RIP

You don’t get a lot of things and musicians we’ve come to love without Sly Stone!

F***

Rip funk king

RIP

Multiple songs of the life

unparalleled at his peak

just got out of work and found this out jfc this one stings like a mf. a true genius in every sense of the word man he was such an inspirational figure in music. RIP to a legend and pioneer you will be missed man

ik this one hurts badly twin fr

Literally came in here to tag him and you

This man was releasing music when he was a kid with his siblings gospel group, before Elvis, James Brown and Chuck Berry even came along truly an og

Always been a massive fan, a major pioneer of my favourite drum machine
Hell y'all saw me post Whole New Thing in that drums thread yesterday

The questlove documentary was quite good and I would recommend fans watch it, it paints the picture of the group in a slightly different light (e.g. giving better context to how they started leaving shows early)

It was nice to learn what triggered their switched from the writing on Whole New Thing to the more easily digestible (songs about dancing/'feelings')

In the 2010s he was still believed living in an RV but the doc shows that in recent years things had gotten better and he had properly reconnected with his family and was with them, thus things ended well

He made magic happened in a short time, we've all heard the story of how Miles Davis made his band listen to In Time on repeat

You caught me crying... today

@Sir_Swagalot

RIP an innovator

Producer, DJ, Songwriter, Keyboardist, Bassist, Drummer, Guitarist, he did it all man

Seeing the doc and finding out they all did a bunch of (i think it was) mescaline right before they went on stage is crazy

RIP

RIP.

@sab

RIP a pioneer that's crazy

Yeah how this not pinned

Insane

Rip legend