Edward Earl Hazel was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music in the United States who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. While Hazel could frequently be seen playing a number of different Gibson guitars - Firebirds, Les Paul Standards and Customs, and a couple different semi-hollows - Eddie is probably best known for playing Fender Stratocasters, ranging from a late-'50s Sunburst Strat to … Dean Ween paid tribute to Hazel on the song “A Tear for Eddie” from Ween’s 1994 album, Chocolate and Cheese; appearing on Noisey’s Guitar Moves Ween stated plainly, “Everything I play is either a variation on ‘Maggot Brain’ or
Eddie Hazel learned very well.

He had a Gretsch, a big-body guitar, at first. Eddie Hazel's gear and equipment including the Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar, Marshall JCM800 2203 Vintage 100W Tube Head Amp, and Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar.
Guitar became part of our changeover from the doo-wop time—from singing with vocals only, to a real loud guitar. Hazel was a posthumous inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic; his ten-minute guitar solo in the Funkadelic song "Maggot Brain" is hailed as "one of the greatest solos of all time on …