Maggot Brain - Funkadelic | College Student's' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

Unfreakingbelievable. Thanks guys. I guarantee, Bluesboy is turning it up. He’s wanted you to do this one forever. Here it is Bluesy!

This song played every Saturday at midnight on Cleveland radio for over 40 years.

RIP Eddie Hazel, one of the most overlooked and underrated guitarists of all time. His last recording for the band called, "good thoughts, bad thoughts" is another great piece of guitar work.

You nailed it Alex, supposedly, George Clinton asked hazel to play "like you just found out your mother died" Ten minutes of pain and suffering coming out of a guitar. One take.

One of the most beautiful songs EVER. Randomly brings me to tears.

One of the greatest guitar solos that I have ever heard. Eddie Hazel is one of the great guitarist on this song alone and deserves greater recognition than he has received.

I'm a 42 year old, 6'1" 265 lb bearded motorcycle riding truck driver and I cry EVERY TIME I hear this song. I even teared up watching this and thought "I shouldn't watch this. Anything less than an S and a couple tears isn't going to be enough for me". You guys got it though. So happy y'all finally got to it.

"You got to hit it to quit it" Listen to the whole album. This is desert island material. I wish I could see your faces as you go into the next song immediately after Maggot Brain. From one planet to another. And btw, if you find a girl that insists you listen to Maggot Brain, don't let her go.

After hearing this, their song “Who Says a Funk Band Can’t Play Rock Music” makes more sense

Funkadelic and Parliament had the same musicians, so they can be thought of as one band. Wherever you go next with them, you're likely to hear something very different from this one. "Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)" is probably their best-known song, and is as good a choice as any for where to go next. Also, I disagree with this recent trend of thinking you have to come to an agreement on the rating. You're 2 different people, so sometimes you'll have different opinions. I'd rather each of you say what you really think rather than one of you conforming to what the other one thinks.

A&A, you'll love their "One Nation Under a Groove" and Parliament's "Tear the Roof off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)"!!!. Both groups are associated with George Clinton

One of my favorite bands ever and they get no recognition. Totally unique, fun, powerful, and most of all funky.

Most folks don't remember the guitar brilliance of Eddie Hazel. His first solo album was one of the best albums I've ever heard. RIP Eddie "Maggot Brain" Hazel.

Whole album is a masterpiece of funked-up, groovy psychedelia

You guys could react to every song on the “Maggot Brain” album, the entire thing is excellent. The lyrics and the guitar work are stellar.

Suprised and Pleased boys! For the next 10 minute epic please consider "The World Is A Ghetto" from War. Much funkier with an even slower groove, you will appreciate the musicianship on that as well

Story was that George Clinton told Eddie Hazel to play the first half like his mother just died & the second half like he found out she was alive.

You guys just blew my freaking mind! I grew up thinking I was was a Funkadelic/Parliament fan... and I'm hearing this for the first time??? As a kid, I just thought of them as fun, FUNKY and outrageous, that they had just turned up the freak volume on the funky side of things. As I got older, I began to learn that they were a helluva lot more important than I was giving them credit for but still hadn't had the context. I probably couldn't get past the costumes. I'm now beginning to get a different taste of them and have a better appreciation for what they were actually bringing to the table. Big thanks for this one! It was an eye-opener for me! Totally seeing them in a new way.

Good & finally! Please continue down the Parliament/ Funkadelic rabbit hole. So many genres & innovations, all wrapped up in Funk. The whole Sir Nose D’Void of Funk journey is amazing.

I wish you guys could react to about 40 Parliament/Funkadelic songs lol...They are probably one of the top 2 or 3 most influential bands of the last 50 years.

I so appreciate your analysis! So many of the music “first time listening “ channels have little to nothing to say about what they have heard. Your thoughtful and intelligent responses are always fun!

"who says a funk band can't play rock music" "cosmic slop" "Testify" "Mommy, what's a funkadelic" "Hardcore Jollies" to name just a few more must plays from Funkadelic/Parliament

Too bad gone are the days of true Rock musicians... The world will never get to experience these times like we did as kids of the 60's - 70's🤘🤯😎

Per Wikipedia: According to legend, the 10-minute title track ("Maggot Brain") was recorded in one take when Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told guitarist Eddie Hazel to play as if he had been told his mother was dead: Clinton instructed him "to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him and let it out through his guitar." This album and "Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow" are excellent albums. Lots of great songs off of these two: "Free Your Mind's" title track, "Funky Dollar Bill," "Super Stupid," "Can You Get To That"....and then there's some later tracks like "Red Hot Mama," "(Not Just) Knee Deep" and "You Hit The Nail On The Head"...and some Parliament songs (with all the same band members) like "There Is Nothing Before Me But Thang," "Breakdown" and "Loose Booty." Lots of good stuff. And then there's the P-Funk material...there's no end to the good stuff that George Clinton's crew came up with. If you get a chance, try to find the "Tales From The Tour Bus" animated episodes (created by Mike Judge) on George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and the rest of all those crazy funk and country musicians.

I've had this song on my playlist for years but had never heard the spoken word introduction. I'm now thinking I need to hear the entire album.

Please listen to the long (album) version of Time Has Come Today by the Chambers Brothers.

Eddie Hazel just killin that guitar. Ringing out everything it has…. Song under appreciated, and yet influential, even if people don’t realize it…

Really happy that you guys enjoyed this. I saw them live and they were incredible! They performed a 27 minute version of Maggot Brain!

Whoa!! Instrumental guitar music (various genres) is one of my musical passions. This is a trip! 🎼 Thanks for the great reaction!

Yes! 🙌🏼 so glad you guys played this song. Love this band! I stumbled upon their music by accident and am so glad I did.

Was not what I was expecting! Teenage years, raised in O-TOWN in the 70’s . This was the biggest band in the black community!

So glad you guys did this reaction! I've been wanting someone to do Maggot Brain forever! Thank you so much! Love it

Three cheers to the late, great Eddie Hazel. Rest in power, brother.

People who lived in the Cleveland area in the 1970s and 1980s might remember that the radio station WMMS would play this song in its full length at 1:30 am on Saturday nights. It was for everyone leaving the bars to chill out to.

So, so freakin' glad that you finally hit this most inspiring guitar masterpiece that shot my understanding of 'soloing' to levels of magic. Thanks for this reaction ... an instant 'S' ... Eddie Hazel transcended and ascended with an amazing talent. Bang it!!

I can't believe it took me 51 years to discover this album! This Reaction Video was the first time I heard anything off it. I have since bought the album (and 1975's "Standing On The Verge of Getting It On) and have been listening to them nonstop since. Holy Shit, great stuff! Thanks, Andy & Alex!

Legit one of the best albums of all time!

Eddie Hazel's solo cover of California Dreamin' is on this level in a cheerier mood!

Nice choice fellas. Andy....your haircut looks good. Guys....please.. Time Has Come Today. You'll be lost in the whatever. I won't be on earth much longer. It's a bucket list thing for me.

Funkadelic and Parliament we're the same set of musicians under two different names, collectively known as "P-Funk". Ironically, they used the "Funkadelic" name for their more rock-based music, and Parliament was pure, uncut, funk. At some point, your need to hit "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)" or "P-Funk Wants To Get Funked Up". Heck, the album Mothership Connections should be a full-album reaction at some point.

Maggot Brain and Super Stupid both kick ASS, I love this song

A bassist I lived with when I was 20, love the P Funk and turned me onto it. He also get me into Return To Forever. They were a power progressive jazz band. Chick Corea, Lenny White, Al Di Meola, Jean Luc-Ponty, Gerry Brown and more. Their album Romantic Warrior is on my fav of all time. We saw Stanley Clark (the bassist) live. Love his song and album School Days Phenominal concert.

So yeah, Parliament and Funkadelic were two groups formed by George Clinton, with shared members between both. Funkadelic was more on the psychedelic rock end of things, while Parliament was more on the synthy funky end of things, though as time went on, the lines between the two kind of blurred, and you would have stuff by Funkadelic that might as well be a Parliament song, like "(Not Just) Knee Deep".

Y'all went into the music and got Baptized by the Funk! and It's still holding up after 51 years

Not familiar with Funkadelic at all except for seeing the name out there, but, damn! that was something really deep down being channeled through a guitar. It transcends just playing music in the same way that the Ravi Shankar song at the end of Moneterey Pop Festival did for me.

You said it took you back to something in your childhood? The story about the song is this. The group leader George Clinton before the recording said to the lead guitarist, Eddie Hazel to go within himself to play this song. Imagining if Eddie's mother had just died. He pour all that emotional lose into the song. So if you had that type of feeling listening to it, Eddie did what was intended. True story about the song! By the way Eddie's nickname was 'Maggot Brain'. Peace to All !!!

I bought this album before I went away to university, not knowing much about Funkadelic. Needless to say, it blew my mind. My faves on it are "Hit It & Quit It", "Super Stupid" and "Can You Get To That". You dove right into the (very) deep end, starting with "Maggot Brain". Parliament/Funkadelic is a deep hole to fall into.

Great choice. PF was kind of the evolution of the Isley Brothers. Combination of acid rock and pure funk. Unique.

This song taps into something real in people's emotions that's almost mystical. I always end up with tears in my eyes and then feeling such a release and joy and I can't explain why it hits so hard. It's one of the greats. Several of the live versions are simply incredible as well, including those by Michael Hampton (the original guitarist is Eddie Hazel).

This song is AMAZING!! Eddie Hazel a true unheralded guitarist. So glad you guys got a chance to hear it.

Great job A+A. I was thinking the late Floyd era myself. Hoping next time, you cover the band, Parliament, or George Clinton that it gets funkier like Give Up the Funk, We Want the Funk, Flashlight or Atomic Dog.

Eddie Hazel always make my list of most overlooked guitarist.

Eddie Hazel on guitar is brilliant, js.

Partied with them backstage twice, back in the day, even went to dinner before the show, great band, we got funkd up... lol Peace

in the early aughts my cover band got out of gigs about 1:20 am Saturday nights, and the classic rock radio station always was playing this as I started driving home through the quiet night of the city.

Eddie Hazel, that's the name for this classic rock masterpiece.

I am SOOOO happy that you guys finally gave this a listen. I first heard it as a 6th grader in 1972 after discovering the LP in my uncle's record collection. Eddie Hazel's guitar is full of so much raw emotion I swear it's taking a breath and screaming in pain. It certainly resonated with me for many years. The release is healing.

Their album America Eats It’s Young is a masterpiece. All of their influences seep in and it’s a banger. The most underrated rock band of the late 60’s and 70’s whose impact was huge. Check out Mike Judges Tales from the Tour Bus Season 2. Funkadelic/ Parliament/ Bootsy / George Clinton get covered and it’s awesome.

I saw these guys. Amazing. The crowd was like a Grateful Dead audience from outer space. I had on high top black military boots and boxing shorts. That's how I walked into the show. There were no chairs in the arena which was just a huge parking lot.

So glad you hit this song. It has always been in my music rotation.

Lol I've been binge watching your channel and thought to myself I can't wait till they find out about Funkadelic, it's only a matter of time.... And here we are!

Welcome to the guitar work of Eddie Hazel! He plays on my favourite cover of Gimme Shelter - check out Ruth Copeland's incredible 8 minute version. Maybe the only cover of that song that can hold a candle to the original

You just sit there in total disbelief of what you just heard... I've been listening to this track for about 45 years, and it still blows me away every time.

George Clinton asked Eddie Hazel to play the first half from the point of view that he had found out his mother had died, and the second half as if he had found out she was still alive. And Eddie did it!

The best song I personally like from funkadelics is " Free your mind and your ass will follow ". If you listen on the headphones it will blow you away!

Creation "Maggot Brain" was recorded in one take when George Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told guitarist Hazel during the recording session to play as if he had been told his mother was dead:[2] Clinton explained "I told him to play like his mother had died, to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him."[6] Though several other musicians performed on the track, Clinton largely faded them out of the final mix so that the focus would be on Hazel's guitar. Hazel utilized fuzz and wah effects, inspired by his idol Jimi Hendrix; Clinton subsequently added delay and other effects in mixdown, saying "I Echoplexed it back on itself three or four times. That gave the whole thing an eerie feel, both in the playing and in the sound effects."[6] Critics have described the solo as "lengthy, mind-melting" and "an emotional apocalypse of sound."[7] -wiki

Such a talented, unique and creative group. "Groovallegience" from One Nation Under a Groove was my intro to Funkadelic. At 14 I was certain I was somehow transcending coolness into a state of funkiness 😏

Growing up in Cleveland, “The Buzzard” WMMS 101FM, played MB every midnight on Friday nights. We used to meet at Neff Rd. Beach and every car had this blasting on their radios…those were the days! Any Euclid HS graduates out there?

What a great song. It was released in high school, and I can't think of any other song that could make a group of 16 year-olds totally shut up. (Of course we had to get in the right mind frame first.) The whole album was excellent

I saw them with Bod Dylan and The Black Crows. They have two great guitar players, one of them wore a diaper with big boots and big shades. The other wore a wedding dress. And of course George sported his signature rainbow colored wig. They stole the show. They would be a great band to play your birthday party. Musically they are so diverse and have a very entertaining stage show. They really are one of the all time great bands.

Now, you should check out Eddie Hazel’s version of “California Dreaming” from his album, “Dames, Games and Guitar Thangs”.

3 other songs from this album are definitely worth checking out. Can You Get To That is acoustic funk/soul, Hit It And Quit It and Super Stupid are funk rock

I...Love...this...song! I purchased this album in 1974 and was blown away. The lead guitar was played by the late, great Eddie Hazel. It denotes the Earth crying for its existence. Far out,yes?

Oh I can't believe you guys reacted to this! One of my all-time favourite instrumentals!

You could react to any song from Funkadelic's self titled album and Maggot Brain. They are awesome and sadly forgotten in their contribution to Rock and psychadelic music. They do get the credit they deserve from their later funk era contrabutions to funk and RnB, not to mention how many times they were sampled in hip hop and rap during the 80s and 90s, but overlooked when it comes to rock.

Finally, I've been requesting this song on so many different channels... thanks!

another winner, guys! next up Give Up the Funk (tear thebroof off the sucker) would be awesome!!

Finally, this is SO cool! Lots of emotions released from his guitar!

I feel like this song takes me through an auditory experience of all stages of grief. Sadness, anger, concession, despair, and acceptance.

Thanks again guys and for sharing with us. C- for me, I am happy that others like this, but I'm glad I don't ever have to listen to this again. Hope you have a wonderful week!!

"Mommy, What's a Funkadelic"

The very underrated Eddie Hazel on guitar. He is in the Rock and Roll of Fame. This is to me a more well known solo but I think he is even better on songs like " Red hot momma ", Coming round the mountain " and a cover the Beatles song " I want you ". He was a major influence on Prince. He is a master of changing tones at unusual times. He was a gym rat who played constantly but took no credit sometimes using his mother's name in writing credits.

I think you guys might be ready for the mahavishna orchestra. I would suggest one word from the birds of fire album. I've watched you guys mature. Best rock band of the 70s. No vocals. Total jazz Rock. Total Electric Mayhem. Total awesomeness. I dare you to listen and respond

I so often feel like Andy did here wondering if you guys are gonna dig a track that I love or not. Psyched you guys resonated with this. Parliament/Funkadelic is their own vast universe, and you could throw darts at the map of that universe all day and hit a different vibe every time. If you're interested in a song with a similar vibe to this by a different artist, then definitely check out Watermelon In Easter Hay by Frank Zappa. And for more extended space jams, definitely check out the German band Can.

You must listen to the live version. Eddie Hazel is just an incredible player. What a band.

Such a GREAT stoner tune. From what I understand, this was done in one take. I remember being sprawled out on Fred's living room floor, perfectly buzzed, and he says, "Hey, check this out." Fantastic guitar work. Cheers....

I felt that guitar it’s like it was talking to me

Next up should be Flashlight, completely different, but equally groundbreaking. James Brown and P Funk were the rhythmic genesis of much of hip hop from back in the days when sampling was still creative.

Thanks for bring this to my world Andy & Alex!!! Never heard of this band or song but I'm definitely going to do a deep dive them!

Amazing song with such a cool story behind it. Lili Hayden does an amazing live cover on violin that has to be heard.

OMG!!! This is one my wish list for you for OVER A YEAR! SEM~inal guitar work!! THANK YOU, FELLAS!!! Can't wait to watch! Stopping a game for this!! lol PS: Wanna try something else RIGHT in this vein... but a much MUCH deeper cut?? Sonny and Linda Sharrock: Black Woman. Say no more...

I'm afraid that now you have experienced the awe of Maggot Brain there is no going back, The box is now fully open!

FYI - That slow arpeggio you hear throughout this track (The acoustic or plucked guitar, as Alex put it), is actually the bass. Wow, huh? Cheers!

Yessssss! I’m so happy to see this! Next please check out Parliament’s “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker).” 🎶 we want the funk! 🎶

Over the years I've recommended so many young people to listen to Maggot Brain. This was at the bringing of the psychedelic funk phase. Another one to listen to is Axiom Funk - Orbitron Attack. This also features the late great Eddie Hazel. Typically I listen to this and then listen to Orbitron Attack with band featuring Bootsy on bass, Eddie Hazel, Jerome Bailey on drums, and Bernie Worrell on keyboards.

SUPERCALI FUNKADELIC EXPIALIDOCIOUS

Straight up classic. S-tier all the way. Not a song that's right for everybody all of the time, but there's damn sure nothing else quite like it.

That was like getting in a brand new yellow tractor and ploughing the fabric of the universe.

P-Funk's one of the slickest groups there ever was. You'd really be best off just grabbing a full album for a listen - "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow", "One Nation Under a Groove", "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein". They won't disappoint.

This is one of the few songs that is PERFECT no matter what genre you listen to. It completely blew me away when I first heard it back in the day. I am so glad you have now.