EPTFunkadelic, 1971, Eddie Hazel.
I don't really know where to start, or even what I really want to say in this blog. I'm in one of these moments where I'm feeling pretty down. I think I've been feeling like that since quite a while, but I'm starting to realize it more plainly now. Starting to realize that those last few month when I come home from work all I do is sit on my bed and barely do anything. Just feeling bored of everything, no girlfriend, not much friends, and the few I have are thousands of kilometers away because I'm doing an internship in Germany. I barely know anybody in Germany even if I'm there since 6 month now, hell I don't even really know my flatmates...
I'm 22 and in a month I should get my engineering diploma. Bye bye school, hello work. Since I was pretty good in school when I was a kid I was able to skip a year, my parents were proud of me. Retrospectively it feels like all it did was shorten an enjoyable period of life that I didn't even enjoy to it's full potential because I studied quite hard and played WoW for too long. Stopping WoW was probably one of the best decisions I ever made. I don"t really know if it's depression or if I'm just a whiny fuck scared of everything, but yeah, feeling down, and I'm feeling dirty about it. Why should I feel down? My parents were probably the best I could hope for, and I never missed anything as a child. I'm young, I don't have health problem. I'm not living in some third world country. I should be happy, but no.
But let's go back to Maggot Brain, It's probably more interesting. This song is fascinating, I'm usually not a big fan of instrumental tunes but this one is certainly an exception. Funkadelic is a great band, and It's going to be a long time until we see another band of this kind, but Maggot Brain is just something else. Music is probably the thing on which I can always rely on when I'm down, I started learning guitar when I was ten, and now I couldn't imagine life without it. This song is part of the reason that I consider music being one of the most important things in life. The sheer amount of emotions that Eddie Hazel gets through his guitar is just so fucking amazing. He takes us far away from the funky beats of the "usual" Funkadelic material. Maggot brain is not about showing off guitar skills or whatever, it tells you a story, it explains you what Hazel feels, what the fucking hell is going on in his LSD and alcohol imbibed brain. It's the life of all those guys from Robert Johnson to Hendrix that you hear. It's the Blues.
And hell, it feels better listening to it.
