I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & the Family Stone PDF
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I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SLY & THE FAMILY STONE JEFF KALISS Contents Foreword vii Preface ix Introduction xiii Note on Style xix Get Your Livin' Down (1943-1961) 1 You Have You to Complete (1961-1966) 17 Dance to the Music (1966-1968) 35 Everybody: Stand! (1968-1970) 63 Riot (1970-1972) 83 You Don't Have to Come Down (1972-1974) 107 Ever Catch a Falling Star? (1974-2001) 127 I Love You for Who You Are (2002-) 145 Afterword 775 Selected Discography 783 Sources 795 Acknowledgments 207 Index 205 Foreword OY, THE YEARS GO BY FAST now. I've been looking at it like, between this Friday and the next Friday, it seems like it's getting shorter and shorter. I'm using my time right, but it's always that pursuit of happiness. There's more happiness, but the one you're looking for, I think, stays the same distance away. This world is different, but it's the same difference with another name. If I didn't play music from now on, I wouldn't be a musician-and I'm gonna hang in there whatever happens. I'm still doing music, and still representative of the truth. I like playing with everybody, but I can only harmonize with a few. If everybody from the old band could afford to get together and stay together for about a month and then go to play gigs, that would be cool. We do love to play with each other. I don't read much of what anybody writes about me, but I know that it's mostly secondhand stuff that looks like it's supposed to be firsthand. I don't know nobody, and nobody knows me, and they don't know what they're talking about. But I see why they say some things that they consider negative, especially when it has to do with what will sell their damned things. I like the way Jeff tells my story. It seems level, and it seems on the level. He keeps how I look at things separate from anybody else's looking at things. I'm only craving fewer pieces of paper, fewer words in my letters and fewer letters in my words, in order to say what I gotta say. The rest of it, like this book, happens natural, and everything's good after that. My opinion about things is still the same, and I'm pretty aggressive about making sure people hear it. They accept it easy, or they gotta accept it hard. Thank you, Jeff. -SYLVESTER STEWART/SLY STONE From inside his '58 Packard Napa County, California February 2008
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