It took more than 50 years for the song to finally get the recognition it deserved.
“There was lots of weather outside – the souring of hippie culture, inner-city rot, both legitimate and illegitimate mind expansion – and lots of weather inside, and it all came together,” he recalled in his 2014 memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?
To pull that out of him, Clinton gave Hazel an unusual task. “I told him to play like his mother had died, to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life… And when he started playing I knew immediately that he understood what I meant,” he wrote.
Not everyone in the studio understood what Clinton was doing. He was experimenting at the mixing desk and using props to pull sounds out of nowhere. The engineers were confused, but Clinton knew what he was building and saw it through.
When Maggot Brain dropped in July 1971, it missed the Billboard Top LPs chart and struggled to find a mainstream audience.
More than five decades later, Rolling Stone gave Hazel's solo its due, placing it at No. 9 on their "Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time" list. The album was also officially inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in May 2026.
Financial disputes and drug use pushed guitarist Tawl Ross, bassist Billy Nelson and drummer Tiki Fulwood out of the group.
Clinton, Hazel and keyboardist Bernie Worrell eventually assembled a new lineup for 1972's America Eats Its Young, but it was a fundamentally different Funkadelic.
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