Philippe Posted June 28, 2013 Posted June 28, 2013 (edited) Yesterday I saw on Discogs that the album "There's A Riot Goin' On" was issued on Stone Flower : https://www.discogs.com/Sly-The-Family-Stone-Theres-A-Riot-Goin-On/release/3399847 Somebody ever saw this album ? Edited June 29, 2013 by Philippe
dthedrug Posted June 28, 2013 Posted June 28, 2013 HI ALL New to me, did you know the track "there's a riot going on" is 0 seconds long, mentioned on some 1st issue LP's cover but not on labels?? DAVE K
Roburt Posted June 29, 2013 Posted June 29, 2013 Stone Flower was Sly's own label and he did a distribution deal for it with Atlantic ......... Sly & F S were of course signed to Epic / Columbia themselves ......... ..... so putting out a few copies of his new LP on his own label may have been his way of 'winding' the management guys at Epic up (Sly was always in dispute with some record exec or promoter back then as he was high lots of the time). The 'I Want To Take You Higher' book states that he made a lot of money from the release of 'Stand' and used some of it to get offices in Hollywood to base his new Stone Flower Productions concern in (these offices were opposite the big Capitol Records building). But by 1971, his label had enjoyed 2 x 45 hits (on Little Sister) so I doubt putting out copies of 'Riot' on the label were to raise it's profile.
Philippe Posted June 29, 2013 Author Posted June 29, 2013 (edited) I tend to think this Stone Flower LP was only scheduled but never released. Edited June 30, 2013 by Philippe
Geeselad Posted June 29, 2013 Posted June 29, 2013 class album, and what a way to own it, if it exists, where did the snap of the cover come from?
Guest Paul Posted June 30, 2013 Posted June 30, 2013 "Family Affair" and "Runnin' Away" are two of my all-time faves and take me right back to school days. And I'd really like to hear a longer version of "There's A Riot Going On"
Philippe Posted July 1, 2013 Author Posted July 1, 2013 Finally I've got an answer : "this is a mid 70s reissue.....bootleg"
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