Hazel also sang in church. Clinton reportedly told Hazel during the recording session to imagine he had been told his mother was dead. [13] The band Ween recorded a tribute to him called "A Tear for Eddie" on their album Chocolate And Cheese. [7][11] He was completely absent from One Nation Under a Groove (1978), Funkadelic's most commercially successful album. [17], Nick Cave named him one of his favorite guitarists.
22K likes. [1], For the 1974 Funkadelic album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Hazel co-wrote all of the album's songs. [19] He played a variety of guitars including Gibsons, but is best known as a player of Fender Stratocasters.
[12], On December 23, 1992, Hazel died from internal bleeding and liver failure. Asked about effects, Clinton said, "Eddie started right out learning the pedals—the wah wah, the Big Muff, and phasers and shit. Questa pagina è stata modificata per l'ultima volta il 28 dic 2019 alle 11:31. Chiudendo questo banner, scrollando la pagina acconsenti all'uso dei cookie. [1] One song that featured Hazel's lead guitar is "Comin' Round the Mountain" on Hardcore Jollies (1976).
William "Billy Bass" Nelson (born January 28, 1951) is a U.S. musician, who was the original bassist for Funkadelic.He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.. Career. 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. Photo by Aldo Mauro. [4] His typical setup included a Marshall 100-watt amplifier,[20] MXR Phase 90 phaser, Echoplex, Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone, and a Dunlop Cry Baby wah, and in his later days with P-funk a Music Man HD-130 amplifier. [1], In late 1967, the Parliaments went on tour with both Nelson and Hazel.
Clinton recruited a backing band for a tour, hiring Nelson as bassist, who in turn recommended Hazel as guitarist.
It was Hazel's only album until his death in 1992, when it was followed by several posthumous releases. [7] In 2008, Rolling Stone cited this as number 60 on its list of 100 greatest "guitar songs" of all time. [18], Hazel played in the vein of Jimi Hendrix and added "the aggressive rock and roll sound of Jimi Hendrix into the funky world of James Brown and Sly Stone". Questo sito web utilizza cookies di profilazione di terze parti per migliorare la tua navigazione. Discografia Da solista. È considerato tra i chitarristi più influenti in ambito funk. Edward Earl Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music in the United States who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic.
[5], 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. In Philadelphia Hazel met and befriended Tiki Fulwood, who quickly replaced the Parliaments' drummer.
[1], In 1967, the Parliaments, a Plainfield-based doo wop band headed by George Clinton, had a hit record with "(I Wanna) Testify." While Hazel could frequently be seen playing a number of different Gibson guitars - Firebirds, Les Paul Standards and Customs, and a couple different semi-hollows - Eddie is probably best known for playing Fender Stratocasters, ranging from a late-'50s Sunburst Strat to … [1], Il contenuto è disponibile in base alla licenza, Ultima modifica il 28 dic 2019 alle 11:31, Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow, https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie_Hazel&oldid=109685213, licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo.
Photo by Aldo Mauro, Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow, "One-Track Mind: The Passion of Eddie Hazel and Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain, "The Essential Gear of Parliament-Funkadelic", Funk: the music, the people, and the rhythm of the one, "Priman Scream's Funk a Ridiculous Release", "From Pink Floyd to King Crimson: Nick Cave names his favourite guitarists of all time", "Parliament Funkadelic: A Funk Guitar Roundtable", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie_Hazel&oldid=969177368, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 July 2020, at 20:43. Professional ratings; Review scores; Source Rating; AllMusic: Rest in P is a 1994 posthumous album release by Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Eddie Hazel.The album was released by P-Vine records in Japan on July 25th, 1994 and is composed of previously unreleased tracks recorded by Eddie Hazel between 1975 and 1977.
Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs is the debut album by Parliament-Funkadelic lead guitarist Eddie Hazel.The album was released on July 29, 1977.
83 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists. [14], 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.
[6] Hazel was in Newark, New Jersey, working with George Blackwell and could not be reached. Eddie Hazel (New York, 10 aprile 1950 – Plainfield, 23 dicembre 1992) è stato un chitarrista statunitense, noto soprattutto per essere stato membro dei Parliament-Funkadelic. In 1974, Hazel was indicted for assaulting an airline stewardess and an air marshal,[10] along with a drug possession charge. Chiudendo questo banner, scrollando la pagina acconsenti all'uso dei cookie.leggi di … After Nelson returned from the tour, he tried to recruit Hazel. Il primo libro autobiografico di Ligabue, tutta la sua verità in “E’ andata così”, Il primo indimenticabile e sconosciuto incontro tra Vasco Rossi e Renato Zero, Chrissy Teigen e John Legend hanno perso il bambino, Hell Raton, quarto giudice di X Factor “La diversità mi ha fatto crescere”, Fedez e Chiara Ferragni in dolce attesa: la foto mostrata da Leone sui social, Musictory allows YouTube to serve content, including advertisements. [4] In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Hazel at no. On six of those songs the songwriting credit was in the name of Grace Cook, Hazel's mother. While Hazel was in jail, Clinton recruited Michael Hampton as the new lead guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic. [13] Bootsy Collins has also incorporated recordings of Hazel in some of his recent releases, for example, "Good Night Eddie" on Blasters of the Universe. [15] There is an image of Hazel on the back of Primal Scream's album Give Out But Don't Give Up. [7] Hazel also had a significant presence as arranger and lead guitarist on the same year's Parliament album, Up For The Down Stroke. 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. [1][13] "Maggot Brain" was played at his funeral. [2], The third album's title song, "Maggot Brain", consists of a ten-minute guitar solo by Hazel. [7] Music critic Greg Tate described it as Funkadelic's A Love Supreme. Edward Earl "Eddie" Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) The album features musical support from various members of the P-Funk … Hazel occupied himself from a young age by playing a guitar, given to him as a Christmas present by his older brother. All three albums prominently featured Hazel's guitar work. He used much reverb and was a "razor sharp" rhythm player, besides an exceptional soloist[4] with "fuzz-drenched leads". His mother at first vetoed the idea, since Hazel was only seventeen, but Clinton and Nelson worked together to change her mind. Clinton noted, though, that it didn't matter what Hazel played--"it could be a Kay or anything--he could make it sound the same". [1], Other recordings by Hazel have appeared on albums by other musicians.
Hazel made another prominent appearance in "Man's Best Friend" on the George Clinton album Computer Games (1982),[7] as well as the track "Pumping It Up" from the P-Funk All Stars album Urban Dancefloor Guerillas. Eddie Hazel performing with the P-Funk All Stars at the Palladium in NYC on June 25th, 1991. [4], George Clinton recalled that when they were moving from Motown/doo wop toward a more rock and roll oriented sound, they were looking for a heavier, European sound, and he got Hazel a Marshall stack (with an 8x12 cabinet), and a Stratocaster (to replace a big-body Gretsch). [1][2] Hazel was a posthumous inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic;[3] his ten-minute guitar solo in the Funkadelic song "Maggot Brain" is hailed as "one of the greatest solos of all time on any instrument". We bought all the gadgets in the world". È considerato tra i chitarristi più influenti in ambito funk. Eddie Hazel. Several albums produced by Bill Laswell, including Funkcronomicon (released under the name Axiom Funk, 1995) have featured Hazel's guitar. [8], 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. [7], In the next several years, Hazel appeared occasionally on Parliament-Funkadelic albums, although his guitar work was rarely featured.
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". Funkadelic (1970), Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow (1970) and Maggot Brain (1971) were the first three albums, released within two years. [6], The switch to Funkadelic was complete with the addition of Tawl Ross and Bernie Worrell (rhythm guitar and keyboards, respectively).