Maggot Brain
A psychedelic apocalypse in funk form — Eddie Hazel's ten-minute guitar catharsis over cavernous space defines an album that predicted noise rock and post-rock by two decades, channeling post-1960s grief into the most devastating guitar performance ever recorded.
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Maggot Brain emerged from the wreckage of the 1960s dream — released the same year as Sly Stone's dark masterpiece There's a Riot Goin' On, it channeled the same disillusionment through psychedelic rock extremity rather than paranoid soul. Eddie Hazel's legendary title track solo — recorded after George Clinton told him to play as if his mother had died — became one of rock's most devastating performances. The album predicted noise rock, post-rock, and the guitar-as-catharsis approach that wouldn't fully emerge for another two decades.
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Funkadelic's psychedelic-rock extreme. Eddie Hazel's guitar solo on the title track is a ten-minute scream of grief, set against acid-drenched arrangements that owe as much to Hendrix and Cream as to James Brown.
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