Looks like Eddie Hazel but its Michael Hampton. That's MH sound, more metal. The great Eddie Hazel is more acid rock and a shitload more emotion. There's another live version thats light years better.
he's playing note for note... as cool as it still is... it takes this performance down a peg for me... he must have it completely memorized and rehearsed... not my thing...
eddie wrote the original and no one can take that from him but IMO this is better than a lot of eddie's live renditions. this is just a phenomenal performance!! Is this on any of P-funk's live albums???
its written by clinton but only eddie can play it with dat emotions .at least eddie hazel is the most underated gittuarist of that time ...but this how the cosmis floaws ...
I play this song for those white folks (& a few black ppl, lol) who think that Jimi Hendrix was the only black guitar player with extraordinary talent, hahaha! Michael is a phenomenal guitarist however, the creative transcendence required to manifest this epic masterpiece must always be admired & respected. R.I.P. Mr Eddie Hazel... your energy will vibrate forever! Thanks for posting this, it's the only way some ppl will ever get the chance to experience it.
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
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.
Eddie Hazel was told to imagine his mom dying, then finding out that its not true and this is what he came up with...fuckin insane, my girlfriend has grown to love bootsy and funkadelic by force...i play this at least twice a day and bootsy's solo at the end of rather be with u!!!
MAGGOT BRAIN, EVERYTIME I HEAR IT ,IT SENDS CHILLS THRUOGH ME !! I DONT CARE IF MIKE OR EDDIE IS PLAYING IT ,ITS AN ALL TIME GUITAR SOLO CLASSIC!!!! "SERGIO"
My son is 4 months old now. I feel sorry for him and I'm mad 'bout myself that I forgot about this song. Starting from tomorrow, this will be part of his education
@agnemmiretep i agree. can not compare eddie and mike. mike has his own version and he does it well. note for note. eddie could change it and come right back to the same rythme. hard to do if its not yours. mike is great, no one should try!! if your aren't eddie nor mike, think before you try!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eddie Hazel will always be "Maggot Brain" to me but Mike Hampton brought the song to a newer level. This song will be played at my funreal becuz the maggots will inherit my flesh...
this the great music of all time, real rock ,were are my real black brother that rock ,oh i know the white own industry stole the music ,i hear ya fishbone , ihear ya living color , i hear ya bdby count Blood life ,hare bear diego
he loved to play guitar. He made that instrument an extention of himself, and he spoke when he played...What will you say, and how will you say it when you play your guitar?
For any of you just starting out playing guitar and want to know how to play, first things first, THROW OUT YOUR BOOKS ON LEARNING GUITAR - REAL guitar playing like this isn't learned through reading notes and stupid bullshit like that. It's learned from practice and most importantly, playing from every part of your being, playing from within your very soul, and your emotions. That's the ONLY lesson you'll need. Jimi Hendrix never knew how to read a note in his life. He just played because --
This is pretty, but I'm not feeling the same range of emotions I get when I hear Eddie Hazel's versions. Eddie was connected to his guitar by a lifeline. Maybe that's why he was such a tortured soul, but he will always be missed.
How many keyboards is Bernie playing?! He's like the Beethoven and Mozart of funk! I love this song. You feel all kinds of emotions with this..love, lust, anger, pain, sorrow..it just gives me chills.
don't worry about who's copying who...just lay back in your chair and let this take you to another place....somewhere in your mind where you aren't comparing things...just let it flow - maggot brain is a state of mind...
George coming out in that butterfly suit at that part of the song then releasing and spreading his wings at that moment is one of the most beautiful and funniest things I've ever seen! Just gotta love that Kat no matter what. Saw them this past august and George and I shared a lot of smiles and nods in agreement that DAT SCHIETT SHO IS FUNKEEEEHHHHHH! He's probably doin it right now too!
Simply pure talent!!!! I want to escape from today's feeble attemps at music and go back to this era!!! Big props to bigcree for sending me this one!!!!
@contec22 . Sorry, this version is by Mike Hampton. Eddie plays it slightly different, he is darker with longer and straighter hair. His playing is somewhat smoother than a younger Michael Hampton! The end of the song is the key!
@jabon323 Gotta give credit where credit is due, Eddie Hazel introduced us to the maggots of the mind, but Michael Hampton embraced them and made them his own. I have heard no better version of this song and it so demonstrates Kidd Funkadelic's talent.
Bernie was classically trained, and also knew how to play jazz. He also enjoyed and was influenced by prog-rock like Emerson Lake and Palmer, especially the way Keith Emerson used the synth.
This is Micheal" Kid Funkadelic " Hampton at the time he was only 16 yrs old. One of the greatest guitarist...ever!! Check out the guitar solo in " Knee Deep" he recorded that when he was 15yrs old!!!!
He was 16 when George (actually Gary Shider and Boogie) saw him play Maggot Brain at a party in cleveland given by Ed Sparks. He was about 17 going on 18 when he joined Funkadelic in 1975. I think his first performance with them was in DC in 1975. Knee Deep was recorded in 78/79 time frame.
@grimes1 Just a reminder, but Eddie wrote this song when he was 17 yrs old. Eddie's version was fluid because he was able to tap into some inner demons that gave him such an emotional range that he was able to translate through his guitar. If I'm not mistaken Mike was 17 when he was hired by George to replace Eddie.
Also read that he was planning to do a Band Of Gypsies project with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles before he died.Way too bad that didn't happen. Would've been just tremendous. Imagine them playing Machine Gun,Who Knows,Message Of Love,etc.
Damn if you close your eyes and listen,you'd swear it was a track from Jimi's Isle of Wight performance sometimes. This dude was so badass on guitar. If not for drugs we'd still have him.
RIP Eddie.Everybody who plays guitar should learn this.
When this song was created, George Clinton asked the young Eddie Hazel to play the first part of the song as if someone had just told him his mother had died. He then exhorted him to play the latter part as if someone had walked up and told him it was all a lie, and that his mother was NOT dead, but alive...the young guitarist came through supernaturally if you ask me.
In the hiatory 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 WENT TO SEE PARLIAMENT/FUNKADELIC AT THE HAMMERSMITH ODEON, LONDON IN LATE 1978 ON THE 'ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVE' TOUR. I'VE NEVER WITNESSED A STAGESHOW LIKE THIS EVER! THEY FUNKED SO HARD, YOU HAD TO BE MOVED. ON THE BILL ALSO WERE PARLET, THE HORNY HORNS, BRIDES OF FUNKENSTEIN. ON GUITARS THAT NIGHT WERE BLACKBYRD McKNIGHT, MIKE HAMPTON, GARY SHIDER & GLEN GOINS. I SAW THE 'P' IN ALL IT'S GLORY!
saw them @ nec birmingham in the 70's as a FLOYD /ZEP fan i was blown away by the whole show, when came to maggot brain all i could be heard shouting was"eat your heart out hendrix"
not knocking jimi, unreal guitarist,but unlike the other living legends (clapton gilmour etc)we can never know how far he would of gone. i believe he would of progressed to become even better but we shall never know.
agreed, you know miles davis and he were set to put something down together. miles had that knack for bringing out the best in all whom played with him...just imagine
Most Funkadelic is guitar driven, only one that comes to mind that reminds me of Parliament is the Uncle Jam album. I guess after a while the music became so much that the musicians didn't know if they were recording a parliament or Funkadelic.
its just flat out badass that george clinton told eddie hazel to play first half of the song like his mother just died and the second half like he found out she was alive. pure emotion was put into this song.
I thank the forces in the universe for conspiring to coax this song into existance, all people responsible and all of their works - truly a masterpiece. I can't count how many times I've listened to this and will always love it.
I love all of the track, when he switches into this other style - at around 5:48 and 7:19 - I've a huge grin on my face.
Although I may never even get close this level of play, I hope before I leave this earth that I can learn to play this song - to map out it's greatness in my mind and bring it closer to my heart.
please yall dont forget george found this guy playin maggot brain note for note when he was 17 mind you .... this is the song that got him recruted into the funk mob ....ok bye
jimi wouldn't have done it. we move on, eg Prince album "sign o the times" had crap i meam rap b4 it became the norm.maggot brain is a forward movement on Hendrix guitar tech. but if he still lived would he b doing pink floyd or BB king?
Michael is good, but I don't feel that same soul-flow that Eddie had when he played it. It's really not the same. There's not the DEPTH to it like when Eddie played it.
Why do every feel that Michael has to play like Eddie? Mike bring his own unique technical stlye to P-Funk. George was not looking for clones to play like each other He wanted a variance of players with thier own style. Boogie don't play like Billy Bass. Nor does he play like Skeet. Tyrone Lampkin don't drum like Tiki nor do Jerome drum like Dennis Chambers. The point being Mike brought what George was looking for at the time when he was recruting a guitarist. Mike is very good!
I argee, check out the albums like, The Tales of Kidd Funkadelic, Let's take it to the Stage and Electric Spankings of the War Babies with Mike Hamptons smokin guitar solos.
Wow, I remember we used to get so blasted at the backgate of our school, and this would come screaming out on someone's 1000 pound boombox YEAH! Thanks for this!!
Playing like your Mama just died
Danandvikki1 1 day ago
This is what it sounds like when Angels cry
Danandvikki1 1 day ago
IF U IDIOTS THINK HE'S PLAYING THIS NOTE FOR NOTE TO EDDIE'S THEN U DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT PLAYING GUITAR!!!!!!
SDMFAnthony01 1 week ago
Looks like Eddie Hazel but its Michael Hampton. That's MH sound, more metal. The great Eddie Hazel is more acid rock and a shitload more emotion. There's another live version thats light years better.
kingreese79 2 weeks ago
he's playing note for note... as cool as it still is... it takes this performance down a peg for me... he must have it completely memorized and rehearsed... not my thing...
solargesture 1 month ago
@solargesture He's not playing it note for note. He is actually making it his own
captross07 2 weeks ago
The RZA on guitar
robinsl27 2 months ago
very hot blues. excellent playing.
sweetytwome2 2 months ago
haven't heard explosions like that since hendrix's machine gun...stunning
bhinks 3 months ago 2
i actually prefer the edgy, sort of choppy metallic sound/feel this induces so well. great rendition
bhinks 3 months ago
eddie wrote the original and no one can take that from him but IMO this is better than a lot of eddie's live renditions. this is just a phenomenal performance!! Is this on any of P-funk's live albums???
bobshenix 3 months ago
its written by clinton but only eddie can play it with dat emotions .at least eddie hazel is the most underated gittuarist of that time ...but this how the cosmis floaws ...
R.I.P Eddie Hazel
TheSupiluliuma 4 months ago 2
So is this Eddie Hazel or Michael Hampton?
scherbertdan 4 months ago
@scherbertdan This is Michael Hampton.
s4ujxm 4 months ago
9 poeple are s**t
SamaAndrea 4 months ago
spencer and jamie are related to george i think.if you guys up in here.holler at your boy! :)
ShereKhan77 4 months ago
I play this song for those white folks (& a few black ppl, lol) who think that Jimi Hendrix was the only black guitar player with extraordinary talent, hahaha! Michael is a phenomenal guitarist however, the creative transcendence required to manifest this epic masterpiece must always be admired & respected. R.I.P. Mr Eddie Hazel... your energy will vibrate forever! Thanks for posting this, it's the only way some ppl will ever get the chance to experience it.
MrKradRetfa 5 months 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 5 months ago 3
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 2
I am now completely funked up.
xtcpino 6 months ago
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CheckThisSaw 6 months ago
i dnt even no who eddie is but i has named after that dude???? so my dad says
blood901 6 months ago
@blood901 Eddie Hazel. Original composer of Maggot Brain.
Check the original out on youtube.
BollocksUtwat 6 months ago
I think my kidney scaper just shot it's bolt
torqueing 7 months ago
This was at the old Capital Centre. MD just outside of DC. The Mothership is coming Mother fuckers! (&)*)*__()(_+0
erikchandy 7 months ago
This was at the old Capital Centre. MD just outside of DC.
erikchandy 7 months ago
Best solo in music history. Eddie u'll live forever in our hearts...
sweepinstring 7 months ago
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sweepinstring 7 months ago
Please !! Give me Doc brown's Delorean :(((
Helta940 7 months ago
this is like mana from heaven.....totally mind blowing music
VojcekRecords 8 months ago
TREMENDO...
matiaxespin 8 months ago
I remember back in 1991, when I was 20 (and so was the song) and I was hanging out with friends, getting wasted.
And now, I am almost 40 (so ist the song ;-)) and I gotta admit...:
Damn, the 70s rocked!!!
KlCKFLIP 8 months ago
WOW!!!!!!!!
ACTIONIII 8 months ago
totally just got mindfucked
wallen123 8 months ago
Eddie Hazel was told to imagine his mom dying, then finding out that its not true and this is what he came up with...fuckin insane, my girlfriend has grown to love bootsy and funkadelic by force...i play this at least twice a day and bootsy's solo at the end of rather be with u!!!
Chimagic 9 months ago
Funkadelic do bands and probably the best band in the world.
parsnips31 9 months ago
Friggen best flying v i've ever heard!
carlosfrusciante1 9 months ago
someone should make this hd so i can enjoy the true glory that is talent
jimimyhero 9 months ago
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sounds like hes playing with a rock version of Albert Kings Crying V Lucy
sheab11 9 months ago
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sounds like hes playing with a rock version of Albert Kings Crying V Lucy
sheab11 9 months ago
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sheab11 9 months ago
This is real love of music
antoniio4sho 10 months ago
free your mind and your ass will follow
385517452 10 months ago
@385517452 the kingdom of heaven is within... :)
Chimagic 9 months ago
nothing matters... only this. This is happines..
ROLOSEMEN 10 months ago 2
Holy Sheep Shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Danandvikki1 11 months ago
MAGGOT BRAIN, EVERYTIME I HEAR IT ,IT SENDS CHILLS THRUOGH ME !! I DONT CARE IF MIKE OR EDDIE IS PLAYING IT ,ITS AN ALL TIME GUITAR SOLO CLASSIC!!!! "SERGIO"
aretha9605 11 months ago 3
RESPECT MAESTRO HAZEL! RESPECT!
neoheeds 11 months ago
I like that he is not afraid to make a mistake. THAT is the sign of truly playing from the gut.
blastingcaps 1 year ago
My son is 4 months old now. I feel sorry for him and I'm mad 'bout myself that I forgot about this song. Starting from tomorrow, this will be part of his education
professorcoolhair 1 year ago 30
@professorcoolhair Yes, you are a horrible parent for forgetting it
bronenalladin 11 months ago
AND THIS IS A COOL EDDIE!
gjohnsonplayer123 1 year ago
Look at Gary layin' back...playing rhythm. RIP "Doo Wop"
KillerB555 1 year ago
eddies' version will allways be the best
agnemmiretep 1 year ago 7
@agnemmiretep i agree. can not compare eddie and mike. mike has his own version and he does it well. note for note. eddie could change it and come right back to the same rythme. hard to do if its not yours. mike is great, no one should try!! if your aren't eddie nor mike, think before you try!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrCrisssykes 2 months ago
@agnemmiretep Oh! YEAH!!!!!!!!
alexbruce9 3 weeks ago
wwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
squibz1985 1 year ago
Eddie Hazel will always be "Maggot Brain" to me but Mike Hampton brought the song to a newer level. This song will be played at my funreal becuz the maggots will inherit my flesh...
ZenPimps 1 year ago
"Play like your momma just died" and that is want Eddie did. I weep when I hear this!
Danandvikki1 1 year ago 2
this the great music of all time, real rock ,were are my real black brother that rock ,oh i know the white own industry stole the music ,i hear ya fishbone , ihear ya living color , i hear ya bdby count Blood life ,hare bear diego
LILKUDDY 1 year ago
he loved to play guitar. He made that instrument an extention of himself, and he spoke when he played...What will you say, and how will you say it when you play your guitar?
amateurshooter 1 year ago
For any of you just starting out playing guitar and want to know how to play, first things first, THROW OUT YOUR BOOKS ON LEARNING GUITAR - REAL guitar playing like this isn't learned through reading notes and stupid bullshit like that. It's learned from practice and most importantly, playing from every part of your being, playing from within your very soul, and your emotions. That's the ONLY lesson you'll need. Jimi Hendrix never knew how to read a note in his life. He just played because --
amateurshooter 1 year ago
@amateurshooter Yeah but come on you still need to learn to play the damn thing.
13WillSullivan 1 year ago
only Clinton could pull of that "look" with the wings!
beatmonkey5 1 year ago
6:41
esposito887 1 year ago
This is the best fucking shit in the whole wide world!!!!!!
jeannemilliard 1 year ago
wow....
eliteslayer66 1 year ago
6.28 - I am the hero Gotham deserves
PlatinumJestar 1 year ago
man, that is some guitar playing
mreev 1 year ago
This is pretty, but I'm not feeling the same range of emotions I get when I hear Eddie Hazel's versions. Eddie was connected to his guitar by a lifeline. Maybe that's why he was such a tortured soul, but he will always be missed.
nubiansista4life 1 year ago
FUCK GEORGE CLINTON..OMG..OMG...I HATE HIS WAYS!!
PiercedOutTennBabe 1 year ago
Mother Earth just busted a nutt
Serpin43 1 year ago
Mother earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up......
DERRYFROG 1 year ago
@DERRYFROG D---Straight my brother of another mother...they didn't call him the Black Angel of D for nothing!!!!....and it's just getting started!!!!
MrJojogun 1 year ago
Such a good song...
joerushtonryan 1 year ago
Edde Hazel is better, but man!
This is just great! I fucking love this! Simply beautiful! Everytime i get sad, my life can be sumed as this beautiful piece!
FriedChickenofDeath6 1 year ago
Stellar live version. Michael is laying it down, doing true justice to the original studio version. Cheers!
zapme9 1 year ago
dang, George Clinton is an idiot!
alfalfa19 1 year ago
@alfalfa19 Why? What did he do?
FriedChickenofDeath6 1 year ago
@alfalfa19 well, a 300 pound fat black man wearing a butterfly costume is kind of idiotic. Even more so when he wears nothing but a diaper on stage.
alfalfa19 1 year ago
I never get tired of this tune... I love it so much.
MaggotBrain123 1 year ago
i can see that john frusciante gets alot of inspiration here...great
rodrigoconstantino 1 year ago 2
@rodrigoconstantino Dude, God gets inspiration here.
FriedChickenofDeath6 1 year ago
He sounds really good!
boxingin 1 year ago
sounds like if my scrotum could rock....fucking amazing!
MultiSlobber 1 year ago
it's mike hampton folks
afterschool123 1 year ago
This tune is fuckin enormous!!
Chimagic 1 year ago
Great music.... great funk.... the best of the best.... rare..one of a kind real music... ..
onemill555 1 year ago
that is kid funkadelic right ? skin looks to light to be eddie hazel
mustang1834 1 year ago
I listened to the original on vinyl back in 1979. It still moves me. I need a close up to see what scale he's using. Anyone know?
tubegoonxtc 1 year ago
@tubegoonxtc minor pentatonic in the key of E
imjohnandyouare 1 year ago
with a joint
ekkaia88 1 year ago
hypnotizing. a beautiful killer song
moudiwort 1 year ago
yeah there's one thing for certain anit nuthing funky unless you play wit it
bebeking347 1 year ago
Exactly RobFalcon! Hit the nail on the head.
carvinblack 2 years ago
yeah lot of white boys copied them (Jimi too) most fell way short but at least they had good taste!
SkipJames25 2 years ago
@SkipJames25 jimi came first.
SithJohn93 1 year ago
@SithJohn93 think he meant "a lot of white boys copied Jimi" as well
emrinder 1 year ago
ACID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
bigken142 2 years ago
AWESOME SONG!
TheDarkKnight316 2 years ago
How many keyboards is Bernie playing?! He's like the Beethoven and Mozart of funk! I love this song. You feel all kinds of emotions with this..love, lust, anger, pain, sorrow..it just gives me chills.
zulunurse2009 2 years ago 3
don't worry about who's copying who...just lay back in your chair and let this take you to another place....somewhere in your mind where you aren't comparing things...just let it flow - maggot brain is a state of mind...
Robfalcon501 2 years ago 10
so metalica copied them and also john frusciante. wow their amazing
geletmote 2 years ago 5
this music is so full of feelings .... waow.thanks to it i have been able to write a love song.
peter64800 2 years ago
two words runnin through my brain: music history
donoschekk 2 years ago 4
George coming out in that butterfly suit at that part of the song then releasing and spreading his wings at that moment is one of the most beautiful and funniest things I've ever seen! Just gotta love that Kat no matter what. Saw them this past august and George and I shared a lot of smiles and nods in agreement that DAT SCHIETT SHO IS FUNKEEEEHHHHHH! He's probably doin it right now too!
LetTheRainCome 2 years ago 5
Hell Yeah, Funk Yeahhh!!!!
KallMeKris2 2 years ago
Damn!!!!!!!! Dude is a helluva of guitarist, pretty sick
mreev 2 years ago 7
Eddie is better but this is still sick. RIP Eddie
cdspence2010 2 years ago 10
4:12 to 4:40 is a beast man it sound so good
innicedana 2 years ago 2
Simply pure talent!!!! I want to escape from today's feeble attemps at music and go back to this era!!! Big props to bigcree for sending me this one!!!!
jabon323 2 years ago 58
Yeahhhh!!! That's proper speak!!! You're my man!!!
MEGAMIGA 2 years ago
@jabon323 898106 said its mike hampton but that is Eddie Hazel
contec22 1 year ago
@contec22 . Sorry, this version is by Mike Hampton. Eddie plays it slightly different, he is darker with longer and straighter hair.
nucpotato 1 year ago
@contec22 . Sorry, this version is by Mike Hampton. Eddie plays it slightly different, he is darker with longer and straighter hair. His playing is somewhat smoother than a younger Michael Hampton! The end of the song is the key!
nucpotato 1 year ago
@jabon323
Yep-Yep!!
melbookermusic 1 year ago
@jabon323 Gotta give credit where credit is due, Eddie Hazel introduced us to the maggots of the mind, but Michael Hampton embraced them and made them his own. I have heard no better version of this song and it so demonstrates Kidd Funkadelic's talent.
USBP464 1 year ago
@jabon323 me and a friend played something spontanious on electric and bass together,it was new to me but it sounded so good.
atleast to me :) so i dont care to much about the era, i did thought it was newer.
SpacedTrooper 10 months ago
Bernie was classically trained, and also knew how to play jazz. He also enjoyed and was influenced by prog-rock like Emerson Lake and Palmer, especially the way Keith Emerson used the synth.
luvoftorah 2 years ago 4
Yup, Bernie's credentials are as esteemed as possible. Bernie's the man.
frackle123 2 years ago 2
did y'all dig the crazy keyboard arrangements put down by Bernie Worrell? I didn't know he was trained at Julliard and The New England Conservatory.
zulunurse2009 2 years ago
I think i just nutted in my pants....Hell yeah!!
skyynett999 3 years ago 28
I prefer Eddie Hazel, lol... true... but this great, but Eddie puts more emotion into it!
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
I'd Love to Hear Prince & Jesse Johnson's Version Of this and Europa!
Cosmictalk 3 years ago 2
jesse good, would be cool :)
NIBIRU122012 3 years ago 2
Great piece, Hampton probably 22 or 23 y/o on this in "79".
iman0400 3 years ago 2
I don't normally like Flying Vs but that one is really nice!
miguello89 3 years ago 2
Increible
zpekpr 3 years ago 2
he was great also look up stanley jordan stairway to heaven
toniol26 3 years ago
are you telling me this guy is 16 in this video??
TheWatchGoesTick 3 years ago
This is Micheal" Kid Funkadelic " Hampton at the time he was only 16 yrs old. One of the greatest guitarist...ever!! Check out the guitar solo in " Knee Deep" he recorded that when he was 15yrs old!!!!
grimes1 3 years ago
He was 16 when George (actually Gary Shider and Boogie) saw him play Maggot Brain at a party in cleveland given by Ed Sparks. He was about 17 going on 18 when he joined Funkadelic in 1975. I think his first performance with them was in DC in 1975. Knee Deep was recorded in 78/79 time frame.
s4ujxm 3 years ago
@grimes1 Just a reminder, but Eddie wrote this song when he was 17 yrs old. Eddie's version was fluid because he was able to tap into some inner demons that gave him such an emotional range that he was able to translate through his guitar. If I'm not mistaken Mike was 17 when he was hired by George to replace Eddie.
nubiansista4life 11 months ago 2
@nubiansista4life You sir, are correct
bronenalladin 11 months ago
Timeless.
franchyspb 3 years ago
Also read that he was planning to do a Band Of Gypsies project with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles before he died.Way too bad that didn't happen. Would've been just tremendous. Imagine them playing Machine Gun,Who Knows,Message Of Love,etc.
SixtyThreeStrat 3 years ago 2
Damn if you close your eyes and listen,you'd swear it was a track from Jimi's Isle of Wight performance sometimes. This dude was so badass on guitar. If not for drugs we'd still have him.
RIP Eddie.Everybody who plays guitar should learn this.
SixtyThreeStrat 3 years ago
This one is Michael Hampton...tearing it up!
SSW2424 3 years ago
When this song was created, George Clinton asked the young Eddie Hazel to play the first part of the song as if someone had just told him his mother had died. He then exhorted him to play the latter part as if someone had walked up and told him it was all a lie, and that his mother was NOT dead, but alive...the young guitarist came through supernaturally if you ask me.
bassman68s 3 years ago
In the hiatory 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 3 years ago 3
Rising above the shit... This is quite possibly the best song ever.
CognitiveNiche 3 years ago
this is the kinda song you crank after you just broke up with your girl
brandonihidalgo892 3 years ago 4
yeah i know it expresses all the suffering in the world it seems
corndogtw1nh3ndr1x 3 years ago
rudebuddhist hahaha right on jimi would made the croud trip balls
tegansheild 3 years ago
This is so awesome i can listen to this allllllllllll day on da realz, 10 stars
antoniio4sho 3 years ago 4
Best 6/8 ever made...
R.I.P Eddie Hazel
raskarkapack 3 years ago
he told him to play the guitar like your mother died... DAMN!!!!! ALMOST BROUGHT ME TO TEARS
pantyraiderdc 3 years ago 4
I WENT TO SEE PARLIAMENT/FUNKADELIC AT THE HAMMERSMITH ODEON, LONDON IN LATE 1978 ON THE 'ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVE' TOUR. I'VE NEVER WITNESSED A STAGESHOW LIKE THIS EVER! THEY FUNKED SO HARD, YOU HAD TO BE MOVED. ON THE BILL ALSO WERE PARLET, THE HORNY HORNS, BRIDES OF FUNKENSTEIN. ON GUITARS THAT NIGHT WERE BLACKBYRD McKNIGHT, MIKE HAMPTON, GARY SHIDER & GLEN GOINS. I SAW THE 'P' IN ALL IT'S GLORY!
starbright78 3 years ago
saw them @ nec birmingham in the 70's as a FLOYD /ZEP fan i was blown away by the whole show, when came to maggot brain all i could be heard shouting was"eat your heart out hendrix"
jonocfc14 3 years ago
ah man you know jimi would've went straight ape-shit on something like this, 2nd to none
rudebuddhist 3 years ago
not knocking jimi, unreal guitarist,but unlike the other living legends (clapton gilmour etc)we can never know how far he would of gone. i believe he would of progressed to become even better but we shall never know.
jonocfc14 3 years ago 2
agreed, you know miles davis and he were set to put something down together. miles had that knack for bringing out the best in all whom played with him...just imagine
rudebuddhist 3 years ago
Free your mind & your ass will follow!
tapansinut 3 years ago 2
doin' it to you in ya earhole!
bienville44 3 years ago
Most Funkadelic is guitar driven, only one that comes to mind that reminds me of Parliament is the Uncle Jam album. I guess after a while the music became so much that the musicians didn't know if they were recording a parliament or Funkadelic.
sweatyspaghetti 3 years ago
yeah :(
Carabin33fr 3 years ago
PERFECTION! :)
bullbram 3 years ago
did zappa hear this then watermelon in easterhay!?
latinchicken 3 years ago
its just flat out badass that george clinton told eddie hazel to play first half of the song like his mother just died and the second half like he found out she was alive. pure emotion was put into this song.
jmanperson 3 years ago 3
I thank the forces in the universe for conspiring to coax this song into existance, all people responsible and all of their works - truly a masterpiece. I can't count how many times I've listened to this and will always love it.
*P-Funk sign* Funk on!
MaadSkillzUK 3 years ago
Eddie Hazel is a psyco guitarist .. Maggot Brain is the best rock/funk song ever
foolish123123 3 years ago 3
Both Hampton and Hazel play this song with so much soul it's unreal. You can hear the emotion in every fucking note!
PulseVidsOnline 3 years ago
Word to that!
I love all of the track, when he switches into this other style - at around 5:48 and 7:19 - I've a huge grin on my face.
Although I may never even get close this level of play, I hope before I leave this earth that I can learn to play this song - to map out it's greatness in my mind and bring it closer to my heart.
I truly love it! The guitar sings!!!!
MaadSkillzUK 3 years ago
me too!....
funadelic08 3 years ago
for sure! :)
bullbram 3 years ago
please yall dont forget george found this guy playin maggot brain note for note when he was 17 mind you .... this is the song that got him recruted into the funk mob ....ok bye
kamelgee 3 years ago
fucking insane
lorenrb 3 years ago
imagine jimi getting his hands on this song.
madog20 3 years ago
i don't think could improve it whatsoever, it would be interesting though.
DeathBySitar 3 years ago
jimi would have torn this here to pieces man good god i'd love to have heard that
rudebuddhist 3 years ago 2
That would've been scary ... to here Jimi play Maggot Brain....Whew!!!!
funadelic08 3 years ago
jimi wouldn't have done it. we move on, eg Prince album "sign o the times" had crap i meam rap b4 it became the norm.maggot brain is a forward movement on Hendrix guitar tech. but if he still lived would he b doing pink floyd or BB king?
jonocfc14 3 years ago
Michael is good, but I don't feel that same soul-flow that Eddie had when he played it. It's really not the same. There's not the DEPTH to it like when Eddie played it.
SarahRachel59 3 years ago
Why do every feel that Michael has to play like Eddie? Mike bring his own unique technical stlye to P-Funk. George was not looking for clones to play like each other He wanted a variance of players with thier own style. Boogie don't play like Billy Bass. Nor does he play like Skeet. Tyrone Lampkin don't drum like Tiki nor do Jerome drum like Dennis Chambers. The point being Mike brought what George was looking for at the time when he was recruting a guitarist. Mike is very good!
s4ujxm 3 years ago 3
I argee, check out the albums like, The Tales of Kidd Funkadelic, Let's take it to the Stage and Electric Spankings of the War Babies with Mike Hamptons smokin guitar solos.
Tio2006 2 years ago
Oh my goodness! One of the best versions I have seen by Michael. I wish I would have been there in the 70s.
Funkmusician 3 years ago
Wow, I remember we used to get so blasted at the backgate of our school, and this would come screaming out on someone's 1000 pound boombox YEAH! Thanks for this!!
rencyreg 3 years ago 2
joking lol
MUN7001 3 years ago
I'M SORRY, THAT IS ONE SILLY COSTUME
MUN7001 3 years ago