Sly and the Family Stone
October 5th, 1968
NYC @ Fillmore East "Thee Encyclopedia of Ecstacy"
SBD > ? > CD > CDR

Disc 1: (10-5-68 Early Set)
1) Life
2) Color Me True
3) It Won't Be Long
4) Are You Ready?
5) Dance to the Music
6) M'Lady
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September 10th, 1970
Baarn, Netherlands @ Kasteel Groeneveld - "Piknik"
FM/SBD (VPRO 1971) > Revox Reel2Reel-deck > CDR (normalized & with splices from an alternate source)
7- Thank You 5:45
8- > M'Lady 4:46
9- Sing a Simple Song 5:33
10- Stand! 5:23
11- > Dance To The Music 4:55
12- > Music Lover 1:44
13- I Want to Take You Higher [reprise] [cuts] 3:16

Disc 2: (10-5-68 Late Set)
1) M'Lady
2) Color Me True
3) Are You Ready?
4) It Won't Be Long
5) Color Me True
6) Dance to the Music
7) Love City
8) Turn Me Loose
9) Outro

Notes:

"The original plan was for there to be 4 Sly releases on BF. They were: Thee Thesaurus Of Funkasaurus, Thee Dictionary Of Dance, Thee Encyclopedia Of Ecstacy and Thee Bible Of Beat. Somewhere along the line the japanese misunderstood when I sent them an email of future 'Fro releass and they thought I wanted them to put one title on the cover and another on the discs! Big P came up with the source tape and the black and white photos from the actual concert. My wife did the front and back cover artwork on this one with what I sent her - she has won two european MTV awards for best album cover design. She also does not have a clue what a bootleg is

Here's the cool part: I know somebody who works for CBS/Sony who is VERY high up in the company. He was a huge Big 'Fro fan. When I sent him his copy of this he was completely flabbergasted as Sony had been thinking of issuing this later in the same year as the BF version came out. What amazed him was that OUR version sounded better than what Sony had in their vaults! And that we had actual photos from the show! He wanted to use our version for the master - cover and all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I told him no problems at all there as long as a) They credit Big 'Fro for the source tape etc, b) They send us a box of them and c) That they would have to negotiate with the photographer seperately for use of his photos. I was VERY excited about this coming out officially using our release as the master!

They then slated it for release and announced it as an upcoming release. Maybe they even pressed up a test pressing or two. But for some reason the release never happened. Now if you look up Sly on the AMG site you will see that they claim this to have been released. Fine and dandy EXCEPT that NOBODY has ever actually seen a copy of the supposed official release (and believe me: when I saw that on AMG I was offering a lot of money to anybody who could turn one up. Nobody ever has). And my source at Sony has confirmed to me that this was never released. Planned for release yes. But never actually issued.

And like I said: my source is almost as high up in CBS/Sony/Epic/whatever as you can possibly get."