tazzboy Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_rise_and_fall_of_sly_stone_qijyKoYzmAqer1PA0YogSJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-dub Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 that is sad. not uncommon, but sad non the less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 . Double thread - This same topic posted Sunday morning - http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/74432-funk-legend-sly-stone-now-homeless-and-living-out-of-a-van-in-la/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzboy Posted September 26, 2011 Author Share Posted September 26, 2011 Must have missed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rogerb Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 That is sad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 Cocaine is a b!tch and she'll cut you if you dance with her too long. What a sad story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANNIC Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 Is it a decent van? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPguitarman Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 Sorry, but I don't feel sorry for him. It says he did it to himself with substance abuse and money mis-management which probably stemmed from his substance abuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 I do feel sorry, for him. No one starts out, to become a drug addict! Yes, he IS responsible, for all of his actions. Still, it's very sad, that he has lost so much, due to drugs. To me, and I only speak for myself, as always..."Drugs" (substance abuse) are/is killing this country (world, even), in so many ways. And yeah, I "tried" some, for a very short time, in the '60's. Thank GOD, I don't have an addictive personality. (Except for guitars...and cameras...LOL) I don't even drink, or smoke any- thing, anymore, and haven't since the summer of '72. I just never really enjoyed it, I guess? But, to each his/her own...within reason. But, I know people who aren't famous, who've lost everything, friends, family, personal possesions, All of it! Not a pleasant thing to watch. So, yeah...I do feel sorry, he allowed himself to succumb to that "monkey, on his back!" CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 I do feel sorry, for him. No one starts out, to become a drug addict! Yes, he IS responsible, for all of his actions. Still, it's very sad, that he has lost so much, due to drugs. To me, and I only speak for myself, as always..."Drugs" (substance abuse) are/is killing this country (world, even), in so many ways. And yeah, I "tried" some, for a very short time, in the '60's. Thank GOD, I don't have an addictive personality. (Except for guitars...and cameras...LOL) I don't even drink, or smoke any- thing, anymore, and haven't since the summer of '72. I just never really enjoyed it, I guess? But, to each his/her own...within reason. But, I know people who aren't famous, who've lost everything, friends, family, personal possesions, All of it! Not a pleasant thing to watch. So, yeah...I do feel sorry, he allowed himself to succumb to that "monkey, on his back!" CB +1 even though I'm only 19 I've seen friends completely ruin their lives with drugs. Seriously. It's really sad to watch. It's really mostly meth and heroin these days though. Although when I was walking through the tenderloin district in San Fran a few weeks ago I saw some crackheads who were pretty open about their addiction. That place is really scary. I'd try to go find sly but I have a feeling he'd just want some money and his friends might wanna stab me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 At the age of 19 sure, it's sad to see the waste of what could be. At Slys age? Really? 70 years old and hittin the pipe? Not so sad. Hilarious if you ask me. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgVOR28iG_o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXSDyRjlcpY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiIBwu2mjs0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 What sad to me is that a guy that (along with James Brown)invented an entire music scene seems to have destroyed the mind that brought that into being. He didn't destroy it at 70 with a crack pipe. He did it long ago with PCP. A drug with nasty side effects that last forever. Is he to blame for his own mess? Yes, but it still makes me sad to see. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgVOR28iG_o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 What sad to me is that a guy that (along with James Brown)invented an entire music scene seems to have destroyed the mind that brought that into being. He didn't destroy it at 70 with a crack pipe. He did it long ago with PCP. A drug with nasty side effects that last forever. Is he to blame for his own mess? Yes, but it still makes me sad to see. Many would say he is not to blame for his own mess. My oldest brother, my very closest and dearest cousin, my uncle, all were to blame for their own mess. All died essentially at their own hand, all way too young. Any social services agency, any tank you put them in, all of them should eventually tell you what we were told after my brothers third trip in at 42, and that is "...some people just don't want to be cured...". Sly, like everyone else, is indeed to blame for his own mess. He had about twelve trillion times the money my brother, cousin, uncle had. He had all the time needed to get it together. He had career, fame, easy life to live. It just wasn't enough for him. It's a shame, we'da gladly taken some of his time and money off his hands to help him not squander it, maybe that time and money would have helped just those three in my family, not to mention the other side, not to mention my wifes family, or all the families on my street trying as hard as they can to get through this life on whatever it is they can scrape by on. So there he sits, in a van, prolly still hittin it up whenever he can. Stays up for couple days at a time it says. "recording". Yeah. Right. Been there, heard it all, done that. I got no sadness for him, just a sadness in general that people just can't get above it. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincentw Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 Sad. That's all I have to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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