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  • I can't listen to the version without the spoken word intro anymore, it makes it. Crackin' solo though :)

  • this solo is divine!! love it :).....

  • Wow, just wow.

  • I heard this song in a movie or documentary long time ago but can't remember which! anyone know perhaps? and it's not house md :)

  • picked the wrong time to stop smoking weed.

    wrong time, indeed. : (

  • Not a guitar player, piano player, but I live for good and stratospherical musics like this :D

  • does anyone hear a similarity with nude from radiohead??

  • I can "feel" the sadness of this song :( Thank you Eddie for such amazing composition!

  • can't get enough of it !

  • Can't get enough !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This song is like a life...........

  • The first time I heard this, my jaw hit the floor. The second time I heard this, I was very stoned, and I wept.

  • this is what a man's heart sounds like, coming through his guitar.

  • Simply the best solo ever recorded. I dare you to find better (and if you do, I dare you to get me to agree ;P)

  • they played this in cleveland at 1200 every saturday night back in the 80"s and i used to mediatate to it when i was on the way home

  • It's a little creepy that youtube advertises Biggest Zit on Planet Earth in the sidebar.... where the hell did that come from?

  • tears running down my skin .. its so beautiful

  • "the revolutionary guitar-solo (which you will hear in this song)" ?? The whole song is a solo!!

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  • Goosebumps are jumping out of my skin, daaaaaamn.

  • Tried to go to sleep 2 hours ago but this song was stuck in my head and i couldn't for the life of me remember what it was. i just knew i wouldn't be able to sleep until i heard it. best two hours i ever spent

  • I cried.

  • As I stagger to the bar after almost peeing on myself, I grab my beer and yell, "Play Freebird!". I am then escorted out the door and then told to "go fuck yourself". Now , I truly understand why.

  • KURWA DOBRE!!!!

  • I can never play this song loud enough... found it by accident once, just pure chills with that guitar. I'm a huge Pink Floyd (Shine On You Crazy Diamond off the Azimuth Coordinator rare album is priceless), so it runs right through me when those notes start to sing.

    

  • Hearing this, has once again brought the sparkle needed for my jaded body to stand up and breathe again. I know Hazel was on an acid trip while playing this, but maybe it simply unlocked the possibilities of a human mind, maybe just this one time drugs were the good thing, but then again, you won't get this if you stuff a random fella with LSD. Maggot brain has, once again, rebooted my brain. It even rhymes.

  • Wow. Awesome story about the legend. Any more?

  • I knew Eddie Hazel. In prison. No shit. We used to jam together on acoustic guitars almost nightly. He was a sweet, sweet guy. After a few weeks I built-up the courage to ask him if he would play this song. A lot of artists get prickly about that because they've already had to play it a million times over in concerts, TV, radio etc. Not Eddie. He just said ok and started playing it. I had to stop him because I didn't know the rhythm part! He taught me in about 30 seconds. Then we played. Wow!

  • Whenever I'm drunk, if there's a guitar around, I cry and tell people to play this.

  • oh GOD what a great song, mind blowing guitar ! I hardly can believe I never did hear it before !

  • Before performing this song George Clinton told Hazel to imagine he just heard his mother had died.

  • @DrPoon let's not forget that he was under the influence of acid...

  • @DrPoon and then find out that she was in fact, alive..

  • each time same chill

  • This makes me want to spark a bowl, turn off the lights, and make love to a beautiful woman.

  • @serp82 Amen!!! or with a little candle lights

  • @serp82 Anything would make me to want to make love to a beautiful woman.....

    This is something Superior!

  • @serp82 If you turn off the lights why does the woman need to be beautiful?

  • @mcloveth Fine point, sir. How about we just dim the lights? I don't like to blaze up in a well lit room.

  • WMMS 101 The Buzzard in Cleveland, sometime about 1AM if I remember right

  • @bbaz100 You're talking about 100.7 WMMS. It was the song that (I was not even born yet so, I'm not 100% sure) this one DJ started his slot out with. My grandpa told me. hahaha

  • @bbaz100 they do it on 98.5 WNCX now.

  • 10 buck every person who "liked" this plays guitar

  • @gruntfuckle

    I don't play guitar but I clicked the Love button.

  • @gruntfuckle I don't. My son plays the cell which i don't play either. . I'm the classic rock fan in the family. Fortunately, one doesn't have to play an instrument or sing to get off on either or both

  • @gruntfuckle I don't play guitar. I play classical piano and still love this

  • @gruntfuckle

    Nope.

    

  • i love it but too much distortion there are some live versions that are better IMO

  • the best version

  • You have to know the truth.. It found its way onto a website called truth contest,

  • i know none of you probably will. but please check out my bands cover of this song (on my channel). our band is the stone crows... although we've only been playing togethor for a few months we've been progressing rapidly

  • Once again! I'm a commenter here. I wish my "old" peeps got into this like I do!! I feel young and yet .. I AM not. But I enjoy my chances to come here and listen!! Thank you .. for the joy I feel when I listen (as long as you keep it up)!!!

  • can't play this loud enough

  • I love this song. It's fucking amazing!

  • Dr. House didn't bring me here.

  • @boomhauer15: I don't hate southern rock or Skynyrd. And I have been a Canned Heat fan since the late 60's. Sorry if I came off as a hater, I like all music.

  • There once was a station called WMMS .. there once was a DJ that played this every night at 1 am? In the Cleveland area ... but I'd be dead now had I known this? ;p

  • @ay2kgal From wikipedia "From 1976 to 1995, disc jockey Bill "B.L.F. Bash" Freeman started a tradition of playing the original full version of the song on 100.7 WMMS/Cleveland every Sunday morning at 1:30 (around "last call"). The tradition picked up in 1987 is still carried on to this day, by Mr.Classic host of "The Saturday Night Live House Party" featured on 98.5 WNCX/Cleveland at 11:50pm."

  • @57NOphotography Thank you! It's nice to know people actually do pay attention :) I didn't start listening to Bash till '79 .. but his show was big around here back then.

  • If you consider this boring go back to your southern rock then. Or maybe your coveted copy of Journey. This is Blues at it's finest.

    As a side note..... Eddie was quoted as saying that when they recorded this he asked Goerge Clinton how he should play it, and George answered "play it like your momma just died".

  • @Omind2006 don't hate on southern rock. just because he can't tell that this song belongs up there with both of those or even higher (and i'm a LYNYRD SKYNYRD FANATIC) doesn't mean that anyone should say nothin bad bout it. he just doesn't have a soul.

  • Perhaps owing to the non-existant backing in the song, this song is ten minutes of unabridged boredom. What I don't understand is that Lynyrd Skynyrd (Free Bird) and Canned Heat (Fried Hockey Boogie) are capable of knocking out hits with ten minutes, yet Funkadelic - a supporting band for James Brown, no less - comes out with this. God only knows how anybody can listen to this without being bored to the extent of wishing their life away for an extended period of time.

  • @Launchballer Open up your brain cells and recognize greatness when you hear it. I love Lynyrd Skynyrd and Canned Heat and I' m probably old enough to be your daddy. I was alive when the music was made and first put out. Keep an open mind, I do.

  • Perhaps the fact that an open mind was kept is disconcerting. This is bland to the extent of rewriting the word's definition.

  • @Launchballer don't you find at least the first half of it sad and sweet? how is this blander than that whitesnake ballad you last commented on? i think i recognize it from the last time i was in a hardware store.

  • Because there's nothing to it! Is This Love is a bit more substantial (it's not perfect either, the beat on that is at half the speed it should be) than this absolute nothingness.

  • @Launchballer ...in other words "is this love" is in typical rockballad format with a full compliment of schmaltzy vocals and instrumentation that smooth, sterile 80's style wash of sound. this is one guy playing guitar in a overdone style, yet earnestly pouring out his heart like he's mourning his mother, the result being an atmosphere that lends itself both to deep expression and simply being. nothing's perfect, but this track is damn beautiful and "is this love" was written for pussy & money.

  • @fabianstraregy this isn't even close to (what we call today) metal or hard rock. in my opinion theres no genre to sort this music ... except experimental or funkadelic or psychedelic rock. simplest solution: the bands name. ;)

    these are killer riffs... blow your mind... now ive got maggots in my brain.

  • I originally heard Buckethead's tribute to this amazing song, and that brought me here. I'm a major BH fan and I can easily admit that the original is not only better, but the greatest solo ever.

  • This was the most requested song on San Francisco's first underground radio station KSAN. And a good one form the DJ t take a bathroom break.

  • just smoked a joint and listened to this song.... the first half: a heart wrenching, beautiful lament, and the second half: an amazing explosion of joy and emotion... when i finally opened my eyes i had forgotten i was laying in my bed, and not on top of a cloud

  • I just got into Pink Floyd, Hendrix and all this stuff and would love some recommendations on songs as amazing as this one.

    Thanks

  • @MarloMentality check out jelly 292 by Hendrix, if you haven't heard it.

  • @MarloMentality Echoes is pretty mad.

  • Who the fuck disliked this?

  • The best part of the song for me is at 1:13, when you hear the sharp whine of that first note. Something about the tone just compels you to keep listening.

  • Brilliant

  • the only reason youtube exists is to play this song

  • rmember rock

  • remember rock

  • I'm 18, and I know I was born at least 15 years too late. Can't get any of these after the 90's

  • @Vizillar2505

    what do you mean can't get any of these? you are getting it now ...

  • @TheOriginalEntz what I maent is without youtube, try turning on radio, all you hear is AND I WILL NEVER SAY NEVEEEEERRRRRRRRRR

  • sexy

  • best lead ever written...pure magic. transcendent ...

  • VERY NICE TO RELAX TO

  • Thanks for the post. Hadn't heard this in decades. Too Groovy!

  • back in the early seventies a friend of mine was sitting in his hot rod (to him, no hubcaps,beuty rings and the air cleaner cover flipped upside down) listening to his new set of Mind Blower speakers, (distortion at high volume, waaay coool! this song came on and he said " Maggot Brain!!! catch you dudes later! floored it and totalled the Hot Rod" into a n oak tree about 30 feet down the road.No harm done to the Mind blowers but bye bye Nova with green paint and giant gold flakes Good Times!

  • I HEARD THIS SONG ON A BOOTLEG 8-TRACK TAPE; I NEVER KNEW WHERE IT CAME-FROM, MY OLDER BROTHER TOLD-ME IT CAME FROM KING CRIMSON.

  • Marand, what are you, the English & Poetry critic here ?

    RSCRICCA - That sounds like a good idea to try -this song -and rain on a tin roof.

  • listen to this during a thunderstorm at night. mindfucking

  • had some strobe light speakers ,turn out the lights ,light up and just listen and watch the lights change to the different frequencies.

  • 11 people couldn't rise above it all and drowned in their own $h1t

  • Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for ya'll have knocked her up.

    I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe, but I was not offended.

    For I knew.

    I had to rise above it all.

    Or drown in my own shit!

    ^ A mantra to live by.

  • If you listen to this Masterpiece on Good Audio Equipment - it'll sound like hes Playing it Right next To you. This totally gives me Chills down the Neck when i hear that Solo <3

  • it figures that no radio station in pittsburgh, pa played this far out piece of music. pittsburgh radio sucks!

  • In 1971 we said we would sit in our rockers when we got old and listen to maggot brain on our headphones,well were here now .Thank you George Clinton love ya peace out man

  • Reminds me of growing up in Cleveland and this song was always on at about 12:30 AM Saturday night/Sunday morning as I was speeding home to beat curfew.

  • My girlfriend lived in Ohio for 5 months and what got her through was Maggot Brain on Saturday at midnight.

  • You must have grown up in the Cleveland area... I heard it for almost 20 years, every Saturday night at midnight!!! Awesome tune, used to wait for it to come on no matter where I was or what I was doing...

  • You must have grown up in the Cleveland area... I heard it for almost 20 years, every saturday night at midnight!!! Awesome tune, used to wait for it to come on no matter where I was or what I was doing...

  • This is what the concept of aart should be. This song takes me to an inner peace,, a meditation. There is nothingthat captures my heart as this. I'm an 18 year old but I have so much respect for this time period and it's music.I grew up with it, even went to sleep to this song every night in the 90's as it was on every night at midnight. this was the only thing that would get me to sleep evey night as a baby. I woke up every morning to my mother's alarm clock to 80's metal, death metal and such.

  • This is "TRUE" music at it's finest

  • @TheJordanValentine You must have grown up in the Cleveland, Oh. area... Every Saturday night at midnight MMS would play it... Can remember listening to it for a lot of years...

  • i like how one of the tags for this video is "drown in my own shit"

  • 7:05 - 8:08

    at 7:25 I almost cried when I first heard this song.

  • one shot recording, does this happen today?

  • the best ride too take is on this song it will boogie woogie on your brain...i dare you too close your eyes on this

  • @ThePookie27 I know it may not be for everyone, but I'd love to eat an eighth of fungus and close my eyes to this. Talk about a possible deeply profound experience.

  • I wish I had more in common with the 70's other than my birthday. This song is the real bridge between generations... I miss the times I've never lived in... consciously.

    Realy cool!

  • love this song use to blaze to this

  • this is the best version of Maggot Brain on youtube

  • "Welcome to Youtube! Land of experts. No subject too arcane to find someone who thinks they know everything about it! Quantum physics? Childs play. Existence of God? Trivial. Life after death? Are you a moron? Who doesn't know that! Yes, here on Youtube you will find 8th degree black belt, zen master, rock climbing, Navy SEAL warrior astrophysicists who speak 5 languages, scaled Everest, and have spoken with God personally. And without ever leaving the comfort of their keyboard!?"

  • @Tombstone34 u hit it right on the nail brotha a pear of lips will say anything right on

  • @Tombstone34 f U DICK FUCK .

  • @Tombstone34 f U DICK FUCK .YOU ARE THE MAGGOT

  • @JamesonsPaint not sure if trolling...or just stupid

  • @Tombstone34 , Your comment was ONE of those that make YouTube an absolutly great place to find and listen to awesome music. Yes you are absolutely right with one addition: "massage for your brain-cells" and what Eddie managed gently and effectively cajole from his Stratocaster. The relationship he had with her, so in tune with her inner harmonic beauty. This song should be the 'mantra' of instrumentals, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts & light with us,

    erica~theenlightenment-advisor

  • some days, it's not so much that i want to listen to this song...but my mind needs it

  • 3:45 - 4:57 just one word : WOW O.o

  • One of the greatest blazing songs ever.

  • @Tormentandglory oh absofuckinglutely

  • I never heard this music before I saw house, in episode 10 of season 6. This solo is amazing!

  • is so psicoledic, is so cool, is so so so good !!!!

  • George Clinton - in a class all by himself. How many of us remember getting layed for the first time to this song!

  • @oldshovelhead I don't think it is a question of getting layed to this song but getting BLAZED. Those who have gotten blazed and went on a trip stand up!!

  • @funkfixx dude I remember when this tune came out and you'd best believe a lot of folks were getting gaaaased. Not me I was scared of drugs then and now but I did get rip roarin' drunk . I'm sure some of you younger folks are saying "damn that sounds like metal" well we just called it hard rock .

  • @oldshovelhead Eddie Hazel is the guitarist but fuck yes!

  • It took me a while to track this song down, so glad I took the time. Excellent!

  • eddie hazel is one of the most underrated guitarists of all time. <3 love this guy, i talk to hendrix fans and they dont even know who he is, its sad.

  • Fuckin' hell! I love the fuzz and distortion guitar bits from 7:50 up until 8:50 or so.

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  • In the history of mother earth the maggoliciuosness of the earternal vibrations expressed in the petritued fungi of mental afronautic soul ejaculatiion extruded from the mammillary suataining orifice, funkadelic, -expectorated a physical manifestation of funktification upon the spiritual plattitude of my diarhetic condition. I was mutated to formulate a pubesent astrologic flight within the depths of my soul. The purgative salvation congealed my being with one purpose to funknotize my azz 4ever

  • As I sit here earsurtbating engulfed in molteninzed funk from eons past I am regurgitating mental latitudes possessed by buger nodules infesting my exasperated pusse filled skull. Urinating warm maggot slim into the cup I willingly drink from Funkadelic has reaffirmed my faith in the existence of intergalactic funk. Brain dripping with spastic earjaculations skull funked for the vibratory sin say funs of it . Gornerretic flesh pussing forth scabs of funkyfested maggot doo doo course my veins

  • Man everytime I hear this song, I remember how George told Eddie to play as if his mother had pass away. When this song was being produced, It was said that George sheded some tears which really says alot about this song because Eddie played his heart out. R.I.P Eddie,,Fly on!!!

  • Man everytime I hear this song, I remember how George told Eddie to play as if his mother had pass away. When this song was being produced, It was said that George sheded some tears which really says alot about this song because Eddie played his heart out. R.I.P Eddie,,Fly on!!!

  • Magique.....On dirait un morceau de John frusciante....Before the beginning de l'album empyrean....

  • It gets under the skin, makes every cell die and starts genrating life again. Reboot melody. Making love with the life's most enigmatic energy.

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  • toda la razon un masaje cerebral sobretoo cuando tay volao

  • It really does sound as if -- according to the legend -- that he was playing like he had just been told that his mother had just died.

    So beautiful it's sad, so sad that it is beautiful. A soul crying in pain and love.

  • If you would just shut up an litsten to the song, you would understand.

  • the way he plays with his effects is so amazing. the delay is awesome with the reverb he gets so deep and the guitar screams his soul out.

  • BLF Bash, (Bill Freeman) a Cleveland, Ohio, D.J. on WMMS, used to play this in the early morning week-end hours. My friend, Bob Longville and I would listen for it. Bob died several years ago, a victim of leukemia. When ever I play Maggot Brain, I remember Bob... Thanks for posting Banz.

  • An old favorite.

  • Ahh Full Version

  • When I was growing up in the eightys every Saturday night at midnight a radio station in Cleveland,OH WMMS would play this song. Use to smoke a joint and relax. Love it. Thanks for playing the original. Brings back so many cool memories.

  • @mamasam67 were doing the same every saturday night, me and my friends get blazed and listen to this song ,its something different the spiritual feelin you all get when you all chill together

  • supposedly George Clinton told Hazel to play this like his mother just died

  • This song had nothing to do with DRUGS or even getting high!!

  • best guitar solo ever.

  • @officialgrayfisher idk about the best dut def in my top 3 its pretty damn amazing i would have to hear jimi and santana's best before i said this was best. good props none the less

  • Maybe a badtrip could be good, well it changes with people, some people loves to get high on song like this, as me. On sympathy for the Devil too actuallly... Little wing, Heroin and The End are good.

    PS : Hum, what the fuck are U doing with our ancient account on Youtube Marc ?

  • I wouldn't get high on this, I know that I'd do a bad trip xD

    Well, it's my opinion, 'cause as Little Wing or Child In Time, it makes me think about my friend who killed herself a few moths ago, so...

    I prefer to get high on songs like Symapthy For The Devil ou Don't Step On The Grass Sam :p

  • smoke weed to this

    yeah i do

  • bull. i get high on the song itself.

  • smoke weed to this