[ Eddie ]
Hazel
Hard Funk
Eddie Hazel Game, Dames & Guitar Thangs
“California Dreaming”
((( 1977 )))
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Vocals – George Clinton (lead on “P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)” and “Mothership Connection (Star Child)”), Calvin Simon, Fuzzy Haskins, Ray Davis, Grady Thomas, Gary Shider (lead on “Handcuffs”), Glenn Goins (lead on “Unfunky UFO” and “Handcuffs”), Bootsy Collins
Horns – Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Boom, Joe Farrell
Bass guitar – Bootsy Collins, Cordell Mosson
Guitars – Garry Shider, Michael Hampton, Glenn Goins, Bootsy Collins
Drums and percussion – Tiki Fulwood, Jerome Brailey, Bootsy Collins, Gary Cooper
Keyboards – Bernie Worrell (Minimoog, Wurlitzer electric piano, ARP Pro Soloist and String Ensemble, RMI Electra Piano, Hammond organ, grand piano, Fender Rhodes, Clavinet D6)[1]
Edward Earl Hazel was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. Hazel was a posthumous inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. His ten-minute guitar solo in the Funkadelic song “Maggot Brain“ is regarded as “one of the greatest solos of all time on any instrument.” In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Hazel at no. 29 in its list of 250 of the greatest guitarists of all time.
