Sly & The Family Stone had songs to burn. To such an extent that I'm not really sure whether they had b-sides or their singles releases were always intended as double a-sides. Still, this was on the flipside of 1969's Stand.
'When I heard Sly I was spooked. I was supposed to be some big jazz musician, but I couldn't play funk like that. The rhythms, the interplay between the backbeat and the bass, the micro tensions, the syncopations - it was like nothing I'd heard. It took me three or four years to get on top of what Sly was playing.'
Herbie Hancock
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