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Old 28th May 2009   #34
James Meeker
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Originally Posted by Steffmo View Post
I worked for most of a year with Sly Stone. Much of which was total waste of time aside from making some money. But when he was on it, like the day he started singing "Family Affair", he taught me what star power level of talent sounds like. Kinda kills me that huge guy with amazing talent like Sly is the humblest person on the planet.....then you have these knuckleheads show up at sessions with big attitudes that can't find 1.
Sly is a genius. Tons of great songs. Epic, epic songwriter and performer that doesn't seem to get his fair shake.
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