Sly Stone
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Nov 3, 2026
speaker_5UNKNOWN
Yeah.
Ice-TGUEST
So now let's go back to Sly Stone.
Ice-TGUEST
Stories are crazy.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
Okay.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
All right.
Ice-TGUEST
Ernie was friends with Sly Stone, right? I don't know if they got high together, but Ernie was friends with Sly.
Ice-TGUEST
Ernie had met Perry Farrell, and Perry Farrell wanted Sly to sing Don't Call Me Nigger Whitey in his music video, The Gift.
Ice-TGUEST
Well, of course, Sly didn't show up.
CaityHOST
It's like, oh, okay.
CaityHOST
Sly Stone, here he is again.
CaityHOST
Yeah,
JoeHOST
they all
Hunter StairHOST
There's a little element...
Hunter StairHOST
It's almost like a Sly Stone funk ballad a little bit in there.
Hunter StairHOST
But
David LyonsHOST
it's
Joe HinesHOST
The Beatles at Candlestick Park The Rolling Stones.
Joe HinesHOST
He hired Sly Stone as a staff producer.
Joe HinesHOST
By the time that he came back to radio, he knew the music business from the inside, from both sides of the glass, which is an unusually dangerous thing for a disc jockey to know.
Joe HinesHOST
Here's a stretch of his old station, KYA, as a listener would have heard it in 1967, just so you know that he was about to walk away from.
Rudy ColombiniGUEST
But it's the Bay Area and there's plenty that came from there.
Rudy ColombiniGUEST
You know, I don't know if you know this, but Motown would always be looking to see what Sly Stone was doing.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
Yeah.
LeTroy GardnerHOST
Yeah, we obviously lost him, like, within the last year, year and a half?
Dinky DawsonHOST
incredible.
Dinky DawsonHOST
Those are the places that you dream of when you were a little kid and you heard James Brown doing his thing and what have you, and then all of a sudden, you know, I'm ending up with Fleetwood and I'm ending up opening for Sly Stone that never showed up at most of the gigs that we played.
Dinky DawsonHOST
So we...
Dinky DawsonHOST
He slowed up in the studio when I was with the birds, big time.
Alex HeiglHOST
Right.
Alex HeiglHOST
Which we covered in our Sly Stone episode.
Alex HeiglHOST
So, you know, this happens.
Alex HeiglHOST
The neighborhood becomes depressed.
Dave GebroeHOST
That's when I remember.
Dave GebroeHOST
And I remember talking with you about the self-flame-out philosophy of aiming the plane toward the side of the mountain, and why that is so interesting to read about in artists' careers like Sly Stone, and about how in today's day and age, and the actual prospect of having a career in the music industry, why it's actually, in my opinion, at least, just played out because it's been done.
Dave GebroeHOST
And like, what new twist would there be in it? And so when I started reading about you being at Trump's inauguration, my first thought was he found a new wrinkle in the aiming the plane into the side of the mountain thing.
Dave GebroeHOST
Because I don't think maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't think that you were a Trump supporter.
Moses BoydGUEST
And I'm like, I think that is one of my skills.
Moses BoydGUEST
I'm really good at analyzing and recognizing, why does Bill Withers' thing sound like that? Oh, Bill Withers tends to use this shape, or why does Sly Stone's drums sound like that? Because he tends to, you know, I'm really good at recognizing patterns, whereas I don't know a lot of the creatives I work with are a bit more vibe oriented so I don't know maybe I've got a bit more is it right brain I don't know
Matt GibberdHOST
yeah
Moses BoydGUEST
yeah that's interesting
Tavis SmileyHOST
A little Bay Area for a conversation with Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee here in just a second.
Tavis SmileyHOST
A little Sly Stone from the Bay Area.
Tavis SmileyHOST
I ain't mad at it.
Tavis SmileyHOST
I'm Tavis Smiley.
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