The Eddie Hazel & Funkadelic Story | Meet The Greatest Guitarist You've Never Heard Of
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- When they discuss Greatest Guitarists, you seldom see Eddie Hazel mentioned. In the pantheon of Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards, David Gilmour, Prince (is being mentioned more in recent years), and others, the early Funkadelic guitarist Eddie Hazel created some gems that stand up there with the aforementioned guitarists best work. Both Funkadelic and its sister-group Parliament have several albums and funk classics, but even before they doubled-down on the funk, their music was as much as variation of psych rock as it was funk. It was in that psych / funk hybrid where Eddie Hazel shined with guitar solos like Maggot Brain, Super Stupid, Good Thoughts Bad Thoughts, Ill Stay, and more. In this video, we discuss P-Funk (Parliament + Funkadelic), George Clinton, and Eddie Hazel's work with and without them.
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I’m a 62-year-old white dude. In the 70s, as a preteen and teen, I pretty much ignored funk. It wasn’t on the radio I listened to. It wasn’t what my friends listen to. It seemed like a different culture.
Three or four years ago I decided I should really take some time and explore funk. It wasn’t long before I heard Eddie Hazel for the first time. Wow. What I had been missing all my life?
And I dug deeper. Ernie Isley. Danny Webster. Regi Hargis. There’s just some great mostly overlooked guitar players from early funk that have not gotten the recognition they deserve. And of course Eddie Hazel leads the list.
I kind of expect that the same implicit bias that led me to overlook funk in my younger days also led music journalist of the era with the major music magazines to overlook them as well.
Today’s guitar magazines run a lot of cover photos of Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen and Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. They all seem to get on the cover of a guitar magazine at least once a year. When’s the last time you saw Eddie Hazel on the cover of a guitar magazine?
The implicit bias of the 1970s carries over into today. They still do not get the recognition they deserve.
It’s great that you did this video.
I can't say it enough, Parliament Funkadelic is the greatest band of all time in the galaxy. Eddie Hazel did the greatest guitar solo ever made on Maggot Brain 🤘🏾✊🏾✌🏾🙏🏾❤
Best on Cosmic Slop as well.
With all due respect, if you haven’t heard of Eddie Hazel, you don’t know music, thanks for enlightening the youngsters, nice Funkhistory,Funk On🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾
What he did with, California Dreamin' is incredible.
Yeah, that's an excellent cover. Very colorful sounding, instrumentally.
That’s a bad album
His singing was great on that song too.
@@davidgoodlettmusic yes it was
I love Eddie Hazel. But also Michael Hampton of P-Funk
Great job! After Jimi Hendrix...Eddie Hazel is #2 on my guitar list. Saw Eddie perform in the 70's when P-Funk was landing the Mothership. Like all of his work. Check out "Axiom Funk"...and the song "Pray My Soul". A classic! Once again...Great job! Respect for Eddie Hazel!!
Eddie was the coldest guitarist ever, his early stuff on P Funks stuff was legendary, he was just as Funked up on the instrumental of Man’s Best Friend and playing the lead guitar and bass Pumping it Up in 83, RIP 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿, Glen Goins and Gary Shider were no slouches either and didn’t take a backseat to anyone 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿
@@swingdown2113 Clinton had the baddest guitar players. Forgot about "Man's Best Friend (Instrumental)". This cut should be a bonus track on "Computer Games". Eddie kills it on "Pumpin' It Up". Good post!
Lucky you for witnessing the Mothership live : "Axiom funk" isn't that the album with Bill Laswell ? Loved this one.
I bought these motorcycle gloves from a company (Indie Ridge). In order to get a warranty you had to tell them your favorite lead guitarist. I put Eddie Hazel and the owner replied that in all his years, no one ever mentioned Eddie Hazel. He then replied " Nicely Done!" I felt cool lol!
Wellll- did u get tha warranty?? 🤷🏽♂️
@@smoothoperator7023 Yes sir!
Great job of laying out the facts and knowledge of guitar players. I totally agree. I was fortunate enough to play with Eddie just a few months before he passed. We hung out for about six weeks and jammed for hours every day. He was the most musical person that I’ve ever experienced. He taught me so much about playing the guitar by example. The easiest way to describe it is that he didn’t play licks, he made music. According to him he was involved in all the Parliament albums. Usually playing keyboard lines and other stuff. Including Atomic Dog. He didn’t get writing credits and was suing George because of it. All I can say about that is if you heard what I heard come out from him musically I believe him There was a certain something to his note choices that I hear throughout both Funkadelic and Parliament
Oh wow. That's amazing that you got to play with him so much. Who else have you played with. You sound like you've got deep musical pedigree. Awesome. Interesting about Eddie's further involvement in both Funkadelic and Parliament. Would you say him and Bernie Worrell were the best P-Funk musicians? Or is it tough to say?
@@WoogTalksMusic I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and a lot of great musicians lived there over the years so yeah I got to play with a few amazing people. But Eddie was the most that I ever got to just sitting across the couch and trade off riffs with. He had a very unique approach to fingering chords. Used his thumb to do things that were impossible for me. I’d have to do it traditionally. He was a trippy dude to hang out with too. Very fatherly with me as well. I got caught up doing something and didn’t talk to him for about a week ten days and he was gone. Tragic. I think the thing that trips me out the most is the first time we jammed with a drummer friend of mine he gave me a chord progression to jam to… we played it for about 45 minutes.
I asked him what was that? He said just something we used to jam to that I wrote… remember this is pre RUclips so I didn’t really have access to all his music. But I kept playing that chord change and discovered later on that it was Maggot Brain.
@@WoogTalksMusic People who I can remember off the top of my head: Phil Chen, Tommy Mars, Izzy Stradlin, Nick Menza and I’m sure that I’m forgetting a bunch
@@theleviathan89 This is a wonderful personal story. Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
@@voodoochile804 you’re very welcome, thank you for posting the great video.
Man, some of the pics are not Eddie pics. These guys are Garry Shider /with a cigarette/ and Kid Funkadelic with afro and black robe. Eddie is guy in white with a hat and the guy wearing stars on his shirt and in the end the one with a cap. Thank you, nice clip!
He also played on the first two Ruth Copeland albums as well as Bonnie Pointer's Free Me From My Freedom, where he plays the bass and a featured banjo solo. He was my favorite.
Some of those Ruth tracks go crazy!!
Pray my Soul from Axiom Funk ft. Eddie Hazel is an amazing solo as well. Great video brother.
Most definitely heard of Eddie Hazel and you're right that most people haven't heard of him. Great that you covered him, cause he shouldn't be forgotten at all.
Thanks! Yes, wonderful guitarist who I hope resurfaces in the music public consciousness somehow. A few people mentioned other Eddie Hazel highlights in the comments. Inspired me to dive even deeper.
Eddie was a beautiful soul
Passion beyond be leaf
Which is why George Clinton
Said outright
Eddie hazel gave the best Jimmy Hendrix interpretation
Eddie was taking flight to new grounds an being off n his own lane. 👊🏾❤️👊🏾
My favorite guitarist of time, my favorite member of both Funkadelic and Parliament, and one the greatest musicians of all time. His guitar work on the songs " Hit It and Quit It", and "Red Hot Mama" are personal favorites too. Also i love the songs from the album released after his passing REST IN P. Those songs were recorded with Tiki and Billy from around 1974 to 1977.
Very good stuff! i agree: he is slept on! He's had such an influence on my playing. His cover of "I Want You" on his solo album is amazing!
His guitar sings man! total emotion bruh!
I know one thing, I just love that Funkadelic T-shirt, that’s a classic, Funkadelic 4life, continue to RIH Eddie 🙏🏾 a real master on the Ax .🎸😊
Mr. Hazel was absolutely AMAZING!!! If he were still here he would be so HUGE no doubt. R.I.H Eddie Hazel.
In addition to being a fantastic guitarist, he was an excellent vocalist. Let Me Be, Open Our Eyes are a couple of magnificent examples of his vocal prowess.
🙌🙌🙌 every one of the PFunk guitarists are criminally underrated in the sort of mainstream of guitar culture. Every single musician that came from that stable is unreal.
He played on the goose, whatever makes my baby feel.good from the up from the down stroke album
Well done. Important to capture subtleties of music history. Thank you.
I first got into Funkadelic shortly after Jimi died in September of 1970... Eddie Hazel gave me the strength to move on.
I got to see him play when I was a kid. The last time was at St Andrews Hall in Detroit. I told my cousin yo that's Eddie ! In the early 70s of you ever saw them live the music would lift you. Great to see a going person who enthusiasticly knows what he's talking about.
I first saw Funkadelic in 1971 at the Olympia stadium, after Maggot Brain came out.
Thanks for giving the great Eddie Hazel the respect he deserves. Maggot Brain remains unsurpassed as a guitar solo. Super Stupid, Good Thoughts/Bad Thoughts, all superb solos. How about his solo on 'Comin Round the Mountain' (With Buddy Miles on drums) My fav is his version of California Dreamin. The intro to that song still sends shivers down my spine!
People totally miss his work on “Comin Round The Mountain”….unspeakably epic…
@@doozerace When his guitar comes in after that acapella vocal break, I get them funk chills up my spine
That Comin Round the Mountain was EPIC 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾
The whole version called no it's not on the rest in p album is worth a listen@@doozerace
@@chrisedwards3214 ??????
I absolutely LOVE his song CALIFORNIA DREAMIN
Not only was he told "play like your mother had just died", but they were also on LSD at that time, greatly enhancing their emotions and creativity, adding a whole lot more significance to the track "maggot brain"
Eddie and Billy Bass Nelson provided the guitar and bass on the Temptations, "Shakey Ground"...
And the rest of the sing for you album
Along with playing on the commodores machine gun album
The first three Funkadelic albums are among some of my all time favs! Eddie’s guitar work, the band as a whole, the mix of genres, and the raw feel on those early albums make those albums great to me.
Great video, new subscriber here!
At times it seems like Eddie Hazel is trying to make his guitar speak. A Language of emotion. His style of improvisation is really awesome. If you listen to any of his live versions of any song they're always different solos. Also one song I really enjoy that I feel no one really ever mentions or talks about is it from the bottom of my soul. The ending solo is just so cool. You can really feel something listening to it.
Your excitement keeps me excited brother... Thank you!!!
He was a guitarists guitarist.
Soulful, phenomenal.
Eddie and funkadelic played on both Ruth copeland albums
Sings to check out on those albums
Play with fire
Gimme shelter
Suburban family lament
Dint you wish you had what you had
Your love been good to Me
OG approved!!!!!!! Some of the stuff I knew about, a lot of those Gems I did not. Great info!!!!!
Kudos, you know your history!!! Loved this
Yes! RIP - The Man. Maggot Brain is top 10 solo work.
Top 1, bro!
Truly one of the best songs of all time and one of the greatest guitarists to ever live
Good to see the legend not be forgotten.
Nice video. Good to see more props to Pfunk. One small aside, I am 100% certain the cover image to this video, the guitarist with the big white hat drops down the back with the front brim in orange a stoggie, is Gary Shider, not Eddie Hazel. Gary’s son (Garrett Shider) even sold mugs of him and his father while ago with that same pic on the mug. All good, much love 🤘
Eddie Hazel & Tommy Bolin are highly underrated.
I Want You (She’s So Heavy), released on Eddie’s solo effort. He covered the Beatles and then demonstrated what no restraint really is. The second half of that song is, to me, his best work.
Please don't leave out Michael Hampton who has played Maggots Brain over a Thousand times or more 🛸🏟️ at Parliament/Funkadelic concerts. Michael Hampton is a Great Guitar Player and one of the greatest Guitarists of all time.
Or Blackbyrd, the baddest in my book.
Facto
True & the same holds true for Dywane Blackbyrd McKnight, even. Before his Funkadelic days
Yes & Blackbyrd McKnight ...even before joining PFunk!
That first picture in the red outfit is not Eddie Hazel. That was Garry Shider.
Original funkadelic guitarist the first three funkadelic albums have Eddie's acid riffs all over them
You wanna hear Eddie live check out live at Meadowbrook 1971
Check out the toys album
And his solo albums games, dames guitar thangs and rest in p
Eddie played on every song on standing on the verge of getting it on
Best tracks
Maggot brain
Miss Lucifer's love
Alice in my fantasies
Pray my soul
Red hot.mama
Superstipid
Coming round the mountain
Lampoc boogie
Hardcore jollies
Qualify to satisfy
I wanna know if it's good to you
Friday night sug the 14 the
I call my baby pussycat both versions
Imagine if Eddie played on every P funk album. Imagine the solos we could have gotten.
He was amazing!
What a lot of folks don't mention is on top of that incredible Wah; Fuzz; Reverb; Echo and Chorus drenched solo, is the SECOND guitar part that is playing the appregiated chord progression throughout, but it is a clean sound. No effects!
This keeps the listener grounded to the key of the song, while Eddie takes us outside and back in.
Awesome!
Woog, there was a kid from Pontiac Mi. Named Stanley Meter. He and his brother had a band called Trouble Band. We were all so proud when he wrote and played with Fuzzy and nem on Connections and Disconections.
That's Stanley Jeter.
My Eddie Hazel story: I was playing in an LA based band called Trulio Disgracious in the late 80’s...a P-Funk-esque ensemble that featured members of Fishbone and The Red Hot Chili Peppers amongst others, and there was a Hendrix tribute at a club in Hollywood called Club Lingerie. Eddie and original Funkadelic bassist Billy “Bass” Nelson we’re there and performed an awe inspiring rendition of Jimi’s “Machine Gun”. After they’d finished, Fishbone bassist Norwood Fisher saw me in the crowd and called me up to play on “Spanish Castle Magic”...only thing is, I didn’t own a guitar at the time (long story) so Norwood turned to Eddie Hazel, who was about to exit the stage, and asked him if I could use his. Eddie looked at him like that idea irritated the funk out of him but begrudgingly acquiesced. Now I had a bad reputation on the Hollywood music scene at that time for always breaking guitar strings, as I played really intensely and almost angrily. Eddie wasn’t aware of this and sure enough, I broke not one but two of his guitar strings. When the song we played was over I sheepishly handed his Strat back to him with the two busted strings dangling wildly. He looked at his guitar, looked up at me, looked back at his guitar and then looked at me again with an expression on his face that CLEARLY said: “You’d better vacate the space in front of me that you’re currently occupying or I’m gonna whoop your funkin’ a** muthaf**ka!!”
I quickly scurried offstage and disappeared into the crowd.
#truestory
i like this brother he knows his rock and roll ,
Long live Eddie Hazel!
Great T shirt man!! Great post!! 😁 I bought motor booty affair on picture disc when I was 14 and I had to take it with me to a punk rock show(the Damned)that night and all the punk kids were asking me what the record was and I explained . "Its not Punk it's ..FUNK!!!! I like to think maybe I turned a load of punks on to Funk music! Love from Liverpool England ,liked and subbed fella!! 😎
Bruh.... I was in the 8th grade when I discovered the funkadelics, and it was considered risque music (more for adults). With words like..... what is soul? a joint rolled in toilet paper.I saw Eddie Hazel, Tiki Fullwood, Bill Nelson, Lucius (tawl) Ross, Bernie Worrell live in 1969 chaperoned by my aunt with me and another friend I saw the original Funkadelics band, and then George Clinton showed up he was a mad Maniac on stage he was really part of the parliament's but also frontman for the Funkadelics then I saw the Funkadelics again when I was in high school like 1971-ish when they released the album "Maggot Brain"Eddie came out there with the band Funkadelics barefoot and opened up with "Super Stupid" blew my friggin mind.
Great comments, man. That must’ve been dope to have them emerging while you’re in junior high. Yeah the more I’ve researched, the more it seems they were an “X-rated” band. You can definitely see why. But yeah, so versatile and so many talented members.
I absolutely loved watching this. Eddie is one of my favorites. Thanks for giving us your enthusiastic view, and giving me a good reason to listen to more Eddie! I would love to get a list of everything he ever played on. It gets confusing, because he is credited on albums frequently but not on a song-per-song basis. Since his playing evolved with time, it's difficult to hear what he's playing. Unless of course he's WAILING!!!
Brother thank you for keeping the legendary Eddie Hazel history alive but Brother your the second Contant creator that left out the Classic Funkadelic Double Album America eats it’s young 1972
My favorite group of all time. I group Parliament and Funkadelic together, although each of the groups had their own sounds. I started listening to them in my teens in the 70’s. I bought all of the albums/cds. I’m from Michigan and would see the same concert 2-3 times each tour because of the different cities they played in. Love love Maggot brain.
Oh wow, that’s dope. Especially being able to attend their concerts around that time. Yeah, they’re pretty much known as “one band” and everything is kinda under that P-Funk umbrella. Especially because most of the same musicians contributed to both bands. George was just trying to navigate the label disputes. Lol. Great stuff though. You sound like a true fan.
@@WoogTalksMusic Yes, true fan. It was so bad they started calling me George and Bootsy, and I’m a female😂😂. But it was great times. Still listen to Maggot brain when I need quiet time.
MUCH APPRECIATED & THANKS WOOG for educating the masses on the guitar gifts of Eddie Hazel. I'm very happy that you mentioned his solo album & California Dreaming too. Prince also has mentioned Eddie's influence & impact on his playing. Thx again for the enlightenment.
Right on man, Maggot Brain floored me the first rime i heard it. Hard Rock and Funk melded perfectly together to to make Hard Funk, it became an instant favorite of mine. Super Stupid absolutely blows my head off every time i listen to it, never gets old.
Talk about Kid Funkadelic next.
*Kidd
I loved that era from these guys, especially Eddie Hazel.. Thaks for refreshing my mind!
My Brother definitely knows his Funk🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾
GREAT VIDEO !! Eddie was AWESOME !! Thanks for for Keeping his legacy alive !! You did a great job !! I will add ''Red hot mama'' to the list of killer guitar songs by Eddie.....
You had me going to listen to Crucial Conflict Hay with full complete confidence
It's always good to hear and see people giving the great Eddie Hazel props! He's definitely on my top 10 list of favorite guitar players!
Eddie Hazel is a popular favorite amongst my friends and musical colleagues. He is essential in the funk-rock music genre. My homies in the funk music scene out here in L.A.consisting of FISHBONE and RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS are all familiar with the genius of Eddie "Maggot Brain" Hazel. He was not only funky but also brilliant and ingenious!
My favorite guitar solo by him is from the song in the MAGGOT BRAIN album called Hit and Quit It! Also, his guitar riffs from Music For My Mother from their first self-entitled album FUNKADELIC are not only funky and on time, there also stupendous! Voodoo funk for real!
The only problem that I had with the dude on this video is that while he mentioned great guitar players and technicians, he mentioned a lot of white guitar players that played too fast and therefore didn't have much soul, blues, rock n roll, and funk in their sound.
He forgot to mention cats like Johnny"Guitar" Watson, Albert Collins, BB KING, Buddy Guy, Pete Cosey, Tony Iommi, Angus Young, Hillel Slovak, Ernie Isley, PRINCE, John Frusciante, and John Lee Hooker.
Some of these cats that I've mentioned influenced Hazel in a big way! And a few of the others were disciples of Hazel. My point is that these guitar players played with a psychedelic, fluid, bluesy, hard rock, and very funk-oriented style and sound!
As Keith Richards once said: "If you can't play the blues, then you have no business playing rock n roll"!
Great points. Thanks for that background too! And true, I did name a lot of white rock guitarists who played pretty fast on this one. In fairness, I did do a video on the Isley Brothers career and discussed the importance and influence of Ernie's guitar. Johnny "Guitar" Watson is great. But yo... you can't tell me David Gilmour's guitar didn't have soul! Lol. Nice Keith quote at the end too.
@WoogTalksMusic
Absolutely my brother! Dark Side Of The Moon is brilliant shit! Far-out psychedelia and progressive rock at its best! All of the old-school British cats paid homage to the blues. Without it, rock music would never have existed period!
Another phenomenal guitar player whom I would highly recommend is that cat ROBBY KRIEGER from The DOORS! Brutha can throw down on psychedelia, rock n roll, blues, r&b, jazz, funk, hard rock, and flamenco. A true musical genius.
Eddie hazel is a respected guitarist he is in my top 5
I am a guitar player. I like all kinds of music (except for country). My All Time favorite top three guitarists in the history of the universe are:
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Stevie Ray Vaughn
3. Eddie Hazel
Prince, Vai, Satriani, Van Halen, Malmsteen, Roy Clark, David Gilmore, John Frusciante, etc. all occupy the space below these three. Same with who I believe to be the greatest riff guitarist of all time - Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello.
Go listen to his work on "Super Stupid" and "Maggot Brain" and I dare you to say he isnt one of the all time great ROCK guitarist ever.
I love Eddie Hazel, the past year or so I've really been getting deep into his work with Funkadelic as well as his solo stuff. Game Dames and Guitar Thangs is easily one of my favourite albums of all time. I'm also a huge Jimi Hendrix and John Frusciante fan, you can hear Hendrix in Eddie Hazel, and you can hear Hazel in Frusciante's best work. Those 3 are on my mount rushmore of guitar players, totally shaped the way I play guitar. Eddie Hazel is SERIOUSLY underrated and I've got so much still to learn from his work.
Wow, just recently came across Eddie. Didn't know he was part of Funkadelic. His song "California Dreaming" is on heavy rotation for me. Thx for the information.
Eddie Hazel was also on the 1975 release 'Let's Take It To The Stage '.
Yeah, good point. Someone commented and mentioned how Eddie killed the solo on Get Off Your Ass and Jam from that album.
Eddie didn't play that solo. It was Paul Warren, the white guitar player from the group Rare Earth. George Clinton paid him $50 and some drugs to play it because Eddie was in jail on a drug charge .
He has writing credits on the album.
Thanks so much.. I love Funkadelic and Jimi Hendrix.. I'm also a big Red Hot Chili Peppers fan... John Frusciante is also heavily influenced by Eddie Hazel... My favourite Eddie Hazel guitar solo is from Good Thoughts Bad Thoughts...I also love the wah-wah stuff on I Got a Thing You Got a Thing
Good video man. Eddie Hazel was essential to Funkadelic. Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs is a phenomenal album, too.
Thanks! Yeah, I'll give that solo album a listen. I've heard his California Dreamin cover.
Listen to the guitar riff of the title Bombtrack from the 1st album of Rage Against the Machine and then listen to that of Alice In My Fantaisies from Funkadelic on the album Standing on the Verge 🤘🏾Eddie Hazel man
Good work young man.. he's up there. He played a mean banjo too. Funkadelic was more of a Psych Rock outfit while Parliament waa more hard Funk
He was laying down some bad sh.. on the song, "I Got A Thang, You Got A Thang" too. Bad ass riff sound like rural, juke joint type riff 😅 "Good To Your Earhole" is another one 🔥
Good call, I like that Lets Take it to the Stage album. Lol, I've gotta hear the "I Got a Thang You Got a Thang" ... that's on the early Funkadelic album, right?
@@WoogTalksMusic yep, on Mommy, What's a Funkadelic? 👍🏽
I'm a total fan one of the most underrated guitarists in 1 of my favorite guitarist. Maggot brain is one of my favorite albums standing on The Verge is so heavy too. People don't understand funkadelic was definitely more of a hard rock. Heavy metal band than most people think of they were also in the first encyclopedia of having metal because of those early albums. A lot of people don't know that.
GREAT JOB is laying out all the history of Parliament/Funkadelic… I got to throw my boy Bootsy Collins and his Rubber Band in as well! Eddie is without any doubt one of the guitars greats and sadly, not really known outside of P-Funk fans.
If you haven't heard of Eddie Hazel, then you're not a music fan. He played in Funkadelic, which is one of the all time great funk/rock bands. He's in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!
What a great video man very educational
Eddie had a lot of uncredited appearances on several albums during the PFunk era. Was on both Comin Round the Mountain and Hardcore Jollies. Was all over the "Let's Take it to the Stage." Provided background vocals and guitar on "you're a fish and I'm a water sign" on Motor Booty Affair. He toured with them on some stops in 1979 and was instrumental on most of george Clinton's "solo" albums. Coming Round the Mountains solo is my favorite from Eddie and highly underrated in my opinion.
Great video. Maggot Brain was the first LP I ever bought, and Eddie Hazel is my guitar hero. I must correct you on one thing though, the song title is Can You Get 'TO' That, not Can You Get 'WITH' That.
This sounds dumb but those who know KNOW. Eddie was so special, thank you for pointedly spreading the gospel according to Hazel. To quote Rahsaan Roland Kirk "Why dont they know?" Maybe more will, god bless....
The version of Red Hot Mama off of Standing on The Edge of Getting it on is one of my favorites of all time. Amazing guitar work!
Great vid. He's in my top 5 for sure. It's sad ppl don't know who he is
That's funny. The video says Eddie Hazel, But the Thumb show Gary Shider. Any Way, Growing up Myself and other guitar playing friends knew all about Eddie ,Even before his first solo Album. I still set up my pedals to emulate his sound and playing. Although most people say I play more like Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Good info here. I have been listening to all those guitarists since the 1980s but never heard of Eddie Hazel until this year. I think there are quite a lot of people in my position going "I just heard Maggot Brain, it's amazing, what next?"
Great job! I'm a couple months late, but I hope you read this. I was first conscious of Eddie the great when I heard Super Stupid when I was about 10 on the Best of the Early Years thing Westbound put out in '77 (I got it in 1979) and it blew my socks off! It was what turned me on to rock. Great to see a fellow funkateer but ah... you missed one: Hardcore Jollies in '76! "Comin' Round the Mountain" and the titular track you've gotta hear. He is cryptically credited, as "G. Cook", as his momma name was Grace Cook. That's Eddie playin' those solo dow. Check it out. May the funk be with you!😊
I always thought "For the Love of God" by Steve Vai harkened back hard to the feel of "Maggot Brain". The build, the dynamics, the slow melodic interval picking background chords, all of it except there is fewer psychedelics.
Great information provided loved it I’m very familiar with Eddie and his work excellent guitar player.
Don't forget " COMING AROUND THE MOUNTAIN " the Album HARDCORD JOLLIES, REDONE COSMIC SLOP LIVE IN A AIRPLANE HANGER A TRUE CLASSIC, WIT BUDDY MILES PLAYING DRUMS!! MY ALL TIME CLASSIC HE DESTROYS IT. EVERY RIFF POSSIBLE. WRITING Credits UNDER Grace Cook his Mom!...You have Gary Shrider(Rythm guitar 🎸) & one of the lead singers,
Feature alot as Eddie Hazel, with the white Long hat. Others wise a commendable video🤘🏾🛸🤘🏾🛸
When talking about the "Standing on the verge" album, you should start with Eddie's brilliance on "Red Hot Momma".
Definitely know Eddie here in the Cleveland area. "Maggot Brain" has been a Cleveland tradition since 1976. Per Wikipedia:
"From 1976 to 1995, disc jockey Bill "B.L.F. Bash" Freeman started a tradition of playing the original full version of "Maggot Brain" on 100.7 WMMS/Cleveland every Sunday morning at 1:30 (around "last call"). The tradition was picked up in 1987 and was carried on by Mr. Classic, host of "The Saturday Night Live House Party" featured on 98.5 WNCX/Cleveland at 11:50pm until his departure in 2019. Currently, Kenny Kidd keeps the tradition alive by playing the song at the end of his "All Request Saturday Night" show at 12am EST every Sunday morning."
Thank you bro. Great info.
Funkadelic is the rock band every rock band aspires to be!
A Parliafunkadelicment Thang 😊👍 Eddie Hazel was simply tough in his guitar playing.
RIP.. Eddie Hazel, Mike Hampton. Gary Snider. Very Underrated Funk/Great Guitarist. They definitely studied Hendrix "THE1" Also throw in Jesse Johson, Vernon Reid, and Of Course.RIP PRINCE💜💜 Check Out "Coming Round the Mountain🎵🎵
Eddie is a guitar player's guitar player. Usually when I hear praise for Eddie it's from other guitarist, Eddie also pretty much wrote most of Standing on the Verge too
Eddie composed a lot of the music
One of my favorites ever. You are not wrong.
Yes I have Eddie num 2, all time.
My all time favorite
Very good analysis.
The original album cover of "maggot brain" was actually a skull with maggots and worms crawling all over it and the whole album was a single song a lot longer than the shortened 10 min version you referred too just FYI...
Okay I'm a little confused was it that the back of the album cover not the front I've never heard that before that that's not the original album cover not saying you're wrong but I've never heard that
Excellent video, Grazzi Amicu!