New York 1992, The Crunch with T.M. Stevens, Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell, Crystal Talifero, Larry Mitchell, Tony Smith. Brings the P-Funk classic Red Hot Momma
Top Notch players,one & all. To hell with the American Idol,pre-packaged plastic poop that passes for music nowdays. Eddie Hazel was one of the BEST of the best,right up there with the pantheon of household-word guitar gods.He could SMOKE half of them if he wanted to.Proof that talent alone is no guarantee of mass recognition and vice-versa.
Check out Jerome Rodgers. He just retired as keyboardist from the pfunk about 3 months ago. He is a sick guitar player too! He was my guitar player in West Palm Beach back in 2009. He was taught guitar by Eddie Hazel and he loves LOVES Angus Young and AC/DC. I miss my brother...
Larry Mitchell ....king of the underground axe men. ....shares it with the Original Master Blaster , who died only months later. If EH only knew how many great players would eventually name him as their greatest influence.......
now that i'm finally watching this in the right context (understanding when Eddie left us) this has become an ultimately important piece of video. bushtales is representing the funk in a big way as we have come to love and expect. larry mitchell is fricken awesome and he was showing some super humility and respect to the Maggot Overlord. thanks to all involved. throw up your funk sign and celebrate the best of the best.
If this is 1992 Eddie Hazel passed away soon after this-nothing but legends on that stage.Eddie is still very missed by his fans, man that dude was as badass as they come.Thanks for this upload it is absolutely amazing to see this, I will watch this daily.
I am so sorry I spent my better years listening to what I thought were some of the best guitarist, and I find Eddie Hazel way too late, listening to him play, I can say without any doubt, he was the very essence, the fountainhead of guitar rock&soul inspiration. Man, I missed the boat on that one.
Tom Keefe I won tickets to a P Funk show in 77'. I had never heard of them and Mom said no way anyhow. I was 11 then. like you, here is were I discovered what I was missing all this time....
thank you for posting this I just want to say that I've been a funkadelic fan ever since the early seventies kind of lost touch with Eddie Hazel but this is really amazing I totally agree with everything he's playing it's just candy for my ears thank you very much again for putting this up
There's a lot of 80's hair metal flair in this performance, which was cool in its own right at the time, but when Eddie plays...even when it's through a very hair metal, I think Kramer guitar, he brings the funk back. It's the feel that's the most important, and Eddie played the guitar so beautifully. I still don't know why he's not in top guitarists of all time polls!
My music professor has an album with Larry Mitchell and he's performed at our school multiple times. I stumbled upon this video by chance looking up Eddie Hazel videos and how no idea that Larry Mitchell played with him.
Eddie Maggot Brain Hazel if you really want to check him out go to games Dames and guitar thangs and listen so you can hear the true guitar player for the Funkadelics standing on the verge of getting it on Red Hot Mama Allison your fantasy so on and so on and so on rest in peace Eddie
Jimi Hendrix didn't invent a Rock sounding Guitar, Chuck Berry did that... Jimi invented the FUNK Sounding Guitar. Eddie Hazel and Michael Hampton just confirms it.
@mlhayes91 Thanks 4 noticing.... i never saw any other footage or heard other music by Larry Mitchell... would be cool to have him perform on school... you're so lucky!.... Peace
Eddie Hazel was the Funkadelic Michael Hampton he's okay but his guitar playing has no comparison to Eddie Maggot Brain Hazel just go back and listen to the early Funkadelics and Funk George Clinton yeah just go back and listen to super stupid and then try to compare Michael Hampton to Eddie Hazel
You could tell he was on his last leg being A Eddie hazel fan that was the worst session I have a saw and heard him do until he was on his way out by looking at him he had to have help on his guitar solos any just didn't sound the same like old ed
Eddies health was getting to him all the surgery he was doing and the drugs he was doing he was killing himself surprised he made it long ad he did one guy told me he thought Eddie died in the 70s anyway Eddie was becoming a recluse and forgotten in his days with George gotta admit some might not like the way George treated Eddie but at least George kept him employed it was hard for funk musicians to work in the 80s and plus Eddie was a team player he couldn't really shine in a group where u had George hogging everything then you had mike and blackbyrd, and Garry shider who had more spotlight than Eddie maybe it was either the drugs or his health was getting to him
+Gary Thompson I don't agree but I feel ya. but as a working musician myself I will say that their will be a not so good night, and I've seen Eddie countless of times and this may not be one of his better performances and that's depending on what side of the fence you're on with this performance but let's not get it twisted Eddie didn't need help from ANYBODY !!!
I don't know what you're hearing, but given the fact that his guitar was malfunctioning, Eddie came through in a Crunch and delivered a ripping solo. I believe that the date on this performance is incorrect. This was 1991 from what I remember. Eddie was in much better shape during this time. I happened to witness one of Eddie's last performances. With Parliament-Funkadelic at the Ritz in Manhattan on September 20th, 1992. Even in poor health, Eddie pulled out one of the best versions of Maggot Brain that I've ever heard.
