Parliament

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Guitarist Michael Hampton has been playing with the funk icon for more than 50 years now. He tells UCR about his career, mastering the legendary "Maggot Brain" and the new music he's been working on.

"All this music needs to be classical, orchestrated and cataloged," Clinton told UCR before the show.

In addition to performing on the group's first three groundbreaking albums, he reportedly gave Funkadelic its name.

George Clinton hails keyboardist’s “seemingly impossible” achievement in ‘Song Reference.”

Original member of George Clinton’s funk empire later became a preacher.

Vocalist was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the group in 1997.