Wow. This is such a great album. This one is an absolute classic. Up there with Maggot Brain and Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow. Except this one may be a little more consistent. Funkadelic had two phases. The First was the spaced out funk rock of Their first five or six albums and the second was the brilliant dance era of One Nation Under A Groove and Uncle Jam Wants You. But the second phase lacked one element that maybe made it abit more tame than the first and that is the brilliant psychadelic freak out guitar work of Eddie Hazel. The man is obscenely overlooked as a guitar player. He can make my hair stand on end. He's a true original and deserves so much more attention. Anyone unfamiliar with early Funkadelic won't be disappointed if choosing to buy any of their albums. Props to George Clinton for being the visionary he is.
Posted on 10/25/2006
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I don't know if I have a favorite Funkadelic or Parliament period, but i've been grooving to the songs "If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause" and "No Head, No Backstage Pass" lately. And you are so right that more people should know about Eddie Hazel.
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I know this is old, but I was curious to see if many others had written anything about the mighty Funkadelic. You talk about Eddie Hazel, but ironically America Eats Its Young is the album where he started a sabbatical. His guitar appears on only one song, the title track. It was an odd album -- neither rocking nor funky, assembled chaotically over two years with 40 musicians. I may have written some about it in my longish Funkadelic tribute. It had couple great tunes ("Loose Booty," "Pussycat"), but definitely not as consistent as their other albums up to Tales of Kidd Funkadelic. And other than a possible contribution to Cosmic Slop's "Let's Make It Last," Hazel doesn't really return until the absolutely smoking Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, where he co-wrote every single song. After the first three classics, that's the one to get to hear Hazel. The remaster includes "Vital Juices," a nice showcase of the interplay between him and Ron Bykowski.