The Eddie Hazel & Funkadelic Story | Meet The Greatest Guitarist You've Never Heard Of
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 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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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’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.
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!
Pray my Soul from Axiom Funk ft. Eddie Hazel is an amazing solo as well. Great video brother.
He was a guitarists guitarist.
Soulful, phenomenal.
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.
Yes! RIP - The Man. Maggot Brain is top 10 solo work.
Top 1, bro!
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!!!
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.
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.
Kudos, you know your history!!! Loved this
Your excitement keeps me excited brother... Thank you!!!
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.
Eddie kicks out a kick azz solo on the funkadelic cut slide on in
I realize that Google says the man in the red leather and hat from the thumbnail on your video is actually Gary Shider from the Motor Booty Affair tour. It’s not Eddie
Yeah, you're right. I need to create a new thumbnail for this at some point. I really liked the thumb, but yes, wrong guy! Smh.
What a great video man very educational
when so many people here talk about "Maggot Brain" few mention that alternative rocker Mike Watt covered it with Bernie Worrel and wailing guitarist J. Mascis playing Hazel's lines.
i like this brother he knows his rock and roll ,
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.
Eddie Hazel & Tommy Bolin are highly underrated.
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.
It's amazing that one of the Parliament Members rebutted the Funkadelic members telling them "You guys are not The Parliaments, you're our Backup Band. Then after the legal problems They had to Take on the Funkadelic Name. Talk about Karma.
When "Music" was "Created" and Played by "Musicians" that's why "Youngsters" today can't relate. It is what it is 😢
That post is not Eddie Hazel 🎸 that's Gary Shider without his famous Diaper on.
Yeah, you're right. At some point, I'm changing that photo. Its pretty clean, but yeah, its the wrong guitarist. Lol. Good call.
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."
Great vid. He's in my top 5 for sure. It's sad ppl don't know who he is
That’s Gary Shider in your thumbnail.
This should have way more views and if your other videos are similar more subscribers. Great job.
Funkadelic is the rock band every rock band aspires to be!
Michael from the group
Steppenwolf.
Flashlight wasn't from Funkadelic,it from the Parliament album-Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
LOVE YOUR GREAT KNOWLEDGE ON P.F. AND EDDIE A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT REALIZE AS WELL THAT SOME MEMBERS HAD THERE OWN ALBUMS MINE STOLEN FROM ME HOW DO YOU RATE MICHAEL HAMPTON
What a fantastic synopsis, I'm so glad you are shining the spotlight on Eddie Hazel!! My two favorite guitarists are Eddie Hazel, and Jimmy Page. I'm always trying to get people hip to Eddie. I've always felt he is one of the musicians who are touched by something that seems beyond this world, like Jimi Hendrix. I believe the biggest reason he isn't more well known is due to the segregation of radio that created "black music" and "white music" - and made rock into "white music". Funkadelic didn't quite fit into either box and suffered commercially because of it. I think they should have been rotated heavily on classic rock radio, but classic rock radio couldn't wrap it's head around Black rock.
You gotta check out "Rest in P" - it's a posthumous collection encompassing, I believe, 2 different recording sessions - some tunes that were done during the Games, Dames and Guitar Thangs sessions, and a separate jam session with Buddy Miles and Cordell 'Boogie' Mosson on bass that was released in '94 as "Jams From the Heart". "'Relic Delic" is one of the most INSANE guitar pieces ever recorded, it's Eddie taking two Hendrix riffs but making them all his own and damn is it FUNKY!! It just blows my mind every time I hear it. I can't believe it's not better known, but it's out of print and was only available on Japanese import. So it's not on Spotify, but it is on TH-cam.
Eddie Hazel has been quite inspirational for me and for the music of my band. I'm not a guitarist (I'm the drummer and vocalist) but I write the songs and have the vision for what they should sound like, and I've asked my guitarist sooo many times to try and give some Eddie Hazel vibes and textures...he did a great job too.
Right You Is Spot On About That Bro
Thank you bro. Great info.
Osmium.
You gotta get Osmium.
1970 release is like the "lost" Hazel 3rd Funkadelic album.
Technically, it's the 1st Parliament album!
But in actual reality, it's Eddie Hazel & the early band ..right before the Maggot Brain album.
Get the cd.
It has the singles, B - sides and out takes.
The different versions of Red Hot Mama & Loose Booty are some of the best Eddie Hazel guitar playing ever...
Couldn't go to sleep knowing a real Eddie Hazel fan might not know about the work of art known as Osmium
Maggot Brain is righteous music. I can listen to it all day…
nice commentary!
Here's a suggestion: use accurate photos when speaking about a particular P-Funk guitarist. Especially Eddie Hazel.
Did he play on Do It to Your Earhole?
No Eddie Hazel wasn't on the let's take it to the stage album but the correct title for that song it's called good to your earhole that entire album is good you know what my bad I made a mistake yes he is on that album cuz now that I think about it he's the one that singing on the song better by the pound my bad I just thought about lol
Look up "Call My Baby Pussycat" classic Eddie Hazel 😉👍✊️✌️
Your thumbnail is a picture of Garry Shider, bro.
gotta check out ‘osmium’ by parliament
It's call can you get to that.
Yeah, you're right. Don't know if I mixed it up or just forgot.
Mike " Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton should be Top 10 period.
Eddie was great no doubt.
"Get off your ass and Jam"off Lets take it to the stage album.. Eddie killed that solo!!!!!
I'll re-listen to Take it to the Stage album tomorrow. I remember it starts with Good to Your Earhole. But yeah, thanks for that reminder.
Not Eddie on that solo.
@@marcuswilliams2051 it is. Hell you talking bout?
It's fact. George Clinton wrote about it in his autobiography and Bootsy also said it. The story goes that they had laid most the track and Eddie was supposed to lay down the lead guitar part but he had got arrested on a small drug charge. Paul Warren was the guitar player for the group Rare Earth and they & P-Funk used the same management company, so they knew each other. Paul came to the studio and George gave him $50 and some drugs, and he's the one who played the solo.
@@marcuswilliams2051 i stand corrected. You right. Thks
The solos on “Hardcore Jollies” and “Comin’ Round The Mountain”……your mind will get properly fucked….in a good way…
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🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾
I love Eddie Hazel. But also Michael Hampton of P-Funk
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 TH-cam 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.
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.
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!!
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!
That first picture in the red outfit is not Eddie Hazel. That was Garry Shider.
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.
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
You forgot, Good to your earhole. Eddie killed it
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.
Any true guitar player knows of Eddie Hazel. Any funk musicians know of Eddie. How can you mention the Stanbing on the Verge album and Eddie's work without speaking of Red Hot Momma, &the Up For The Downstroke album without mentioning his work on Whatever Makes My Baby Feel Good,& The Goose? I did laugh at ( Can you get with that) it's Can You Get To That. Oh & I believe Eddie was also on Funkadelics Let's Take It To The Stage album ( outstanding guitar work) & Eddie played on Comin Round The Mountain!
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!
He played on the goose, whatever makes my baby feel.good from the up from the down stroke album
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'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.
I couldn't agree with you more, but why did you pick a picture of Garry Shider for the thumbnail?
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
Thats not Eddie Hazel tho in your thumbnail, that's Gary Shider.
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
Eddie Hazel with Axiom Funk and the song Orbitron Attack has another Eddie Hazel classic guitar solo. The other people playing on this song were Bootsy, Bernie Worrel, and Jerome "Big Foot" Brailey.
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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 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 .🎸😊
Why is Gary Shider pictured instead of Eddie in the thumbnail?
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.
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
Talk about Kid Funkadelic next.
*Kidd
3:57 Not so fast....chk out Hendrix/Band of Gysys Machine Gun live @ Filmore East. Now this could be considered greatest guitar performance ever. From the same show, the song Who Knows is Parl/Funkdelic even before they were! 🤯🔥
Power of Soul is THE ONE from that show…
The image used in the thumbnail is Garry Shider.
You know you were showing pics of Michael Hampton, but never mentioned him.
Hey, thanks. So, I think it’s actually Gary Shider from P-Funk (will double-check) but yeah I’d messed that thumbnail image up. Will correct it. Also going to do a follow-up P-Funk vid soon. Thanks for checking this one out.
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
2'11 and 8'45 This is Garry Shider not Eddie Hazel.
Yes, you're totally right. I need to redo the video's thumbnail too. Groovy pic, but yes, wrong guitarist! They called that headwear the diaper or something, right?
Gary "Doo-Woop" Shider aka Starchild on your thumbnail
That's a picture of Gary Shider
Hazel didn't play on cosmic slop
He played two songs on the let's take it to the stage album which was good to.your earhole and stiffs and thangs
Eddie true rock and roll hero
He playec maggog brain like the grim reaper was waiting fior him
Mike hampton plays maggot brain like a bunch of bikers riding with torches bout to set a corpse on fire
Mike made maggit brain sound more gangster and metal
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
I absolutely LOVE his song CALIFORNIA DREAMIN
Well done. Important to capture subtleties of music history. Thank you.
What about Michael Hampton?
In other words these nonblk bands stole some of their style, which I'm not surprised.
Its interesting that they were doing pysch-rock, soul and funk that early. I recently heard a good George Clinton interview on Rick Rubin's Broken Record podcast. Very interesting and fun interview. George Clinton can still think and speak sharply and has good recollection and tells stories well.
R.I.Power Bro. Eddie Hazel! I remember the first time I heard "Maggot Brain". WOW!!😳😮🎵👑💯💯💯💯
Maggot Brain and Super Stupid both kick ass, I'm 74 and got the album, Maggot Brain is a classic song covered by many musicians. thank you
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? 👍🏽
any true funkadelic fan already knows this...
True
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🎵🎵
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!
FIRST OFF, thats Gary Shider on the face page of your video post, NOT Eddie Hazel .
Eddie is listed behind alot of guy's because he didn't have as much 'follow through' or leadership type abilities as the OBVIOUS greats.
It's pretty ODD that Eddie didn't do or achieve as much fame as many of his peer's did, considering his vocal and guitar abilities.
Eddie just wasn't a 'Lone Wolf' like say a Kurt Cobain or a Jimi Hendrix.........Eddie needed the trajectory/path set, and THEN he was able to submit his talents.
Eddie was also a bad alcoholic and drug addict. Many of his peers were as well, but they( Clapton for ex.) had people around them that were making alot of $$$ that knew that Clapton had to be healthy so they could keep riding the gravy train, so Clapton got the help and treatment he needed, while Eddie had the hood.
Eddie Hazel, imo, was probably the most RHYTHMIC and SOULFUL guitarist that I've ever heard........his solo's on 'Red Hot Mama', 'Good to Your Earhole', 'Comin' round The Mountain', ''Hardcore Jollie's', 'California Dreamin'', 'I want yo ( She's so heavy'), 'Pumpin it up' and ALL his other's are absolute visceral madterpieces.
As a side note, I could not believe that DeWayne Blackbird McNight thinks that Ron Brykowski played 'Red Hot Mama' ........Ron was all over the 'Cosmic Slop, ' Standing on the Verge of Getting it On' and ' Lets take it to the Stage' albums, but Eddie was as well ( like ' Alice in my Fantasies, 'I'll Stay' ' Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts', 'Good to your ear hole' , 'Stuff's and thing's' etc). DeWayne like's to alternate pick and grope technique ( the Chilli Pepper's knew he didn't have what they wanted)......it is a shame that the dude didn't/doesn't? know it was Hazel on 'Red Hot Mama' 🤘
Love it all, but you did not mention Red Hot Momma/Vital Juices. RIP Eddie AND Ron.
P fun rightly so because of financial needs went back to horns and keyboards for a new kind of R&B... Once Geo let Mr. Worrell loose with bootsy and that JB pedigree guitar jams became things of the past My favorite is his solo work on the song Knee dee
Grew up on Parliament, in the 70s and 80s it was blaring out of radios and stereos all across Detroit. They even "operated" out of Detroit for a few minutes.
The pictures your showing are now not eddie hazel like on your cover your showing Garry shider and another clip your showing Mike Hampton and ur calling them eddie other than that you did an outstanding job.