Sly Stone Two Yrs. On

Hard to believe it's been two yrs. & harder to believe we'd remember after two yrs. (minus 20 days) but we are dedicated to following stories into the ground; the now 70-yr. old Sly Stone will be appearing soon (maybe) w/ an all-albino band.

Sly Stone in 1973. Photograph: Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Archive
Forty effing yrs. ago. (A long time to most mammals.)

And here's what the masses really want to know: Sly's still an urban camper.

He is still resident in a camper van, albeit out of choice. "When all those stories were being published about him, he had a beautiful home near Hollywood, but he wanted to live in the camper. He likes to be able to just keep moving. Like he says, if things get weird, then he just goes somewhere else where things aren't weird. He's not destitute. He doesn't have the fortune that you would like to think a rock star would have because too many things are in litigation right now. But he pretty much gets what he wants, he lives comfortably."

Note: Guardian piece is quite long (20+ "column inches," as they said pre-iNternet, as measured on our devil-box's 15-ish" at 1280x800 screen) as if it were an obit from some rag that cared. A lot.