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Sly & the Family Stone: Cobo Hall, Detroit

Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 November 1970

YOU HATE to admit that a man who put you off three times and thus openly displayed his lack of interest in you, turned out to be worth waiting for, but Sly, and his Family Stone, turned out that way. Early in the show, after receiving a very large round of applause Sly said, "I'm glad you feel that way, rather than the other way — if you know what I mean?"

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