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.

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 ...