I took this word for word from a youtube comment ... I could never write a better description for this song -
"If a guitar were able to grow up in a troubled household, being abused by an alcoholic father, and grow up promising to be better, make the best of it's life, achieve success in his career and his love life, start a beautiful family and then, through a tragic accident of his own doing, lose it all, this is what it would sound like when it wept in agony."
According to legend, George Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told Eddie Hazel during the recording session to imagine he had been told his mother was dead, but then learned that it was not true. The result was the 10-minute guitar solo for which Hazel is most fondly remembered by many music critics and fans. Though several other musicians began the track playing, Clinton soon realized how powerful Hazel's solo was and faded them out so that the focus would be on Hazel's guitar. Critics have described the solo as "lengthy, mind-melting" and "an emotional apocalypse of sound."
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