I have been authorized to extend the following offer by the Stewart Family (Sly and the Family Stone) to all attendees of the 2004 Soul-Patrol East Coast Convention, July 30-31 in Willingboro NJ: 2004 SOUL-PATROL EAST COAST CONVENTION

1. Wear or bring your OFFICIAL Sly (FUNK STAMPED) gear to the Soul-Patrol Convention and automatically become eligible to win one of the $450.00 collector's print displayed on the gallery page of the slyslilsis.com website.

2. Buy Sly OFFICIAL Sly (FUNK STAMPED) gear at the convention and you'll be entered into a second raffle for a $250.00 collector's print displayed on the gallery page of the slyslilsis.com website.

Each collectable print displays Sly's Signature and Autographed by Vet Stewart (Little Sister) and the true Stone Collectable Logo (a numbered Funk Stamp) on the reverse side, accompanied by an embossed, matching numbered, Certificate of authenticity issued from the Vallejo, California headquarters and birthplace of the family's musical legacy!!!

We not only talk about OURstory here on Soul-Patrol, we actually are willing to give you a chance to OWN just a little piece of it as well...

SLY'S LIL SIS DOT COM

--Bob Davis
Announcing the OFFICIAL:
SlysLilSis & Sly Stone Online Store!


Yes it does still HURT too much for me to talk about him, so I figured that instead of hearing from me, I thought that you might want to hear what the members of Sly and the Family Stone had to say for themselves...

  • Hooking up with the Family Stone in NYC...
  • Freddie Stone (RealAudio Interview)
  • Jerry Martini (RealAudio Interview)
  • Larry Graham/Freddie Stone R&B Foundation Awards Acceptance Speech (RealAudio)





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    HEY BROTHA, HOW COME YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING UP IN THIS FUNKY JOINT ABOUT SLY STONE?

     

    There's A Riot Goin' On (1971)

     

    • Luv N' Haight
    • Brave & Strong
    • Just Like A Baby
    • (You Caught Me) Smilin'
    • Poet
    • Time
    • Family Affair
    • Spaced Cowboy
    • Africa Talks To You "The Asphalt Jungle"
    • Runnin' Away
    • There's A Riot Goin' On
    • Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa

     

     

    Just Like A Baby

     

    Just like a baby,

    Sometimes I cry.

    Just like a baby,

    I can feel it when

    You lie to me.

    Just like a baby

    I'll try if I can

    Just like a baby,

    Just like a baby

    Inside a little big man

    Everything is new.

    Just like a baby,

    Come to find out

    I'm a whole lot like

    You, too

    Just like a baby

    See the thing it's growin',

    Just like a baby

    Blowin '.

     

     

    Poet

     

    My only weapon is my pen

    And the frame of mind I'm in.

    I'm a songwriter, A poet.

    I'm a songwriter, A poet.

    And the things I flash on Everyday

    They all reflect In what I say.

    I'm a songwriter I'm a poet

    I'm a songwriter, Oh yeh a poet.

     

     

    (You Caught me) Smilin'

     

    You caught me smilin' again.

    You caught me smilin' again.

    Hangin' loose

    'Cause you ain't used to seeing me turnin' on.

     

    You caught me smilin' again.

    You caught me smilin' again.

    I'll be gone

    And it won't take you long to climb a tree about me.

     

    You caught me smilin' again.

    You caught me smilin' again.

     

    I'll be around to carry on!

     

    Hey, you caught me smilin' again.

    You caught me smilin' again.

    In my pain I'll be sane to take your hand.

     

     

    Runnin' Away

     

    Running away

    To get away,

    Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

    You're wearing out your shoes.

    Look at you fooling you!

     

    Making Blues Of day and night.

    Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee!

    You're stretching out your dues.

    The shorter cut is quicker,

    But . . . Ha! Ha! il l Hd Time k here to stay! Look at you fooling you!

     

    The deeper in debt

    The harder You bet, Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee!

    Need more room to play! Look at you fooling you!

     

    Another day

    You're farther away.

    Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

    A lonpr trip back home!

     

     

    Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa

     

    Lookin' at the devil, Grinnin' at his gun.

    Fingers start shakin', I begin to run.

     

    Bullets start chasin' I begin to stop.

    We begin to wrestle I was on the top.want to

     

    Thank you falettinme be mice elt...Agin.

    I wanna thank you falettinme be mice elf...Agin.

     

    Stiff all in the collar, Fluffy in the face.

    Chit chat chatter tryin', I begin to run. Want to

     

    Thank you for the party, I could never stay.

    Many thangs is on my mind, Words in the way. Want to

     

    Thank you falettinme be mice elf...Agin.

    Thank you falettinme be mice elf...Agin.

     

    Dance to the music, All nite long. Ev'ry day people, Sing a simple song.

     

    Mama's so happy....Mama start to cry.

    Papa still singin'....You can make it if you try.

    I -- want to

     

    Thank you falettinme be mice elf...Agin.

    Thank you falettinme be mice elf...Agin.

     

    Flamin' eyes of people fear, Burnin' into you.

    Many men are missin' much, Hatin' what they do.

     

    Youth and Truth are makin' love,

    Dig it for a starter.

    Dyin' young is hard to take,

    Sellin' out is harder.

    I - - want to

     

    Thank you falettinme be mice elf...Agin.

    Thank you falettinme be mice elf...Agin.

     

     

    This is a question that I get at least once/month from someone who has visited the P*Funk Review website.

    I'd like to share with you my (thus far) unwritten response to that question...

    BECAUSE IT HURTS TOO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT SLY....

     

    This is the man who wished for us all to be "Everyday People", for "Everybody To Be a Star" and for all of us to take a "Stand".

     

    BECAUSE IT HURTS TOO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT SLY...

     

    The man "came, saw and conquered" he found a way, then tried to show us all the way. Not just his way, but the RIGHT WAY....

    He challenged "Whitey's" to stop calling people "N**gers" and at the same time challenged "N**gers" to stop calling people "Whitey's".

     

    BECAUSE IT HURTS TOO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT SLY...

     

    I guess in retrospect, Sly Stone could have ONLY happened in the late 1960's-early 1970's. At what other time in American History would anybody have even bothered to listen to his message? Certainly nobody is paying attention nowadays...:(

     

    BECAUSE IT HURTS TOO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT SLY...

     

    Sly took chances, he stood right out in front, didn't pretend to be "color blind", the inertracial makeup of his band and the unifying FUNK of his music said what he wanted to say. And he said it with passion and conviction. Whenever you listened to, or saw Sly and the Family Stone, you knew that the message was REAL....

     

    BECAUSE IT HURTS TOO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT SLY...

     

    Sly had the ability to be BOTH "mainstream and underground" at the same time........he was a "crossover artist", but unlike the man with whom he will forever be compared to (Jimi Hendrix) he was able to "crossover", without losing the Black audience. Through his music he had the power to unify Black and White. Sly said that it would be a cool thing for the races to unite. And guess what, maybe the time was right because people believed him. And believed in his message of "empowerment thru unity".

     

    BECAUSE IT HURTS TOO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT SLY...

     

    It's a difficult thing to try and read anything into the psyche of a person that you don't know on a personal level, but i would surmise that when Sly changed the nature of the conversation, ever so slightly towards what some of his inner feelings as a Black man might be (on the album "There's a Riot Going On") and his white audience REJECTED him, it must have been devastating for him.

     

    BECAUSE IT HURTS TOO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT SLY...

     

    I believe that not only did Sly preach a message of unity, but that he also believed it it himself!! He had to wonder why his fans didn't seem to understand that just because he also needed to talk about the Black experience was, and how it impacted him, that it didn't mean that he had changed his message. He had only expanded upon it. You see, Sly knew what all of us know and that is you have to first "know thy self", before you can reach out to others.

    BECAUSE IT HURTS TOO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT SLY...

     

    So why does it hurt?....Look at where we are now, here in 1999?.....How far have we come from those ideals that Sly was talking about?......Are we any closer to the implementation of those ideas?

     

    So why does IT HURT TOO MUCH TO WRITE ABOUT SLY...?

     

    Because it ALL really could have happened, just like Sly said it could, instead WE PHUCKED IT UP.............and somewhere someplace he is out there ......in tears thinking about what could have been!!

     

    And EACH DAY, all of the rest of us "Everyday People", should shed a tear for the same reason he does.

     
    --Bob Davis


    "Heard Ya Missed me, Well now I'm BACK...."
    --Sylvester Stewart

    ***Thank You SLY ....For Being YOURSELF***

     


    Soul-Patrol….Sly and the Family Stone
    Yes it does still HURT too much for me to talk about him, so I figured that instead of hearing from me, I thought that you might want to hear what the members of Sly and the Family Stone had to say for themselves...

  • Hooking up with the Family Stone in NYC...
  • Freddie Stone (RealAudio Interview)
  • Jerry Martini (RealAudio Interview)
  • Larry Graham/Freddie Stone R&B Foundation Awards Acceptance Speech (RealAudio)



    • Announcing the OFFICIAL:
    SlysLilSis & Sly Stone Online Store!

     

     

     



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