Sly and the Family Stone were so damned funky! This just might be the best episode start to finish released so far! Little Feat's performance of Willin' gave me chills!
What a great time for music! These Midnight Soecial episodes are gold! Live & uncut! Sly & the Family Stone, Elvin Bishop, Little Feat on the same card - - - incredible performances!
A lady at the "Bark in the park" festival today with a terrier named "Dixie" in a chicken suit. she says, "Little Feet" is one of my favorite bands, 🤣 You can't make this stuff up!
Wish I’d have been in the audience here, tonight. This show is ONE of the very best EVER! I saw Little Feat in Tulsa, OK in ‘78 @ the Cain’s Ballroom and LOVE Tulsa’s other favorite son~ Elvin Bishop 😍 that man can sure play the slide 🎸…! He’s performing a show in Tulsa at Will Rogers High School his alma mater, graduating in 1960, on 11/24 and I’m gonna be there, I hope! 😘
I'm jealous, I would love to see that. On the subject of foosball, my brother and I would "supplement" our paychecks by hustling others out of theirs playing foosball. We would start Friday at the youth group game room, then we would take our winnings and head down Charles Page BLVD to the back of a barber shop and pick up some cash there, then head to a bar around 11th and Peoria, head over to a pool hall on Admiral. The owners never carded use because we were tall. We would end up with a couple of hundred bucks, you know: Gas, dope and whiskey money (I stole my beer from the Quik Trip I worked at 😮). One night one of our frequent victims Geoff came to the table with a guy we had not seen before, kinda looked to old to be in youth group. Geoff's dad was a senior vice president of Williams oil, so he had much money, but hated that he couldn't beat us. This was in January of 1977. Geoff asks, "Got your tickets to the Led Zeppelin concert at the Myriad in OKC?" I told him no, cause all the tickets sold in Tulsa were gone in less than half an hour and the resulting riot wrecked the Fairgrounds ticket booth. He says, "I have 2 here that I'll wager against your paychecks", then sets them on the table. My brother and I were excited, we beat this guy SO often. We served and got a quick point, we were ahead. My brother and the unknown guy faced each other up front Geoff and I were goalies. We served the ball and new guy makes an instant goal. Then he serves and hits the ball SO HARD it comes out their goal and he shoots it into our goal again, my brother is screaming at me to block the ball, but you can't block what you can't see! They or I should say HE scored 9 more unanswered points, Fame over. Geoff then grabs our cash and says," thanks for buying my dope for the concert" and walks off. Later his sister,who lived with her mom and didn't much like Geoff told us she thought it was dirty that he FLEW in a foosball champion from Dallas just to beat us once, his ego couldn't take us poor boys being better at anything than him. Long story I know.😁
@@robmatlock7675 Oh. My. Gosh. WTH? A rich daddy-baby boy, too?! Sounds like a Narcissist. Since I worked at the Williams Companies for many years starting in 1981, am curious if I knew Geoff’s dad? Do you remember his last name? What a story, Rob! You foosball hustler-entrepreneur. It never occurred to me to play for $$ back then, Cindy & I could have made some serious dough. We used to play at Siggy’s, Tornado of Tulsa and Good Times. When I came home my mom would condescendingly say “you smell like you’ve been in a pool hall!” because of the cigarette smoke, it stuck to everything. We sure had fun socializing and hanging out with friends 😁😁
@@KittyGrizGriz Geoff's last name was West. We also bet on pinball and sometimes pool, but foosball was our major talent!🤓Geoff cosplayed Robert Plant, there was a slight resemblance with the blond hair. He was even a bigger doper than me, and my nickname in high school was "Smokie". He was so wasted onetime he almost fell down the stairs at the Climax Blues Band/Bad Company "Burning Sky" concert at the assembly center, lucky for him a rather large man was right behind him to catch him!🤕
Really hope the Little Feat segments (their 1st appearance on MS) get uploaded as stand-alones. Have been looking forward to seeing them for ages. Make no mistake, the Feat was one of the very very few truly great American bands of the 1970s.
Very cool surprise. Bill Lordan (Robin Trower) playing drums with Legendary, "Sly" and the Family Stone. Little Feat, what a stellar addition. So many great legends on this show. Thank you!
@@St63420, Good heavens. Bad mistake. Did actually mean, Bill Lordan. Saw Trower during "In City Dreams" '77 tour in San Francisco (Winterland). Corrected. Yikes! I'll never post comment again, while in altered state from surgery meds. LOL!
@@covers_girl Your comment reminded me of Robert Palmers fantastic 1974 2 part song “Sailin’ Shoes ~ Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley.” A Great show tonight! 😊
How lucky you were to have seen S&TFS live! I’d have died and gone to Groove Funkadelic heaven! I love Crabby Appleton too and their ‘70 song “Go Back.” I was on a YT channel watching a performance of CA and it said they toured with Three Dog Night who were my 1st concert in 1970. I posted “I wonder if CA opened that show & I didn’t remember as I was only 11 yrs old?” Their lead singer~songwriter Michael Fennelly reached out to me. Pretty Kool! The bass is my favorite instrument 🎸❤️
It's no surprise to hear Sly sounding great but the revelation to me here is Henry Gross, being only familiar with his hit Shannon it was very surprising to hear him rocking like this. They definitely have a great, authentic rock sound imo.
Henry Gross's sound is totally unexpected, not only because of how different it is from "Shannon" , but also considering that he got his professional start as a member of Sha Na Na!
Elvin Bishop, another graduate of Will Rodgers High School in Tulsa, ok. He was a classmate of Leon Russel, so we continue the Tulsa music scene spotlight this week 😁. I only heard Shannon from Henry Gross, which I thought he buried his girlfriend in the back yard, lol. Little feat, I wish they were doing Dixie Chicken, but all their songs are great! Roger McGuinn, the Bird man, cool! Sly and the Family Stone a 1 group funk festival. Another wonder trip in the Way Back Machine!
We watched this every Friday night high as hell as teenagers. It was the only way to see the current performers. This episode was EPIC! This was before auto tune. This was real talent.
This episode was incredible! I love that channel is one of the reasons why my spotify playlists have grown so long!😭😆 So excited for the podcast and the discussion about "Bee Gees memories"🥰
Man, this group was funky. Sometimes I forget to watch/listen to them for a couple of months, but then I return and am in awe again. Thanks for the upload indeed!
Next Friday night premiere is a good one. I saw Episode 81 on the members page abought 3 months ago. Little Richard so full of Energy. He opens with the Midnight Special by CCR. Aerosmith does Train kept rollin' and Dream On. You can hear its live. Real rough sounding. Golden Earring only does Radar Love, Love the song. Just wish they would have done another song from the Moontan Album.
His credentials are second to none, growing up and playing in Chicago with Bloomfield and Butter, a natural bluesman. To answer your question to me before the storms, the answers are yes, studio then road, then both, one to pay the bills the other to have fun, I did well.
@@brötzmannsax Yes, yes you did do well, and I just bet, have many fantastic story’s to tell! I can’t imagine how grand it must have been to be a session and traveling musician. Thank you for sharing with me. When I was taking piano lessons in elementary school, I overheard my instructor telling my mom I couldn’t read music, but could play by ear. In my little girl brain, I thought this meant that I was a horrible player and gave up piano. It’s one of my regrets in life, as I love and live for music, it’s so soothing and a universal language.
@@KittyGrizGriz Kitty it's unfortunate you abandon your dream of playing, your teacher could have taught you and trained you to play by ear and eventually be able to read music. Usually if a teacher notices promise and talent and dedication from students they will go the extra mile to make them practice well and be a player no matter how successful. Many artists were self trained or couldn't read music and became huge, like Jimi Hendrix. Reading music is pretty imperative if you want to be able to play and sheet music or charts which session players must excel in, especially with the cost of studio time back then, you must read and play and get it in a few takes. If you can't read music you can't be a studio musician but you could form bands and go out and play live. Piano is a precious instrument and you can always play it no matter how good you are for personal satisfaction. I know excellent well schooled musicians who always struggled for work, the industry has changed a few decades ago and machines have long taken over musician jobs.
There's nothing really sly about Sly and his Fam, at least not on stage. They just let it all hang out. This show made me wonder what a Family Stone/Little Feat band would sound like.
Little Feat factoid: Lowell George, founding member of Little Feat, played with/for Frank Zappa in 1968 and 1969. Conflicting stories about why George was released from The Mothers. One is that George wrote the song "Willin'", a song about drugs, while with Zappa and Frank didn't like that and let him go. The other story goes that Frank saw so much talent in Lowell George that he told him that he should go out and be the leader of his own band. Little Feat started up soon after. Lowell George died in 1979 at age 34 while on tour. He had gotten very hefty (to put it kindly) and often ate an entire pizza. A bandmate confirmed that he did, indeed, eat a whole pizza on the tour bus a couple of days before he died of a heart attack. The version of Little Feat that you saw in the late 80s or early 90s was, sadly, without the great Lowell George. One of my favorite songs is Dixie Chicken and they have a stellar live version from the 1978 album Waiting for Columbus, with solos thrown in by some of the players. If you're not familiar with it, look for it on YT. This is obviously too much info and text for the live chat. See you there!
@@Royalle_with_Cheese Wow! Thanks for the info! Yeah, sadly, I wasn't very impressed with them or War at that concert. War wasn't quite the same either. See ya!
@@StephanieJeanne For me, bands who were great in the 70s were also best to see in the 70s. That applies to rock music. Blues and Jazz musicians remain valid no matter how old they get, as long as they still have their chops. Tell me if this is improper or not. I just saw Stevie Nicks on SNL last week. She's making a solo comeback after Fleetwood Mac officially called it quits after Christine McVie passed (R.I.P., Christine), and Nicks is back out there. Here's my thing: ROCK music is young people railing against the establishment. When the people playing rock become old geezers, jumping around acting like they're still young, swilling Geritol backstage and rubbing the aforementioned liniment on their aging bodies, it's time to call it a day. A 76-year-old woman out there doing the same just looks sad. That's not to take away from her talent. Just looks sad. If a woman of any age is a jazz or blues artist, that's fine. They're not up there looking the part of the ROCKER. What do you think?
@@Royalle_with_Cheese I saw that she was on there, but I haven't watched the clip. I don't know, Royale, I see your point, but I also think these rockers, that's their life and career. Unless they sound really bad, why not keep going? I think they keep going not only for themselves, but for their fans (or maybe they just tell themselves it's for their fans). It is painful when you see them and their voices aren't the same or their energy is diminished. Rock is definitely a rebellious youth kind of music. So, if they stop performing, should we stop listening too, because we're getting older? Are we not denying our aging process when we still listen to our fave rock bands? That's why I can't judge these people too harshly.
@@StephanieJeanne Very fair point, Stephanie. I don't think it's wrong for older people to continue listening to rock. There will always be younger people to play it, although it's all auto-tune and flash nowadays, more than the halcyon days of yore. I supppose you have a point about it being the aging rocker's livelihood, and if they can draw an audience, power to 'em. I first felt this way when, a long time ago on SNL, I saw AC/DC and Angus Young wearing the schoolboy outfit looking ridiculous in his 50s.
Sly comes off as being really personable and fun and “normal”. The last time I saw him on an awards show about 15 years years ago, he looked like a creature from outer space and was so aloof and distant from the audience. These were the good old days…funky and cool and living in the moment.
Tricky Dicky, wow, thanks for the reminder. When I was 14 in 1973, I was visiting my grandma in a small town in Wyoming. She baked me and my cousins a delicious pistachio pudding green cake, called “Watergate Cake.” I asked her why it was called this? “Because it has Secret Ingredients” was her reply 🤭 😁 grandma had a great sense of humor. Thanks for the memory jolt.
With bigger names like Elvin Bishop, Little Feat, and Sly & the Family Stone, I was pleasantly surprised by Henry Gross. I thought he gave a very good performance with, "Come On Say It!"🧔♀
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Watchin Lowell and Little Feat bringin a tear to my eyes. God bless you brother.
Bill Payne on keyboards is insane.
That performance of Willin is out-of-this-world good.
Think it was Sam Clayton with the mouth effects. He's finally after all these years fronting the band singing classic blues
Dallas Alice and Two-Cum Carrie!
My girlfriend and I traveled Route 66 recently through New Mexico and played this while driving Tucumcari.
Linda Ronstadt did a really good recording of that song. It appears on her “Heart Like A Wheel” album.
Sly, Elvin and Little Feat on ONE show?! Holy Sh**! Too much greatness!
Saw Zappa a dozen times. Saw Bishop nearly 20 times Permanent opener.
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I saw Zappa on every tour from '76 to '88. What is your timeline?
Sly and a great collection of 70's musicians. Thanks Midnight Special
Sly and the Family Stone 💯
Missed the premiere, but this may be the strongest episode yet! 👍👍 Strong from start to finish. Talent end to end. Thanks TMS!
You and I the same thought about 6 minutes apart based on the time stamps of our comments. 😅
Nice to see Elvin Bishop perform songs before his big hit "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" a year later.
Sly those outfits are so cool. It was good to be alive in the 70s. Thanks Midnight Special. Another Rocker.
Sly and the Family Stone were so damned funky! This just might be the best episode start to finish released so far! Little Feat's performance of Willin' gave me chills!
What a great time for music! These Midnight Soecial episodes are gold! Live & uncut!
Sly & the Family Stone, Elvin Bishop, Little Feat on the same card - - - incredible performances!
Fantastic show, what great performances.
Got to love seeing Sly in his get up, beautiful !
Little Feat was on every turntable in every apartment and dorm room when I was in college. Good times never to come back.
A lady at the "Bark in the park" festival today with a terrier named "Dixie" in a chicken suit. she says, "Little Feet" is one of my favorite bands, 🤣 You can't make this stuff up!
That piano lead on Willin' is just awesome.
Sly And The Family Stone Puttin' it Down for the Git Down!
Oh Sly! In all his sequin glory! We love you so much ❤❤ the genius of funk nobody was ever as exciting to watch!!
Thank you Sly Stone, thank you man
Thank you Sly Stone, thank you man
Thank you Sly Stone, thank you man
Thank you Sly Stone, thank you man
Wow, Little Feat is one of my favorite bands...but I'll only be able to watch it after I get back from the football game 😁
Finally....been waiting for this Little Feat appearance! Great to see.
Wish I’d have been in the audience here, tonight. This show is ONE of the very best EVER! I saw Little Feat in Tulsa, OK in ‘78 @ the Cain’s Ballroom and LOVE Tulsa’s other favorite son~ Elvin Bishop 😍 that man can sure play the slide 🎸…!
He’s performing a show in Tulsa at Will Rogers High School his alma mater, graduating in 1960, on 11/24 and I’m gonna be there, I hope! 😘
I'm jealous, I would love to see that.
On the subject of foosball, my brother and I would "supplement" our paychecks by hustling others out of theirs playing foosball. We would start Friday at the youth group game room, then we would take our winnings and head down Charles Page BLVD to the back of a barber shop and pick up some cash there, then head to a bar around 11th and Peoria, head over to a pool hall on Admiral. The owners never carded use because we were tall. We would end up with a couple of hundred bucks, you know: Gas, dope and whiskey money (I stole my beer from the Quik Trip I worked at 😮).
One night one of our frequent victims Geoff came to the table with a guy we had not seen before, kinda looked to old to be in youth group. Geoff's dad was a senior vice president of Williams oil, so he had much money, but hated that he couldn't beat us. This was in January of 1977. Geoff asks, "Got your tickets to the Led Zeppelin concert at the Myriad in OKC?" I told him no, cause all the tickets sold in Tulsa were gone in less than half an hour and the resulting riot wrecked the Fairgrounds ticket booth. He says, "I have 2 here that I'll wager against your paychecks", then sets them on the table. My brother and I were excited, we beat this guy SO often. We served and got a quick point, we were ahead. My brother and the unknown guy faced each other up front Geoff and I were goalies. We served the ball and new guy makes an instant goal. Then he serves and hits the ball SO HARD it comes out their goal and he shoots it into our goal again, my brother is screaming at me to block the ball, but you can't block what you can't see! They or I should say HE scored 9 more unanswered points, Fame over. Geoff then grabs our cash and says," thanks for buying my dope for the concert" and walks off. Later his sister,who lived with her mom and didn't much like Geoff told us she thought it was dirty that he FLEW in a foosball champion from Dallas just to beat us once, his ego couldn't take us poor boys being better at anything than him. Long story I know.😁
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Oh. My. Gosh. WTH? A rich daddy-baby boy, too?! Sounds like a Narcissist.
Since I worked at the Williams Companies for many years starting in 1981, am curious if I knew Geoff’s dad? Do you remember his last name?
What a story, Rob! You foosball hustler-entrepreneur. It never occurred to me to play for $$ back then, Cindy & I could have made some serious dough.
We used to play at Siggy’s, Tornado of Tulsa and Good Times. When I came home my mom would condescendingly say “you smell like you’ve been in a pool hall!” because of the cigarette smoke, it stuck to everything. We sure had fun socializing and hanging out with friends 😁😁
@@KittyGrizGriz Geoff's last name was West. We also bet on pinball and sometimes pool, but foosball was our major talent!🤓Geoff cosplayed Robert Plant, there was a slight resemblance with the blond hair. He was even a bigger doper than me, and my nickname in high school was "Smokie". He was so wasted onetime he almost fell down the stairs at the Climax Blues Band/Bad Company "Burning Sky" concert at the assembly center, lucky for him a rather large man was right behind him to catch him!🤕
Boomshakalakalaka, boomshakalakalaka... 😎👍
Finally someone found it haha swweeet LOST Feat footage Woooweee
Sly & the Family Stone are just incredible. Pure joy. I was 6 days old and groovin in my nappy. 🤩
No one hit harder than Sly and the Family Stone in the 70’s
Really hope the Little Feat segments (their 1st appearance on MS) get uploaded as stand-alones. Have been looking forward to seeing them for ages. Make no mistake, the Feat was one of the very very few truly great American bands of the 1970s.
This show killed it! Thanks!
Sly and the Family Stone does a Whopper tonight. 10 songs!
More talent on one stage than in most of the music industry today.
😎🏆⭐🙏🤗
If you looked in the dictionary for COOL, you'd see SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE. 😊
Very cool surprise. Bill Lordan (Robin Trower) playing drums with Legendary, "Sly" and the Family Stone.
Little Feat, what a stellar addition. So many great legends on this show. Thank you!
That's Bill Lordan on drums. James Dewar played bass for Robin Trower.😂.
@@St63420, Good heavens. Bad mistake. Did actually mean, Bill Lordan. Saw Trower during "In City Dreams" '77 tour in San Francisco (Winterland).
Corrected. Yikes! I'll never post comment again, while in altered state from surgery meds. LOL!
@@musicalSFCat No worries .😂. Rock on! Nice correction in your post.
It was amazing, great performers
Great to see Sly in his boogie-down amazing.
Absolutely PHENOMENAL performances and capture of these greats in their prime!!
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you !!!
Each band member is so gifted and has a glorious presence.
This is gonna be funky, y'all.
Get out your dancin' shoes for this one and some liniment for the sore joints after...
Speak for yourself, old man! --Just kidding, Royale! Should be some funky fun. 🎉
No Sailin Shoes this show
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Your comment reminded me of Robert Palmers fantastic 1974 2 part song “Sailin’ Shoes ~ Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley.” A Great show tonight! 😊
Love what Sly says at around 30:35 “Might as well get along. We ride together, we can get by together. What about that?”
Such a great episode!
Top of the line show. Early Little Feat not seen enough. Henry Gross almost like a Raspberries power-pop sound, as contrasted to his hit Shannon
ICONIC! 🔥🔥🔥
High as a kite and I love him! Rose and Cynthia too! No one will ever compare to sly and his band!
MUSICAL TREASURE! Plain and simple. I sure miss the 70's.
S&TFS = pure genius
These shows are incredible
Sly is an under rated musical genius!
Gettin ready to watch The Midnight Special @1am (EST) THX for posting !!!
People don't change throughout the ages - you either have it, or you don't. And when you do, you can't hide it. Sly's got it, no matter what the era.
I saw Sly and The Family Stone in San Diego in June of 1970. Crabby Appleton open for them.
I remember the whole show and it was great.
How lucky you were to have seen S&TFS live! I’d have died and gone to Groove Funkadelic heaven!
I love Crabby Appleton too and their ‘70 song “Go Back.” I was on a YT channel watching a performance of CA and it said they toured with Three Dog Night who were my 1st concert in 1970. I posted “I wonder if CA opened that show & I didn’t remember as I was only 11 yrs old?” Their lead singer~songwriter Michael Fennelly reached out to me. Pretty Kool! The bass is my favorite instrument 🎸❤️
Damn it! Just took a shower an hour ago and now I listened to this and I am all FUNKY! Good God!
Family Affair 🎉
Rockin' that Super 400 with Sly!
Or L-5?
I think Sly set the tone in the opening and got all the bands fired up. Elvin killed it!
Powerful performance by Sly and His Family
Saw them @ Woodstock 😅
It's no surprise to hear Sly sounding great but the revelation to me here is Henry Gross, being only familiar with his hit Shannon it was very surprising to hear him rocking like this. They definitely have a great, authentic rock sound imo.
I was impressed too! Love great that great power pop sound!
Henry Gross's sound is totally unexpected, not only because of how different it is from "Shannon" , but also considering that he got his professional start as a member of Sha Na Na!
Elvin Bishop, another graduate of Will Rodgers High School in Tulsa, ok. He was a classmate of Leon Russel, so we continue the Tulsa music scene spotlight this week 😁. I only heard Shannon from Henry Gross, which I thought he buried his girlfriend in the back yard, lol. Little feat, I wish they were doing Dixie Chicken, but all their songs are great! Roger McGuinn, the Bird man, cool! Sly and the Family Stone a 1 group funk festival. Another wonder trip in the Way Back Machine!
Check out Dixie Spider Man by Henry Gross! ruclips.net/video/ujZChUEjWLo/видео.html
@@Dan_Morrison Smokin guitar, strange lyrics, that's the 70s in a nutshell 😂
Awesome show!
Great to hear Lowell George. I've only heard Linda Ronstadt sing "Willin'." I like his version too.
His is the original!
We watched this every Friday night high as hell as teenagers. It was the only way to see the current performers. This episode was EPIC! This was before auto tune. This was real talent.
What a fabulous show. Superb line-up. Funky Sly..
no rappin here. just gorgeous Afros. gota love the 70's. recon most of them performers would b in their 70s by now.
This episode was incredible! I love that channel is one of the reasons why my spotify playlists have grown so long!😭😆 So excited for the podcast and the discussion about "Bee Gees memories"🥰
Elvin was the most fun concert at Winterland. Entire place would rock its socks off. That melody n harmony double slide work was unique to that band!
completely epic performance by Little Feat. Bill Payne goes completely off, I’ve never seen a keyboard breakdown like it. The rest on fire, my god
Man, this group was funky.
Sometimes I forget to watch/listen to them for a couple of months, but then I return and am in awe again.
Thanks for the upload indeed!
Can't wait, The Midnight Special!
Get back to me here after you listened to Blessed Relief.
Really good episode. Not a weak moment throughout.
Sid Page playing fiddle with the Family. Previously played with Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, which had recently disbanded.
I thought Sid looked familiar. I was a Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks fan. He sets the violin on fire!
I was wondering if that was Sid!
Next Friday night premiere is a good one. I saw Episode 81 on the members page abought 3 months ago. Little Richard so full of Energy. He opens with the Midnight Special by CCR. Aerosmith does Train kept rollin' and Dream On. You can hear its live. Real rough sounding. Golden Earring only does Radar Love, Love the song. Just wish they would have done another song from the Moontan Album.
Amazing! Been waiting for this! 😎
Elvin Bishop has gorgeous brown eyes, the windows to the soul
His credentials are second to none, growing up and playing in Chicago with Bloomfield and Butter, a natural bluesman. To answer your question to me before the storms, the answers are yes, studio then road, then both, one to pay the bills the other to have fun, I did well.
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Yes, yes you did do well, and I just bet, have many fantastic story’s to tell! I can’t imagine how grand it must have been to be a session and traveling musician. Thank you for sharing with me.
When I was taking piano lessons in elementary school, I overheard my instructor telling my mom I couldn’t read music, but could play by ear. In my little girl brain, I thought this meant that I was a horrible player and gave up piano. It’s one of my regrets in life, as I love and live for music, it’s so soothing and a universal language.
@@KittyGrizGriz Kitty it's unfortunate you abandon your dream of playing, your teacher could have taught you and trained you to play by ear and eventually be able to read music. Usually if a teacher notices promise and talent and dedication from students they will go the extra mile to make them practice well and be a player no matter how successful. Many artists were self trained or couldn't read music and became huge, like Jimi Hendrix. Reading music is pretty imperative if you want to be able to play and sheet music or charts which session players must excel in, especially with the cost of studio time back then, you must read and play and get it in a few takes. If you can't read music you can't be a studio musician but you could form bands and go out and play live. Piano is a precious instrument and you can always play it no matter how good you are for personal satisfaction. I know excellent well schooled musicians who always struggled for work, the industry has changed a few decades ago and machines have long taken over musician jobs.
Yoooo I can’t believe Sly and The Family Stone ended with Loose Booty!
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THANK YOU!!!!!!
There's nothing really sly about Sly and his Fam, at least not on stage. They just let it all hang out. This show made me wonder what a Family Stone/Little Feat band would sound like.
looking forward to the show❤
Midnight Special youtube channel. Hell yes. Need this more than ever right now.
Rose Stone is the MOST beautiful woman to ever grace a stage 🙏🏼🌹
What a great show tonight.
No one funkier than Sly
Par Excellence!
I love Sly and the Family Stone! 😎💜 I saw Little Feat in the late '80s or early '90s at a show with War. I'd never heard of them before then.
Little Feat factoid:
Lowell George, founding member of Little Feat, played with/for Frank Zappa in 1968 and 1969.
Conflicting stories about why George was released from The Mothers.
One is that George wrote the song "Willin'", a song about drugs, while with Zappa and Frank didn't like that and let him go.
The other story goes that Frank saw so much talent in Lowell George that he told him that he should go out and be the leader of his own band.
Little Feat started up soon after.
Lowell George died in 1979 at age 34 while on tour. He had gotten very hefty (to put it kindly) and often ate an entire pizza. A bandmate confirmed that he did, indeed, eat a whole pizza on the tour bus a couple of days before he died of a heart attack.
The version of Little Feat that you saw in the late 80s or early 90s was, sadly, without the great Lowell George.
One of my favorite songs is Dixie Chicken and they have a stellar live version from the 1978 album Waiting for Columbus, with solos thrown in by some of the players.
If you're not familiar with it, look for it on YT.
This is obviously too much info and text for the live chat.
See you there!
@@Royalle_with_Cheese Wow! Thanks for the info! Yeah, sadly, I wasn't very impressed with them or War at that concert. War wasn't quite the same either. See ya!
@@StephanieJeanne
For me, bands who were great in the 70s were also best to see in the 70s.
That applies to rock music. Blues and Jazz musicians remain valid no matter how old they get, as long as they still have their chops.
Tell me if this is improper or not.
I just saw Stevie Nicks on SNL last week. She's making a solo comeback after Fleetwood Mac officially called it quits after Christine McVie passed (R.I.P., Christine), and Nicks is back out there.
Here's my thing:
ROCK music is young people railing against the establishment. When the people playing rock become old geezers, jumping around acting like they're still young, swilling Geritol backstage and rubbing the aforementioned liniment on their aging bodies, it's time to call it a day.
A 76-year-old woman out there doing the same just looks sad.
That's not to take away from her talent. Just looks sad.
If a woman of any age is a jazz or blues artist, that's fine. They're not up there looking the part of the ROCKER. What do you think?
@@Royalle_with_Cheese I saw that she was on there, but I haven't watched the clip. I don't know, Royale, I see your point, but I also think these rockers, that's their life and career. Unless they sound really bad, why not keep going? I think they keep going not only for themselves, but for their fans (or maybe they just tell themselves it's for their fans).
It is painful when you see them and their voices aren't the same or their energy is diminished. Rock is definitely a rebellious youth kind of music. So, if they stop performing, should we stop listening too, because we're getting older? Are we not denying our aging process when we still listen to our fave rock bands? That's why I can't judge these people too harshly.
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Very fair point, Stephanie. I don't think it's wrong for older people to continue listening to rock. There will always be younger people to play it, although it's all auto-tune and flash nowadays, more than the halcyon days of yore.
I supppose you have a point about it being the aging rocker's livelihood, and if they can draw an audience, power to 'em.
I first felt this way when, a long time ago on SNL, I saw AC/DC and Angus Young wearing the schoolboy outfit looking ridiculous in his 50s.
Perfect outfit on Sly
Sly Stone is awesome.
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I don't know why Sly always seemed to ignore Hot Fun in the Summertime, it's such a great tune
Sly comes off as being really personable and fun and “normal”. The last time I saw him on an awards show about 15 years years ago, he looked like a creature from outer space and was so aloof and distant from the audience. These were the good old days…funky and cool and living in the moment.
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Indeed, but interesting that he's just kind of miming his organ parts. There's another player to the left (stage right) playing the actual parts.
@danielcarlson7516 at this point in his career he had just started to smoke freebase, the next 40 years will not be kind to Sly after the 70s.
@@BIZARBIESunfortunately true
Now you can see where Prince n Michael got it from. Thank you Sly!
The day this aired was Nixon's last day as president.
Shame . Love Nixon
Tricky Dicky, wow, thanks for the reminder. When I was 14 in 1973, I was visiting my grandma in a small town in Wyoming. She baked me and my cousins a delicious pistachio pudding green cake, called “Watergate Cake.” I asked her why it was called this? “Because it has Secret Ingredients” was her reply 🤭 😁 grandma had a great sense of humor. Thanks for the memory jolt.
Who cares?
That's what you get from all of this great music? You must be a Dem
@@barrymorgenstein201still coping 50 years later?
Henry Gross. WOW
If you ever get the chance to listen to Little Feat at Ultrasonic Studios, it's wonderous.
Those people could really some good music back then.
The Midnight crowd couldn't stay seated for any of the Family Stone's tunes.
Dude I was born in wrong era
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE...
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Holy smokes, anyone know who that drummer is in the Henry Gross clips? Dude is a beast. I'd love to know who that is!
"Come on, say it" is the song. Couldn't find the drummers' name. He was smoking!😊
With bigger names like Elvin Bishop, Little Feat, and Sly & the Family Stone, I was pleasantly surprised by Henry Gross. I thought he gave a very good performance with, "Come On Say It!"🧔♀
Elvin Bishop, he ain't good lookin but he sure could play.
that tripe face boogie was great.
what the heck was that flying tambourine about ? whew......
Roger McQuinn!
Here is where Miles Davis music of the mid 70's come from.....
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back when Lowell George was in charge of Little Feat