From dwilliams20Sly stone, radio DJ, song writer, producer and most famously performer and head of sly & the family stone. In 1969 running hot off there recent album stand got to be part of two massive festivals. First being the Harlem culture festival and the second being woodstock. Scheduled for the second night and with every set going way to long the took the stage around 3:00 am on sunday to see of about 500,000 people. Most were tired hungry and probably on some sort of drugs intentionally or unintentionally. There set whiped a crowd of about 500,000 to dancing and screams of higher and throwing up peace signs. For all the technical issues woodstock had this performance rival anything and or surpass a controlled concert venue. If someone can't lead the way sly lead and demolished his set at Woodstock how can we get higher and save the peace humanity deserves.
- I Want to Take You Higher closing the set at 3 a.m. — does the hour make that performance feel more or less electric to you?No answers yet
- Larry Graham's slap bass was genuinely new in 1969 — how much does that single sonic innovation shape the energy of the whole set?No answers yet
- Sly presents unity and integration as joyful rather than confrontational — is that optimism the album's greatest strength or a tension worth examining?No answers yet
- Everyday People sounds almost gentle compared to the harder funk around it — why do you think it hits as hard as it does in this live context?No answers yet
- Knowing what would happen to Sly Stone personally and artistically after 1969, does that context change how you hear this performance?No answers yet
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