Kosmik Radiation Radio - March 12, 2010 Playlist

March 12, 2010 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Sly & the Family Stone "Stand!" 1969 (USA)

Sly Stone's birthday is March 15, and I usually pay respects every year since he was one of the most talented forces in 60's and 70's music. This was the fourth Family Stone album, and the group's commercial breakthrough. Scoring no less than five Top 40 singles (including the #1 smash "Everyday People"), Stand! was one of the best selling albums of its era and remains a timeless classic of "hippie soul." The group appeared at the Woodstock festival later in the year, and at the dawn of the 1970's they were one of the most popular American groups around. However drugs and personal turmoil started to tear the family apart, and original members Larry Graham and Greg Errico left the band during the recording of their next album, the devastating masterpiece There's A Riot Goin' On. Sly faded away during the early 1980's, but he's still out there somewhere. A band called The Family Stone carries on to this day with a couple original members and Sly's blessing, and he even performs with them sometimes. Rumour has it he may even be working on a new album for release in 2010!! (If that actually happens, it will be his first since 1982.)
Here's a smokin' TV appearance with the band in their prime playing a medley of four of their hits: "Everyday People", "Dance To The Music", "Hot Fun In The Summertime" and "I Wanna Take You Higher". And here's their next #1 smash, "Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" from 1970. Sly got a lot more erratic in the mid-1970's -- here he is doing a slower version of the title track from this album, "Stand!" (remember to stay off the cocaine, kids!) And here's Sly with the current Family Stone band (which includes Rose, Cynthia and Jerry from the original group) -- playing their final #1 hit, "Family Affair".

(N) = New Release

Artist	Song	Album	Year (label)	Country
Sly & The Family Stone	Luv & Haight	There's A Riot Goin' On	1971	USA
Sly & The Family Stone	Stand!	Stand! CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1969	USA
Sly & The Family Stone	Somebody's Watching You	Stand! CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1969	USA
Sly & The Family Stone	Sing A Simple Song	Stand! CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1969	USA
"George Clinton & Parliament - Funkadelic"	Get Off Your Ass And Jam / Night Of The Thumpasaurus People (live)	Mothership Connection Live From Houston (original soundtrack)	rec. 1976	USA

Jimi Hendrix	Ships Passing Through The Night	Valleys Of Neptune (N - posthumous release)	2010 (Sony Legacy)	USA
Gonjasufi	Dust	A Sufi And A Killer (N)	2010 (Warp)	USA
Golden Triangle	Blood And Arrow	Double Jointer (N)	2010 (Hardly Art)	USA
Quasi	Black Dogs & Bubbles	American Gong (N)	2010 (Kill Rock Stars)	USA
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists	Even Heroes Have To Die	The Brutalist Bricks (N)	2010 (Matador)	USA
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band	Waiting For The D Train	Between My Head And The Sky (N)	2009 (Chimera)	Japan/USA
Mission Of Burma	Einstein's Day	Vs.	1982	USA

Mondo Drag	New Rituals	New Rituals (N)	2010 (Alive Naturalsound)	USA
Moon Duo	Escape	Escape (N)	2010 (Woodsist)	USA
Ariel Pink	Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups	The Doldrums	2004	USA
Guzzo Pinc	Cripple Tree	The Sea (N - cassette)	2010 (Earjerk)	USA

Four-Tet	This Unfolds	There Is Love In You (N)	2010 (Domino)	UK
Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen	Three Continents	Inspiration Information #4 (N)	2009 (Strut)	Finland & Nigeria
Tony Williams Lifetime	There Comes A Time	Ego	1971	USA

John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana	A Love Supreme (John Coltrane)	Love Devotion Surrender	1973	UK & Mexico/USA
John McLaughlin	Hope	Where Fortune Smiles	1970	UK
John McLaughlin	Arjen's Bag	Extrapolation	1969	UK

Jack De Johnette's Directions (with John Abercrombie)	Mimya's The Mooch	New Rags	1977	USA
Colin Walcott (with John Abercrombie)	Scimitar	Cloud Dance	1976	USA
John Abercrombie (with Jack De Johnette)	Lungs	Timeless	1975	USA

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