Thank You - Sly and the Family Stone | The Midnight Special

[@lockedonlaw]

The only thing that could stop Sly was Sly. This band had so much talent. Cynthia was one of a kind. Rose was gorgeous.

[@joesmith6357]

When music was great.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Which lady is Rose? 🌹

[@lockedonlaw]

@@KittyGrizGriz Rose is the lady on the piano. Cynthia is the lady on the trumpet. And I believe that is Vaetta on backing vocals.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@lockedonlaw Oh, ok, thank you so much! They’re all so talented and I love watching everyone in the band! It’s a family affair, after all and we need to know their names. Ha! 😉

[@fumanchu1977]

The coolest cat in town

[@DerrickKing-d5u]

This is pure gold 🎤🎤🔥🔥

[@rgfreese]

No one enters a room like Sly!

[@matthewbecker964]

After the Woodstock movie came out sly was poised to be the biggest star of all, he was all that everybody talked about, but he couldn't hold back the night and darkness and fell a flame of his own making. Some people just can't handle being famous. His vision was pure but he let the devil get on top.

[@trainstar5]

Sly and the Family Stone were way ahead of their time. My brother saw them at Madison Square Garden, and he told me Sly played maybe 3 songs and walked out. The band jammed, but he didn't? He told me it was still a good show.

[@ScottW-vz4bf]

Cocaine is a helluva drug!

[@tiportangeles2696]

I've always LOVED, Sly and the Family Stone. Thank you for this video!

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Now…That’s the way to enter a stage!! SO KOOL 🎉 💃

[@realskybluepink9124]

Love love love Sly and his Family Stone ❤.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

The WHOLE BAND is ON!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@peterjonas4971]

Poor Sly, a genius and a casualty of the 70s.

[@NCBeaches]

An incredibly talented man.

[@mattdylan664]

Sly is so fly!

[@PoundTown595]

Im reading Sly’s recent memoir and here is what he says about these shows: “Some programs, like Midnight Special, got too frantic, with people in your sight line scurrying and pointing. Were they pointing at me? And if not, was I supposed to look? It was hard to concentrate on anything and I was required to get into the music correctly.”

[@hollygolightly7475]

Electric Sly!!In all his fabulous glory the genius ❤❤❤❤❤

[@garyt6831]

Drummer Bill Lordan smokes!,Rock on brother 😎🎶🥁✌️

[@danielsweimler2358]

Rock Solid bottom with the camera-denied bassist.

[@phillippitts6294]

Such a killer groove

[@keithmcdonald2571]

This song could have gone on for a lot longer than it did.

[@deefay396]

One Of Kind! ❤

[@flame-sky7148]

They rockin with it!! Rockin with that groove.

[@chrischristoferson1191]

This is sick. Jamming outtt 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@MrNathan791]

The one and only Sly & The Family Stone. Their sound was their own. Imagine, this guy started out as a DJ. The ladies were so gorgeous.

[@ronm6585]

Thank you!

[@italishgirl5601]

Before Prince…. There was Sly!

[@ScottW-vz4bf]

… and P-Funk,which Prince listed as a major inspiration on his music and style.

[@enepeaene]

sly is the funkiest man ever walked on this planet

[@warrenjg4598]

this is off the chart 😳 Thanx for posting 👍

[@Sword_of_justice103]

Outstanding musicality

[@70srocknroll]

Now that's a jam session

[@lostgrenadier]

So awesome!

[@adamklasicki]

insanely great

[@SteveKraus]

Absolutely awesome music.

[@drivenmad7676]

That's some good stuff!!!!!!

[@richardreid3268]

Now. that are some great fro's

[@SabiArtStory777]

Cool cat ✌🏻😎 it's great!

[@barbsyorkies]

I was MISSING ALL OF U. Sly....

[@patrickdaly5068]

Swag swag swag all day long!

[@kbusby4824]

Super fly, Sly.

[@Mark-jw7to]

Trowers future drummer here with sly stone

[@jr13227]

And he sounds great

[@QueenetBowie]

A legend right there. Tragic what happened.

[@Bill-jc1fy]

The guy knew how to make an entrance.

[@MrGWolf-ih6me]

Oh this is killerrrrr !!! 🎉

[@jr13227]

Bill Lordan on drums! Would shortly be Robin Trower’s drummer

[@samuelalridge3718]

🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿

[@johnranallo424]

I had the album back then. That song was titled "Thank you for lettin me be mice elf again". Or close to that.

[@guywhite1004]

Never saw so many ‘Fros in one place. Hip!

[@AdrianDeVore]

It was the hottest thing in 1974.😂

[@Ryan-mq2mi]

Noice ‘fro, bro!

[@IIESPD00DII]

Dude was high af!!! Killed it though lmao

[@Galiuros]

This song was featured on KXCI 91.3 in Tucson

[@flicewatter]

The best.. No band to out do them at that game ..❤

[@URnickel_MY2cents]

*_OH, HE11, YES !!!!!_*

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

The legendary Larry Graham on bass. I always thought he was the bass player to Strawberry Letter 23 until the internet came around.

[@sweetstevie]

I believe this is Rustee Allen on bass, who replaced Larry Graham.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

I love that song! 🍓🍓🍓

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

I just assumed it was Larry. I looked it up and saw where he left the band in 74. So you might be correct.

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

@KittyGrizGriz That makes two of us. Strawberry Letter 23 is a classic. I remember hearing it everytime I went to the roller skating rink. I went to a Phish concert years ago. Early nineties and they played Strawberry Letter 23. I couldn’t believe it.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@curtisphilumalee1447 That’s very interesting about Phish, playing the song, it’s fantastic. I’m afraid I’ve heard of them but don’t know any of their songs. What’s your favorite?

[@minxlabrada]

Can you imagine how monster of a tour that would have been if they got back together in the 90s when Toyota was using Everyday People to sell cars?

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

🔥🚬😎

[@RobertSkiviat]

Somebody gimmie this stuff again! Please!

[@charlesspencer9626]

Symphony Sid Page!

[@richardcoreno]

Longtime Cleveland, Ohio, radio personality Mark "Munch" Bishop has a story from years ago when a deep-pocketed Sly Stone fan in Columbus (OH) set him up in a local recording studio to cut tracks for an album. Stone told him what instruments were needed for the sessions, which the money mark purchased and had delivered. After a week or so of hearing nothing about how things were progressing....he went to the studio....and found no instruments and no sign of Stone.

[@Alexthegreat27]

Such a funky intro! I wonder who the guy is in the top hat and sunglasses playing the keyboards? Is that Bobby Lyle?

[@waynegram8907]

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, Upload Sly Stone the song Time for Living LIVE midnight Special its a better version than the studio album version

[@Steve-mp7by]

Rose on the stanky Clavinet

[@IvesMarcelin]

Cette association est du tonnerre de Dieu

[@ighdesigns]

Who is the guy playing the fiddle?

[@dirkmanning8621]

Sid Paige

[@60zeller]

Prince’s real Dad

[@dehydratedwater9806]

Falletinme Be Mice Elf

[@hamiltongomesdasilva9561]

Na verdade eu queria ver valer a lei universal que diz que humilhados serão exaltados. Muitos cancelados merecem de fato serem celebrados e elogiados por gestos e atos dignificantes e heroicos.

[@philcollins2176]

[@MalEvansUSA]

He’s totally fucked up here 😢

[@clovergrass9439]

I wonder how much cocaine was used?

[@davidmccall4776]

What a waste of God given talent! Beware kids: don't do drugs!

[@flame-sky7148]

I wouldn't call it a waste. We have his art, where is yours? We have his records, his concerts that have been captured on disc and tapes to be preserved. A waste would be to never get it out to share with humanity.

[@davidmccall4776]

@flame-sky7148 My comment wasn't made with the intention of instigating an argument, but to point out that if drugs could do what they did to Sly, then they could do it to anyone. So, if you're hell bent on exchanging crude remarks with someone, then you'd be much better served by looking elsewhere. I've been a fan of Sly since 1969, and have had the good fortune of seeing him before the drugs, the music industry and crooked management screwed him out of his publishing rights and left him broke, so I don't need a lecture from you or anyone else. Peace. ✌☮

[@flame-sky7148]

@ it’s no argument, the drugs were rampant in the music scene back then. Not all, but “everyone “ was doing it . Again not a waste of talent. If it was a waste , you wouldn’t be on this video.

[@davidmccall4776]

@flame-sky7148 The music that Sly still had inside himself, but never recorded, due to the factors I cited in my last comment, were indeed a waste of his talent, and we're all the losers for it, including Sly himself. And BTW, I can attest to the fact that drugs were rampant everywhere back then, and not only in the music industry.✌☮

[@flame-sky7148]

@@davidmccall4776 Yea they were everywhere. However, I'm glad what we have the footage and records of Sly, Jimi, Jaco , Bird, Cobain, Joplin, Miles and others we lost so soon due to drugs and circumstance.

[@groove808golf]

Stage hand: "How much shine do you want on your clothes?" Sly: "Yes ... :)"