Harvey Mandel

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Harvey Mandel (born March 11, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan, United States) is an American guitarist known for his innovative approach to electric guitar playing.

A professional at twenty, he played with Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, the Rolling Stones, and John Mayall as well as starting a solo career.

Mandel is one of the first rock guitarists to use two-handed fretboard tapping.

Early life

Mandel was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Morton Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

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Career

Stand Back! was his first release. Here's Charlie Musselwhite's Southside Band, 1966, with Charlie Musselwhite. It was praised as a "legendary" album in Legends of Rock Guitar (1997), and it was instrumental in closing the void between blues and rock and roll, with Mandel's "relentless fuzztone, feedback-edged solos, and unusual syncopated phrasing. He moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where local favorites such as Jerry Garcia or Elvin Bishop would sit in and jam at The Matrix. He then met pioneering San Francisco disc jockey and producer Abe "Voco" Kesh, who signed Mandel to Philips Records and released his first solo album, Cristo Redentor, in 1968. Mandel performed on a bootleg from Cherry Records and with Graham Bond. He produced two more solo albums for Philips, Righteous (1969) and Games Guitars Play (1970), as well as four more solo albums for the independent record label Janus in the early 1970s, which included Baby Batter.

Mandel was in the band's dressing room at the Fillmore West on the night Henry Vestine left Canned Heat. Mike Bloomfield was in charge of the first set, while Mandel came in for the second set. In 1969, Woodstock Festival was his third appearance with the band. Mandel contributed to the 'Music from Free Creek' supersession project during this time, with Canned Heat bandmates Larry Taylor and Fito de la Parra. Mandel was with Canned Heat for a year, touring and recording material that appeared on three albums. "Let's Work Together," a Wilbert Harrison song that was included in the album Future Blues, became a international hit. He appeared on the Live in Europe album before Alan Wilson's death.

Mandel, a Canned Heat bassist, joined John Mayall's band for the next two years. He can be seen on two albums from the US Union and Back to the Roots. Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Randy Resnick on guitar, Victor Conte on bass, and Paul Lagos on drums formed the band Pure Food and Drug Act in 1972, which released one album, Choice Cuts.

Mandel was given an audition as his replacement when Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor left the band. For their 1976 album Black and Blue, he produced two songs: "Hot Stuff" (providing the lead guitar solo throughout) and "Memory Motel." During the 1970s, Mandel released Baby Batter (1970), The Snake (1972), Feel the Sound of Harvey Mandel (1974), and Shangrenade (1973), the latter employing the technique of two-handed tapping. Harvey Mandel: Blues Guitar & Beyond is also a teaching video.

Mandel appeared in the film Chalk, which was directed by Rob Nilsson.

Mandel and Larry Taylor reunited with Fito de la Parra and the remainder of the Canned Heat lineup in 2009 to perform specific shows on the Canned Heat tour. Taylor, Mandel, and de la Parra were among the 1969 Woodstock Festival performers. Mandel returned to Canned Heat permanently in 2010.

Notable guest stars were Harvey Mandel, Norton Buffalo, Marcy Levy, and Nick Gravenites, as well as Nick Gravenites, Pete Sears, Peter Albin, Barry Goldberg, and Howard Wales. In 2009, Biscuits & Blues went live, followed by Live at Biscuits & Blues.

Harvey appeared on an album called Dragons at Play in 2014, which contained nine tracks. Ron Teeguarden, a herbalist, collaborated with him.

Cleopatra Records released a six-disc retrospective of Harvey's career, as well as a sixth disc containing a live performance from the Matrix Club in San Francisco on December 24, 1968. Jerry Garcia and Elvin Bishop were among the performers on the show.

In 2016, Harvey and Ryley Walker's backing band joined Fantasy Records, Berkeley, for two days of live studio recording, resulting in the album's eight self-composed tracks.

The Snake Attack, a Harvey 10 track album, was released in 2017. "I wrote all the songs, performed all of the instruments, and mixed and mastered all the songs myself," Harvey says. I was able to do all kinds of fantastic guitar overdubs that I'd never have been able to do in a regular studio."

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