Eddie Hazel's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Edward Earl Hazel (April 10, 1950 – December 23, 1992) was an American guitarist and singer in early funk music who played lead guitar with Parliament-Funkadelic. The birth-card coordinate for April 10 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1997 Performers — inducted member of Parliament-Funkadelic

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Eddie Hazel's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Eddie Hazel. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

Live Jack of Diamonds meaning page

Eddie Hazel in the public record

Hazel was a posthumous inductee to 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 regarded as "one of the greatest solos of all time on any instrument". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Hazel at no. 29 in its list of 250 of the greatest guitarists of all time. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950, Hazel grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey because his mother, Grace Cook, wanted her son to grow up in an environment without the pressures of drugs and crime that she felt pervaded New York City. Hazel occupied himself from a young age by playing a guitar, given to him as a Christmas present by his older brother. Hazel also sang in church. At age 12, Hazel met Billy "Bass" Nelson, and the pair quickly became close friends and began performing, soon adding drummer Harvey McGee to the mix.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Eddie Hazel (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 4 of Diamonds

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Eddie Hazel, and not a forecast of induction.

You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it. You build secure, stable financial foundations. You're good with systems, planning, and long-term security. Your mind thinks in terms of legacy and stability.

His mother at first vetoed the idea, since Hazel was only seventeen, but Clinton and Nelson worked together to change her mind.

Paired on shared wording: mind, worked. This line comes from the Venus position of the J♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. In 1967, the Parliaments, a Plainfield-based doo wop band headed by George Clinton, had a hit record with "(I Wanna) Testify." Clinton recruited a backing band for a tour, hiring Nelson as bassist, who in turn recommended Hazel as guitarist.
2. Hazel was in Newark, New Jersey, working with George Blackwell and could not be reached.
3. After Nelson returned from the tour, he tried to recruit Hazel.
4. His mother at first vetoed the idea, since Hazel was only seventeen, but Clinton and Nelson worked together to change her mind.

Other inductees with this card

• Alex Van Halen — 2007 Performers with Van Halen
• Annette Beard — 1995 Performers with Martha and the Vandellas
• Atticus Ross — 2020 Performers with Nine Inch Nails
• Bill Legend — 2020 Performers with T. Rex
• Bill Withers — 2015 Performers
• Bob Bogle — 2008 Performers with The Ventures
• Chris Frantz — 2002 Performers with Talking Heads
• Doris Kenner-Jackson — 1996 Performers with The Shirelles
• Garth Hudson — 1994 Performers with The Band
• James Taylor — 2000 Performers
• Jeremy Spencer — 1998 Performers with Fleetwood Mac
• Jim Capaldi — 2004 Performers with Traffic
• 11 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Eddie Hazel's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. April 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Eddie Hazel's dates come from?

Birth date 1950-04-10 is the day-precision date on Eddie Hazel's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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