Talk:Michael Hampton

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Hm, what to do about this page? And Michael Hampton the baseball player and Michael Hampton the blogger are missing, as well as a few other ones. How is this handled with other famous people who have the same name? A disambiguation page? --Error28 01:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I created Michael Hampton (disambiguation). Most of the links to this page seem to be correct so I didn't rename it (I would have had to change all the links to it). RJFJR (talk) 14:03, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

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pictures
I just uploaded some pictures of Hampton, does anyone think they're useful for the article?

PermanentVacay (talk) 21:47, 5 January 2012 (UTC)


 * if so feel free to just incorporate them! PermanentVacay (talk) 22:11, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

No pictures are showing up for me... am I the only one seeing empty white boxes? Ginbelt (talk) 13:23, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Michael Hampton bio
There are two sentences here that seem to contradict each other, and I wanted to see what others though a good solution would be.

The first paragraph states, “He made his debut with the band's album Let's Take It to the Stage in 1975, which is dominated by his guitar.” I’m a guitarist myself, and it’s definitely true that this statement implies that there’s a good deal of Hampton’s LEAD playing on the record..ie, I believe that if you say “dominated by his guitar,” a reader is not thinking RHYTHM guitar playing.

But the next paragraphs makes a statement about the “Maggot Brain” live vinyl that was included as an extra w/ the “One Nation Under a Groove” LP— it said something to the effect that the live “Maggot Brain” was first notable Funkadelic song Hampton ever played a solo on (or lead guitar on).

To me, that means either a) the writer feels nothing on “Let’s Take It To the Stage” is actually “notable” (doubtful), or b) he/she is implying that Hampton actually plays no solos/has no lead work on “Let’s Take It To the Stage.”

I think it’s most likely b)....in which case, I think the earlier sentence should be changed to say something like “dominated by his rhythm work” or “dominated by his guitar, though he played no solos” — because ppl are going to assume he did, otherwise, which makes the later sentence jarring.

This might not seem important, but in fact among musicians there is much debate over who played what on many of Funkadelic and Parliament’s records, due to the fact that there was such a huge stable of musicians in this collective, and also the fact that the records did not contain detailed liner notes about what guitarist/drummer/bassist etc played on which song. This is why I’d like to get this resolved.

I would have edited the sentence myself except for the fact that I did not know prior to reading this that Hampton DID play on “Let’s Take It To the Stage”... so I have no idea if he played lead, rhythm, or what in that record. I’m hoping whoever wrote this can clear it up and then one of the sentences can be edited to be more clear! In the meantime, I’m going to try to research this a bit further. Ginbelt (talk) 13:54, 6 June 2020 (UTC)