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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“For as long as John and I have played together, we’ve talked about Eddie Hazel’s guitar sound,” Gunn said. “The way he lets go on ‘Maggot Brain’ reaches beyond the large shadows of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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." ...