It's been a "Maggot Brain" sort of morning...

The wicked and despairing guitar solo comes courtesy of Eddie Hazel. The "Village Voice" had it that Funkadelic leader George Clinton, under the spell of acid, instructed Hazel to play as if "he had been told his mother was dead, but then learned that it was not true."

Hazel never again scaled such a heights, though he released a solo album in 1977 that had some pretty tasty '70s porn funk.