Dreaming of the Masters

If you don't think Sly Stone is among the masters of whom you should be dreaming, you might want to reconsider.  After all, in numerous interviews, acknowledged master Miles Davis said Sly is what he was dreaming of and trying to sound like circa 1972.  Except, of course, when Miles and his band played, it came out sounding like this:

All this because driving home on this late July afternoon in Georgia, I couldn't get Hot Fun In the Summertime out of my head.