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Harvey Mandel
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Mick Jagger phoned Harvey The Snake Mandel in the middle of the night in 1976 and flew him to Munich to audition as Mick Taylor's replacement. Mandel did not get the gig, but his playing is on Hot Stuff and Memory Motel on the Rolling Stones album Black and Blue. By then he had already played Woodstock with Canned Heat, cut USA Union and Back to the Roots with John Mayall, made his name on Charlie Musselwhite's Stand Back, and formed Pure Food and Drug Act with violinist Don Sugarcane Harris. The King of Sustain pioneered fretboard tapping on 1973's Shangrenade, years before Van Halen. He cut a live album right here in 2009. This room fills fast.
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He learned on Chicago's West Side, jamming with Buddy Guy and sharing stages with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, then made his recording debut in 1966 on Barry Goldberg's Blowing My Mind. His solo debut Cristo Redentor landed on Philips in 1968. Mandel rejoined Canned Heat in 2010 and released Snake Walk on Earwig Music in May 2025, a record he says he imagined while bedridden. Do not wait on this one.