This is Hendrix stratosphere that Eddie Hazel is dishing here. When I first heard this I thought it was Hendrix. Every Friday night at midnight in Cleveland, OH this song is STILL played every week. I have been in every state of consciousness listening to this top 20 all time track
I have heard this, I believe he was also told at some point about halfway through to play now, like you just found out she wasn't dead...the change is noticeable, it is very emotive
You gotta check out the closing track of the album too, "Wars of Armageddon" is totally bonkers and the experience is even better when you're listening to it during a summer storm, the heavy weather and thunder noises perfectly compliment the massive groove of this tune. Heck, the whole album is a trip.
In another world. And the crazy part about how we got lit we never ever did the crazy 🤬 that this young generation are doing. We just enjoyed the time 😎
Eddie Hazel brilliant guitar work. Clinton called Eddie, maggot brain. The story is before they went into recording this track, Clinton told Eddie to channel his feelings as if his mother had died. This is how Eddie channeled it! Peace to All !!!
We took mom to one of their outdoor events. There was a blue haze over the crowd. Mom kept asking why people passing cigarettes, Mom went home really" happy" .😊
EDDIE HAZEL was there around b4 Led Zepplin most British groups listened to black music and let's not forget the best to do it "HENDRICKS" when he performed no one could believe that anyone could play the GUITAR LIKE HIM. Matter of fact, most of the guitar players back then who were not black went to see HENDRICKS AND THEY ALL WERE IN AWE!!!! EDDIE HAZEL was another BRILLIANT GUITARIST who actually made this song by BEING the FIRST to take an electric guitar and manipulate it into a magnificent, tortured soul sound with only a few notes which he was told it could not be done.
"Mother Earth is pregnant for the 3rd time. For y'all have knocked her up." ...references a time in history when the Colonizers began to refer to the colonized as "Third-World"countries. (in case anyone didn't get the reference)
Bruh THIS IS ALL HAZEL !!!! You might want to checkout "SUPER STUPID" "RED HOT MAMA" "I WANNA KNOW" "YOU AND YOUR FOLKS" "MISS LUCIFER'S LOVE" "FREE YOUR MIND" Solo hits "I WANT YOU" "CALIFORNIA DREAMING" Collaborations with Gary Shider "COSMIC SLOP" and "COMING AROUND THE MOUNTAIN" with Mike Hampton and Shider. "I OWE YOU SOMETHING GOOD" I could go on and on and still leave out a classic.
The reference to Mother Earth being "knocked up" for the third time is the waves of the (funk) genre washing over the face of the plant. The first wave: James Brown; wave #2, Sly; and what George Clinton has wrought being the third. This piece is on the edge of Funkadelic's signature groove. The rest of the album takes you deeper into their groove. Into a dimension from which you may never return.
Tail Ross laid the melody ... If you listen to the chord progression he's mixing majors with minors... That's not supposed to happen according to music theorist Eddie's the one doing the solo You may want to check out super stupid, it's on the same album.
Lots of sonics . Overdriven Amplifiers and speakers not just sound louder but sound different. I prefer the live version on Rochester Michigan 71 live concert . It just sounds more raw than this version here.
Check out Michael Hamptons live version on the One Nation under a groove album... A little more up-tempo As a matter of fact" George found him playing maggot Brain in a club at 17 years old And that was it. Mike's first track is get off your ass and jam The let's take it to the stage album.
This is Hendrix stratosphere that Eddie Hazel is dishing here. When I first heard this I thought it was Hendrix. Every Friday night at midnight in Cleveland, OH this song is STILL played every week. I have been in every state of consciousness listening to this top 20 all time track
Legend has it that Eddie Hazel was tripping his face off and George told him to play "like your momma just died".
I have heard this, I believe he was also told at some point about halfway through to play now, like you just found out she wasn't dead...the change is noticeable, it is very emotive
You gotta check out the closing track of the album too, "Wars of Armageddon" is totally bonkers and the experience is even better when you're listening to it during a summer storm, the heavy weather and thunder noises perfectly compliment the massive groove of this tune.
Heck, the whole album is a trip.
what amazes me is that this has held up 55 yrs and remains as awesome as it ever was...imagine what it was like to hear this in 1971...
"Cosmic Slop" is a great album and it even incorporates your surname! Funkadelic lives on...
Memories of sitting in a room with friends, a black light on, passing around a joint, eyes closed, heads nodding. sigh.
This sounds amazing. Hit me up next time.
In another world. And the crazy part about how we got lit we never ever did the crazy 🤬 that this young generation are doing. We just enjoyed the time 😎
My local radio station would play this song every Friday night at 0130 without fail. By then the buzz was well developed 😉
Check out the Ween song
A Tear for Eddie
Their beautiful tribute to Eddie Hazel
Eddie Hazel brilliant guitar work. Clinton called Eddie, maggot brain. The story is before they went into recording this track, Clinton told Eddie to channel his feelings as if his mother had died. This is how Eddie channeled it!
Peace to All !!!
We took mom to one of their outdoor events. There was a blue haze over the crowd. Mom kept asking why people passing cigarettes, Mom went home really" happy" .😊
EDDIE HAZEL was there around b4 Led Zepplin most British groups listened to black music and let's not forget the best to do it "HENDRICKS" when he performed no one could believe that anyone could play the GUITAR LIKE HIM. Matter of fact, most of the guitar players back then who were not black went to see HENDRICKS AND THEY ALL WERE IN AWE!!!! EDDIE HAZEL was another BRILLIANT GUITARIST who actually made this song by BEING the FIRST to take an electric guitar and manipulate it into a magnificent, tortured soul sound with only a few notes which he was told it could not be done.
Widespread Panic plays this in some of their shows. Jimmy Herring does a good job.
Have had this in my “playlist”since ‘77, welcome to the club……..
"Mother Earth is pregnant
for the 3rd time.
For y'all have knocked her up."
...references a time in history when the Colonizers began to refer to the colonized as "Third-World"countries.
(in case anyone didn't get the reference)
Bruh THIS IS ALL HAZEL !!!! You might want to checkout "SUPER STUPID" "RED HOT MAMA" "I WANNA KNOW" "YOU AND YOUR FOLKS" "MISS LUCIFER'S LOVE" "FREE YOUR MIND" Solo hits "I WANT YOU" "CALIFORNIA DREAMING" Collaborations with Gary Shider "COSMIC SLOP" and "COMING AROUND THE MOUNTAIN" with Mike Hampton and Shider. "I OWE YOU SOMETHING GOOD" I could go on and on and still leave out a classic.
All the great, Eddie Hazel! One of the greatest of all time! Not known by the masses, but revered by guitarists, musicians, and music fans of the era!
The reference to Mother Earth being "knocked up" for the third time is the waves of the (funk) genre washing over the face of the plant.
The first wave: James Brown; wave #2, Sly; and what George Clinton has wrought being the third. This piece is on the edge of Funkadelic's signature groove. The rest of the album takes you deeper into their groove. Into a dimension from which you may never return.
bet Funkadelic's Black heavy metal classic "Super Stupid" will REALLY blow your mind and it's also from the same album "Maggot Brain".
Greatest guitar solo ever! Michael “Kid Funkadelic” Hampton has an awesome version of this song in Houston 1978 on UA-cam!
Their is a story , need verified because I’m sketchy on detail but Eddie was thinking of dead parent when playing this
Yes, it’s definitely Eddie Hazel definitely
It's Eddie Hazel
Tail Ross laid the melody ... If you listen to the chord progression he's mixing majors with minors... That's not supposed to happen according to music theorist
Eddie's the one doing the solo
You may want to check out super stupid, it's on the same album.
No delay. What sounds like delay is a second guitar player.
That is a lot of fuzz…
Eddie Hazel is top 10 best guitarist ever, plan and simple
Wow I hear some David Gilmore influence here. Amazing!
This came out 2 years before DSOTM, so odds are David Gilmour knew who Eddie Hazel was before Eddie Hazel knew who David Gilmour was.
Lots of sonics . Overdriven Amplifiers and speakers not just sound louder but sound different. I prefer the live version on Rochester Michigan 71 live concert . It just sounds more raw than this version here.
Check out Michael Hamptons live version on the One Nation under a groove album... A little more up-tempo
As a matter of fact" George found him playing maggot Brain in a club at 17 years old
And that was it.
Mike's first track is get off your ass and jam
The let's take it to the stage album.
Not reverb you here. Because it’s two guitarists.