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CJ's Lounge

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^^^^ Who? Is? This? :thumbs:
 
Alway's a great place to visit after a long grueling round of golf. Everything's on tap, all the booze you'd want, and the broads are gorgeous at CJ's.

Then there's Curt & I...

But I like this tune a lot, so I thought, hey, live version!

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Eddie Hazel, best guitarist never spoken of.
 
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Edward Earl "Eddie" Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was a guitarist in early funk music in the United States who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. Hazel was a posthumous inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.

Biography

Early life

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950, Hazel grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey because his mother, Grace Cook, wanted her son to grow up in an environment without the pressures of drugs and crime that she felt pervaded New York City. Hazel occupied himself from a young age by playing a guitar, given to him as a Christmas present by his older brother. Hazel also sang in church. At age 12, Hazel met Billy "Bass" Nelson, and the pair quickly became close friends and began performing, soon adding drummer Harvey McGee to the mix.

Career

In 1967, The Parliaments, a Plainfield-based doo wop band headed by George Clinton, had a hit record with "(I Wanna) Testify." Clinton recruited a backing band for a tour, hiring Nelson as bassist, who in turn recommended Hazel as guitarist. Hazel was in Newark, New Jersey working with George Blackwell and couldn't be reached. After Nelson returned from the tour, he tried to recruit Hazel. His mother at first vetoed the idea since Hazel was only seventeen, but Clinton and Nelson worked together to change her mind.

In late 1967, The Parliaments went on tour with both Nelson and Hazel. In Philadelphia Hazel met and befriended Tiki Fulwood, who quickly replaced The Parliaments' drummer. Nelson, Hazel and Fulwood became the backbone of Funkadelic, which was originally the backup band for The Parliaments, only to later become an independent touring group when legal difficulties forced Clinton to temporarily abandon the name "Parliaments"
The switch to Funkadelic was complete with the addition of Tawl Ross and Bernie Worrell (rhythm guitar and keyboards, respectively). Funkadelic (1970), Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow (1970) and Maggot Brain (1971) were the first three albums, released within two years. All three albums prominently featured Hazel's guitar work.

The third album's title song, "Maggot Brain", consists of a ten-minute guitar solo by Hazel. Clinton reportedly told Hazel during the recording session to imagine he had been told his mother was dead, but then learned that it was not true. Music critic Greg Tate described it as Funkadelic's A Love Supreme. In 2008, Rolling Stone cited this as number 60 on its list of 100 greatest "guitar songs" of all time.

Nelson and Hazel officially quit Funkadelic in late 1971 over financial disputes with Clinton, though Hazel contributed to the group sporadically over the next several years. The albums America Eats Its Young (1972) and Cosmic Slop (1973) featured only marginal input from Hazel. Instead, Hazel began working with The Temptations (along with Nelson), appearing on 1990 (1973) and A Song for You (1975).

For the 1974 Funkadelic album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Hazel co-wrote all of the album's songs. On six of those songs the songwriting credit was in the name of Grace Cook, Hazel's mother. In 1974, Hazel was indicted for assaulting an airline stewardess and an air marshal,[3] along with a drug possession charge. While he was in jail, Clinton recruited Michael Hampton as the new lead guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic to replace Hazel.

In the next several years, Hazel appeared occasionally on Parliament-Funkadelic albums, although his guitar work was rarely featured. One song that featured Hazel's lead guitar is "Comin' Round the Mountain" on Hardcore Jollies (1976). In 1977, Hazel recorded a "solo" album, Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs, with support from other members of Parliament-Funkadelic, including vocals from The Brides of Funkenstein. He was completely absent from One Nation Under a Groove (1978), Funkadelic's most commercially successful album. Hazel made another prominent appearance in "Man's Best Friend" on the George Clinton album Computer Games (1982).

On December 23, 1992, Hazel died from internal bleeding and liver failure. "Maggot Brain" was played at his funeral.

Legacy

Three collections of unreleased recordings have been released posthumously: The 1994 four-song EP Jams From the Heart (which Rhino Records later added as bonus material to its rerelease of Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs), 1994's Rest in P and 2006's Eddie Hazel At Home.
Other recordings by Hazel have appeared on albums by other musicians. Several albums produced by Bill Laswell, including Funkcronomicon (released under the name Axiom Funk, 1995) have featured Hazel's guitar. Bootsy Collins has also incorporated recordings of Hazel in some of his recent releases, for example, "Good Night Eddie" on Blasters of the Universe. The band Ween recorded a tribute to him called "A Tear for Eddie" on their album Chocolate And Cheese. There is an image of Hazel on the back of Primal Scream's album Give Out But Don't Give Up.
Hazel has been featured on a number of lists of greatest guitarists of all time. He was 43 on the list of Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time and was ranked at 88 in a similar list by Uncut Magazine.

Discography

From Eddie Hazel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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^^^^ From that YouTube's information:

Resurrected by Bill Laswell from the studio cutting room floor, this is Eddie Hazel at his best. The liner notes credit Grace Cook as the guitarist, but as any Funkateer knows, that's Eddie's mom's name, used to ensure she'd get the royalties. Bernie Worrell is on keyboards, and the mix is by Bill Laswell.
 
Yup! Thanks, Curt. That pretty much said it all. :winkfinger:

This is always good lounge music...drink in one hand, broad in the other, hey it's early yet!

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^ Nice.

Hey, although I was a vegetarian for 18 months I strayed back to hamburgers and hotdogs. :thumbs: Regardless, I'd watch this video over and over while eating my next steak!

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:D
 
Curt James said:
^ Nice.

Hey, although I was a vegetarian for 18 months I strayed back to hamburgers and hotdogs. :thumbs: Regardless, I'd watch this video over and over while eating my next steak!

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:D
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Vida's looking hot as usual all nekkid. oooo la la!

Even though I didn't hear a word she uttered.

But damn, I coulda went all day not seeing that Chinchilla being slammed on the deck like that, or being clubbed to death.

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This is more along the lines of what Curt listens to.

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IronAddict said:
Vida's looking hot as usual all nekkid. oooo la la!

Even though I didn't hear a word she uttered.

But damn, I coulda went all day not seeing that Chinchilla being slammed on the deck like that, or being clubbed to death.
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True. :sorry:
 
I'm surprised not to see a little Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Beatles ect in here Curt. :thinking:

Whatchya got?
 
Ramstein, Germany been there. Actually landed at the at the base en route to Landstuhl Medical Center. Oooh, to reminisce.

Hardcore, eh?

Oh, what the hell, somebody needs to be hit by a bottle up in this mug, anyways!...


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Nice selection, Curt. You can't go wrong with a lot of their stuff. I was lucky enough to have witnessed the Dire Straits era however the other bands would have been great to have witnessed in their heyday.
It takes something special to become a band that will never be forgotten.


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