#RIP SLY STONE

watch the other day the extraordinary #documentary about funk music, WE WANT THE FUNK, which features Sly & The Family Stone extensively.

here’s the trailer:
Independent Lens | Trailer | WE WANT THE FUNK! | Season 26 | Episode 15 | PBS - https://www.pbs.org/video/trailer-make-it-funky-zbezq9/

#PBS has this weird thing they geoblock on Youtube to be point of hiding videos from their searches. when you go to their website, they won’t explain why. so use a #VPN to watch it:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QrgV35cBHVs

Independent Lens | Trailer | WE WANT THE FUNK! | Season 26 | Episode 15

The dynamic story of funk music, from early roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk to influences.

here am an afroboricua isleña, but sometimes back at home, i was just a negra #nuyorican watching Soul Train and dancing to the music:

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/kHaDc82w6OM

may you rest in power, Sly Stone and groove with the great Don Cornelius in the great dancing tunnel in the sky

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@blogdiva Oh damn. Well, if I had to hear it, I'm glad I heard it from you. He was a musical genius.