There were multiple excellent guitarists in funk or non-rock bands. A couple more were Danny Webster from the band Slave and Ernie Isley of the Isley Bros. Webster was like 17 when he tore up the solo in Slave's 1st hit Slide.All the Jersey guys here and no love for Plainfield's Funkadelic (later called Parliament) lol?
I know they were pretty eccentric, and George Clinton was a hurricane, but they were a solid guitar band ( RR HoF in 1997). Sometimes they had 5 or 6 guitars at once.
Funkadelic came out of a babershop with guys who were church singers and musicians that got into Hendrix and drugs. They saw themselves as rockers first . They used to just jam and invent stuff on the fly. Eddie Hazel is on most of the "most underrated guitarist" lists. "Maggot Brain" is a famous solo he did when he was 21 (in 1971) and its right out of Hendrix stream. Its psychedelic and full of gain, reverb etc and other band members said he was crying through his guitar. Supposedly Clinton told Hazel to imagine he heard his mother died and then he discovered she was still alive (He died in 90s from years of bad habits)
5 minute in you get all the guitars
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