* 1946 – Larry Graham, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ( Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station )

Psychedelic soul groups like the Chambers Brothers and especially Sly and The Family Stone influenced proto-disco acts such as Isaac Hayes, Willie Hutch and the Philadelphia Sound.

" Slap style " may have influenced electric bass guitar players who, from the mid-sixties ( particularly Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone ), developed a technique called slap and pop that used the thumb of the plucking hand to hit the string, making a slapping sound but still letting the note ring, and the index or middle finger of the plucking hand to pull the string back so it hits the fretboard, achieving the pop sound described above.

The film uses two versions of the song " Que Sera, Sera ", the first by singer Syd Straw and another over the end credits by Sly and the Family Stone.

One of the last scenes includes Ice-T and Body Count playing with Jane's Addiction in a version of the Sly and the Family Stone song " Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey.

Brown's recordings during this period influenced musicians across the industry, most notably groups such as Sly and the Family Stone, Funkadelic, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Booker T. & the M. G.

* 1945 – Rose Stone, American musician ( Sly & the Family Stone )

Building on the funk sound of James Brown, it was pioneered from about 1968 by Sly and the Family Stone and The Temptations.

This motif is evidenced in the era of " paranoid soul " such as " Smiling Faces Sometimes " ( released by The Temptations in April 1971, and made a hit by The Undisputed Truth in July 1971 ), " I'll Take You There " ( The Staples Singers, 1972 ), " Don't Call Me Brother " ( The O ' Jays, 1973 ), " Back Stabbers " ( The O ' Jays ), and " You Caught Me Smilin ( Sly and the Family Stone, 1971 ).

* 1946 – Greg Errico, American drummer and producer ( Sly & the Family Stone and Weather Report )

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He has cited acts like Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone, and Stevie Wonder as influences.

During the 1960s, the city was home to an innovative funk music scene that produced well-known bands like Sly & the Family Stone, Graham Central Station, Tower of Power, Cold Blood, and The Headhunters.

Larry Graham, the bass player for both Sly & the Family Stone and Graham Central Station, is credited with the creation of the influential slap and pop sound still widely used by bassists in many musical idioms today.

His artistic influences include Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Johnny " Guitar " Watson, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, the Isley Brothers, Duke Ellington, Curtis Mayfield, and Stevie Wonder.

Grand Central later changed its name to Champagne and started playing original music influenced by Sly & the Family Stone, James Brown, Earth, Wind & Fire, Miles Davis, Parliament-Funkadelic, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, and Todd Rundgren.

McCrea himself cites Hank Williams, Tom Zé, the Golden Gate Quartet and Sly and the Family Stone as particular influences.

By 1968, the soul music movement had begun to splinter, as artists such as James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone began to incorporate new styles into their music.

* " I Want to Take You Higher " – Sly and the Family Stone

The Great Society had recorded an early version of " Somebody to Love " ( under the title " Someone to Love ") as the B-side of their only single, " Free Advice ", produced by Sylvester Stewart ( soon to become famous as Sly Stone ).

Larry Graham, Jr. ( born August 14, 1946 ) is an American bass guitar player, both with the popular and influential psychedelic soul / funk band Sly and the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station.

Born in Beaumont, Texas, Graham played bass in the highly successful and influential funk band Sly and the Family Stone from 1966 to 1972.

After Sly and the Family Stone, Graham formed his own band, Graham Central Station.

The Sly Collection ( titled as The Sly Cooper Collection in Japan and The Sly Trilogy in Europe and in some parts of Australia ) is a remastered port of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Sly 2: Band of Thieves and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves for the PlayStation 3 on a single Blu-ray Disc as a Classics HD title.

Starting with the group's next solo studio album, also titled Cloud Nine, producer Norman Whitfield began edging the group towards a Sly & the Family Stone-eque ( dubbed " psychedelic soul ", using Edwards ' gruffer voice as the centerpiece for several psychedelic-based hit singles and albums.

* 1970 – Tony Sly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( No Use for a Name and Scorpios ) ( d. 2012 )

Additionally, he joined No Use For A Name in 2009 replacing Dave Nassie and remained a member until their final show following the death of lead singer Tony Sly in 2012.

" Pray For Grace " and " Bomb The World ( Armageddon Version )" pair Franti with the reggae / funk giants Sly and Robbie ( Grace Jones, Rolling Stones, Black Uhuru, No Doubt ).

In 2004, frontman Joey Cape released a split album with No Use for a Name vocalist Tony Sly featuring acoustic versions of songs by both bands.

** Fat Wreck Chords announced that No Use for a Name frontman Tony Sly dies at the age of 41.

* Tony Sly ( born 1970 ), American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman of the punk rock band No Use for a Name

Sly and Robbie produced No Doubt's international hits " Hey Baby " and " Underneath It All ".

Stephen has recorded with No Doubt, Green Day, Gwen Stefani, Sugar Ray as well as performing with Outkast, The Black Eyed Peas, The Specials, Sly and Robbie, Sting, Bounty Killer, Eve, Phantom Planet, Josh Groban, Shirley Manson, Katy Perry ,( members of ) Incubus, and Lady Saw.

In April, Dylan participated in a recording session with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare ( better known as Sly & Robbie ), playing harmonica on “ No Name On The Bullet .” The song was released on ‘’ Language Barrier ’’, issued in August on Island Records.

* No. 2-Song-Winifred and Chorus-" The Sly Cigarette.

* Sly Fox Brewery ( Phoenixville, PA ) hosts an annual goat race to commemorate its bock fest.

' Forever Changes ' unlocked a new musical palette for African American musicians to utilize, which paved the way for future song cycles like Marvin Gaye's ' What's Going On ' and Sly Stone's ' There's a Riot Going On ,' classics by other African Americans that also chronicled the increasingly despondent state of the American dream.

In some Bulgarian folk tales that originated during the Ottoman period, the name appears as an antagonist to a local wise man, named Sly Peter.

He also wrote the Iran-contra satire Mastergate, as well as Sly Fox and a musical adaptation of the Preston Sturges movie Hail the Conquering Hero ; during that show's troubled development Gelbart uttered the now-classic line, " If Hitler is alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical.

* For a thorough scientific overview of disorders of proline and hydroxyproline metabolism, one can consult chapter 81 of OMMBID Charles Scriver, Beaudet, A. L., Valle, D., Sly, W. S., Vogelstein, B., Childs, B., Kinzler, K. W.

The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.

Prior to the first act, an induction frames the play as a " kind of history " played in front of a befuddled drunkard named Christopher Sly who is tricked into believing that he is a lord.