.B. would be the one. Also there was a reason why the Motown band was called "the Funk Brothers"..there was also the Stax Volt contigency Booker T and the MGs et all. There was Dyke andThe Blazers, The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band. Tthis is just to name SOME. And not to take ANYTHING away from Sly Stone. He is important

THE FUNK BROTHERS were session musicans for motown they play motown hits which is different from Funk. James Brown and Sly produced FUNK. Maggot Brain was in 71 Sly &TFS started playing Funk in the 60's. Funk is a mixture of Blues, Rock n Roll , Black Gospel music and I left out Jazz...George Clinton started with Paralament in 1959 but they were a do wop group that changed their sound several times before setteling on Funk and by the way Maggot Brain is Rock my Brother. Jimi H style .

I have responded to you in detail on your own youtube page...I think I know a degree or two more than you on this topic my friend...Not cuz I'm smarter or better than you but because I'm a handful of years older than you and i was there when a lot of this happened. I went to school with members of Graham Central Station. You sound like you are reciting a lot of stuff you have read about. That's not a put down cuz reading is fundamental. But respectfully I think I'm better versed on this than you

I know who Tommy Dorsey the gospel composer is. Do youknow of what you speak? Modern day "funk" incubated in the pentocostal church. Thatt's where Larry Graham learned to play like he did. You ever pass by those tents in the summertime? in any city? Detroit Chicago Oakland?Funkadelic the funk arm of Parliament Funkadelic was launched by the end of the 60s. They came to public attention in '71 with Maggot Brain. My statement is George Clinton was one of the 3 most influential. A true statement

Do I know of what I speak? I was raised Pentecostal my father was a preacher as was my Grandfather and I covered the death of Thomas Dorsey when I did TV news in Chicago. When he first presented his style of Gospel it was rejected by the mainstream church because of the Blues chords. Mahalia Jackson & Albertina Walker learned under him they were rejected too. Oh I was also a Gospel music and Jazz Disc jockey before i got into TV NEWS.

Today FUNK music is in the Black Church..Fred Hammond, Rose Stone and the Elder Fredrick Stewart a Pastor of a Church of GOD in CHRIST in THE BAY AREA aka Freddie Stone have FUNK CD's that have a Gospel Message,. Larry Graham used bass rifts that was straight out of shouting music ie, Release Yourself . George Clinton pushed his version of FUNK as S&TFS were breaking up. At 1st Funkadelic was more of a hard rock band until Bootsy Collins and James Brown's horn section joined P-FUNK.