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Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance Posts: 23,308
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I'm listening to this album for the very first time. I've obviously been living under a rock for 38 years. Damn! What an awesome rock n' roll record!
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  • 2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance Posts: 23,308
    And now I get the "Maggot Brain" McCready cover. Damn. That's a long time to wonder what the fuck that was.
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  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    edited July 2016
    A ground breaking act Parliament Funkadelic. Just today listening to some Sly Stone songs I saw a video on the Story of Funk....One Nation Under A Groove. I clicked on it and in there from the beginning with James Brown to Parliament Funkadelic and their unique psychedelic sound.....Maggot Brain was featured. Even though it's more rock.....as the story goes George Clinton asked Eddie Hazel to play well here....


    The story on Maggot Brain is that George Clinton, out of his mind on Yellow Sunshine, told Hazel to play the first half of the song as if he had just heard that his own mother was dead, and then the second half as if he had found out she was alive. The result is beyond “astonishing” or “powerful” or anything else critics usually say; it’s an improvised composition, of both deep blues purity and cold, hard, futuristic vision. There is a band backing it, but it fades out (reputedly because they sounded shitty next to Hazel), and it’s pretty much just one man showing us what he’s made of. If you’ve heard it, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t, well, the record store is open and you just got paid.

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