Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames And Guitar Thangs

Eddie Hazel is a true cult figure among guitar cognoscenti!

Recorded with The Parliaments, and George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic mothership

Hazel was behind such Pfunk guitar showpieces as "Maggot Brain" and "Dollar Bill"

Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs was Hazel's only solo album!

George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell and the Brides of Funkenstein are all on board

LP comes in an electric blue vinyl pressing!

If your circle of friends includes any guitar players, take this little test. Ask them if they are familiar with Eddie Hazel's Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs. Chances are their eyes will widen, followed by an exclamation
something like "I thought I was the only one who knew about that record!"

Indeed, knowledge of this relatively obscure album is something of a secret handshake among axe men, because the guitar work on it is fat-out incredible. But then, you had to be a bad mutha to be in a band with George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell and the rest of the Parliament/Funkadelic mothership, and that's where a 17 year-old Eddie Hazel found himself in 1967, as the new guitar player in the Parliaments.

Throughout the next 10 years, Hazel would become an instrumental mainstay in PFunk, most notably on Fender Strat showcases like "Maggot Brain" and "Dollar Bill," which he co-wrote. By the time he recorded this album in 1977, however, Hazel was out of the band, beset by personal problems that led to his premature demise in 1992 and which also explain at least in part why this album never reached commercial lift-off. All of theaforementioned PFunk notables are here, along with the Brides of Funkenstein on vocals, but this is Eddie's show, as he lets loose with one coruscating, psychedelic funk lead after another over a mixture of George Clinton-penned originals and covers of "California Dreamin'" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." And now you can get Game on LP in an electric blue vinyl edition!

Side A

1. California Dreamin’

2. Frantic Moment

3. So Goes the Story

Side B

1. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

2. Physical Love

3. What About It?

4. California Dreamin’ (Reprise)

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