I do like Eddie's style a bit more than Kidd Funkadelic's ... Kidd tended to play a bit fast at times for my liking on his solos ... like he was always trying to prove he was fast/good (he is) but Eddie's more mellow ... get you in the mood kind of stuff. I just wish he didn't play w/ his his heavy distortion so often = /
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.
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 upon my being with one purpose to funknotize my a_s 4ever
I have a 10-piece band, complete with a horn section. We play this song "Standing On The Verge" in which Eddie is soloing on top of. Can you hear the groove in the background? I'm going to put this segment into our show. We also run this song into a slower "in your face funk" version of "P-Funk" by just doing the chorus. This is what it's all about, holding down the rhythm with a straight kick on the bass drum. That's the main ingredient of cooking up some nasty funk. Peeeeeee-yew!!!
When Jesus first came his name was JIMI when he returned only a few short years later his name was EDDIE. He enjoys taking the short forms of names and shedding blues and funking all over everyone's souls.
Come on!!! is this 4 real man. Eddie Hazel as my new GOD and Jimmie Hendrix as my JESUS.... All the religion i need thats it! If the world would start to live by this new religion, everything would work out fine for the next couple of billion years..............
man i love eddie hazel as much as anybody else and i too think he is severely underrated but to say he plays with anymore soul than hendrix is ridiculous...when i hear comments like that i tend to think one isnt as familiar with hendrix's body of work as they pretend to be..jimi was all nuts and guts and most schooled guitarists will cite jimi's lack of schooling or "technique" to validate the point...anyway they were both great and two of my absolute favorite guitarists...
@31003707 I think you're right on, those folks who dismiss Jimi's style because like you say his technique is lacking are college educated highbrow nerds , for GOD's sake Jimi taught himself how to play, how many main stream guitarists of present day can say that, not many I suspect. All the computers and enhancers and all the doohickies they hook up to, just to make them sound somewhere even remotely like Jimi boggles the mind. I am no artist or musician, but I know this, this is from the soul
"...And to this very day people still ask me: so how did you got that tone in that song (Maggot Brain) and I still tell them: there is no trick, there is NO 'secret guitar' its just that.. Well I dont know how to explain this but the best guitar pick you can use is raw emotion" -Eddie Hazel-
Edward Earl Hazel - Was the baddest guitar player ever period! I loved Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie Isley, etc. but this man was a cut above. His is kicking ass on this song! Every greatest guitarist conversation should begin with him.
rolling stone called him the 16th greatest guitar plyer of all time. and hes my personal favorite. so i dont think he is totally excluded. but yes ask the average black kid who this, of funkadelic is for that matter, and they have no fucking clue.
@zdubya83 Rolling Stones is a pretentious piece of shit rag. Most music fans know this. RS will always put Robert Johnson way up there becuase that's the chic thing to do, even though the guy is more myth than people care to admit. My point is, those polls are bullshit. Some kid reading that poll will look for Jimmy Page, Hendrix, Slash, blah,blah. Soulful guitarist are - to me anyway- more enjoyable to watch and hear. His solos,are are beautiful, funky, ballsy and creative. Top 10 in my book
Do you play guitar? Do you think you know a good sole when you hear one? What separates this solo from the rest of the crap you hear is that you never hear the same phrase more than once ( unless it's in a groove frame). This guy is just ripping this stuff off when it comes to his heart.
I totally missed out on this guy as a kid. I feel bad knowing that.........
@vinnycriss I'm no guitar afficionado, but is it safe to say that Hazel's solo was complete improvization? If it was, it only adds to his legend. The scat with a rock guitar was something I had never heard before. Amazing!!! Who creates shit like that anymore?
Shit..You know how some solos go on too long cuz the guys just starts throwing shit that don't makes sense out there, and you just want the song to end? Well this ain't one of those solos. This guys has got to be the most under appreciated axeman ever. To this guy, the guitar is a living thing, and he is screwin it.
@cydonianpsycho you are so right. And no you are not a bigot:) you sound like a true music fan and knows a lot. I get the feeling that you have had many convos about the need for color blind music appreciation.
hey every one if you like Eddie hazel you love this rare song i just posted that is the only video of this song ever on youtube. Its call Until It Rains
Definitely one of the guitar gods . . . not up there with Hendrix but in the same galaxy . . . RIP Eddie Hazel . . . whenever I play my Fender Strat I think of you, Hendrix, and a few others . . .
rappers have dedicated more albums to p funk than anyone else. mc brred funkafied da brat funkdafied big mello wegonfunkwitchomind esg ocean of funk cosmic slop shop a acid rap group influenced by the p esham the maggot brain theory kokane his whole career warren g regulate g funk era dj quik safe and sound whole album dedicated to p funk. digital underground sons of the p lords of the underground keepers of the funk people under the stairs tales of kidd drunkadelic
the crip walk was said to have been invented by the og crips while listening to funkadelic music the c walk is a dance of death and once again george's influence and the whole process church thing about love, sex, fear, and death. prince, and rick james were disciples of clinton and you know what they was into sex, and drugs.
rappers worship george the same way the beatles and those brits praise crowley, gangster rappers talk about killing folks worshipping death and funkadelic was into the death thing themselves along with the process church. pedro bell admitted satanism influenced his art and essays. horrorcore rappers like esham, ganksta nip, c bo, jayo felony, eminem, geto boys, seagram, too much trouble, and techn9ne are all influenced by p funk.
@afterschool123 i was hanging out with funkadelic when they got involved with the Process Church of the Final Judgement. Few believe their involvement with a cult. It's where the skull on later Funkadelic releases came from. Billy Bass Nelson now denies this and their involvement. HA!
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 upon my being with one purpose to funknotize my a_s 4ever
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.
Everytime I see this video it just brings back memories of the times eddie would jam for the family after breaks from touring if you're wondering who i am i'm eddie hazel cousin daryll bell come visit and watch my dedication video to eddie his wife brenda hazel and the rest of the family its on youtube just put in daryll bell
thank you all again for the kind words and respect you have express thru your comments he definately was one of the best
Awesome. There's a bit of the video at about 2.50 where you can see Mike Hampton playing rhythm.You can see from his demeanour he is in genuinley awe of Eddie's ingenuity.
No disrespect, Mike is an awesome guitarist but he will never compete with Eddie.
Does anybody else realize that besides smokin up the guitar in Funkadelic, Eddie was a hell of a vocalist?! In my opinion, he was second only to the master, Glen Goins.
@ovneb Wow! I know this posting is old, but I've been saying for years that Glen Goins and Eddie Hazel and Maurice White were among my favorite male vocalist of all time.
Which is more sad: The fact that he is excluded from any mainstream conversation about the greatest guitar players of all time, or the fact that the vast majority of black people don't know who he is or remember their amazing invention/contribution to rock music? Eddie was amazing. This is some great shit!
Ice-T got accused of "selling out" twelve years after this concert when the first Body Count album came out in 1991. He didn't sell out, Eddie Hazel proves that BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED ROCK MUSIC!!!!! Why doesn't anyone remember?
They don't remember because of the way everything is packaged and sold to us by the media. People but into it and don't even realize that they are slaves to it. In 20 years, African Americans will think that listening to rap is selling out LoL
I'm white. At the time that the Bodycount albulm came out, I was way into punk and hardcore. I still own the original with the "forbidden censored track". It was actually my introduction (followed shortly by 24-7 Spyz) to blacks & rock. I had a lot of black friends who were into rap, and most considered Ice T a sell-out. I was always like: Listen to what you want. Like what you want. Who cares what color you are?
@macularis because they don't know the history of blues music which came from the cotton fields and gospel music. i appreciate many of the old blues artists. these are the men who gave birth to rock and roll.
Eddie Hazel was a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix who should get many kudos for breaking down the barriers that kept so many black guitarists in the background.
Please don't compare them. Both developed their own individual sound. Eddie was deemed "the heir to Jimi Hendrix" in 1970,
I certainly agree. Blues was the foundation of it all. I never did and never would compare Jimi and Eddie on the basis of skin color any more than I would compare Jimmy Page and Angus Young. Each one of them should be remembered for their incredible talent and unique sound.
@ovenb: eddie was so heavily influenced by jimi that all of his early work sounds a lot like him. "free your mind" was the second lp released which means it was recorded around 1970, about the time hendrix died. eddie was devestated by his death and that "next jimi hendrix" opus put upon him. so i guess what i am saying is that eddie was 20 and still didn't have his sound the way he wanted it.
the same with maggot brain. hendrixish, but starting to sound more eddieish.
@cydonianpsycho dude, most young black people from the city know nothing about their musical roots. if you played this to an inner city black kid, he would think it was a bunch of coked up white boys with long hair and leather pants. not to sound like a bigot or anything of the sort but its true. they think lil wayne is a musical genius, t pain is an innovator (they dont even know who roger troutman is) and jay z is "old school". they dont even know who EPMD or big daddy kane are.
@TMMSfanCLUB I remember when I was 16 and Living Colour was just breaking out. I had a really good black friend who said that they were selling out because they were black & playing rock, etc. And I tried to point out that rock-n-roll was truely "black" music, but I just couldn't convince him. Eddie was amazing, ground-breaking, etc, but so unknown. Blacks (or African/Americans) invented rock, then contributed so much. It's sad that so few seem to remember.
@cydonianpsycho Not a bigot, but cmon man, surely in you'r 38 years you learned how to tell the the raw from the ripe! Clapton couldn't hold a candle to Hazels inferno. What's more? He blows donkeys for quarters at the bus station. True story.
@listen2this WTF are you talking about? When did I slam Eddie Hazel? When did I compare him to anyone? I've said nothing but good things about Eddie. He was awesome. Under-rated. Virtually unknown to many. Besides, when it comes to comparing guitar players, it's all really a matter of personal taste. I never said that I liked Clapton or anyone better, and even if I did, it's all subjective when talking about 2 greats. Been playing guitar since I was 18. How long have you been playing?
@cydonianpsycho Well maybe it was another cydonianpsycho who wrote on the comment board two months ago " I think of Eddie Hazel as the "Black Eric Clapton"... Does that make this 38-year-old failed musician sound like a bigot? lo."
@listen2this Yes, I forgot about that comparison, but exactly how is that a put down? When it comes to two guitarists who are on the level that Hazel and Clapton are it is really very subjective and comes down to personal taste. You may like Eddie Hazel better, but to say that Clapton isn't any good is simply ignorant. They are both fantastic. You don't have to hate on one to like the other. And yes, I have always thought of a lot of Clapton (especially his earlier work) to be very raw.
@listen2this I'm a huge Hazel fan, but don't ever talk shit about Clapton again. Even Hazel would say that E.C. is a fucking beast. Like him or not Clapton is a top 5 guitarist of all time if not the 2nd next to Hendrix. If he would have died during his days with Cream he would have probably been known today as the greatest guitarist of all time and you would be up on his nuts instead of trashing him.
@indian5 I've always said that too, that if Clapton died in the late 60s he would've been regarded right there with Hendrix as the best of all time. Instead he churned out crap album after crap album in his later years. Hazel is a god too though.
@indian5 there is a story from way back about Funkadelic opening for Cream. After Eric Clapton heard Eddie Hazel, he didn't want to play. I heard this many years ago, but I don't know if it's true. What is true is that when Ruth Copeland and Funkadelic opened for Sly and the Family Stone, Sly told her to find another backup band or leave the tour. Very true story. People only see clips of Eddie, but he was a monster in concert.
@funkedbyinjection It's true but it was Hendrix, not Hazel. Cream broke up before Hazel/Funkadelic came to prominence. There's no way they could have opened for Cream. Clapton was standing there shaking his head, going "Is he that fucking good?" He was talking about Hendrix.
I knew and jammed with Eddie many times and he'd tell you his idol was Hendrix. I think he's much more of a soaring David Gilmore type. Man was he tastey and hooky. And very cool personally. I miss him. He was and still is my teacher.
This brother is straight up sick with it. This jam proves what blend he had. Blues, jazz, funk, rock, soul, you can hear it all thru the jam. RIP Eddie.
your an idiot, learn more about funkadelic and the influence they've had on music. Jimi Hendrix was amazing, but he wasn't the only influence on guitar. Hazel was one of the pinnacles in guitar playing and its roots.
eddie learned jimi and took him miles farther than jimi went. jimi NEVER played with the emotion eddie did. jimi was a showman, eddie wasn't. not that i don't adore jimi, eddie's just an improvement.
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not neccessarily true at all , jimi was perfection personified and there simply is no improvement on what is already perfected, there just is no such thing . hazel was great in his own right and even more so to have acknowledged hendrix as his major influence but even ol' eddie has to take a back seat to un-surpassable genius and power of the late great jimi hendrix, after all, these others could not even be were it not for their predecessor just as a baby cannot exist before it's father
you like everyonelse is very stupid, hendrix hendrix hendrix, is all that comes out of stupid people;s mouths, how about learning about hendrix's influences, preferably buddy guy, or johnny guitar watson, or freddie king, any of those people come to mind, jimi influenced alot, but i doubt he was the only person eddie hazel was looking, if anything they are both on the same level , as eddie was doing his shit when hendrix was popular , but hendrix isnt the guitar god of all ,
your an ass, someone fondled by drugs because of george clinto's niggerish attitude toward the psychadelic hippie era, destroyed him, this guy started in the church for goodness sakes, what did he get for it, almost nothing but a legendary status
Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey. He's the only one that I knew of that had that particular kind of stomp with his shit. I know there were other drummers with the Funk Mob over the years,(Dennis " The God " Chambers) but Jerome was the one that kinda stuck out for me, holmes. Peace
Thanks 4 the guitar licks and Rest In Peace Mr. Eddie Hazel. Tjam*
TimmyJJam07 2 weeks ago
The MASTERS! George and Eddie!
vols9599 3 weeks ago
What year Fender Strat and what kind of pick-ups? Plus other than unblistering funk, what pedal effects?
dkapone 1 month ago
What song is he playing?
TheSWA2011 2 months ago
@TheSWA2011 Standing on the Verge
funkedbyinjection 2 months ago
yeah
dongguitar 2 months ago
great playing. i never heard of eddie hazel until i read of the top 100 guitar players on a rolling stone site. he really is good.
sweetytwome2 2 months ago
Best ever!
jimihendrixfan2008 2 months ago
You can never go wrong with a little P-funk to share with your friends. Funk is natural. God put it here for you and for me...
KillerB555 2 months ago
anyone who dislikes this is stupid. this rules beyond so many other things.
bunnygal079 3 months ago
damn!...
Franciskinho 3 months ago
Eddie was a monster on guitar. It's too bad he's no longer with us....
groundhog713 4 months ago
Eddie Hazel is an extermely underrated guitarist.
turvus2 4 months ago
I am not Hampton bashing like the kiddies... but I have the whole show on video... Eddie totally cut Mike's head on this song
ejay0723 5 months ago 7
@ejay0723
I do like Eddie's style a bit more than Kidd Funkadelic's ... Kidd tended to play a bit fast at times for my liking on his solos ... like he was always trying to prove he was fast/good (he is) but Eddie's more mellow ... get you in the mood kind of stuff. I just wish he didn't play w/ his his heavy distortion so often = /
Both great guitarists tho!
Funk1975 3 months ago
@ejay0723 Can you post it? Like you aged Funkadelic! US funk Mob!!!
MrCrisssykes 3 months ago
@ejay0723 YOU DO?? you have it?? where did you get it??
cus ive been looking for it...
Franciskinho 2 months ago
whats the name of this strat i mean model ?
Izzy94bg 5 months ago
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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.
THE1FUNKMASTER 5 months ago
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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 upon my being with one purpose to funknotize my a_s 4ever
THE1FUNKMASTER 5 months ago
I have a 10-piece band, complete with a horn section. We play this song "Standing On The Verge" in which Eddie is soloing on top of. Can you hear the groove in the background? I'm going to put this segment into our show. We also run this song into a slower "in your face funk" version of "P-Funk" by just doing the chorus. This is what it's all about, holding down the rhythm with a straight kick on the bass drum. That's the main ingredient of cooking up some nasty funk. Peeeeeee-yew!!!
dmb2056 5 months ago
Eddie funked this shit up! Funkalate that noise give THIS Hardcore Jolly!!!!
NathanielMColvin 5 months ago
Eddie funked this shit up!
NathanielMColvin 5 months ago
Who is the funky drummer keeping the beat and time on the one? Like George said, put your foot down on the one!
Gudgeissotolerable 7 months ago
What's the title of this song please?
vasavoirkijesui 7 months ago
@vasavoirkijesui That's the Riff of Standing on the Verge !
funkyflave 7 months ago
I named my son after this guy
fishboybyebye 8 months ago 2
this completely destroys me.........fuckin' a man
crazyunclerex59 9 months ago
Eargasm!!!
jimihendrixfan2008 9 months ago
When Jesus first came his name was JIMI when he returned only a few short years later his name was EDDIE. He enjoys taking the short forms of names and shedding blues and funking all over everyone's souls.
sp3ctor20 10 months ago
@sp3ctor20 well, Jesus also enjoys getting high then
Brancina 7 months ago
Come on!!! is this 4 real man. Eddie Hazel as my new GOD and Jimmie Hendrix as my JESUS.... All the religion i need thats it! If the world would start to live by this new religion, everything would work out fine for the next couple of billion years..............
ghost500e 11 months ago
man i love eddie hazel as much as anybody else and i too think he is severely underrated but to say he plays with anymore soul than hendrix is ridiculous...when i hear comments like that i tend to think one isnt as familiar with hendrix's body of work as they pretend to be..jimi was all nuts and guts and most schooled guitarists will cite jimi's lack of schooling or "technique" to validate the point...anyway they were both great and two of my absolute favorite guitarists...
31003707 1 year ago
@31003707 I think you're right on, those folks who dismiss Jimi's style because like you say his technique is lacking are college educated highbrow nerds , for GOD's sake Jimi taught himself how to play, how many main stream guitarists of present day can say that, not many I suspect. All the computers and enhancers and all the doohickies they hook up to, just to make them sound somewhere even remotely like Jimi boggles the mind. I am no artist or musician, but I know this, this is from the soul
crazyunclerex59 1 year ago
JESUS LORD HAVE MERCY, this is an astounding riff, no one since Jimi has touched my inner soul like this. Brings tears to my eyes.
crazyunclerex59 1 year ago 4
one of the best ever! No one really gives the credit thats due to the funk era it is one of the biggest influences in music today
Mlalli89 1 year ago
dude can wail!
Gonzoidz 1 year ago
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"...And to this very day people still ask me: so how did you got that tone in that song (Maggot Brain) and I still tell them: there is no trick, there is NO 'secret guitar' its just that.. Well I dont know how to explain this but the best guitar pick you can use is raw emotion" -Eddie Hazel-
funkedbyinjection 1 year ago
Edward Earl Hazel - Was the baddest guitar player ever period! I loved Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie Isley, etc. but this man was a cut above. His is kicking ass on this song! Every greatest guitarist conversation should begin with him.
Soulman785 1 year ago 3
rolling stone called him the 16th greatest guitar plyer of all time. and hes my personal favorite. so i dont think he is totally excluded. but yes ask the average black kid who this, of funkadelic is for that matter, and they have no fucking clue.
zdubya83 1 year ago
@zdubya83 Rolling Stones is a pretentious piece of shit rag. Most music fans know this. RS will always put Robert Johnson way up there becuase that's the chic thing to do, even though the guy is more myth than people care to admit. My point is, those polls are bullshit. Some kid reading that poll will look for Jimmy Page, Hendrix, Slash, blah,blah. Soulful guitarist are - to me anyway- more enjoyable to watch and hear. His solos,are are beautiful, funky, ballsy and creative. Top 10 in my book
vinnycriss 1 year ago
best guitar work since the days of 'Machinegun'
incubus36363 1 year ago
just like everwhere else, theres 1 ignorant fool who disliked this video
incubus36363 1 year ago
guitar lord!
daddydivine50 1 year ago 2
Eddie was pure genius
brown547 1 year ago 7
Do you play guitar? Do you think you know a good sole when you hear one? What separates this solo from the rest of the crap you hear is that you never hear the same phrase more than once ( unless it's in a groove frame). This guy is just ripping this stuff off when it comes to his heart.
I totally missed out on this guy as a kid. I feel bad knowing that.........
vinnycriss 1 year ago
@vinnycriss I'm no guitar afficionado, but is it safe to say that Hazel's solo was complete improvization? If it was, it only adds to his legend. The scat with a rock guitar was something I had never heard before. Amazing!!! Who creates shit like that anymore?
USBP464 1 year ago
Shit..You know how some solos go on too long cuz the guys just starts throwing shit that don't makes sense out there, and you just want the song to end? Well this ain't one of those solos. This guys has got to be the most under appreciated axeman ever. To this guy, the guitar is a living thing, and he is screwin it.
vinnycriss 1 year ago 3
@vinnycriss nice
mosiahmusic 1 year ago
Uhhhhhhhhhh............... Yes George. I think we've got a groove going.
Wish this video was complete and we could hear 'Kidd Funkadelic's' (undoubtedly) disgusting response. Eddie was from outer space.
num9c88 1 year ago 3
My top guitarists no specific order:
- Jimi Hendrix
- Eddie Van Halen
- Eddie Hazel
mondola 1 year ago 2
Ive never liked the way George creeps up on him near the end there either.
SarahRachel59 1 year ago
Still gives me goosebumps...and that man was HOT.
SarahRachel59 1 year ago
@cydonianpsycho you are so right. And no you are not a bigot:) you sound like a true music fan and knows a lot. I get the feeling that you have had many convos about the need for color blind music appreciation.
dorne 1 year ago
this is the definition of 'guitar solo'
zonwuka 1 year ago
You can tell Jimi inspired this brother. Play it Eddie.
CREWDOG289 1 year ago
IT'S LIKE MY EARS ARE BEING FUCKED BY GOD
angryredcom 1 year ago 3
TOO GOOD FOR WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrsPlanetMaster 1 year ago
hey every one if you like Eddie hazel you love this rare song i just posted that is the only video of this song ever on youtube. Its call Until It Rains
SuperFunklover 1 year ago
An A to Z guitar solo!
selem3pope 1 year ago
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!!!!!
MMAFan2211 1 year ago
Definitely one of the guitar gods . . . not up there with Hendrix but in the same galaxy . . . RIP Eddie Hazel . . . whenever I play my Fender Strat I think of you, Hendrix, and a few others . . .
bigsherm7 1 year ago
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justuspots 1 year ago
if i were eddie i would want to punch clinton in the face in this video
rwk1983 1 year ago 10
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@rwk1983 A M E N !!!!!!
MrsPlanetMaster 1 year ago
this groove has some serious balls hanging to it
zonwuka 1 year ago 3
Pure awesome! Thanks for uploading this!
NostalgiaKing 1 year ago
Quite the FIX , no matter how many times I listen....
MrsPlanetMaster 1 year ago
afterschool123 1 year ago
@afterschool123 ...and MORE!!!
dogshit71 1 year ago
the crip walk was said to have been invented by the og crips while listening to funkadelic music the c walk is a dance of death and once again george's influence and the whole process church thing about love, sex, fear, and death. prince, and rick james were disciples of clinton and you know what they was into sex, and drugs.
afterschool123 1 year ago
rappers worship george the same way the beatles and those brits praise crowley, gangster rappers talk about killing folks worshipping death and funkadelic was into the death thing themselves along with the process church. pedro bell admitted satanism influenced his art and essays. horrorcore rappers like esham, ganksta nip, c bo, jayo felony, eminem, geto boys, seagram, too much trouble, and techn9ne are all influenced by p funk.
afterschool123 1 year ago
@afterschool123 i was hanging out with funkadelic when they got involved with the Process Church of the Final Judgement. Few believe their involvement with a cult. It's where the skull on later Funkadelic releases came from. Billy Bass Nelson now denies this and their involvement. HA!
funkedbyinjection 1 year ago
george clinton is the black aleister crowley
afterschool123 1 year ago
the lick at 1:30 frees my soul! rock it Eddie!!!
funkymonksf 1 year ago
FABULOUS..Sweet Dreams Mr Hazel
MrsPlanetMaster 1 year ago
In their heyday FUNKADELIC was no joke.... they are STILL ahead of their time. I doubt planet earth will ever catch up to The Mothership.
MarcosEsquandolas 1 year ago
probly the most underrated guitarists of all time. great shit man
necr086 1 year ago 4
@necr086 Absolutely. When you look at the lists of greatest guitarists he name is usually absent. Come to think of it so is Ernie Isley
jeditwinz 1 year ago
This is immense...
pollywarrior 1 year ago
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 upon my being with one purpose to funknotize my a_s 4ever
THE1FUNKMASTER 1 year ago 5
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.
THE1FUNKMASTER 1 year ago 9
@THE1FUNKMASTER The force of the Funk is strong in this one!!
funkality 6 months ago
yo! eddie can express himself better than those people who just do shredding, thats for sure
emperorof420 1 year ago
Everytime I see this video it just brings back memories of the times eddie would jam for the family after breaks from touring if you're wondering who i am i'm eddie hazel cousin daryll bell come visit and watch my dedication video to eddie his wife brenda hazel and the rest of the family its on youtube just put in daryll bell
thank you all again for the kind words and respect you have express thru your comments he definately was one of the best
db4800 1 year ago
THIS IS FOR THE GUY THAT POSTED THIS VIDEO...WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS IS THIS OFF A DVD.. I WANT IT. Message me and let me know
Rcarroll15 1 year ago
Search on the net, there's a very rare low quality (like the video) torrent out there. I have it, dont know where did i go exactly, though
gabsonic9 1 year ago
Damn. That phrase he pops out at 2:35-2:43 is just SICK.
damonjwood 1 year ago
shred!
zachaticapotomus 2 years ago
Nebody have the full song?
rocktobercock 2 years ago
Awesome. There's a bit of the video at about 2.50 where you can see Mike Hampton playing rhythm.You can see from his demeanour he is in genuinley awe of Eddie's ingenuity.
No disrespect, Mike is an awesome guitarist but he will never compete with Eddie.
Baggadin 2 years ago 5
@Baggadin true. Mike was good, but no where near the genius Eddie was.
nubiansista4life 1 year ago
@Baggadin correct Mike is good since he's still with us. Will never know what great guitar playing was left in Eddie.
nubiansista4life 1 year ago
how FUCKING great is this?
bravo eddie,I know that you are up there
doing your thing!
nothinglikeafender 2 years ago
This is da FUNK......................Baby.
Countdamonie 2 years ago 3
HAZEL!!!
SwiftusFunkellwerk 2 years ago 6
Does anybody else realize that besides smokin up the guitar in Funkadelic, Eddie was a hell of a vocalist?! In my opinion, he was second only to the master, Glen Goins.
ovneb 2 years ago 52
AMEN- DITTO
MrsPlanetMaster 2 years ago
@ovneb ALSO GARY SHIDER
BlackPride1000 2 years ago
@ovneb Glens bro, kevin is currently workin with british funksters P-theory. That boy's got it too...they all did.
tikifulwood 1 year ago
@ovneb I REALIZE
MrsPlanetMaster 1 year ago
@ovneb Wow! I know this posting is old, but I've been saying for years that Glen Goins and Eddie Hazel and Maurice White were among my favorite male vocalist of all time.
RaaqC 11 months ago
Fuck yeah.
PoundForABrown 2 years ago 2
Kill me now..this is too fucking good
keeshdawg 2 years ago 14
eddie LIVES brother
chugza 2 years ago 3
I can't stop watching! Never before and never since has a man ever been one with his instrument as much as Eddie Hazel and his guitar.
macularis 2 years ago 6
I'm with you on that my brotha
ovneb 2 years ago
Just jaw sroppin its so Jammin!!!!!!!!!!
tonylinc 2 years ago 3
OUCH!!!!! each tim e I hear this>>>>>>>>>>>
MrsPlanetMaster 2 years ago
Amazing. One of the greatest.
Which is more sad: The fact that he is excluded from any mainstream conversation about the greatest guitar players of all time, or the fact that the vast majority of black people don't know who he is or remember their amazing invention/contribution to rock music? Eddie was amazing. This is some great shit!
cydonianpsycho 2 years ago 35
Fucking awesome.
Mojolightnin 2 years ago 3
Ice-T got accused of "selling out" twelve years after this concert when the first Body Count album came out in 1991. He didn't sell out, Eddie Hazel proves that BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED ROCK MUSIC!!!!! Why doesn't anyone remember?
macularis 2 years ago 4
They don't remember because of the way everything is packaged and sold to us by the media. People but into it and don't even realize that they are slaves to it. In 20 years, African Americans will think that listening to rap is selling out LoL
cydonianpsycho 2 years ago
I'm white. At the time that the Bodycount albulm came out, I was way into punk and hardcore. I still own the original with the "forbidden censored track". It was actually my introduction (followed shortly by 24-7 Spyz) to blacks & rock. I had a lot of black friends who were into rap, and most considered Ice T a sell-out. I was always like: Listen to what you want. Like what you want. Who cares what color you are?
cydonianpsycho 2 years ago
Absolutely right, wasn't it John Lennon who stated that rock might as well be called Chuck Berry?
rocktobercock 2 years ago 4
@macularis because they don't know the history of blues music which came from the cotton fields and gospel music. i appreciate many of the old blues artists. these are the men who gave birth to rock and roll.
Eddie Hazel was a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix who should get many kudos for breaking down the barriers that kept so many black guitarists in the background.
Please don't compare them. Both developed their own individual sound. Eddie was deemed "the heir to Jimi Hendrix" in 1970,
stellahazel 2 years ago 3
@stellahazel
I certainly agree. Blues was the foundation of it all. I never did and never would compare Jimi and Eddie on the basis of skin color any more than I would compare Jimmy Page and Angus Young. Each one of them should be remembered for their incredible talent and unique sound.
macularis 2 years ago
I agree with you that Eddie and Jimi both developed their own sound and style. No denying that.
But I think alot of Eddie's early playing DID sound like Hendrix (like on the album "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow").
ovneb 1 year ago 2
@ovenb: eddie was so heavily influenced by jimi that all of his early work sounds a lot like him. "free your mind" was the second lp released which means it was recorded around 1970, about the time hendrix died. eddie was devestated by his death and that "next jimi hendrix" opus put upon him. so i guess what i am saying is that eddie was 20 and still didn't have his sound the way he wanted it.
the same with maggot brain. hendrixish, but starting to sound more eddieish.
stellahazel 1 year ago
Eloquently stated...what a gift we got! We know that .... and Mr Hazel IS still amazing....
MrsPlanetMaster 2 years ago
@cydonianpsycho You got that right. You still got people in my age group (mid 40s) who play guitar who don't realize this.
cjjaxxon 1 year ago
@cydonianpsycho dude, most young black people from the city know nothing about their musical roots. if you played this to an inner city black kid, he would think it was a bunch of coked up white boys with long hair and leather pants. not to sound like a bigot or anything of the sort but its true. they think lil wayne is a musical genius, t pain is an innovator (they dont even know who roger troutman is) and jay z is "old school". they dont even know who EPMD or big daddy kane are.
TMMSfanCLUB 1 year ago
@TMMSfanCLUB I remember when I was 16 and Living Colour was just breaking out. I had a really good black friend who said that they were selling out because they were black & playing rock, etc. And I tried to point out that rock-n-roll was truely "black" music, but I just couldn't convince him. Eddie was amazing, ground-breaking, etc, but so unknown. Blacks (or African/Americans) invented rock, then contributed so much. It's sad that so few seem to remember.
cydonianpsycho 1 year ago 2
@TMMSfanCLUB I think of Eddie Hazel as the "Black Eric Clapton"... Does that make this 38-year-old failed musician sound like a bigot? lol
cydonianpsycho 1 year ago
@cydonianpsycho Not a bigot, but cmon man, surely in you'r 38 years you learned how to tell the the raw from the ripe! Clapton couldn't hold a candle to Hazels inferno. What's more? He blows donkeys for quarters at the bus station. True story.
listen2this 1 year ago
@listen2this WTF are you talking about? When did I slam Eddie Hazel? When did I compare him to anyone? I've said nothing but good things about Eddie. He was awesome. Under-rated. Virtually unknown to many. Besides, when it comes to comparing guitar players, it's all really a matter of personal taste. I never said that I liked Clapton or anyone better, and even if I did, it's all subjective when talking about 2 greats. Been playing guitar since I was 18. How long have you been playing?
cydonianpsycho 1 year ago
@cydonianpsycho Well maybe it was another cydonianpsycho who wrote on the comment board two months ago " I think of Eddie Hazel as the "Black Eric Clapton"... Does that make this 38-year-old failed musician sound like a bigot? lo."
listen2this 1 year ago
@listen2this Yes, I forgot about that comparison, but exactly how is that a put down? When it comes to two guitarists who are on the level that Hazel and Clapton are it is really very subjective and comes down to personal taste. You may like Eddie Hazel better, but to say that Clapton isn't any good is simply ignorant. They are both fantastic. You don't have to hate on one to like the other. And yes, I have always thought of a lot of Clapton (especially his earlier work) to be very raw.
cydonianpsycho 1 year ago
@listen2this I'm a huge Hazel fan, but don't ever talk shit about Clapton again. Even Hazel would say that E.C. is a fucking beast. Like him or not Clapton is a top 5 guitarist of all time if not the 2nd next to Hendrix. If he would have died during his days with Cream he would have probably been known today as the greatest guitarist of all time and you would be up on his nuts instead of trashing him.
indian5 1 year ago
@indian5 I've always said that too, that if Clapton died in the late 60s he would've been regarded right there with Hendrix as the best of all time. Instead he churned out crap album after crap album in his later years. Hazel is a god too though.
metalliczombie 1 year ago
@indian5 there is a story from way back about Funkadelic opening for Cream. After Eric Clapton heard Eddie Hazel, he didn't want to play. I heard this many years ago, but I don't know if it's true. What is true is that when Ruth Copeland and Funkadelic opened for Sly and the Family Stone, Sly told her to find another backup band or leave the tour. Very true story. People only see clips of Eddie, but he was a monster in concert.
funkedbyinjection 11 months ago
@funkedbyinjection It's true but it was Hendrix, not Hazel. Cream broke up before Hazel/Funkadelic came to prominence. There's no way they could have opened for Cream. Clapton was standing there shaking his head, going "Is he that fucking good?" He was talking about Hendrix.
metalliczombie 11 months ago
@metalliczombie My mistake. It was Vanilla Fudge. Sorry. But the story about Sly is true.
funkedbyinjection 11 months ago
@cydonianpsycho - good one i got to think on that ,that's deep my brother
TheDfunkadelic 1 year ago
with the red cap is george clinton right? why is he (is he?) stoping eddie hazel ?
retePtnecniV 2 years ago
He's motioning the band to break it down ,he's not telling Eddie to stop.
bobbyz23 2 years ago
Dis' brotha was da real deal. No holdin back in dis dude. RIP Eddie.
toborthe8th 2 years ago 2
Simply awesome.
RIP Eddie
Baggadin 2 years ago 3
RIP Eddie
killupoo 2 years ago
Agreed, we're here to honor his talent ( which is ONE step beyond ordinary talent or any word I know!!!!!!
MrsPlanetMaster 2 years ago
Truly a PFunklic-licker...Big Up to E Hazel....
GerFoxworth 2 years ago 2
even when eddie was 18, he could "break out" like this.
this is just one of his "off the top of his head" solos to Standing on the Verge. he's incredible, and greatly missed.
funkedbyinjection 2 years ago 2
The funny thing is, Eddie's not even trying. This solo is just flowing out
ovneb 2 years ago 7
This shit is absolutely off the hook! Does anyone know of a longer, perhaps full verison of this jam? Thanks!
uptheirons82582 2 years ago 2
Unreal
uptheirons82582 2 years ago 3
Where can I find this on DVD?
GE785 2 years ago
Does anyone know if this jam is anywhere in audio format, like a cd, mp3 that can be downloaded? Would appreciate any info.
toborthe8th 2 years ago
search google for a youtube to mp3 converter, you can just copy and paste the url and boom, you got it.
ddo7887 2 years ago
many thanks ddo7887.
toborthe8th 2 years ago
@toborthe8th the song is on the CD "Standing on the Verge of Getting it On."
funkedbyinjection 1 year ago
I knew and jammed with Eddie many times and he'd tell you his idol was Hendrix. I think he's much more of a soaring David Gilmore type. Man was he tastey and hooky. And very cool personally. I miss him. He was and still is my teacher.
AitanLevy 3 years ago
We miss u Eddie!!
thestraw2 3 years ago
This brother is straight up sick with it. This jam proves what blend he had. Blues, jazz, funk, rock, soul, you can hear it all thru the jam. RIP Eddie.
toborthe8th 3 years ago
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great guitar player but hardly inventive. He has to give his entire style up to Hendrix
correawi 3 years ago
your an idiot, learn more about funkadelic and the influence they've had on music. Jimi Hendrix was amazing, but he wasn't the only influence on guitar. Hazel was one of the pinnacles in guitar playing and its roots.
7bloodi 3 years ago 5
eddie learned jimi and took him miles farther than jimi went. jimi NEVER played with the emotion eddie did. jimi was a showman, eddie wasn't. not that i don't adore jimi, eddie's just an improvement.
funkedbyinjection 3 years ago
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not neccessarily true at all , jimi was perfection personified and there simply is no improvement on what is already perfected, there just is no such thing . hazel was great in his own right and even more so to have acknowledged hendrix as his major influence but even ol' eddie has to take a back seat to un-surpassable genius and power of the late great jimi hendrix, after all, these others could not even be were it not for their predecessor just as a baby cannot exist before it's father
kilamuthaquik 2 years ago
you like everyonelse is very stupid, hendrix hendrix hendrix, is all that comes out of stupid people;s mouths, how about learning about hendrix's influences, preferably buddy guy, or johnny guitar watson, or freddie king, any of those people come to mind, jimi influenced alot, but i doubt he was the only person eddie hazel was looking, if anything they are both on the same level , as eddie was doing his shit when hendrix was popular , but hendrix isnt the guitar god of all ,
MUN7001 2 years ago 10
eddie was very much into muddy waters, too, but when he heard hendrix, he went crazy.
eddie was dubbed the "next jimi hendrix" back in '69 or 70. i believe he lived up to that.
funkedbyinjection 2 years ago
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your an ass, someone fondled by drugs because of george clinto's niggerish attitude toward the psychadelic hippie era, destroyed him, this guy started in the church for goodness sakes, what did he get for it, almost nothing but a legendary status
MUN7001 2 years ago
long live the fuzz face and the uni-vibe pedal !!!!!!!!!!!!
jfmayer 3 years ago
We Miss You Brother. Thanks for the Funk! Fly On.
lblocko 3 years ago 3
Jerome is straight killin' it.
doozerace 3 years ago
Jerome who? If you are talking about the drummer, that's Tyrone Lampkin.
Timmyfunk1 2 years ago
Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey. He's the only one that I knew of that had that particular kind of stomp with his shit. I know there were other drummers with the Funk Mob over the years,(Dennis " The God " Chambers) but Jerome was the one that kinda stuck out for me, holmes. Peace
doozerace 2 years ago
Yeah, but Jerome was long gone by the time they did this gig.
Timmyfunk1 2 years ago
If that's true, Lampkin's a bad man and I stand corrected.
doozerace 2 years ago
Given this is '79, that's Dennis Chambers on the kit. DC might be one of the best ever.
btw, doozerace is right, "bigfoot" can lay down some serious shit.
cwphunky68 2 years ago
Dennis is playing during the Brides set, not P-Funk. That is Tyrone Lampkin all the way.
Timmyfunk1 2 years ago
I stand corrected (sort of).
I forgot the whole Clinton operation usually played at every show. I don't know why they actually had seperate groups since there was so much overlap.
Tyrone has some serious pocket. George was always good at picking the best players.
cwphunky68 2 years ago
The late GREAT Eddie "Maggot Brain" Hazel was in a class by himself. Rest In Peace!
funkfan45 3 years ago 6
at 3:00 the way he scats what hes going to play, just his mannerisms...fuck he reminds me of hendrix.
endlesscarousel 3 years ago 2
when eddie was 18, he said his goal was to make his guitar an extension of his voice. in this video he's 29 and it looks like he accomplished it.
funkedbyinjection 2 years ago 3
man hes good! proof that shreddin on a guitar isn't just a "white thing" badass!
jrbaylor 3 years ago 3
best guitar playing i have ever heard. RIP Eddie we miss you.
SignoftheRabbit 3 years ago 3