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Eddie Hazel is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Garry Shider, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Sly Stone. Those roots explain a lot about how Eddie Hazel arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Baby Huey, Shuggie Otis, Little Beaver, Graham Central Station and Lafayette Afro Rock Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Vernon Reid, Primal Scream, John Frusciante, Flea and Nick Cave, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Eddie Hazel, reaching back through Garry Shider and forward to Vernon Reid. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
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.
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Eddie Hazel connections
Eddie Hazel grew out of Garry Shider, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Sly Stone, shares an orbit with Baby Huey, Shuggie Otis, Little Beaver and Graham Central Station, went on to shape Vernon Reid, Primal Scream, John Frusciante and Flea. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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