Why did eddie hazel leave funkadelic
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Eddie Hazell (February 6, 1934 – November 2, 2010) was an American jazz guitarist and singer.
Edward E. Hazell grew up in the Little Falls, New Jersey area and began performing as a professional musician with a band called The 3 Echoes while still in high school. After completing his military service during the Korean War, he initially worked outside the music scene. In the late 1950s, he toured again, playing clubs such as Mr. Kelley's in Chicago, the Town Tavern in Toronto, and The Tenement, The Happy Medium, and The Most in Manhattan.
In the 1960s, he performed in Chicago clubs with comedian Bill Cosby, as well as with Rich Little at the Four Seasons in New York and the Americana Hotel in Puerto Rico. In 1961 he released his first album; in the years that followed, he made appearances on television shows such as The Merv Griffin Show, AM New York, Today Show, Kraft Music Hall, and Broadway Tonight. He also made successful guest appearances in Japan.
In the mid-1970s, he performed with his own trio at New York's Stryker's Pub, and he also appeare
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Eddie Hazel
American guitarist (1950–1992)
Eddie Hazel | |
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Eddie Hazel performing with the P-Funk All Stars at the Palladium in New York City on June 25, 1991. Photo by Aldo Mauro | |
| Birth name | Edward Earl Hazel |
| Born | (1950-04-10)April 10, 1950 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Died | December 23, 1992(1992-12-23) (aged 42) Plainfield, New Jersey |
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| Years active | 1967–1992 |
| Labels | Warner Bros., JDC, P-Vine, Casablanca, Westbound, Capitol, CBS, Island |
Musical artist
Edward Earl Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic.[1][2] Hazel was a posthumous inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.[3] 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".[4] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Hazel at no. 29 in its list of 250 of the greatest guitarists of al
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Eddie Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was a pioneering and influential guitarist in early funk music in the United States, most famous for his lead guitar work with George Clinton and Funkadelic.
In 1967, The Parliaments (a Plainfield-based doo wop band headed by George Clinton) hit the charts with "I Wanna Testify". Clinton recruited a backing band for a tour, hiring Billy "Bass" Nelson. Eddie was in Newark, New Jersey working with George Blackwell and couldn't be reached. After Nelson returned from the tour, he tried to recruit Eddie. His mother at first vetoed the idea (since Eddie was only seventeen), but Clinton and Nelson worked together to change her mind.
In the fall of 1967, The Parliaments went on tour with both Nelson and Hazel. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hazel met and befriended Tiki Fulwood, who quickly replaced The Parliaments' drummer. Nelson, Hazel and Fulwood became the backbone of Funkadelic, which was originally the backup band for The Parliaments, only to later become an independent touring group when legal difficu
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