Genre: rock
Rating: ** (2 stars)
Title: Sly Stone Recorded In San Francisco: 1964-67
Company: Sculpture
Catalog: SCP-2001
Year: 19??
Country/State: Dallas, Texas
Grade (cover/record): VG+/VG+
Comments: minor ring wear on cover
Available: 1
GEMM catalog ID: 4362
Price: $10.00
Cost: $66.00
Released by the cheapo exploito Springboard Records (actually the Springboard affiliated Sculpture label), "Sly Stone Recorded In San Francisco: 1964-67" pulls together a haphazard mixture of pre-Sly and the Family Stone efforts. In terms of quality the nine tracks are all over the spectrum, ranging from surprisingly good ('Take My Advice' and the weird Broadway-meets-rock 'Life of Future & Fame''') to abysmal (the 1950s flavored instrumental 'My Love', a needless cover of Herbie Hancock's 'Watermelon Man'' and the raw demo 'Rock Dirge'). Weirdest of the weird - Sly's spoken work cover of 'Deck of Cards'. Elsewhere, ' I Ain't Got Nobody' was eventually released as the first Sly and the Family Stone single. The complete absence of useful liner notes doesn't exactly help the set, so it's probably of little interest to anyone other than hardcore Sly fans.
"Sly Stone Recorded In San Francisco: 1964-1967" track listing:
(side 1)
1.) I Can't Turn You Loose (Otis Redding) - 3:25
2.) Take My Advice - 2:13
3.) Watermelon Man (instrumental) (Herbie Hancock) - 4:58
4.) I Ain't Got Nobody (Sylvester Stewart) - 2:44
5.) My Love (instrumental) (Alair - Lind Stone) - 2:20
(side
2)
1.) Life
of Future & Fame - 3:30
2.) If You Were Blue (instrumental) - 2:16
3.) Deck of Cards - T. Texas Tyler - 3:09
4.) Rock Dirge (instrumental) - 6:07