FYI I sent this column to my friend Ruth Copeland, a rocker who toured with Sly and knew him well, and she replied:
Lucky for Margaret this yarn never spun out. It's far more likely Sly was looking at the woman and not the hat. That could have been a not so 'natty dread'.
Almost an inversion of "How the Hippies Saved Physics". This would have been "How hyperbolic geometry saved the Funk and Rasta head gear."
Very nice!! Thanks for this inversive thought.
What a fantastic funkadelic yarn!
FYI I sent this column to my friend Ruth Copeland, a rocker who toured with Sly and knew him well, and she replied:
Lucky for Margaret this yarn never spun out. It's far more likely Sly was looking at the woman and not the hat. That could have been a not so 'natty dread'.
Singer
Ruth Copeland
interesting....