[Closed] Maggot Brain

I absolutely love that tune. Eddie Hazel at his best. A masterpiece.

Making it to nearly 40 without hearing Maggot Brain certainly is an impressive, although quite understandable, achievement!! By all reports (and having heard much of the recorded and all I can find of the released live recordings) Funkadelic during their early 70's period were a staggeringly good band. They really ought to be spoken about alongside the Stones / Grateful Dead / Led Zeppelin etc of the same era but somehow seem to have been sidelined a little, possibly because of the more pantomime feel they had in later years.
Every time I listen to Maggot Brain itself there seems to be something new to hear, which in turn makes the song as a whole even more majestic. I've fallen asleep many a time through the hypnotic quality of Alice in my Fantasies & Maggot Brain from the 1971 live album, and that was reputedly recorded the night after the 'good' rhythm guitarist and drummer left!

I can't be doing with guitar solos in general but Maggot Brain's a ridiculous piece of music on a genuinely brilliant album.

I remember being a student in the early 90s and buying One Nation Under A Groove on CD. I listened to the whole CD, and the last track was a bonus live version of Maggot Brain - I had never heard it before. Me and my very stoned girlfriend at the time just looked at each other and simultaneously said "****" before playing it over and over again.

Love the myth/legend about it - Cinton telling Hazel to play as if his mother was dead, then to play as if he had found she had survived for the 2nd half.

It is an amazing piece of work.

Wow Stoner, I'm amazed.

Have you ever heard of Take That??

i haven't heard it either (am 40) 😳

have heard good things about it i must say 😉

No one should ever have heard of Take That. They need to be stricken from the musical record books, and our collective psyche.

I concur: Maggot Brain is genius.

I went to a Primal Scream, Funkadelic/Parliment/Pfunk all nighter at Brixton Academy in the early 90s. What a night, and that is a tune.

Funkadelic - funkadelic is one of my favourite albums. I discovered them in the late 80's whilst going thru a west coast garage psychedelic phase, it might have been parliament I discovered initially. Free your mind and your ass will follow is also pretty good as is some parliament stuff.

in case anyone like me was unaware of the tune. It's ruddy good i must say

/edit my girlfriend, while watching hollyoaks, just asked what I was listening to as it sounded crap and annoying...

This disturbs me about music. How many pieces of absolute genius are out there that I haven't heard?? I'm familiar with a lot of Funkadelic/Parliament, but I bet there's something I don't know.
Only a few years back discovered CAN. Amazing, timeless genius.. but... I haven't heard it all!
Get onto Can if you haven't heard them.

ps. obviously in jest, but the Take That comparison is just not relevant - shite like that is forced down everyone's ear constantly, while the real geniuses (genii?) squander in relative obscurity.

just listened to it now.

(bleep) me that was epic 😯 😀

The R6 interview with him is very good. Amazed he is still alive!

I made the reference to Take That because I think the guys been walking around this planet with ear muffs on.

Geddit ?

Sure you do.

37 and i haven't heard it before either. The Maggot Brain album is tomorrows essential listening at work

If you like Maggot Brain track check out Watermelon in Easter Hay by Frank Zappa as well.

Not heard Parliament?

Apparently early live parliament were electric. One of the best live performances I've seen (recorded) is this...

In the context of the time it is stunning. Oh i hey at the end is so good.

Funky as f@@k.Fuzzy Haskins is ruling all over this.

Maggotbrain not bad too.

cheers everyone for some good tips to go follow.

Currently playing Zappa's watermelon.

Nice.

The Maggot Brain album is tomorrows essential listening at work

Did you like my cameo at the start stoner 😀

centralscrutinizer

LOL

any relation? 🙂

Thanks so much for this PSA. 45 & never hear it before. Awesome.

In the spirit of a "two part epic" choon I know this is not quite of the same style, but Im in a music listening mood and have just put on:

What music has this thread made you put on?

More Zappa

Ive never listened to Zappa before. Which I confess is a bit remiss. My Pink Floyd fandom is all Gilmour based so much later. (in an era kinda way)

Its surprisingly listen-able stuff.

As a gift, here's Martin O'connor playing "The Road West"
Such an evocative piece about how he was late for a meeting, and the music evokes the road from home to where he was supposed to be half an hour earlier....

I saw him live at a a concert in Newton Stewart earlier this year that my colleague and I had sponsored.

PS ^ for clarifcation we didnt sponsor that concert

Stoner, there's a classic Zappa cd with two of his best (possibly) albums on, Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation.
Contains the likes of [i]Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, Nanook Rubs It, I'm The SlimeZomby Woof, Dina-Moe-Hum[/i] and [i]Montana[/i].
No home should be without a copy.
😀
Love [i]One Nation Under A Groove[/i], got a 12" single of it, runs across both sides, awesome track. Not so familiar with that much of the Mother Ship's output, sadly only so much money to spread around so damned much music, live [i]and[/i] recorded. Only heard [i]Maggot Brain[/i] once before, amazing guitar work.
Can are much loved by the 6Music collective, too.

Was 32 when I first copped it. It is that epic you remember the year. Always mellows me out rightly and promptly

Same goes for Can. 'Future Days' was my intro to those inimitable troubadours, closely followed by Tago Mago. I notice current bands such as The Horrors and Toy are lifting heavily from Can's catalog in recent years, yet the 'thing' that made Can, er, Can just isn't there. It sounds like self-conscious, dour, late-teen posturing. Albeit with a motorik beat. Whereas Can is OUT there, wildly experimental, playful and uplifting,

Zappa? I just need me that 'Willie The Pimp' off Hot Rats.

Other notable 'where have my ears been?' artists/albums have chanced upon include::

'Vision Creation Newsun' - Boredoms. (This made my heart swell up like bursting)
Cornelius
'Narcotic Guitar' - Hanadensha
Cardiacs
Magma (Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie)
Amon Duul
Gas (Wolfgang Voigt)

PS. OP:

[url] http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/ [/url]

Check the Man's 'Maggot Brain' review, you'll trust him from there-on out.

Like it Malvern Rider 🙂

Never heard anything by Zappa that's moved me though. Too noodly, too jazzy, too [i]novelty[/i] for my ears.
Ah, but then there's Beefheart ...

But, hold on... I've got a lifetime's worth of NEW music to discover too!

Never heard anything by Zappa that's moved me though. Too noodly, too jazzy, too novelty for my ears.
Ah, but then there's Beefheart ...

But, hold on... I've got a lifetime's worth of NEW music to discover too!

Yeah Zappa's stuff is novelty for me too, but the Willie The Pimp groove/solo is superlative nonetheless IMO, and who's that giving it that vocal grit? - Beefheart! HIGHFIVES! After saw him delivering Upon The My Oh My on the Old Grey Whistle Test re-runs I was highly amused, then I heard this:

And was truly smittenated.

All music is new music to me if I aint'nt clapped ears on it before 😀

I just heard it for the first time on this thread and can confirm I won't ever be listening to it again. What a load of (insert swear word here).

Bragging rights ; I was in the the studio doing a Remix with skip McDonald (on u sound/sugar hill gang/wood brass & steel) on his Little Axe project when Bernie Worrell walked in ! They then both proceeded to jam & sing together needless to say I was ****ing speechless.

Anecdote for P Funk fans, Skip McDonald told me that Bootsy Clinton etc used to get 40 oz glass jars & fill them with every substance & drink they could muster at the time mix it all up & down in one !!!

That Julian Cope site is frightening! So much undiscovered stuff! 😯

Just listened to 'Vision Creation Newsun' by Boredoms. Excellent stuff, there's a hint of Gong and Hawkwind in there as well, which is nice 8)

It's not that I haven't heard it before, but I don't like maggot brain 🙁

I've a lot of time for funkadelic/parliament etc but that's just clever and not a great listen IMO

Mind, I do like a bit of Can

... (and that boredoms track too)

I tried to tell ya 6 months ago

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/recommend-some-jazz-funk

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

For the win !!!

Another I'm forty and why I haven't heard it

Peter Green reliving a "bad trip" to music

or listen to a "clean" studio version if you can't get "it" from this live version...