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Sly Stone and His Influence on Black Pop, Funk, and Psychedelic Soul
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 16, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Rider, drums, groove, Night, ethnic, Ohio, Chess, Brown, Jazz, percussion, Psychedelic, white, Beatles, catchy, Pepper, Latino, gender, Life, Airplane, two, Burdon, Funk, extension, horn
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       names that helped shape black pop throughout the 1970s
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1. James           
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2. Sly Stone
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Sly and the Family Stone
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led to a rise of         
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comes out of the primarily white rock scene in San Francisco at the end of the 1960s, with:
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Grateful Dead
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Jefferson                 
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Janice Joplin
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not really thought of as a San Francisco band
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responsible for a genre one can call                        Soul
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emphasis on             , setting up a kind of repeated, rhythmic kind of feel that is laid down between the base and the           
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not so much like melodic instruments but more like every instrument in the band is a                      instrument
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an interlocking of different parts which creates a groove, and all the music sort of rides on top of that
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there are              lyrics that are hooks that catch the listener's ear
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that sound is developed by Sly Stone
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1968: Dance to the Music
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1969: Stand
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1969: I Want to Take You Higher
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was marketed across              lines
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was an exception
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did a lot to form the opinion of            audiences of what black music sounded like even though they may not have been hearing a whole lot of it
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group was integrated in term of race and             
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a whole series of groups which took up the format that Sly Stone had started
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         Players
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started in 1959
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1973: Funky Worm
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a funny lyric and vocal and a synthesizer sound that was supposed to be the sound of the worm grooving
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a catchy AM novelty record
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1974: Fire
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1975: Love Roller coaster
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Kool and the Gang
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an important                    of the Sly Stone style
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1964 formed as the Jazziacs
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1973 ALBUM: Wild and Peaceful
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Jungle Boogie
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Hollywood Swinging
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later had big hits in disco later in the 1970s
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1979 Ladies           
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1980 Celebration
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Earth, Wind, and Fire
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an extension of what Sly Stone got going
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Maurice White
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1960s            Records
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1969 moved to L.A.
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sophisticated and intricate          arrangements in addition to catchy melodies that rode on top of these grooves
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1975: ALBUM: That's the Way of the World
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written for the movie of the same name
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Shining Star
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1978 Got to Get You Into My         
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their version of the                song
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highlights all the things that are hippest
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recorded for Sgt.              Movie
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Bee Gees
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Peter Frampton
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Steve Martin also in movie
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Tower of Power
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had fantastic horn section
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Oakland, California
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Black, White, and              members
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1973 ALBUM: Tower of Power
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What is Hip?
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had a          flavor
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War
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Los Angeles
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originally "The Nightriders"
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had a gig to back Deacon Jones
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Eric Burdon
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asked War to back him
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1970 Spill the Wine
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group continued on without Eric             
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had Latin feels with R&B and funk
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1972 Cisco Kid
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1975 Low           

Ideas and Concepts:

From the Psychedelic Soul department via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class: "Sly Stone comes out of the primarily white rock scene in San Francisco at the end of the 1960s which produced bands such as The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin, but he was never really thought of as a San Francisco band. Sly Stone was responsible for a genre one can call Psychedelic Soul which had an emphasis on groove, setting up a kind of repeated, rhythmic kind of feel that is laid down between the base and the drums, not so much using melodic instruments but more like using every instrument in the band is a percussion instrument, an interlocking of different parts which creates a groove, and all the music sort of rides on top of that, with catchy lyrics that are hooks that catch the listener's ear, this was the sound that was developed by Sly Stone."
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