um, no - but he was a good player, but he did not have the imagination, technique, composition-genius or pure fuel that was the immortal James Marshall Hendrix
@@7777Scion u sir are wrong. have u ever heard maggot brain that shit is all improvised George Clinton told Eddie to just go in the studio and play like ur mom just died and maggot brain is what u get.. so tell me Eddie doesn't have creativity
Eddie Hazel is criminally underrated. That tone and groove is so beautiful to listen to and savor. Eddie out there, painting fucking rainbows with that guitar. Sheer euphoric bliss!!
This is what it's all about. The groove and feel is as good as it gets. Eddie is ripping it yet playing with brilliant control within that irresistible back beat. Nothing like it today.
even when eddie was 18, he could "break out" like this. this is just one of his "off the top of his head" solos to Standing on the Verge. he's incredible, and greatly missed.
I know, right? 😂 And he effortlessly scats to match it, too! Utter brilliance from a true master of the Stratocaster and legendary Fender bender! Everybody who loves great guitar should know and revere the greatness of Eddie Hazel.
When Eddie Hazel is on, he's on! Big ups to Kidd "Michael Hampton" Funkadelic and the legion of funkateer guitar players...Give it to 'em Blackbyrd, Gary, Glen, Ron...man what a treat it has been.
It's a shame there aren't that many more awesome clips of Eddie Hazel like this one floating around. His soulful command of his instrument is a joy to watch!
There is a tendency for certain people to dismiss Michael Hampton as inferior to Eddie Hazel, like you can't have two bad ass brothers on stage, let alone maybe three or four. George Clinton said that himself "they don't really want to acknowledge that there is more than one bad brother up there, they gotta pick only one". If you listen to all the FUNKADELIC guitarist they have different styles. Eddie was very soulful, Michael is more rock "Blackbyrd" can get jazz fusionist on a MF. Believe me they all do they "Thangs n' Stuff" 🤘
@@Duane-tl2zc I'm not throwing any shade at Kidd. He was and is a fantastic player. I don't think anyone would want to follow something like what Eddie did in this video. And then George calls on him!
@@LaJolieFemmeNoire I think you're right on the money there! So George calls Eddie up front to "talk to the people," and Eddie is positively delighted to do so. He then proceeds to let loose a couple of minutes of fire and fury, "taking no prisoners," then starts to head back again. But no, George is right there, encouraging him to go on, so Eddie obliges and *then* some! Eddie cuts loose with some *incendiary* guitar riffs...I mean, bombs are going off all *over* that guitar...then all of a sudden, George wants him to "shut the f*** up," and tries to put him back in his place?🤬 He's lucky it was Eddie and not me, 'cause if I were playing like I were possessed by the beast of all guitar gods and someone tried to shut me down like that, he'd have needed a proctologist to remove my foot from his @$$!🤣 Fortunately for George, Eddie was *both* much more talented and much humbler than me, so he fades back again...although not before firing off a few more serious bombs as a final "f*** you," to George!😉 I've shared the stage with some truly great talents in my day, which is why I know that when someone's blowin' *that* hot and heavy, the last thing you should *ever* do is shut them up! Just have the band keep vamping a while longer, and let 'em do their thing while they're at the pinnacle of "heavyosity!" So you're damned right that George hurt Eddie that night! I've almost quit bands over lesser insults, and I'm nowhere near the beast of a player that the late, great and dearly missed Eddie Hazel was!♥️
I had admired this Awesome Guitarist for years, so you can imagine my absolute joy in getting the chance to perform in his band, however short lived! Absolute BadAss!!!
Eddie is one of my all time favorites, but saying "Jimi Who" is extraordinary absurd. Every bird on this planet copied Jimi Hendrix in every way after the pioneer past, and that's a fact. This is magnificent playing by a legend Eddie Hazel.
Copied u say? You know it is a such thing as being influenced by an individual, and actually take and improve base on what they started. That's certainly what individuals did, after Hendrix pass on. Lets not act like he himself wasn't influenced by people like chuck berry, BB king, elmore james.
@@willthomas2310 everybody influenced everybody nothing new under the sun jimi took what he learned.from.the blues guys and took it to the next level just like eddie took jimis influenced and added his own flavor to it thats what real musicians do they learn from their predecessors than they take it to the next level and influence the next generation eddie influenced countless musicians and bands
Is this whole concert online somewhere? I would love to see the whole performance. This is the best video I've seen of Eddie playing a solo. This is really nice.
Took me watching this the hundred or so times that I have to realize it, but thats actually Glen Goins' guitar that Eddie's shredding on! They were close and it was given to him after Glen died two years prior to this. I'd recognize it anywhere
Eddie Hazel was put on this earth so that we could all witness what supreme talent is.Hendrix had nothing on EH.One of my goals in life is to make sure all generations after mine know about the people who trailblazed and started the whole hipness thing and learn of the otherwordly talents of people like Eddie,Bernie Worrell,Tiki Fullwood and others like Rick James,James Brown,Ray Charles,Earth Wind and Fire,Rufus w/Chaka,Brothers Johnson,The Blackbyrds,Miles Davis,'Trane,these cats can never die
I love Hendrix man but I agree, Eddie did what Hendrix did, rapidly interchanging rhythm and lead, but he always stayed in the pocket; some people don't realize just how difficult and dynamic his playing was... but if you know you know, you know?
I love, dig and worship Eddie Hazel, but to try to dismiss the seminal and groundbreaking guitar God that is Jimi Hendrix….that is clueless on a criminal scale and completely ignorant to just how important, influential and inspiring Hendrix was.
That comment was written Waaayy.. outside the time frame most knowledgable You Tube comments/commenters are “called out “ on I have literally written 10,000 to 12,000 comments over the last 15 Years and am one of the most thumbed up commenters on YT not bragging just saying but since I took the time to comment to you I will (normally after one year you don’t directly comment to the commenter)it’s an unwritten thing .But yes nothing may have been a little over the top but at that time I was listening to a lot of EH’s work so I was being biased at that time but that was ten years ago go back and think about what you did or said a decade ago 2 and a 1/2 graduating college classes ago or your five year old from playing with hot wheels to texting girls and worrying about getting pimples
Who says Funk bands can't play rock? Allow the late Mr. Eddie Hazel on the guitar solo demonstrate for us how it's done, a professional musician indeed.
It baffles me as to why Eddie Hazel is rarely mentioned in music circles by anyone except the most avid guitarists. I never hear non musicians (music fans) talk about him. That's a crime! He should be as well known as Hendrix, Clapton, Vaughan, etc. He was a blues guitarist through and through, but managed to blend his blues style into the funk music of Parliament and make it sound phenomenal!
Does anybody else realize that besides smokin up the guitar in Funkadelic, Eddie was a hell of a vocalist?! In my opinion, he was second only to the master, Glen Goins.
A Guitar exhibition (complex parts) being pigeon holed solely into Funk. To someone who 1st heard his tones on Maggot Brain, he was a virtuoso player who ought to be spoke of with the greats.
Superfunklover, that was HOT Thank You for sharing this upload. I want to discretely say, I'm proud to have met Funkdelic and Parliament, whom wanted me to become one of their dancers, A Funkateer yo, I kid you not! I couldn't hang, probably would have died before I made it to 20 years old. But they were and still Too hot too handle. I regret not doing it YO. GOD Bless Us All in Yahsuras Name Amen!
@@wilbertkendal2524 what a shockingly inane and clueless comment. I said "...that nobody seems to be AWARE OF". Everybody knows of Hendrix, genius. Also, Hendrix was a huge fan of Rory Gallagher. Hendrix spoke very highly of him. This is well documented and common knowledge. Trying to make this about "black masters" is childish and embarrassing. Nobody calls Clapton and Beck "white masters".
Amazing. One of the greatest. Which is more sad: The fact that he is excluded from any mainstream conversation about the greatest guitar players of all time, or the fact that the vast majority of black people don't know who he is or remember their amazing invention/contribution to rock music? Eddie was amazing. This is some great shit!
Ice-T got accused of "selling out" twelve years after this concert when the first Body Count album came out in 1991. He didn't sell out, Eddie Hazel proves that BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED ROCK MUSIC!!!!! Why doesn't anyone remember?
most underrated modern guitar player ever
wdym modern?
Anyone who thinks that Eddie Hazel isn't a guitar virtuoso needs to clean the wax from their ears. I put Eddie on the same plane as Hendrix.
Yessss !!! 100% true
Can you imagine the music Eddie and Jimi could have made together?! aggggg
Yesindeday.
um, no - but he was a good player, but he did not have the imagination, technique, composition-genius or pure fuel that was the immortal James Marshall Hendrix
@@7777Scion u sir are wrong. have u ever heard maggot brain that shit is all improvised George Clinton told Eddie to just go in the studio and play like ur mom just died and maggot brain is what u get.. so tell me Eddie doesn't have creativity
I need the rest of this! Who agrees?
Eddie Hazel is criminally underrated. That tone and groove is so beautiful to listen to and savor. Eddie out there, painting fucking rainbows with that guitar. Sheer euphoric bliss!!
This is what it's all about. The groove and feel is as good as it gets. Eddie is ripping it yet playing with brilliant control within that irresistible back beat. Nothing like it today.
He has a super "crunchy" sound...never heard anybody quite like that..really cool.
This is literally probably the best guitar solo I've ever seen
Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gysys Machine Gun live @ Filmore East. There are some videos showing him actually playing it, depends on the channel.
even when eddie was 18, he could "break out" like this.
this is just one of his "off the top of his head" solos to Standing on the Verge.
he's incredible, and greatly missed.
Eddie Hazel was way ahead of his time. Definitely one of the best.
Like dam, did yall hear that shit.. ???
Eddie is energy. He is still alive.....🌹
🌹🌹back atcha
One of the best guitar players who ever lived
EDDIE HAZEL - What talent and I hope more and more people will discover Eddie and appreciate his art.
I come back to this video at least once a month just to remind myself that funk upon a time....THIS is how is was really done! Peace.
I can relate.
He transcended all genrès of music. A master of the highest caliber.
Damn. That phrase he pops out at 2:35-2:43 is just SICK.
I know, right? 😂 And he effortlessly scats to match it, too!
Utter brilliance from a true master of the Stratocaster and legendary Fender bender! Everybody who loves great guitar should know and revere the greatness of Eddie Hazel.
When Eddie Hazel is on, he's on! Big ups to Kidd "Michael Hampton" Funkadelic and the legion of funkateer guitar players...Give it to 'em Blackbyrd, Gary, Glen, Ron...man what a treat it has been.
It's a shame there aren't that many more awesome clips of Eddie Hazel like this one floating around. His soulful command of his instrument is a joy to watch!
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And that, ladies and gentleman, is how the instrument is supposed to be played
Shame that this now generation won’t ever see live performances like this. These were master blasters 😊
The end of this video always kills me. If I'm Michael, I'm saying "No thanks, George. Not a chance in hell I'm following THAT!"
Chris Oberst Exactly, Exactly !!!
In the rest of the video Mike followed but hazel showed him who daddy was that night
@@chrisedwards3214 where is it?
There is a tendency for certain people to dismiss Michael Hampton as inferior to Eddie Hazel, like you can't have two bad ass brothers on stage, let alone maybe three or four. George Clinton said that himself "they don't really want to acknowledge that there is more than one bad brother up there, they gotta pick only one". If you listen to all the FUNKADELIC guitarist they have different styles. Eddie was very soulful, Michael is more rock "Blackbyrd" can get jazz fusionist on a MF. Believe me they all do they "Thangs n' Stuff" 🤘
@@Duane-tl2zc I'm not throwing any shade at Kidd. He was and is a fantastic player. I don't think anyone would want to follow something like what Eddie did in this video. And then George calls on him!
Most underrated ax-man EVER
Sweet dreams
I think George hurt Eddie's feelings by cutting his performance short and hovering in his space. I've never seen him do that before.
@@LaJolieFemmeNoire I think you're right on the money there!
So George calls Eddie up front to "talk to the people," and Eddie is positively delighted to do so. He then proceeds to let loose a couple of minutes of fire and fury, "taking no prisoners," then starts to head back again. But no, George is right there, encouraging him to go on, so Eddie obliges and *then* some!
Eddie cuts loose with some *incendiary* guitar riffs...I mean, bombs are going off all *over* that guitar...then all of a sudden, George wants him to "shut the f*** up," and tries to put him back in his place?🤬
He's lucky it was Eddie and not me, 'cause if I were playing like I were possessed by the beast of all guitar gods and someone tried to shut me down like that, he'd have needed a proctologist to remove my foot from his @$$!🤣
Fortunately for George, Eddie was *both* much more talented and much humbler than me, so he fades back again...although not before firing off a few more serious bombs as a final "f*** you," to George!😉
I've shared the stage with some truly great talents in my day, which is why I know that when someone's blowin' *that* hot and heavy, the last thing you should *ever* do is shut them up! Just have the band keep vamping a while longer, and let 'em do their thing while they're at the pinnacle of "heavyosity!"
So you're damned right that George hurt Eddie that night! I've almost quit bands over lesser insults, and I'm nowhere near the beast of a player that the late, great and dearly missed Eddie Hazel was!♥️
I can't stop watching! Never before and never since has a man ever been one with his instrument as much as Eddie Hazel and his guitar.
Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gysys Machine Gun live @ Filmore East......
@@smoothoperator7023 Exactly what I was going to say.
@@smoothoperator7023 I have the official dvd and a bootleg of it
I never thought that I would find a guitarist as least as good as Hendrix but Eddie is it.
One of the Most underated guitarist in the UNIVERSE, ATRUE GENIUS AMONG GENIUSES.
Yeah all the stuff eddie did should be known
We need to start an Eddie Hazel guitar awareness web site
+Ira Greenbey
Absolutely.
+Ira Greenbey ..yep, no doubt !
+Ira Greenbey Eddie's up there. Most good guitar players get boring after 30 seconds. Not Eddie Hazel
And so Jimmy said from high up in the sky; let there be Eddie Hazel!
JESUS LORD HAVE MERCY, this is an astounding riff, no one since Jimi has touched my inner soul like this. Brings tears to my eyes.
Hazel in his Hendrix groove - always good to see someone inspired by the Master himself.
This video continues to amaze, time after time. RIP Eddie. You left us way too soon.
There's Hendrix, Eddie & Prince. Everyone else takes a back seat.
I had admired this Awesome Guitarist for years, so you can imagine my absolute joy in getting the chance to perform in his band, however short lived! Absolute BadAss!!!
Use to watch this same TH-cam clip over and over again back in high school 10 years ago. Nostalgia revisited.
Eddie is one of my all time favorites, but saying "Jimi Who" is extraordinary absurd. Every bird on this planet copied Jimi Hendrix in every way after the pioneer past, and that's a fact. This is magnificent playing by a legend Eddie Hazel.
Copied u say? You know it is a such thing as being influenced by an individual, and actually take and improve base on what they started. That's certainly what individuals did, after Hendrix pass on. Lets not act like he himself wasn't influenced by people like chuck berry, BB king, elmore james.
@@willthomas2310 everybody influenced everybody nothing new under the sun jimi took what he learned.from.the blues guys and took it to the next level just like eddie took jimis influenced and added his own flavor to it thats what real musicians do they learn from their predecessors than they take it to the next level and influence the next generation eddie influenced countless musicians and bands
@@chrisedwards3214 Basically my original point......
Apart from LORD OF THE STRINGS Page.
Eddie Hazel is from Hendrix school of sustain and feedback.One of GREATEST underrated guitarist of all time.R.I.P.
Damn straight! Listening to this is humbling, but oh, so damned inspiring to me as a guitarist and a fan.
The best thing I've seen on TH-cam to date... Absolutely superb 👍
Omg. I’ve watched this like a dozen times and I just realized that this is for standing on the verge of getting it on
Rest In Peace brother Eddie will always be remembered as one of the legends!!! Huge inspiration to all
Eddie will live forever through his music, Maggot Brain
His star was so bright, just think of how much he had in him.
Eddie Hazel's solo on Freak of the Week is what made me a fan..my pops used to pick me up from grade school banging it
Eddie and Jesse Johnson! Smh second to none!
💕 🙏🏾 💕 🙏🏾 💕 REST IN PEACE EDDIE HAZEL 💕🙏🏾 💕 FROM KATHERINE IN CHICAGO ILLINOIS 💕🙏🏾💕
Pure Genius!! Eddie never got the true recognition that he should have gotten back in the day!
Bad Boy!!!!!!
Is this whole concert online somewhere? I would love to see the whole performance. This is the best video I've seen of Eddie playing a solo. This is really nice.
I think is this one! Enjoy!
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Took me watching this the hundred or so times that I have to realize it, but thats actually Glen Goins' guitar that Eddie's shredding on! They were close and it was given to him after Glen died two years prior to this. I'd recognize it anywhere
Eddie was so amazing.
Jeez, nothing sounds like a Strat. I love that sound. So Jimi like.
Fantastic lesson to young guitarist.
Eddie Hazel was put on this earth so that we could all witness what supreme talent is.Hendrix had nothing on EH.One of my goals in life is to make sure all generations after mine know about the people who trailblazed and started the whole hipness thing and learn of the otherwordly talents of people like Eddie,Bernie Worrell,Tiki Fullwood and others like Rick James,James Brown,Ray Charles,Earth Wind and Fire,Rufus w/Chaka,Brothers Johnson,The Blackbyrds,Miles Davis,'Trane,these cats can never die
I love Hendrix man but I agree, Eddie did what Hendrix did, rapidly interchanging rhythm and lead, but he always stayed in the pocket; some people don't realize just how difficult and dynamic his playing was... but if you know you know, you know?
I love, dig and worship Eddie Hazel, but to try to dismiss the seminal and groundbreaking guitar God that is Jimi Hendrix….that is clueless on a criminal scale and completely ignorant to just how important, influential and inspiring Hendrix was.
Nothing? One need not diminish the artistry of one to exalt the other.
That comment was written Waaayy.. outside the time frame most knowledgable You Tube comments/commenters are “called out “ on I have literally written 10,000 to 12,000 comments over the last 15 Years and am one of the most thumbed up commenters on YT not bragging just saying but since I took the time to comment to you I will (normally after one year you don’t directly comment to the commenter)it’s an unwritten thing .But yes nothing may have been a little over the top but at that time I was listening to a lot of EH’s work so I was being biased at that time but that was ten years ago go back and think about what you did or said a decade ago 2 and a 1/2 graduating college classes ago or your five year old from playing with hot wheels to texting girls and worrying about getting pimples
@@79SteelyMatt 🥂Salud!
Thats that Funkadelic sound that cannot be duplicated
Eddie and Jimi for life
Edward Earl Hazel 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sir Hazel‼
Who says Funk bands can't play rock? Allow the late Mr. Eddie Hazel on the guitar solo demonstrate for us how it's done, a professional musician indeed.
EDDIE HAZEL IS A GUITAR GOD
Rip Eddie, We All Miss You so Much Brother 12/23/1992-12/23/2022♥️♥️♥️🔥🔥🔥😢😢🙏🙏
My top guitarists no specific order:
- Jimi Hendrix
- Eddie Van Halen
- Eddie Hazel
Amazing! I was in Houston during the winter of 1979. Missed these guys but did see the Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys!
It baffles me as to why Eddie Hazel is rarely mentioned in music circles by anyone except the most avid guitarists. I never hear non musicians (music fans) talk about him. That's a crime! He should be as well known as Hendrix, Clapton, Vaughan, etc.
He was a blues guitarist through and through, but managed to blend his blues style into the funk music of Parliament and make it sound phenomenal!
Such a shame minorities now gravitate towards dance and hip hop music. We are lacking great minority guitar virtuosos this generation.
SHAQ666UK 💕👍💯 🌞 💕
Waiting for some PC freak to scream "racist" 😄 🤣 😂 😆
From the bottom of his heart... that's how Eddie played! The one and only one !
The unsung genius
for 15 years I can not stop whaching this Play of Hazele's he is so nice guy I think
Eddie don't get enough just due for his guitar playing ability. He in my top 10 most def!
He'll always be my personal number 1.
Does anybody else realize that besides smokin up the guitar in Funkadelic, Eddie was a hell of a vocalist?! In my opinion, he was second only to the master, Glen Goins.
Gary Shider was also a great vocalist. I also dig George Clinton’s vocals.
@@jerrylong6011 Gary n Glen were kinda funk twins vocally. Fuzzy Haskins, and Stingray Davies were outstanding vocalists as well.
i feel so connected when i hear this band grooving arround...off world back in to the jungle...
Purple Hazel
He was a real Gunslinger not many have that art most are gone sad but true
Eddie Hazal was the greatest ...... NO BODY COULD TOUCH HIM......
Play Eddie!!
Eddie the great
LC from ATL RIP EDDIE love you BIG Brother
I like that vibrato thing he does
Truly amazing for the time. Its sad he is not as well known today. Brilliant performance!
We Miss You Brother. Thanks for the Funk! Fly On.
Respect!!!!!!! I love Kidd Funkadelic, but Eddie relegated him to rythmn guitar on this performance. Woooowww!!!
Eddie played the solo on aqua boogie that night also and he told mike he could have maggot brain. But this gig edfie showed mike who daddy was
Daddy is right chris edwards !!!
you didn't see the whole video
Yes when mike took a solo at the end
It
O yeah one of his better ones don't know why they don't show that one
Eddie "King Funkadelic" Hazel
What a musical genius eddie was and still is. The people who know music know he is a God.
This is pure genius!
This cat is one of the GOAT top 5 eddie to me he didn't get the credit he really deserve play with ease incredible
Smeero, aka Mr. Smoov. Eddie played as if the instrument had melded into his hands, goddamn.
Eddie was a monster on guitar. It's too bad he's no longer with us....
The Spirit has been CAUGHT!!
Watching this solo just make's me wanna cry .Never heard anything like it....
He's the reason I play guitar
Eddie is the reason I stopped playing
Great vid !! All these years after Maggot Brain in '72 never knew who he was.
Kick ass player.
I gotta practice more!
A Guitar exhibition (complex parts) being pigeon holed solely into Funk. To someone who 1st heard his tones on Maggot Brain, he was a virtuoso player who ought to be spoke of with the greats.
He is! Depends who you talk to…
when eddie was 18, he said his goal was to make his guitar an extension of his voice. in this video he's 29 and it looks like he accomplished it.
Hampton was an extremely great guitarist himself-very underrated
Get em Eddie 🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾
Superfunklover, that was HOT Thank You for sharing this upload. I want to discretely say, I'm proud to have met Funkdelic and Parliament, whom wanted me to become one of their dancers, A Funkateer yo, I kid you not! I couldn't hang, probably would have died before I made it to 20 years old. But they were and still Too hot too handle. I regret not doing it YO. GOD Bless Us All in Yahsuras Name Amen!
The great Eddie Hazel, hitting it out of the park !!
One of my favorite guitar videos ever
Top 20 all time. No love. I got you Eddie.
I declare a tie. Eddie Hazel and Rory Gallagher are in fact both the greatest guitarists that ever lived that nobody seems to be aware of.
LOL!......Gallagher?. G.T.F.O.H. Nobody can beat the black Masters Hendrix and Eddie.
@@wilbertkendal2524 what a shockingly inane and clueless comment. I said "...that nobody seems to be AWARE OF". Everybody knows of Hendrix, genius. Also, Hendrix was a huge fan of Rory Gallagher. Hendrix spoke very highly of him. This is well documented and common knowledge. Trying to make this about "black masters" is childish and embarrassing. Nobody calls Clapton and Beck "white masters".
Is there anyway to see the whole concert?? I'm willing to pay haha
Amazing. One of the greatest.
Which is more sad: The fact that he is excluded from any mainstream conversation about the greatest guitar players of all time, or the fact that the vast majority of black people don't know who he is or remember their amazing invention/contribution to rock music? Eddie was amazing. This is some great shit!
Ice-T got accused of "selling out" twelve years after this concert when the first Body Count album came out in 1991. He didn't sell out, Eddie Hazel proves that BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED ROCK MUSIC!!!!! Why doesn't anyone remember?
Parliament had more than one lol
Dead man was the shiznit
This is soooo Funky, I have to admit I clearly didn’t pay attention when I felt heard this masterpiece
I miss eddie everyday.
Insane. Every note is full of soul and pain
People just don't value Hazel as they should. Really one of the best
I see where Prince got some of his licks from.