Clinton was impressed with Hazel and wanted him in his back-up band, but Eddie's formidable mother, Grace Cook, was not so convinced that she wanted her then 17 yr old son traveling the country with "this bunch of knuckleheads". By the age of 17, at the urging of a childhood buddy named Billy "Bass" Nelson, another P-Funk charter member, he was introduced to George Clinton, whose do-wop group "The Parliaments" had just scored a big summer of 1967 hit with "I Just Wanna Testify". Inspired and influenced by Jimi Hendrix and blessed with his own prodigious creativity, he began to play all around the tri-state area with some established R&B acts by the age of 15 and 16. By the age of 9 or 10, he had been introduced to his instrument of choice, the guitar, by his older brother as a Christmas present. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, but as a small child his mother relocated the family to nearby Plainfield, New Jersey where she felt her children would not be influenced by the evils of the New York City streets. He was voted as Number 43 in Rolling Stone's "Most Influential Guitar Players Of All Time!" with his signature song, the 10-plus minute psychedelic funk-rock opus, 1971's "Maggot Brain" voted as Number 60 in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame's "Top 100 Greatest Rock Songs Of All Time". He was a charter member of the influential and iconoclastic 1997 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame band "Parliament/Funkadelic".
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