by the band Funkadelic
. It appears as the lead track on their 1971
album of the same name
.
The original recording of the song, over ten minutes long, features little more than a spoken introduction and a much-praised extended guitar solo
by Eddie Hazel
. Music critic Greg Tate
described the song as Funkadelic's A Love Supreme
; the song is no. 60 on the Rolling Stone
list of 100 Greatest Guitar Songs. Reportedly, "Maggot Brain" was Hazel's nickname.
...not as much as I am in the metamorphic or sedimentary rock categories. I mean I can take your igneous rocks or leave them. I relate primarily to micas, quartz, feldspar. You can keep your pyroxenes, magnetites and coarse-grained plutonics as far as I'm concerned...
Eunice!? That's a person named Eunice?
I love those old Ventegums.
It so happens, Mr. Simon, that Howard has had discussions with Leonard Bernstein about the possibility of conducting an avalanche ... in E flat.
...you are not Burnsy. Burnsy is Burnsy, I mean Eunice is Burnsy, I mean she isn't Burnsy. Nobody is Burnsy.
It's the television set, Eunice. There's a movie on--a war movie. They're getting dressed for the big battle.
Well, there's not much to see actually, we're inside a Chinese dragon.
Why, those are Howard's. What on Earth are you doing with Howard Bannister's rocks?
Don't kick those rocks, you Philistine!
There is an old Croatian saying, Bollixter, which goes...