Eddie Hazel - Maggot Brain (alternate mix, recorded in 1971) 

He was only 21 when he played this ... 21 OMG Talent ...

Legend has it when Eddie was finished his guitar asked for a cigarette.

Yessir the first time I heard this I was hooked. Them youngsters don't know good music

Chills down my spine! This will be played at my funeral

Eddie HAZEL one of the greatest guitar of all time 21 years old !!!! À GENIUS

I think this may the most soulful guitar solo I've ever heard, but without a doubt in the top 5; personally speaking.

I still have the original album from 1971 and still listening to it now✌🏴💀💯👍🎵👁👺👹✊

Back here........again. I don't really know how many times I have listened to this. This touches my heart. I'll be back again.

It was a great idea of George Clinton to fade out the other instruments almost completely and let Eddie Hazel's guitar stand alone. That's the difference between a very good song and a breathtaking and overwhelming song.

I loved listening to this as I sit in my Four Cornered Room

Everytime listening, every rendition, I find something new to relish.

nice when these rarities get uploaded for all to enjoy - thx

Greatest blues solo record of life EVER 🖤

Music historian Bob Gulla hailed it as an "iconoclastic funk-rock" record, featuring the best guitar playing of Eddie Hazel's career. Of course Maggot Brain album!

ASMR at various moments throughout. Not one thumbs down...because no one can dispute this legendary track. I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe, I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all or drown in my own shit...

Screams of pain. Trying to regain my sanity. Can't tell if this is helping or hurting. Either way, thanks Eddie.

I don't know whether to hold my breath or bow my head.

This is epitaph without words.

No words.... Just...... Wow.... Painfully beautiful.

Eddie was a grate man and awesome guitarist R.I.P brotha 🎸

This is completely mesmerizing, utterly brilliant, and if there is such a thing as an 'eargasm' i have one everytime this plays.

Simply.... legendary guitar BRILLIANCE!

Remarkable Eddie Hazel...

This is better than the album version

Great song ,in a perfect world I wish prince could have performed this as a tribute !!

NEVER gets old

"Maggot Brain" is a song by the band Funkadelic. It appears as the lead track on their 1971 album of the same name. The original recording of the song, over ten minutes long, features little more than a spoken introduction and a much-praised extended guitar solo by Eddie Hazel. Music critic Greg Tate described the song as Funkadelic's A Love Supreme; the song is #60 on the Rolling Stone list of 100 Greatest Guitar Songs. Reportedly, "Maggot Brain" was Hazel's nickname. Other sources say the title is a reference to band leader George Clinton finding his brother's "decomposed dead body, skull cracked, in a Chicago apartment. Michael Hampton (Hazel's replacement as lead guitarist) recorded his own interpretation of the song in 1978, which was included in a bonus vinyl EP that was distributed with the album One Nation Under a Groove; the cut is also included in most CD editions of that album.

Listen to this in a dark room with a glass of Jack Daniels x

%0 years later and still SICK, whatever the take Get the original mix also and dig PURE BLUES for yo' ass. Hazel!!!

This man can jam

Damn i was 1 years old when this came out.

I seen Funkedelic in Detroit at the Joe Louis arena back in the 70s....maggot brain was awesome.

Eddie MF Hazel!!!

Funkin' outta this world brilliant. Haven't heard it in a while. No shower for me.

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 thanks Eddie 🙌

ALL RESPECT TO KID FUNKADELIC, HE PERFECTED IT. BUT EDDIE MADE AND CREATED THIS MONSTA.

Always reminds me why I picked up the guitar, Eddie Hazel!!!!!!!

FLY ON!

I remember first time hearing this.

Wish I could've experienced the 60s and 70s. That really seems like where I'd fit in. Maybe I was alive back then. Who knows. I could've died, gone to heaven, and been reincarnated as me now.

sometimes i have to go back to that dark place, it reminds me of what ive been through, how violent a man can become, shout out to my brothers until we meet up again, hey they were all bad guys

First time I've heard this version. IMHO, it's better than the album version.

I actually really enjoy this too, and you have to remember even if the other instruments sound a little strange compared to the version of the song were used to, they had to have influenced how Hazel played when they recorded so its just as important as the solo he produced

timeless, priceless, awesomeness

magique merci obrigado thanks

This redeems the existence of the internet.

Space Forever☺️☺️😊

He was 19 years old✌

Very Heavy!

It is very interesting to hear his solo in the context of what he was hearing and without the additional processing of the original release. The percussion, congas, and (I'm guessing) celeste were distracting.

One of the best

Yessss

He got that out his system

I wanna hear Michael Winslow do "Maggot Brain" (if he hasn't done so already, that is)!

eddie rips ! so under rated

Brilliant....

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He play Maggots Brain with all his heart and soul

Makes me crazy !!

More cowbell! Love it

Simply put.....THE SHIT !!! Best ever, not to mention his incredible solo material.

TOP DRAWER !!!

Drôle affaire!

Fantastic!

My got !!!

Gets me every time!! I have been listening to this song since I saw Pearl Jam perform it 1995. Check that out, Mike does it justice.

see also: Time Away - Back Street Crawler (Paul Kossoff)

4:20 if im die one day, im want to listen this part in the way of heaven

I heard Eddie asked George how he should play it.....George told him to play it like his mama just died...

The title comes from from George Clinton finding his brother dead in his apartment, with maggots crawling throughout his head. The song is a scream. Eddie Hazel got the nickname Maggot Brain because he owned it, he defined and created the experience. This song reminds me of Pet Sounds, first time you hear it this ain't shit and you forget it. It's the sort of music that comes to life when you do too.

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Eddie and Bernie turned this out.

icimden gecti be

less is more.

lol why do the drums all sound like they were recorded in 1986

the other funkadelic might not have liked it but I'm glad George faded them out Bernie sounds out of it Billy would complain about how George ripped them.off

I hop W M M S out of Cleveland Ohio. DiD Play MAGGOT BRAIN every Saturday Night 2:00 AM

One of the best covers performances. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-APP6-4i_pR4.html

Truly the oldest guitar shred I know of.

I see why george faded out the band bernies doing some asian chit and it doesnt really fit and tiki sounds like hes going to drop dead any minute but not bad though

Lovely music, the cock rockesque guitar weakens it. Check out 4.20-6.20.

This is NOT the original Maggot Brain! This sounds more like Mike Hampton than it does Eddie Hazel.

I never liked Hendrix much. Great player, but his music is junkie music. I never listen to Hendrix. Hazel is so much better to listen to. Now I also listen to Tash Sultana . If you like Hazel you'll like Tash. They come from the same place musically