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

Both the performance and the remarkable interview afterwards, the interview is UNCUT and includes the music theory question.

[@Exilemainstreet]

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

[@brianhammer5107]

Well, let's see - five gold/platinum albums, countless fans at concerts (at least until he started not showing up for gigs right and left around 1971), recognition in rock 'zines and books for his extremely influential writing and urban realism of those lyrics, immortalized in the Woodstock film ...... yeah, sure wasn't recognized.

[@funkmanchu]

I like to think that every civiliastion on earyh has found a way though the ages of getting high ~ Altering perception. Sly is like a god on another plane. Where are they now

[@michaelcrawford5083]

Spoken like a true Gen X baby with that comment, what an idiot.

[@fundies2]

@@brianhammer5107 Not to mention influenced many other huge funk/rock/pop stars.

[@cedricliggins7528]

Yeah real role model.

[@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 NAZZ". A great version of this can be found on the album, "His Royal Hipness". It's fantastic that Sly whips this out. He does a great impersonation of Lord Buckley, too.

[@romulus_]

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.

[@Danny__Noble]

Romulus do you know how to crochet 🧶? 😂

[@leonakita]

Cavett was easily the 'hipest' act on the late night circuit at the time, his lowkey demeanor and folksy way with his guests made him nonthreatening and attractive to the hottest acts of the day. Doubtful there will ever be another like him in the new age of drama.

[@harmono8766]

He was great at playing a straight man to the guests. This was kind of tough because Sly would go from being really nice to saying things like "discrimination" and demanding things from Dick. Dick is not good with confrontation.

[@briancompton6326]

@@harmono8766 Dude, Sly was just joking when he said, "discrimination".

[@unfortunatebeam]

@@briancompton6326 don't say dude

[@rsohlich1]

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

[@aprilwest9852]

Sly was high as fuck , but I don't care. He was so funny and serious at the same time. He loved to call people out on their shit. He was honest. I so miss Sly and his band. I wish he had collaborated with Prince like Larry Graham did.

[@BSIII]

Even higher than a satellite, sly was still a genius.

[@kcsunshine6122]

Some of you may think Dick Cavett was boring and it probably seems that way since his show wasn't filled with silly comedy sketches and scripted beforehand. He was like a blank canvas and the guests that appears were the painting.

[@1blastman]

"In order to get to it, you gotta go through it"

[@scottfeuerhammer3595]

You God damn right. Ya dig.

[@gwennyprince8577]

Sly is feeling no pain.....I enjoyed this!

[@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.

[@brianhammer5107]

Janis and the Family Stone were both on Ed Sullivan, so, so much for that theory. Hendrix was on a PBS special.

[@claytonmagee1211]

In a way Dick was hip in his unhipness.

[@AndrewVOdom]

@@brianhammer5107 And Janis Joplin was on the Tom Jones Show. And The Johnny Cash Show featured many surprising and fresh acts from rock and folk worlds..The Ed Sullivan show had scores of rock bands and great soul acts.

[@brianhammer5107]

@@AndrewVOdom yeah, I was 'there' at the time

[@torinowens6103]

Sly was High as pikes Peak but, he's a Musical Genius &. Very underappreciated. 1love

[@wages7992]

True authenticity of soul, thank you Sly. A true Legend

[@slida65]

His golden heart was beating faster here then Bruce Lee. God bless you Sly.

[@Tommy-ni1yw]

Sly's actually a very bright guy. He should've been a comedian!

[@cedricliggins7528]

Yeah another Henny Youngman

[@unfortunatebeam]

A comedian? I thought you said he was bright...

[@cathyleatherman3097]

Good man Sly Stone … one of a kind

[@1killahead]

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

BRILLANT PEOPLE ARTISITS, PAINTERS, MUSICANS, ARE IN A WORLD OF THEIR OWN.....MANY HAVE HEARTACE, SO THEY ARE CREATIVE......PAIN..PRODUCES CREATIVITY........................HE IS NOT WEIRD.....OR BI POLAR HE IS BRILLANT...

[@txicmelody13]

People who are that talented and ingenious are far more prone to mental disorders. Sly / Sylvester definitely has issues and the drugs did not help with those. That's why he's living in a van now. Nobody is doubting his talent, he just didn't ever get the help that he probably needed.

[@BrocHole]

I agree that they both seem very real and interesting. It also helps that they didn't spend half the interview promoting their latest project. I haven't seen a talk show that didn't seem like a commercial with ads in between, but I guess too young to have seen stuff like this. Their very different personalities, but there's definitely some chemistry there.

[@marjoryrainey6019]

BrocHole There is.

[@unfortunatebeam]

Yeah, everything has gotten worse in society since then, true

[@CubensisRecords]

This gives me a contact high

[@mootbooxle]

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

[@samwindmill8264]

Man, there's really nobody on TV like Cavett anymore. Half of the TV personalities who fill in his kinda role are either larger-than-life in their presentation, like the late-night comedians (as cool as some of them are), or like a lot of the TV "news" interviewers they look and sound like immaculately tailored robots who exude little to no real personality. It definitely makes you yearn for that unshakably charming, witty, understated demeanor. I'm also reminded of the fact that if someone on Sly's level gave an interview like this today, the response from the TMZ fuckwad brigade would be even more garish and over the top than Sly's outfit in this clip. This woulda been his "There's a Riot Goin' On" period, so if you've ever heard that record (which is THE SHIT and the best record the guy ever made) you already know how fucked up on drugs he was at the time.

[@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

[@brianhammer5107]

Zappa was just a kid in HS at the time of that appearance.

[@cowboystinkysweat6887]

" The Real Expressions on live tv, Without no cable , live on major network. Sly was feeling good that night, No lie. ". Don't even think about trying out that performance, Today, we will be sitting in jail watching the rerun. " Those crazy things that we used to do. But, we have fun doing it. Memories are forever ". Cheers. ".

[@Apathynosebleed]

I wrote the closing theme that you hear at the end of this video. I'd like to be paid sometime soon. Thank you!

[@marjoryrainey7039]

This is Classic!

[@brotzmannsax]

If any are old enough to have been attending concerts in the 60's you know Sly had a reputation for not only being notoriously late, if he showed up at all, for his concerts. I had tickets for Sly and the Family Stone five times and saw them twice, this is the main reason for Dick angry at the beginning of the interview. As far as Bill Graham, he paid well and ran a tight ship at both Fillmore's and Sly's carefree lifestyle conflicted with Bill's strict policies, mostly being punctual and giving your best performance. When they did show up they were usually very late and very stoned, sometimes they cancelled altogether, rare at the time.

[@clintlarraux6782]

“La Stoners”

[@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

[@charlesmaynard2236]

All the squares go home!Great outfit Sly!

[@discobean54]

😂😂😂 his face when he mentions about the world being flat.

[@amsterdamG2G]

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!

[@ronlight7013]

Sly OWNS Cavett. Dick was the world's biggest poseur, and he always came up short.

[@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

[@markjasper1127]

Cavett was the best talk show host ever

[@thetommoody]

Dick Cavett was great with these guys that were completely fucked up on his show...Sly was a total riot here but, more importantly perhaps, showed why he never really fulfilled his greatness. The drugs inherently robbed him of his genius and he unfortunately became just a sidelight to the late 60's and early 70's.

[@niqulusviii987]

Jim Ford was apparently a great musician and writer. Sly and became good friends Sly invited to play on Riot, many artists and groups thought highly of. His downfall much like Sly's was drugs, ultimately leading him to only release one album and hundreds of reels of tapes were found on the floor of his trailer home.

[@dougsmith7083]

Jim was hanging out with Sly, Ike Turner and Bobby Womack and he had a similarly prodigious appetite for the white powder. You're bang on about Ford being a great songwriter who was held in very high esteem by many great musicians kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6ezhaWNp6qCfbc

[@RandomNest]

Sly is as high as a kite in outer space, just straight stoned...

[@DeNieuweBeelding]

​@@finnhoffman The last 50 years of Sly's life are the answer to your question. It left his ass null and void.

[@cedricliggins7528]

Another junky musician. Who out lived his usefulness

[@bkkersey93]

​@@DeNieuweBeelding Very true unfortunately.

[@richardworth350]

5:17: "counterpoint is the answer...you get bored of the melody" That is a music lesson in counterpoint right there - first (melodic) subject and then the answer which is a new melody.

[@mendyboio3917]

Sly is a genius!

[@Danny__Noble]

I love that hat

[@1GuitarHack]

Sly is fried,, and he's a fuckin cool guy ,damm.

[@fredicagoillanoise1309]

Sly feelin SOOOO nice right here!! 🥴🥴🥴

[@donaldronson1387]

Sly's on that James Brown special here, coke and PCP.

[@kevinlawrence6984]

i have been a sly stone fan ever since i was eight years old. i often wonder if he suffers from manic depression.

[@txicmelody13]

Most likely. People with that kind of genius usually are, and the drugs didn't help either, haha.

[@stingray1964]

I heard Sly used to do a lot of PCP..I think were seeing the effects of it right here....haa..

[@DukesMusic84]

When you see a person in this mental state, the most important thing is that you tell someone immediately. I don't care how fucking hard it is for you to do, say it to their face or tell someone else: He is on drugs. That is what saves lives.

[@tonowari]

my poor baby

[@niqulusviii987]

The more I watch this, the more I'm leaning towards TROLL ALERT 🤣. I think he's in character lol of course he knew Bill Graham! Why would he have to stop and think about someone he knows so well who's name was just mentioned. Those Filmore shows bro, everyone knows those shows were badass

[@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

[@bronncohowie]

I want to take ME higher !!!

[@komeen]

SOOOOO 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

[@tonowari]

he was off the shits

[@Pam_Livinlife]

you think how can he remember the music if he is high AF

[@monmixer]

lol..sly is roasted

[@peterpandemonium3032]

Most stoned Sly interview ever. Quite an acievement.

[@HeXaGoN62]

Were Black!!!

[@orbituary]

Damn, Sly was fucked up on something lmao

[@standaman1963]

Sly was totally stoned.

[@fredicagoillanoise1309]

Sly was Redman before Redman

[@skipads5141]

Man looking like Prince in red instead of purple. EDIT: I now have seen more than the 1st few seconds. Why the hell would anyone do heroin?

[@doctorcraptonicus7941]

All the comments saying how stoned he was -Dick just had flu that night that's all, and as for Sly, this is what drugs do to you - before this he was appearing in the Rambo and Rocky films.

[@jameselixson5907]

Sly is totally fried, which explains the outfit.

[@1thepner]

Sorry.......much as I have loved this music since I first heard it in 1979, this is pathetic. Make all the excuses for this guy you want: gifted, talented, genius mind, can play better than me stoned.......and it still is really, really embarrassing for him. Wonder what the band thought, backstage? *thanks for uploading this, though. Great find.

[@michaelcrawford5083]

Since 79? Damn, why after their peak? Too young during their prime circa 68-73 I take it ?

[@philiphatfield5666]

Drugs get way too much credit for Sly Stone's downfall. Miles Davis, Hank Williams, Ray Charles, and Sly---all did some of their best work while wasted. Sly's HUGE ego was the more likely culprit. To put it bluntly: he became a TOTAL JERK!

[@1thepner]

@@philiphatfield5666 yes, they did a lot of drugs, made great works, and Sly was a jerk. But without the dope, he isn't living in a trailer years later. Being a jerk doesn't do that to you.

[@golds04]

Book sly- you had 25% chance of arrival on time. No research! Sounds a bit like Dave Chapell!

[@juliestrom412]

Richard Burton and Janis Joplin. I do love Sly but it wasn't too cool what he did to Billy Preston. Also Rod Sterling.

[@christinescott5853]

I always thought cavett was a great interviewer

[@KeizerHedorah]

Seems sly was just having fun as well as being a little fiesty with Dave, sorta giving him a hard time and making a joke of his show and the interview. He could've been 100% sober, not everyone is "a boring Norman".

[@kricetispies732]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

[@stephencanderson2344]

Pretty disappointing. A whole of talking and not much actually said. I'm a huge fan of Sly and the Family. Would have been nice to hear some talk about the latest album or anything of relevance. He was probably high on drugs. Oh well.

[@mizjk]

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

[@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.

[@trqsdays1]

Sly bad.

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

wasn't he supposed to be on one of these tv shows ON DRUGS?

[@groofoot]

um .... that would be Right here :-)

[@unfortunatebeam]

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

[@carloscarro3885]

They were both dead at the time

[@OlafProt]

4:48 there isn't shit that funny about this. God its sad.

[@bennyeggs8681]

Sly stone you should be ashamed you turned village people into prince

[@atomicdawg100]

say no to drugs

[@3636Clarence]

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

[@makenomist8aboutit43]

SLY is lying for real.

[@JAMEYSIMMS]

Uncomfortable to watch

[@acohen1980]

boring....