SLY STONE I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969-70 (color) punk and good old fashioned Midwest

and good old fashioned Midwest rock'n'roll - Flea Collar have turned in an epic debut that lands somewhere between tongue-in-cheek & the impending dog bite illustrated on the front cover

Then the record freefalls into disorienting drum workouts

Over on side two

and ‘The Great Big NO’

SLY STONE I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969-70 (color) punk and good old fashioned MidwestIn 1970, The Family Stone were at the peak of their popularity, but the maestro Sly Stone had already moved his head to a completely different space. The first evidence of Slys musical about turn was revealed by the small catalog of his new label, Stone Flower: a pioneering, peculiar, minimal electro funk sound that unfolded over just four seven inch singles.