Sunday, September 25, 2011

The New Homelessness

Two points to make here: Despite the headline
Funk legend Sly Stone now homeless
and living out of a van in LA
& the hype, he's got a fucking van (W/ electricity: Note cord!)
& sounds more paranoid than out & out "homeless."
Inside the van, the former mastermind of Sly & the Family Stone, now 68, continues to record music with the help of a laptop computer.

“I like my small camper,” he says, his voice raspy with age and years of hard living. “I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.”
Yes, it's the hard-knock life alright.
The van is parked on a residential street in Crenshaw, the rough Los Angeles neighborhood where “Boyz n the Hood” was set. A retired couple makes sure he eats once a day, and Stone showers at their house. The couple’s son serves as his assistant and driver.
Rough? Not unless the house has bars on the windows. Sounds more like luxury. Assistant & driver? Laptop? Showers? Owns a Studebaker?
And he cut a CD that was released last month.Our fave, from Sly's salad days:

2 comments:

Dr.KennethNoisewater said...

I dunno. I find it pretty depressing. *sigh*

M. Bouffant said...

Media Criticism Editor:

We didn't want to drag our legit homeless street cred into it (We just aren't that sort of person.) but he's got it pretty damn sweet, & isn't blowing his royalty checks on rent.

Not to make light of whatever mental problems he may have, mind you.

And no one would have known about his new CD if he weren't milking the homeless angle.