FTC: Sly & The Family Stone
A From the Closet featuring the great Sly & The Family Stone band seems appropriate this week since ATH took the day off on Monday for the great MLK Jr. Sly and his band, while doing it a bit more aggressively than the late Dr. King, also promoted the ideals of a world without racism and discrimination. I mean this band was integrated wayyyy before being integrated was cool. White boys in a funk band? No way! Don’t tell that to Sly Stone. With such a huge discography of music a choice could be hard, but not when a band has such a huge hit like “Everyday People”. Appearing on the groups biggest album Stand! of 1968, this hit sums up the style of Sly: heavy psych-funk beats with a simple message of peace. I’ve also got to admit that this was one of the first songs I ever really fell head over heals for. My mom had the Sly & The Family Stone greatest hits on vinyl and I jammed the shit out of this song on my Fisher Price record player. This is easily one of my top 10 songs of all time.
The guy on the left is my favoite.
“I’M IN THE FAMILY STONE!!!! ME!!!”