{"id":10257,"date":"2011-09-29T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10257"},"modified":"2011-09-29T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T17:29:08","slug":"funk-legend-sly-stone-homeless-living-in-a-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10257","title":{"rendered":"Funk Legend Sly Stone Homeless, Living In A Van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <strong>Sly Stone<\/strong> ever decides to take his show on the road and tour again, at least he won\u2019t have to walk far to the van.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Sly &amp; the Family Stone<\/strong> frontman, known for such hits in the late \u201960s and early \u201970s as <em>Dance to the Music<\/em>, <em>Everyday People<\/em> and <em>Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin<\/em>), is currently homeless, and living in a van in Los Angeles\u2019 rough-and-tumble Crenshaw district, according to a report co-written by <strong>Stone<\/strong> documentarian <strong>William Alkema<\/strong> for the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, as little as four years ago, the 68-year-old musician \u2014 born <strong>Sylvester Stewart<\/strong> \u2014 lived in a lavish Napa Valley home complete with a vineyard, and had several cars.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent years, a drug habit (<strong>Stone<\/strong> has been arrested multiple times for cocaine possession) and fiscal difficulties (last year he sued his former manager, <strong>Jerry Goldstein<\/strong>, for $50 million, claiming that <strong>Goldstein<\/strong> had defrauded him) led <strong>Stone<\/strong> into his current situation. Not that he appears to mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like my small camper,\u201d<strong> Stone<\/strong> tells the Post. \u201cI just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And despite it all, he\u2019s still recording music, on a laptop computer in his van \u2014 and with reportedly hundreds of songs currently in the can, the musician is hoping that today\u2019s hit-makers will reach out and help him stage a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see all the guys playing those old songs,\u201d <strong>Stone<\/strong> says. \u201cLet these guys know, like <strong>Lady Gaga<\/strong>, let me come in, just let me come in and pay me if you like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It might be a while before<strong> Stone<\/strong> gets another crack at the stage. His live performances have been exceedingly rare over the past two decades, and when he has taken the stage, the results have tended toward the shambolic \u2014 such as his brief, bizarre appearance at last year\u2019s Coachella Music and Arts Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Sly Stone ever decides to take his show on the road and tour again, at least he won\u2019t have to walk far to the van. The Sly &amp; the Family Stone frontman, known for such hits in the late \u201960s and early \u201970s as Dance to the Music, Everyday People and Thank You (Falettinme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}