Sly & The Family Stone 
1968 - 1983
"Thee Thesaurus Of Funkasaurus" various TV appearances
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CD1: [73:05]
01. Life (Kraft Music Hall '68)
02. Dance To The Music / Music Lover (Kraft Music Hall '68)
03. M'Lady / Music Lover (NBC Summer Showcase '68)
04. M'Lady (Fillmore East '68)
05. Love City (Ed Sullivan Show '69)
06. Everyday People (Leslie Uggams Show '69)
07. Everyday People/Dance To The Music (Music Scene 10/69)
08. Hot Fun In The Summertime/Don?t Call Me Nigger, Whitey/
   I Want To Take You Higher ( Music Scene 10/69)
09. Interview/Thank You Faletinme Be Micelf (Dick Cavett Show '70)
10. I Want To Take You Higher (Dick Cavett Show '70)
11. Interview (Dick Cavett Show '70)
12. M'Lady (Kasteel Groenveld, Amsterdam 9/10/70)
13. Sing A Simple Song (Kasteel Groenveld, Amsterdam 9/10/70)
14. Stand (Kasteel Groenveld, Amsterdam 9/10/70)
15. Dance To The Music (Kasteel Groenveld, Amsterdam 9/10/70)

CD2: [74:39]
01. You're The One (Don Kirschner's Rock Concert '73)
02. Stand (Don Kirschner's Rock Concert '73)
03. Intro/Stand (Midnight Special 10/26/73)
04. Thank You Faletinme Be Micelf (Midnight Special 10/26/73)
05. Music Lover (Midnight Special 10/26/73)
06. I Want To Take You Higher (Midnight Special 10/26/73)
07. If You Want Me To Stay (Midnight Special 10/26/73)
08. Dance To The Music (Midnight Special 10/26/73)
09. Dance To The Music/Music Lover (ABC Concert '74)
10. Family Affair (Mike Douglas Show '74)
11. Intro/Thank You Faletinme Be Micelf (Soul Train '74)
12. Interview/Dance To The Music, Music Lover (Soul Train '74)
13. Band Intro/If You Want Me To Stay/Stand (Soul Train '74)
14. If You Want Me To Stay/Sing A Simple Song (David Letterman Show '83)
15. I Want To Take You Higher (David Letterman Show '83)

So now the Stevie had come out and I only had about 2/3 of the Sly disc ready to go. I HAD enough Sly stuff to fill 2 discs, but the source of the rest of the stuff originated from somebody I did not want to deal with in any way any longer and had I used that material I would have been beholden to this person - the last thing I wanted! The Japanese were calling and emailing me about once a week wondering when I was going to send them the Sly master and I was very concerned that in the end I might be forced to use the material I had from this source. Then suddenly out of the blue, Big P came into my life. He had the same material - and then some - in the same quality (and in the case of 5 tracks in better quality) as what I had. We worked out an arrangement and he sent me what he had. Now I had more than I needed for 2 discs :-). The Sly fanatic in Japan really wanted to do the artwork on the Sly release so I gave him the final setlist and go ahead to get started on it. After doing some more work on the tapes (again mostly making the stuff sound as good as I could with the equipment I had) and was satisfied that I had put together the best Sly disc possible I sent the masters to Japan. I at this point was assuming there would be 4 Sly releases on Big 'Fro total: This one, the unreleased Fillmore show, a third release with mostly studio outtakes and a final disc with some of the lesser quality live stuff and the tracks not used for the first release (How many different live versions of the same song does anybody really want on one release anyway? I figured the remaining versions of Everyday People, Higher and Dance To The Music could wait). When this finally came out the overwhelmingly positive response and desire for the set truly surprised me - I was expecting Sly fans would be thrilled, but it seemed like everybody wanted a copy of this title. The Japanese in turn saw the success of the Stevie and Sly releases and were very pleased on their end and now left the continuing releases (more or less) up to me and were willing to release pretty much anybody I sent them a Big 'Fro master for at my own discretion. They agreed after this release to use the artwork I sent them for any Big 'Fro release as well....

-- durian1