Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

This is where it all began. I called in to see a friend one lunchtime and heard this track playing on his office sound system. Some music catches your interest; some music makes you think; some music blows your mind; this track melted mine. A song dripping with soul and passion, this is everything the guitar was made for. And on top of it all, it has a title that makes the MTV generation turn up their noses and say "Maggot brain? Ew. No thanks!" What more could you want?

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

According to legend, George Clinton, under the influence of LSD, asked band-mate Eddie Hazel to imagine he had been told his mother was dead, but then learned that it was not true.

The result was this 10-minute guitar solo for which Hazel is most fondly remembered by many music critics and fans. Clinton soon realized how powerful Hazel's solo was and faded the rest of the band out of the mix so that the focus would be on Hazel's guitar. Critics have described the solo as "an emotional apocalypse of sound."

The entire track was recorded in one take.

A thing of beauty. And so it begins...