User:Mcafeeplace/sandbox

Wow, blows me away, not seeing Sly or as we called him Syl in a statuesque pose, I guess Ostio got him. He commanded total attention regardless of where we were. At Paramount recording Studio on Santa Monica or at Marie's the dope lady at Gardener and Hollywood. When Syl showed up the attention went that way. I was always in awe of Sylvester, Genius pure Genius. That's why we all need, like grandma use to say "We all need Jesus". everything else falls through the cracks. Syl use to tell me "Hey Rick now we gonna play". We were Edwin Starr's backing band, and we rehearsed in the apartment at 1947 Holly Drv, by and Franklin in Hollywood. So everybody hung out there, Eddie Hazel was staying at my place, and so was Greg Reeves, Greg was always talking to David Geffen trying to get money he said he was owed from the Crosby Stills and Nash trip. But Syl, Sweet Syl was better than everybody, he had more talent and genius in his little finger than all of the rest of them combined. They just all "Needed Jesus"!