{"id":402,"date":"2007-07-04T01:29:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T05:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/04\/sly-stone-thank-you-falettinme-be-mice-elf-agin\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T01:29:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T05:29:44","slug":"sly-stone-thank-you-falettinme-be-mice-elf-agin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/04\/sly-stone-thank-you-falettinme-be-mice-elf-agin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly Stone: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want me to stay
\nI’ll be around today
\nTo be available for you to see
\nI’m about to go
\nAnd then you’ll know
\nFor me to stay here I’ve got to be me<\/font><\/p>\n

– If You Want Me to Stay<\/em>, Sly & The Family Stone<\/p>\n

I don’t write about music much, because . . . well . . . I can’t.\u00c2\u00a0 Just never have found the words to capture what it is that grabs me about a song, composition, or artist.\u00c2\u00a0 So I’ll just leave it at this, for now: if I were packing my bags for the Desert Island Permanent Vacation, I’d be sure to include the entire works of Sly & the Family Stone.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not just a soundtrack of my life thing – it’s a brilliant music thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Which brings me to the next part:\u00c2\u00a0 the reason that we’ve got that brilliant music -\u00c2\u00a0 Sly Stone.<\/p>\n

He’s not dead, you know.\u00c2\u00a0 His appearance at the Grammy’s last year probably reminded a few people of that.\u00c2\u00a0 For the most part, though, I think he’s rather widely assumed to be dead.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the best stars of his time are, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, this Vanity Fair interview<\/a> (!!!) reminds us that he’s not.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 For the most part, I’ve very little use for celebrity.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t care who Tom Cruise is keeping in his basement, and please god get the pictures of Britney away from me.\u00c2\u00a0 But there are still a few public figures I’d really like to know more about.\u00c2\u00a0 Sly is one of them.\u00c2\u00a0 From the interview:<\/p>\n

Sly Stone is my favorite of the rock-era recluses, and, really, the only big one left. Syd Barrett, the architect of Pink Floyd’s entrancingly loopy early sound, passed away last summer at the age of 60, having resisted all entreaties to explain himself or sing again. Brian Wilson, the fragile visionary behind the Beach Boys, has been gently coaxed out of his shell by his friends and acolytes, and now performs and schmoozes regularly. He doesn’t count as a recluse anymore. But Sly has remained elusive\u00e2\u20ac\u201dstill with us, yet seemingly content to do without us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Content to do without us.\u00c2\u00a0 See why I like this guy?<\/p>\n

I start the interview in earnest with the most obvious question: “Why have you chosen to come back now?”<\/p>\n

At this, he grins. “‘Cause it’s kind of boring at home sometimes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And then cross your fingers that he’s going to alleviate that boredom in front of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want me to stay I’ll be around today To be available for you to see I’m about to go And then you’ll know For me to stay here I’ve got to be me – If You Want Me to Stay, Sly & The Family Stone I don’t write about music much, because . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}