“George Clinton said, ‘You just can’t play guitar like that until your heart has been shattered to smithereens and you have lost all hope’”: Flea looks back on his life-changing jam with Parliament-Funkadelic guitar hero Eddie Hazel

Flea and Eddie Hazel.

Flea has recalled the time he jammed with Parliament-Funkadelic’s Eddie Hazel at one of the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s earliest European shows.

In the Summer of 1985, the Chili Peppers, fresh from the release of Freaky Styley, hopped across the pond as a band for the first time and played their first European gig at Germany’s Rockpalast Loreley Open Air Festival.