andykeen said:

I'm glad u have discovered this. Yeah, it's by a great band called Funkadelic and it was released in 71 from the album "Maggot Brain". Please, don't get me started about Eddie Hazel, that cat that played the lead on the track, cuz I'll go on forever. I'll just simply say, Eddie is one of my main influences as a guitarists.

This is an old, well known to many, Funkadelic classic.



The guitar playing is more a tribute to Jimi Hendrix than Prince.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

blackguitaristz said:

It's no doubt that u may think of P when u heard this, because this has influenced P's playing. But, Hendrix was Hazel's influence AND inspiration on this. And for good measure, if u listen to Hazel's playing, there is a big nod to Santana as well, who again was greatly influenced by Jimi. So, u see, it all traces back to Hendrix at the end of the day.

u arent ready for Funkadelic yet...

I LOVE THIS SONG!
the first time i heard my jaw litterally dropped and damn near stayed like that the whole 10mins...its amazing

TheRealFiness said:

LOL y not?

Moonwalkbjrain said:

Yep i felt the same brother!

theAudience said:

Moreless Funkadelic set the bar when they dropped Maggot Brain. It took Rock to the next level and won't ever be an group that can do this again.

andykeen said:

Hell Yeah, it's a Classic.

blackguitaristz said:

Is Santana really that influenced by Hendrix? I don't think their playing is so much alike.

I've got the live version on their One Nation Under A Groove, remastered CD. I don't have to Maggot Brain album, and don't know the songs on it, but all I know is Funkadelic funkin' rules, so you wont regret gettin any records by them!

calldapplwondery83 said:

Carlos Santana was very influenced by Hendrix. It's more of an influence in spirit than actual playing style.

Excerpts from a Carlos Santana interview on the subject of Jimi Hendrix in Univibes (1995)...

"I'm sure he did it many times but I only saw him do it one time were he where the guitar became like an Aurora Borealis and all this colours of sound were screaming out of it even though he wasn't putting his fingers on it. That's kinda like invoking ghosts or something and that's my favourite part that I miss about Jimi is when he would open up certain channels and let certain demons and angels dance together, you know what I mean - that it was beyond 'B' flat or 'C' flat. That's when it's music to me. Anybody can play music just like anybody can think. Very few people are conscious and very few people can do something beyond the note. So thank God that Jimi had that kind of spirit that...the foundation was the blues but he also was a very cosmic person [laughs]."


"You know to this day I haven't heard anybody... I mean, I heard a lot of people pick up what Jimi completed or he was doing but I haven't heard anybody complete it or really pick it up. Not only from the volume or the approach to the sound or the tone but the philosophy behind it... Jimi didn't just play like that because he could strangle a Stratocaster or a Marshall, he played like that because he saw it a certain way and he took certain things that made his spirit be stronger upon his playing. Otherwise, anyone could do it - you just pick it up, lift it off from the CDs, you know, or the records. No, you had to have some kind of thing like the Blues Brothers' mission from God or something, you know. But you have to have some kind of inner fueling, inner anger or inner passion, some kind of really, really emotional spill-over on your playing otherwise it won't sound like that even if he had the same amplifier and the same guitar and everything - it still won't sound that way. I crave to try to create an album that basically goes that way, more like Sun Ra and Sonny Sharrock and Jimi Hendrix, you know, with a little bit of lyrics and very little vocals but mainly the electric guitar and the Hammond organ and the congas. Tell stories of interplanetary or galactical or celestial time rather than just earth time. I think that's what Jimi Hendrix used to call 'Sky Church Music'."


"Music that is not necessarily to sell lollipops or trucks or beer or anything like that. You know, it's music to pick up hearts like a crane and put hearts in a different place because a lot of hearts, they're like in a swamp, you know, and guitars are like cranes to pull people's hearts from self-imposing misery [laughs]. How's that?! And then they put them in a place where people can fly and say... You know, I used to be a loser because I learnt how to play guitar from this person or that person, Sonny Sharrock or Jimi Hendrix and now I feel like I'm a winner because everytime I play in a certain place I can tell that I command the attention without having to be phoney or flash. In other words, the music of Hendrix and people like that wake people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. What Jimi did, the electric guitar was an extension of his goals and his goals were like to literally live in a world that wasn't screwed up like it was in the '60s. When every time you turn around Martin Luther King, or someone really important, was getting shot. All of Jimi Hendrix's music tells a tale of the '60s and also of the future."


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Hotlegs said:

Tell em' Legs!!!
"Super Stupid" is the reason to buy this album....

andykeen said:

"we"?

TheRealFiness said:

Some will never be ready.

andykeen said:

No offence, but when I first saw your question, I thought you must be either young, or not from the USA because The Funkedelics and/or Parliment has been the standards of the funk for over thirty years! Their bands went under several different names over the years, but George clinton is the ringleader of all... No matter the name their songs are all classics: Knee Deep, One nation under a groove, Flashlight.... Snoop Dogg and other rappers have been ripping off their music for years!! ("Let me Ride"... "Snoop Doggy Dogg, What's my name?" to name a few... Do yourself a favor and go out and buy a few cd's.. you almost can't go wrong with any of their recordings!

Get their first three albums..
Then take it from there....

funkpill said:

Last year, I got into the "rock" years of FUNKADELIC and I honestly am WOWED by them! They are awesome! It is sad they dont get the props for their innovation....I currently only own "Standing On The Verge" and the "Funkadelic" album but Im steadily building my collection..they are mind boggling!

Excellent album. Eddie Hazel was the fucking man! Now you'll see where Primal Scream got their schtick from.

LoveAlive said:

Grab "Cosmic Slop" while you at it...

NWF said:

I think Eddie was at his best when he performed "Super Stupid"..
Sheer genius....

Shhh... I hear ya'll ...and

.."Everybody's on tha 1"

.."say sumthin naasty"

theAudience said:

Thanks, tA, for posting that. I havent yet seen or read a copy of "Univibes" ,but it sounds like a great mag.

funkpill said:

Tell'em about it Funk.