Honestly this is pretty blatantly obvious. This song is a DIRECT tribute to Eddie Hazel's famed 10 minute guitar solo from the title track on Funkadelic's classic album "Maggot Brain". Both songs are VERY similar, and showcase the emotion that can be covered in an instrumental. Wide-spread legend has it that George Clinton asked Hazel to play "as if his mother had just died". The result was a heartbreaking and beautiful guitar solo. Ween are notorious for paying clever homage to their influences, and this is one of the most well-executed examples.
@MetaMoth
Actually you only tell half the story. George said to play the 1st half of the song as if you had just heard your mother had died and then he said to play the 2nd half as if she had come back to life, or wasn't going to die. Or something like that. If you listen there is quite the emotional shift in there.
@MetaMoth
Actually you only tell half the story. George said to play the 1st half of the song as if you had just heard your mother had died and then he said to play the 2nd half as if she had come back to life, or wasn't going to die. Or something like that. If you listen there is quite the emotional shift in there.
Honestly this is pretty blatantly obvious. This song is a DIRECT tribute to Eddie Hazel's famed 10 minute guitar solo from the title track on Funkadelic's classic album "Maggot Brain". Both songs are VERY similar, and showcase the emotion that can be covered in an instrumental. Wide-spread legend has it that George Clinton asked Hazel to play "as if his mother had just died". The result was a heartbreaking and beautiful guitar solo. Ween are notorious for paying clever homage to their influences, and this is one of the most well-executed examples.
@MetaMoth very beautiful song, and your comment just lends that much more depth. Thanks.
@MetaMoth very beautiful song, and your comment just lends that much more depth. Thanks.
@MetaMoth
@MetaMoth
@MetaMoth
Actually you only tell half the story. George said to play the 1st half of the song as if you had just heard your mother had died and then he said to play the 2nd half as if she had come back to life, or wasn't going to die. Or something like that. If you listen there is quite the emotional shift in there.
@MetaMoth
Actually you only tell half the story. George said to play the 1st half of the song as if you had just heard your mother had died and then he said to play the 2nd half as if she had come back to life, or wasn't going to die. Or something like that. If you listen there is quite the emotional shift in there.