[TLBSHOW]

They ended up in a situation where they had two mouths to feed, one black and one white. Sly didn't fit the whites all way through, simply because he was black, and the blacks were accusing him for selling out to please the whites. Sly reacted; "Don't call me nigger, whitey. Don't call me whitey, nigger" (from Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey). These demands were disturbing and Sly retreated through some of his songs.

http://www.funkvibe.com/artists/sly/sly9.htm

After another, popular on-the-air stint at KDIA, Sly recruited siblings Freddie and Rosie, cousin Graham, white high school buddy Jerry Martini and his cousin Greg Errico, and former high school horn player Cynthia Robinson to form the Family Stone. After paying dues in the suburbs and showcasing a knack for making a record sound like its appealing live shows with "Dance to the Music", the group finally struck a chord with the Flower Children on "Everyday People". All the while the group's outlandish live performances featured choreographed onstage movements and fantastic hairdos and costumes which appealed to a rock audience despite the grab bag of musical sources.

Sly's successful melt-down of formerly segregated genres and audiences with the above tunes and such positive power cuts as "Stand", "Everybody Is A Star" and "I Want to Take You Higher" helped pave the way for the funk, glam and disco of future decades. For the time being, the body-bending, sing-along impact of his hits got him booked at the Woodstock and Monterey festivals and at Bill Graham's Fillmores East and West.

http://www.there1.com/sly.html

[rockfish59]

yes. i remember listening to sly on KDIA (i was born in san fran) and they would say 'cook sly, cook'!
i also listened to KSOL and won a stevie wonder album from them. don't know if you remember a guy who always called the station and his name was 'willie popcorn'!
i liked soul music then and then the 'summer of love' came along. good grief!!
i went to most of the concerts but never saw sly & the family stone.
saw hendrix twice in one day. he played the panhandle for free and then i went to see him at the fillmore that night.
those WERE 'strange days'!