Sly Stone
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While it's fascinating to read about someone with prodigious talent and their climb to the top, it's also painful and irritating to watch the inevitable downfall because the prodigious talent is set aside for prodigious appetites for sex, drugs, and belief in your own press.
Is Sly talented? God, yes. I love those songs, those albums. And, throughout this book, you still see he's got an incredible gift for words and writing. He makes the wildest, most amazing verbal connections, and there's a wonderful rhythm to his narrative style.
And yet, once we get into the 1980s, it's disheartening to watch him make excuse after excuse, mistake after mistake, poor choice after poor choice, yet try to spin it as, well, that's just me being Sly.
I'm sure there's also a lot of far more uncomfortable truths that were left unspoken, or excised prior to publication.
It's fascinating to read about those with world-spanning talent. But it's awful to read about how the talent, the possibilities are squandered.
It's worth the read, for sure.… (mere)