It's a zoom-zoom Ferrari, lava lamp, Sly Stone aesthetic, if you will.

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Before Sly Stone if you were a kid who liked popular music your choices were kind of like the waiting rooms of a Southern bus station in the 1950s, separate.

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But one of the most anticipated guests is someone who might or might not show up, which is kind of how it's always been for the '70s funk rock icon Sly Stone.

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Hancock says he found great inspiration and freedom in the music of James Brown and Sly Stone, and sought to incorporate some of funk's distinct sounds and rhythms into his group.

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Playing music from his big-band tribute to Nat King Cole's Spanish-language albums, saxophonist David Murray's Cuban Ensemble occupied the same space as Mr. Bernstein and his Millennial Territory Orchestra, which drew from its new album, a take on the music of Sly Stone.

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Then Sly and the Family Stone came along with a different vibe entirely.

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It's a CD that features new artists like Maroon 5, Joss Stone, and John Legend covering Sly's classics.

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It's the Family Stone, although at Glastonbury they'll be without their lead singer, Sly Stewart.

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