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Show Blue Suede Shoes Sly concert will i 'a whole new thin By VAL NESS Chronicle Staff Sly Stone is probably best known in this area for his super-adrenalin performance on the Woodstock flick and for an early single called "Dance to the Music." It's really too bad the local radio stations don't check into more of his music. I guess they think he'll go away if he's ignored enough. Fat chance. He's been playing music since he was four and he's something like 27 now. He learned arrangement early and by 1964 he was producing the hits for the Beau Brummels, the only ( successful band frS, Area at that time. He';, a very popular radio P ; two local soul ";; (with an echo, of KDIA. j By early 1967, Sly a'j Stone were giffl'j audiences around within three men J developed a core ol , now has six alburns H including a "Create which was release I very slack period (conW., Family Stone set for tonight (from page 4) album, "There's a Riot Coin' On." After his first LP, "A Whole New Thing," Sly had honed his production, arrangements and writing to such a fine edge that one could hardly find a bad song on any of his later records. "Dance to the Music," "Life" and "Stand" all have consistently fine music that is now being copied and modified by nearly everyone in soul music. The new album is much simpler and more laid back than his earlier records. There seems to be quite a bit of debate over whether this represents a new music approach for Sly or whether he's just being degenerate for the hell of it. The band has also developed a pretty spotty reputation for live concerts. "Rolling Stone" reported that the band kept a minority benefit audience of 10,000 waiting for two hours while Sly watched TV in his dressing room. When he finally did get on stage, he did a monotonous set of old hits, indicating in-dicating that he just wanted to grab his bread and split. Let's hope he does better than that tonight; there's a good chance that the Rolling Stones may use a similar scheme this summer if this turns out well. |
