Eddie Hazel was better than Jimi Hendrix. We’ll discuss this further.
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He also kicked ass on The Beatles on that record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNuCnyjt_gg
I like Eddie Hazel better than Jimi, but Eddie Hazel probably wouldn’t be the same guitar player without Jimi showing the possibilities. The Dames, Games and Guitar Thangs is the only record ever released under Eddie’s name. It is basically a P-Funk record. Jimi revolutionized the guitar world a decade before its release while rewriting all of the rules. Hendrix also wrote most of songs and did all of his work in 3.5 years. We really didn’t get to see him fully develop. He might have ended up as a coked out goofball in the 70’s, but he might have done something greater The Cry of Love stuff was really solid except he died before it was completely mixed. To me Hendrix is the last great American hero. I bet Eddie felt the same. I like Pete Cosey better than both of them, but that is a different story. Suffice to say all three kick Josh Meyers to the curb.
I will let you do Maggot Brain, but this is one of my personal favorite solos of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwwhPAjSFpw
This one is a monster as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeNkRuYHy8k
Red Hot Mamma was the one for me.
Lovin the funkadelic detour, California dreaming was a Spotify recommendation a few months back. Bootsie told Eddie to play as though your mother just died’ before he recorded the solo in maggot brain. Don’t miss this cover of ‘can you get that’ by Canada’s songbird Frazey Ford.
https://youtu.be/cysQCH4fC_Q
Yessir. And don’t forget to check out some of Eddie’s work outside of the Mothership, e.g. thissun, which he co-wrote and sets on fire with waka waka chicken skritcky stank-style guitar strokes . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLXerGCJ8yE
I’ve always heard the Maggot Brain inspiration was “being told that you mother was dead, then finding out that she’s actually alive.” And that it came from George.