He says when he heard "Maggot Brain" – well before he would wind up playing the song onstage with Eddie Hazel — it meant something to see a Black man stepping up as a rock guitar hero.

High on LSD, Clinton encouraged Funkadelic guitarist Eddie Hazel to play a two part ... Eddie just had to sing to himself on guitar.” But Maggot Brain really marked a special moment in the ...

Hazel more than rose to the challenge, the emotions he wrings out of his guitar during this tune are heartbreaking. Eddie was only 21 years old when he laid down "Maggot Brain," but he was ...

Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain remains one of electric guitar's ultimate trips. It has got a lysergic energy all of its own. This is funk-rock as mysticism, the sound of Eddie Hazel seeing through ...

A solo recording in name only, 1977’s Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs ... departure following Maggot Brain’s release, as he spent the subsequent decades plagued by addiction and legal troubles. Despite ...

The late Eddie Hazel, a mind-blowing lead guitarist ... Free Your Mind… And Your Ass Will Follow The track “Maggot Brain” features a ten-minute guitar solo by Hazel. Clinton, reportedly ...

Perhaps the most distinctive thing about Maggot Brain is its incomparable bookends ... grace notes—occupies the loftiest perch in the guitar-hero pantheon. How can something so mournful fill ...

A young Lady Pearl, aka Joann Esaw, remembers times spent in the company of the late guitar legend Eddie Hazel of Parliament ... is immortalized on the song "Maggot Brain" — that's him playing ...

Clinton, the great granddaddy of funk rock himself, says he told Hazel just before recording "Maggot Brain" to play ... him 'Ol' Cryin' Eddie.' He could cry so good [on guitar], it was pretty." ...