Eddie Hazel just absolutely shreds and grooves this jam to pieces. I know this vid has been recycled a million times on here, but I just love it so much I had to post it myself
Eddie Hazel is criminally underrated. That tone and groove is so beautiful to listen to and savor. Eddie out there, painting fucking rainbows with that guitar. Sheer euphoric bliss!!
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.
This is what it's all about. The groove and feel is as good as it gets. Eddie is ripping it yet playing with brilliant control within that irresistible back beat. Nothing like it today.
um, no - but he was a good player, but he did not have the imagination, technique, composition-genius or pure fuel that was the immortal James Marshall Hendrix
@@7777Scion u sir are wrong. have u ever heard maggot brain that shit is all improvised George Clinton told Eddie to just go in the studio and play like ur mom just died and maggot brain is what u get.. so tell me Eddie doesn't have creativity
I know, right? 😂 And he effortlessly scats to match it, too! Utter brilliance from a true master of the Stratocaster and legendary Fender bender! Everybody who loves great guitar should know and revere the greatness of Eddie Hazel.
It's a shame there aren't that many more awesome clips of Eddie Hazel like this one floating around. His soulful command of his instrument is a joy to watch!
@@LaJolieFemmeNoire I think you're right on the money there! So George calls Eddie up front to "talk to the people," and Eddie is positively delighted to do so. He then proceeds to let loose a couple of minutes of fire and fury, "taking no prisoners," then starts to head back again. But no, George is right there, encouraging him to go on, so Eddie obliges and *then* some! Eddie cuts loose with some *incendiary* guitar riffs...I mean, bombs are going off all *over* that guitar...then all of a sudden, George wants him to "shut the f*** up," and tries to put him back in his place?🤬 He's lucky it was Eddie and not me, 'cause if I were playing like I were possessed by the beast of all guitar gods and someone tried to shut me down like that, he'd have needed a proctologist to remove my foot from his @$$!🤣 Fortunately for George, Eddie was *both* much more talented and much humbler than me, so he fades back again...although not before firing off a few more serious bombs as a final "f*** you," to George!😉 I've shared the stage with some truly great talents in my day, which is why I know that when someone's blowin' *that* hot and heavy, the last thing you should *ever* do is shut them up! Just have the band keep vamping a while longer, and let 'em do their thing while they're at the pinnacle of "heavyosity!" So you're damned right that George hurt Eddie that night! I've almost quit bands over lesser insults, and I'm nowhere near the beast of a player that the late, great and dearly missed Eddie Hazel was!♥️
When Eddie Hazel is on, he's on! Big ups to Kidd "Michael Hampton" Funkadelic and the legion of funkateer guitar players...Give it to 'em Blackbyrd, Gary, Glen, Ron...man what a treat it has been.
There is a tendency for certain people to dismiss Michael Hampton as inferior to Eddie Hazel, like you can't have two bad ass brothers on stage, let alone maybe three or four. George Clinton said that himself "they don't really want to acknowledge that there is more than one bad brother up there, they gotta pick only one". If you listen to all the FUNKADELIC guitarist they have different styles. Eddie was very soulful, Michael is more rock "Blackbyrd" can get jazz fusionist on a MF. Believe me they all do they "Thangs n' Stuff" 🤘
@@Duane-tl2zc I'm not throwing any shade at Kidd. He was and is a fantastic player. I don't think anyone would want to follow something like what Eddie did in this video. And then George calls on him!
I had admired this Awesome Guitarist for years, so you can imagine my absolute joy in getting the chance to perform in his band, however short lived! Absolute BadAss!!!
Took me watching this the hundred or so times that I have to realize it, but thats actually Glen Goins' guitar that Eddie's shredding on! They were close and it was given to him after Glen died two years prior to this. I'd recognize it anywhere
Who says Funk bands can't play rock? Allow the late Mr. Eddie Hazel on the guitar solo demonstrate for us how it's done, a professional musician indeed.
Eddie is one of my all time favorites, but saying "Jimi Who" is extraordinary absurd. Every bird on this planet copied Jimi Hendrix in every way after the pioneer past, and that's a fact. This is magnificent playing by a legend Eddie Hazel.
Copied u say? You know it is a such thing as being influenced by an individual, and actually take and improve base on what they started. That's certainly what individuals did, after Hendrix pass on. Lets not act like he himself wasn't influenced by people like chuck berry, BB king, elmore james.
@@willthomas2310 everybody influenced everybody nothing new under the sun jimi took what he learned.from.the blues guys and took it to the next level just like eddie took jimis influenced and added his own flavor to it thats what real musicians do they learn from their predecessors than they take it to the next level and influence the next generation eddie influenced countless musicians and bands
Eddie Hazel was put on this earth so that we could all witness what supreme talent is.Hendrix had nothing on EH.One of my goals in life is to make sure all generations after mine know about the people who trailblazed and started the whole hipness thing and learn of the otherwordly talents of people like Eddie,Bernie Worrell,Tiki Fullwood and others like Rick James,James Brown,Ray Charles,Earth Wind and Fire,Rufus w/Chaka,Brothers Johnson,The Blackbyrds,Miles Davis,'Trane,these cats can never die
I love Hendrix man but I agree, Eddie did what Hendrix did, rapidly interchanging rhythm and lead, but he always stayed in the pocket; some people don't realize just how difficult and dynamic his playing was... but if you know you know, you know?
I love, dig and worship Eddie Hazel, but to try to dismiss the seminal and groundbreaking guitar God that is Jimi Hendrix….that is clueless on a criminal scale and completely ignorant to just how important, influential and inspiring Hendrix was.
That comment was written Waaayy.. outside the time frame most knowledgable You Tube comments/commenters are “called out “ on I have literally written 10,000 to 12,000 comments over the last 15 Years and am one of the most thumbed up commenters on YT not bragging just saying but since I took the time to comment to you I will (normally after one year you don’t directly comment to the commenter)it’s an unwritten thing .But yes nothing may have been a little over the top but at that time I was listening to a lot of EH’s work so I was being biased at that time but that was ten years ago go back and think about what you did or said a decade ago 2 and a 1/2 graduating college classes ago or your five year old from playing with hot wheels to texting girls and worrying about getting pimples
It baffles me as to why Eddie Hazel is rarely mentioned in music circles by anyone except the most avid guitarists. I never hear non musicians (music fans) talk about him. That's a crime! He should be as well known as Hendrix, Clapton, Vaughan, etc. He was a blues guitarist through and through, but managed to blend his blues style into the funk music of Parliament and make it sound phenomenal!
@@wilbertkendal2524 what a shockingly inane and clueless comment. I said "...that nobody seems to be AWARE OF". Everybody knows of Hendrix, genius. Also, Hendrix was a huge fan of Rory Gallagher. Hendrix spoke very highly of him. This is well documented and common knowledge. Trying to make this about "black masters" is childish and embarrassing. Nobody calls Clapton and Beck "white masters".
Is this whole concert online somewhere? I would love to see the whole performance. This is the best video I've seen of Eddie playing a solo. This is really nice.
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.
Me to I love them all Tiki Fullwood and Bernie Worrell are also very awesome musicians-I love Maggot Brain,Cosmic Slop and Hardcore Jollies those are my favorites
If I had my druthers these are the guitarists if like to see jamming together, of course I'm afraid I'll have to wait till after that long trip home.... Eddie Hazel, Terry Kath, Jimi H., Alvin Lee, Brian May, Jimmy P., Duane, Rory, Eddie, & Glen Campbell. One extreme to the other, but all these cats have what it takes and a lot more. God Bless them all!
Yes there will always be those that we remember as innovators and who spawned music for years to come but the blasphemy is the comparison of musicians. Just enjoy the moment for what it is and let every great musician shine when it's their turn.
When I lived in Sherman Oaks I met Eddie at the liquor store and he was riding his bike and he and I started talking and I invited him to come over since I lived next door and that started a friendship that lasted until the day he moved back to New Jersey . But guess what for the first week or so I did not know what he did and so I finally asked him and he told me and then later I was in his apt and a guitar was sitting in it's stand so I asked him to play for me and he picked it up and picked on it for 15 sec and put it back. Well I still did not know anything about him and it was not until after his death that I started researching him and I came to this conclusion and that is I am a dumb ass . I had him as a friend in the palm of my hand and I never questioned him hard enough for him to tell me all about himself. Because if I had I would have taken the steps to video him and photograph him and make a documentary about his life but I just did not know and I have been sad ever since. I can tell you he was a damn cool guy and I loved having him as a friend and I miss my friend today
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!
