Virtuoso rock star Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, leaving legions of guitarists – especially Black musicians like guitar phenom Eddie Hazel – wondering how to take up and extend his legacy.

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 ...

The track “Maggot Brain” features a ten-minute guitar solo by Hazel. Clinton, reportedly high on acid during the recording session, told Hazel to imagine he’d been told his mother was dead ...

Gunn-Truscinski Duo, the project of guitarist Steve Gunn and drummer John Truscinski, announced their new album Soundkeeper last month. And its first single, “Valley Spiral,” was inspired by ...

While not necessarily a household name like his lifelong idol Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Hazel still remains one among the many immortals upon rock’s towering guitarist’s Olympus, with Game, Dames and Guitar ...

Virtuoso rock star Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, leaving legions of guitarists – especially Black musicians like guitar phenom Eddie Hazel – wondering how to take up and extend his legacy.

They may be two of the most influential notes in funk-rock history: the soaring, plaintive start to guitarist Eddie Hazel's legendary solo in Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain." The song, an audacious, ...