Before and after Funkadelic’s ‘Maggot Brain’

This is a great write up of a great album! Really love how they show the inspiration for certain songs/parts of the album, and how the album went on to influence others. It's a more honest portrayal of how music is created (heavy inspiration from all over!); it's very easy for music discussions to delve into pissing contests on who created what or what was "original", when the fact of the matter is everyone is "ripping off" everyone.

Maggot Brain is one of those special albums in that once you get put onto it, you see it's influence everywhere. I originally learned about Maggot Brain (the song), because I really loved the song Before the Beginning off of John Frusciantes album The Empyrean. Once I learned that song was just an ode to Maggot Brain, I listened to the original song/album and fell in love. From there, the album and Funkadelic's influence seemed to show up everywhere for me and this article does a great job of conveying that.

The title track from that album is incredible. And still one of the most unique guitar solos I've heard.

https://youtu.be/JOKn33-q4Ao

Great timing! I literally played this album for my 15 year old for the first time yesterday.

IMO nothing else in Funkadelic's catalog came close to 'Maggot Brain' except maybe 'Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlHpaypcQrw

Eddie Hazel was one of the great "unknown" guitarists, and his discography is worth checking out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Hazel#Discography