Guitarist Garry Shider dies Garry Shider, the longtime musical director of Parliament-Funkadelic whose funky guitar work, songwriting skills and musical arrangements thrilled fans around the globe and ...

Parliament/Funkadelic's Garry Shider-- best known for laying down some of the funkiest guitar lines in music history on songs including "One Nation Under a Groove"-- passed away yesterday after a ...

Garry Shider's fluid guitar playing, soulful vocals and outrageous stage presence – he often wore a gigantic nappy while performing – made him one of the most celebrated funk musicians of the 1970s.

Parliament–Funkadelic‘s Garry Shider, a 1997 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, passed away yesterday of complications from cancer, The Star Ledger reports. He was 56. Known to fans as both ...

Garry Shider, Parliament-Funkadelic's guitarist and musical director, lost his battle with brain and lung cancer on Wednesday. He was 56. Known for donning a loincloth on stage, which earned him the ...

Legendary funk guitarist Garry Shider, whose work with Parliament-Funkadelic earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56. By Billboard Staff Legendary funk guitarist Garry ...

Garry Shider, the funk-rock guitarist and singer whose spacey but soulful and rhythmically powerful playing provided one of the pillars of the influential Parliament-Funkadelic sound of the 1970s and ...

Although Garry Shider was a guitarist of formidable skill and technique, many rock and funk fans remember him primarily for his penchant for taking the stage dressed only in a loincloth. To them, he ...

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The man behind "One Nation Under A Groove" is gone. Gary Shider was a guitarist and the musical director for Parliament Funkadelic from the band's heyday until just before his death on Wednesday.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Garry Shider from Parliament and Funkadelic has died at age 56. The legendary guitarist known to fans as “Starchild” or “Diaperman” had been battling brain and ...