FUNKADELIC "MAGGOT BRAIN" (reaction)

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[@XDarkSyntaXOriginal]

I would have to say this is probably one of the most soulful guitar solo's ever recorded. Every single note and sound dripping with impact.

[@SightAfterDark]

Indeed

[@JeffGrimes-bo4cc]

Cosmic slop a great tune wow

[@JeffGrimes-bo4cc]

The drummer wow

[@rolandplatt1721]

George Clinton to Eddie Hazel,tripping on acid, "Play like you heard your mom just died" Pressed RECORD One take. The GOAT

[@DfromTC]

100% correct

[@stevenappleman]

A late night staple every Saturday night on Cleveland 70's radio! Great song!

[@Kevonutube303]

Stroke of midnight! Couldn't wait till Saturday came around.😮

[@kylehopkins1180]

Eddie’s Hazel at his finest. I was wondering which version you would do. Mike Kid Funkadelic Hampton jams this also.

[@djpeternice]

Mike Hampton is great but no one plays like Eddie

[@DfromTC]

And I one take. 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@michaelbaylor2923]

He was asked to play like he just heard his mom died😢 there's a LOT Going on in this ❤

[@claytonpaul4259]

Eddie Hazel, so brilliant. Definitely a disciple of Hendrix but did what true artists do and played authenticly from the heart. One of the most beautiful guitar recordings ever.

[@sagittarius420cheefie]

5:54 when that acid wave hits you hard,😂

[@thewatchmen4920]

🥃🧊🥃🧊🎸🌌🪐🌠🌛🌎😎

[@imrankjamil]

First solo = Hazel finding out his Mum died. Second solo = She's still alive.

[@59wsulli1]

I got turned on to this album on my way to bootcamp for the Navy, 1978. On the bus to go to the airport, I met a brother named, "Walker", … military, you know everybody by their last name. Anyway my brother, Walker, enlighten me. I loved the album so much that I bought it for my sister for Christmas that year. You younger generation folks discovering this gold mine of music, really yanks the memories out of the "cobwebs of my mind". Keep you minds open grasshopper... so many jewels out there.

[@thewatchmen4920]

🇺🇲. Because of people like you no other countries dare. And some people don't understand that. Political views are okay. But can never forget the price of freedom of millions of people risking their lives for 🇺🇲 and the 🌍🌎🌏🇺🇲

[@DfromTC]

Eddie Hazels guitar solo on this is literally rated one of the best solos on any instrument of all time.

[@An_Cat_Dubh]

Psychedelic Funk classic. Good request.

[@flomoflowingmotion]

Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow

[@RichieG]

'Zackly

[@davetothebeard]

Intensity. Love this tune.

[@Joe-Flow]

Absolutely beautiful 😍 Well deserving of all the hype. Next week I'm going to request "November Hotel" by Mad Season which I feel a strong connection to Maggot Brain.

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for watching Joe!

[@dalepalarz3921]

This is the opening cut on side 1 of the LP.

[@kylehopkins1180]

Great LP

[@AmberPearcy]

Holy wow! Felt every bit of that! Great pick, Kyle! 💛💛💛

[@abmqa]

EPIC CLASSIC!

[@OW79]

The contrast between this song and the rest of the album is something to behold.

[@ronaldmillner6387]

This was pure emotion. George Clinton put his guitarist in a room, surrounded him with amps and speakers and told him to think of his grandmother dying and this was the result The great Eddie Hazel!

[@chrisedwards3214]

The first three funkadelic albums was the whole group doing lsd and you can hear it in the music the lyrics says it all You can hear Eddie all over the free your mind album and the parliament osmium album

[@securityscorpion8687]

You guys are great...and funny. The intro vocal is profound...& also HILARIOUS.

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks so much!

[@asadotzler3069]

Eddie Hazel was a beast and a force of nature. If you like his guitar, check out Dean Ween's tribute (the band Ween) called "A Tear for Eddie". And if you like the studio version (Chocolate and Cheese is the album) then do check out some live performances, a couple are on youtube that are very eddie.

[@shoutinchuck3363]

Incredible. This song is definitely not from the "easy listening" genre. Thanks for that back story Dan. The solo conveys all those feelings & emotion in a pure form. And for some reason I usually get a contact high whenever I listen to it. 😎

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for watching Shoutin Chuck!

[@mikedemike5393]

great solo..Love Funkadelic...they say he was on acid when he recorded this one...george use to say every black man should listen to Zappa and sometimes they played a zappa tune early in the show..Where do you think they dreaw the ideas of creating band folk lore from like the comics and artwork...

[@yiasemi]

Fuzz drenched cascades of notes. Enough to make anyone damn, get off their ass and jam.

[@kylehopkins1180]

The re- recorded this on the One Nation album and as a 45 that came with the album. I would play the 45 on 78rpm to make it even faster. Of course I smoked first 😎🤘🏾😎🤘🏾

[@SightAfterDark]

😎niceee

[@kylehopkins1180]

Who said a Funk Band Can’t Play Rock and Roll 🎸?

[@SightAfterDark]

Not us!

[@kylehopkins1180]

@@SightAfterDark kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGPRoo15iNOBZ7c

[@tappapb]

George Clinton told Eddie Hazel before they recorded Eddie he should play like he heard that his mother died. Clinton removed the other tracks. Story says they were on LSD

[@marcvanderiet5592]

Besides Zappa there is a lot of space reserved for Funkadelic/Parliament in my music collection.

[@HisboiLRoi]

Although Dan covered most of what I was going to say, I will add that this was recorded in one take. During the mixing process, George Clinton ramped down the volume of most of the other musician's parts and added delay and echo effects. "Maggot Brain" is really acid-rock, with very little funk, and the mix further emphasizes that. As a whole, it sounds like little else in Funkadelic's catalog, although the acid-rock style guitar shows up in many songs. The balance of the album has a heavy funk-rock groove (though not as dance oriented as some of their later stuff). "Super Stupid" is psych-funk, while "Wars of Armageddon", the final cut (and almost as long as "Maggot Brain") is an all over the map freakout jam. In the mid 1970s, Funkadelic and alter-ego Parliament, who recorded separately, began touring together as Parliament-Funkadelic or P-Funk. In 1981, for myriad reasons, Clinton dissolved both bands, but continued on solo and as the P-Funk All-Stars. I saw them for the first time in 2009, shortly before Clinton quit drugs and cleaned up his personal and business lives. When I next saw them in 2015, George had the dress and haircut of a company CEO. His makeover didn't affect the music though.

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for the deep history!

[@pete3883]

definitely on trip.

[@cliffordhampton344]

I haven't heard this song for about 40 years....I forgot how good it is.

[@hildat8]

This was an anthem in my college days. We’d get a good joint and listen to this and ALL of War . Even though I don’t do the joints anymore I am kind of curious what this would sound like with a good joint and some good headphones. 😊😉

[@pete3883]

George loved Zappa.

[@sirnose5378]

Classic!

[@kylehopkins1180]

James Brown knocked her up first 2nd Sly Stone knocked her up 3rd time George Clinton and P- Funkadelic knocked her up

[@johnroberts5637]

Props to Sly, he was WAY ahead of his time. By the time the World was ready for him he was gone down the rabbit hole.

[@SightAfterDark]

Ahaaa! Thanks Kyle!

[@mikedemike5393]

you referring to the cover model.

[@kylehopkins1180]

@@mikedemike5393 No Mother Earth

[@mikedemike5393]

@@kylehopkins1180 gotcha

[@flomoflowingmotion]

Yes!

[@brianjomansenstinesmith5132]

great disk!

[@DrSardonicuss]

A nice trip through outer space...

[@reneelyons6836]

Nice!!

[@tee-Deezy123j59]

Who Says A FUNK Band Can’t Play Rock Music! FUNK ON!!!

[@johanander7785]

George Clinton: ...and play the second part of the song like you know that she actually didn't die.

[@MrAzlan85]

You guys should do Not for want of trying by Maybeshewill. The video is equally as powerful as the song.

[@chrisbywater275]

There's an interesting "re-imagining" on Bill Laswell's Lost In TheTranslation track 2 "Peace" this link is for that track but the image is not the album cover kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5ezeZ53hpeoiKs

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for the link!

[@steveschmitz2839]

which came first? Maggot Brain or Watermelon in Easter hay?...hmm

[@paulfenwick8767]

apart from the narrative, which to me seemed pointless, I found this very soulful and chill, and with Dan's explanation at the end which I didn't know, gives it a bit more bite. I would argue about it being the best guitar solo ever though. It loses direction towards the end. You're hearing 2 guitars not just echoes. Though a different type of music, it's why I never liked Iommi's solo's as there were 2 different ones at once. Still, enjoyed this a lot

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for your take Paul!

[@chrisedwards3214]

George been saying this intro for fifty years now

[@Ninang363]

Funkadelic is a Rock Band!

[@tee-Deezy123j59]

FUNK Band who can Rock with the best.

[@ronpaizley9349]

🤘🏾🍭☠️👿👊🏾🕳🛰🛶🚀🎯💣🚨🖤

[@kirlu50]

Give me some of what he'd been having

[@markofrontz1343]

ATOMIC DOG!!!!! Please.🙏

[@cazgerald9471]

I dig a bunch of P-Funk songs, this was never one of them. I've tried and tried but it just doesn't grab me.

[@ctgilcrest]

Ya bobble heads look like edits

[@SightAfterDark]

SPELL CHECK

[@pete3883]

hippie black band. Took drugs ?

[@WilliamWiest1959]

Just like Mr Zappa the solo is good but goes on way to long.........

[@rugbytimothy1315]

Eddie did this solo in one take for the album. He is 100% instrumental in adding the Hendrix style of play into the funk World of James Brown and Sly Stone. He is a guitar legend but I still feel he doesn't get the credit that he deserves on how impactful he was to music and a genre.

[@ronaldwilliams4954]

Hey guys how's it going it's been a minute since I've been this way I seen that funkadelic maggot Brain had to check this video out and by the way I love your blue oyster Cult t-shirt that was from there very first album 1972. this whole entire funkadelic album is good another good track on this album wars of Armageddon which is very aggressive and intense and the last track on side 2