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Michael Hampton
Guitar World
|May 2026
The P-Funk veteran takes us inside his latest life stage, a much more mellow place than the frenzied funk days of his past
MICHAEL HAMPTON, WHOSE legacy resides firmly within the structure of the house that George Clinton built, aka Parliament-Funkadelic, hasn't released a lot of music lately. At 69, he's settled into a calmer life, albeit a life that still includes plenty of guitar playing and occasionally hitting the road with P-Funk. In fact, Hampton joined Clinton and company for a seven-date tour at the end of 2025 into early 2026. Does this, along with a new album titled Into the Public Domain signal a change of course for the generally relaxed six-stringer? Time will tell. “It started with a lot of guys getting together and kicking it in the studio,” Hampton tells
This story is from the May 2026 edition of Guitar World.
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