SLY starts to sing, against the continuing pulse of GREG’s drumming. Good in the past, it is still good! So what I want you toĭo, I’d like everybody to join in, when we say “Higher!”, But you must dig that it is notĪ fashion in the first place! It’s a feeling, and if it was Of people don’t like to do that, because they think it Now, what we’re gonna do here is a singalong. He looks down towards his midsection, looks at her, they both start laughing. Most of us need to get approval from our neighbors,īefore we can actually let it all hang down.ĬUT TO HIPPY COUPLE. HIPPY COUPLE embraces, kisses, then turns their smiling faces towards the glow of the stage. What we would like to do is, sing a song together. On stage: Sly & the Family Stone.” An amorous, still-sleepy HIPPY COUPLE, he black, she white, embrace as they listen: CAPTION: “Woodstock Music & Art Festival, Bethel, New York, August 16, 1969, 4 a.m. PAN, hordes of slowly stirring sleeping hippies, most in sleeping bags across the occupied meadowland, some wandering half-naked, some smoking doobies. Family Affair by Jeff KalissĮXT., YASGUR’S FARM, NEAR BETHEL, NEW YORK, AUGUST 16, 1969, CIRCA 4 AM.įADE IN, over sound of an insistent rock drumbeat, to a scene tinted psychedelically: Jeff wrote a biography of Sly & the Family Stone and thousands of articles about music. His poetry appears in the Suisun Valley Review and he reads it around town. Jeff Kaliss studies writing and jazz piano at CCSF after completing an MFA in Creative Writing at SFSU. The following, “Family Affair” (script, excerpt), is an excerpt of a completed script by Jeff Kaliss.
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