Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0287 Sly & The Family Stone (1969): I Want to Take You Higher Writer: | Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart Producer: | Sly Stone Label: | Epic Album: | Stand! (1969) In the wee hours of Sunday, August 17, 1969, the drugged-out, worn-out crowd of around 400,000 who had assembled at Woodstock were literally shaken out of their slumbers by Sly & The Family Stone’s electrifying performance of “I Want to Take You Higher.” Sly, the razzle-dazzle front man, a black rhinestone cowboy with tassles all a-flailing, shouted out “Higher!” and the crowd responded back in kind. The horns screeched the riffs while Sly’s brother Freddie laid down the funky guitar riff over Larry Graham’s pioneering slap-bass. The song had originally been released as the B-side of “Stand!,” which made the U.S. No. 22 slot a few months before Woodstock, and then No. 60 as an A-side in its own right. After Sly’s da-bomb live version, it was re-released in June 1970, reaching No. 38. Drawing on the track “Higher” from their 1968 LP, Dance to the Music, “I Want to Take You Higher” crossed racial and gender divides; it was the epitome of Sly’s kaleidoscopic, psychedelic soul. The band were one of the first to openly feature black female singers and instrumentalists (Cynthia Robinson on trumpet and Sly’s sister Rose on piano) alongside mixed-race horn players. In February 2006, the sixty-one-year-old Sly Stone performed “I Want to Take You Higher” at the Grammys. Sporting a peroxide-white Mohawk, he departed after just a few verses. Other recent appearances have been equally unpredictable. youtu.be/LQkdiJQIX5Y
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