I picked up a copy of this bad boy in New York City this past week after randomly finding it in some bizarre little hippy record store. They also had a large selection of used Pearl Jam tour shirts, but I don’t really dig on the "Jam”. I ended up there at 10am after Joe Burns, Alessandro and myself decided to go to The Dakota (where John Lennon was shot) and Strawberry Fields because we were wired on Coffee, delirious from being up all night and figured some retarded tourist shit was the thing to do. The point of telling you all that is, when you’re up for over 20 hours, have consumed a large amount of killer espresso and wind up finding Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain” reissued and remastered with original artwork and three new bonus tracks you haven’t heard for a mere 15 bucks… well that’s like finding the holy fucking grail my friend. I’m pretty sure this is import only, so look around online if you can’t find it at your local record shoppe. Don’t let the funk in Funkadelic scare you away kids, this doesn’t sound like The Gap Band. No sir, these dudes were a kick ass dirty rock band that defined description and ingested more drugs than some third-world countries. They also shared bills with killer bands like the MC5, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes and The Stooges. George Clinton was even momentarily "married" to Mr. Osterberg for a publicity stunt. And Mojo magazine rated Maggot Brain as the fourth most important guitar album ever (right under Jimi Hendrix, The Who & Howlin’ Wolf) if you care about that kinda shit. The first song (and title track) is a ten-minute guitar solo by Eddie Hazel, which he did in one take while frying his balls off on acid. George asked Eddie to think of the saddest thing he could, to imagine his mother dying and then at the end to imagine that she was still alive. Shit SLAYS! Actually this whole record slays, it’s a non stop party! “Can You Get To That”, “ You And Your Folk, Me And My Folks”, Back In Our Minds” and the super end freak out jam “Wars Of Armageddon”. I figured a good place to start would be “Hit It And Quit It” for all you that are unfamiliar. And then the flipside to that single (and bonus track on this reissue) “Whole Lot Of BS” is for all of you who already have this record. It’s best to get really stoned outta your brain the first time you listen to this. That is, if you’re into that sorta thing. If you’re sober, maybe spin in circles while you’re listening to it.

(Download - "Hit It And Quit It")

(Download - "Whole Lot Of BS")