appropriate use of tag.

If you want me to stay I'll be around today...

Too bad he's broke but he did say he chose to live in the van. Some of those camper vans are really nice.

RubyRed: Down by the river?

He wasn't with The Clash silly. Sly is a 70's R&B guy.

Is it at least a Toyota?

One of the greatest musical geniuses of the past century.

RubyRed: Down by the river?

that's neil young

Kyro: -- is homeless, his fortune stolen by a lethal combination of excess, substance abuse and financial mismanagement.

And my sympathy just went out the window.

That's rather cold.

Addiction is a helluva thing to go through. Also, from that article, it seems he's got some serious psychiatric pathology going on... sounds like he's got some flavor of psychosis/paranoid schizophrenia.

The tag is appropriate. He's a national treasure.

Different strokes, for different folks. And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo be. Ooooooo sha sha

/what if he dies from a stroke?

Link (new window, gs)

Headline: Sly Stone is living in a van

Sly Stone: I do not want a fixed home, I must keep moving.


Translation: Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

When he was on top of the musical world he didn't care enough about his bandmates or his audience to show up on time for performances and when he did finally show, incoherent as an adjective to describe his behavior and demeanor is a huge understatement. He took all that talent and goodwill and pissed it all away on drugs and I can't see how the SAD tag is at all deserved. As a matter of fact the tag should read DESERVED.

I really can't believe he is still alive after all the abuse his body has taken, but then I guess Keith Richards will need someone to play with after all the rest of the world has died.

My understanding was that he has a ton of unreleased music that a fan got to hear a while back.

The fan came back and said it was all next level brilliant shiat. So farking release something already.

Even if you don't want to release your music, geez, just get Madlib and some others to do a remix album based on old stuff for you.

This guy has the potential to make any amount of money he wants.

I thought with the lastest Rocky movie (Rocky Balboa) that he made more money?

rock star, movie star that did too much drugs and wasted his life away? very unique story. maybe he should make a movie about it so other people can learn that this could happen.

Highway61Revisited: Kyro: -- is homeless, his fortune stolen by a lethal combination of excess, substance abuse and financial mismanagement.

And my sympathy just went out the window.

That's rather cold.

Addiction is a helluva thing to go through.
Not if you don't do drugs. Yet another person who peoples they can handle it, couldn't and lost everything (except the cool van)

Also, from that article, it seems he's got some serious psychiatric pathology going on... sounds like he's got some flavor of psychosis/paranoid schizophrenia.
yeah, that can happen when you do drugs.

He's a national treasure.
mainly as yet another example of the danger of hubris.

Kyro: Highway61Revisited: That's rather cold.

Nope. Still nothing. His contributions to music do not garner him sympathy when he squandered the fortune that so few are given the chance to earn. That goes for any rags-to-riches story. If your own poor decisions cost you your fortune, you earned it. And while addiction is without a doubt one of the biggest struggles a human being can possibly go through, I don't think anyone's ever gone into the drug scene as a celebrity not knowing the risk.

Except, you don't know you'll be an addict until you become one.

Addiction, psychosis, paranoia... these are pathologies rooted in biology, not totally under his control.

tenpoundsofcheese: Highway61Revisited: Kyro: -- is homeless, his fortune stolen by a lethal combination of excess, substance abuse and financial mismanagement.

And my sympathy just went out the window.

That's rather cold.

Addiction is a helluva thing to go through.
Not if you don't do drugs. Yet another person who peoples they can handle it, couldn't and lost everything (except the cool van)

Also, from that article, it seems he's got some serious psychiatric pathology going on... sounds like he's got some flavor of psychosis/paranoid schizophrenia.
yeah, that can happen when you do drugs.

He's a national treasure.
mainly as yet another example of the danger of hubris.

Or you know, mainly as a well respected musical pioneer.

Highway61Revisited: Except, you don't know you'll be an addict until you become one.

Addiction, psychosis, paranoia... these are pathologies rooted in biology, not totally under his control.

A thousand times THIS.

NOBODY wakes up one day and decides, "I think I'll become addicted to a substance that will kill me slowly, and along the way before I die a painful, horrible death, my continually eroding thought processes will manifest in my losing everything and everyone I hold dear to my heart, and just for kicks, make me a menace to myself and society at large, greatly increasing the chance that I will kill other people in the process. Yep, sounds like a winner. OFF I GO!"

If you know about addiction, you get this. If you don't know, you just don't know.

Mugato: Damn. The Expendables wasn't that bad.

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

IgG4: In his defense, it is a really nice van

So is the Studebaker.

I think he has only himself to blame. Maybe he should have asked for more than just a drummer for people who only need a beat.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: So... he's everyday people, then?

Welcome to my favorites list. Make yourself at home.

Anyone first read headline as "Sly Stallone is living in a van"?

tenpoundsofcheese: I thought with the lastest Rocky movie (Rocky Balboa) that he made more money?

That's who I thought of when I saw the headline. I didn't know Sly Stone was still alive.

/tag is appropriate

qsblues: Highway61Revisited: Except, you don't know you'll be an addict until you become one.

Addiction, psychosis, paranoia... these are pathologies rooted in biology, not totally under his control.

A thousand times THIS.

NOBODY wakes up one day and decides, "I think I'll become addicted to a substance that will kill me slowly, and along the way before I die a painful, horrible death, my continually eroding thought processes will manifest in my losing everything and everyone I hold dear to my heart, and just for kicks, make me a menace to myself and society at large, greatly increasing the chance that I will kill other people in the process. Yep, sounds like a winner. OFF I GO!"

If you know about addiction, you get this. If you don't know, you just don't know.

But he did make the decision to do drugs. Everyone knows the risk before the first hit.

Living in a Roadtrek != being homeless. (new window)

I'd live in one.

Pfighting Polish: I think he has only himself to blame. Maybe he should have asked for more than just a drummer for people who only need a beat.

Yeah, I suppose it is his fault. But I can't help thinking he could've turned it around if somebody had just added a little guitar.

RubyRed: Down by the river?

Eating government cheese?

If he was a junkie trainwreck, he wouldn't have a nice van and studebaker.

But don't let that stop all you neverwases from bagging on him.

Kanye West, is this your future?

MAYORBOB: When he was on top of the musical world he didn't care enough about his bandmates or his audience to show up on time for performances and when he did finally show, incoherent as an adjective to describe his behavior and demeanor is a huge understatement. He took all that talent and goodwill and pissed it all away on drugs and I can't see how the SAD tag is at all deserved. As a matter of fact the tag should read DESERVED.

^This