Harvey had a residency in a small bar in Fort Lauderdale in the 1980's that was called "Harvey Mandel's Blue Mondays." Every Monday night Harvey sat on a stool under a staircase and played solo electric guitar for two hours from 10 pm to midnight. I lived less than a mile away from that bar at the time, and rarely ever missed a Monday night with Harvey. The beauty was that nobody cared who Harvey Mandel was in the 1980's except for those who knew better. Jaco Pastorius was a local drunk in Fort Lauderdale at that time, and he sat in on bass one night with Harvey which was a special treat to put it lightly. I don't remember these shows ever being too crowded, and you'd see the same happy faces there every week. Harvey would sit at the bar between sets and after the show and was very accessible to anyone who wanted to chat with him. He was just a regular guy who played mind bending guitar every week for a group of people who truly appreciated his talents and knew they were incredibly lucky to be there.
In the late sixties to the mid seventies he released a series of albums that were fantastic...he really could have done movie soundtracks his music is very atmospheric. By the eighties he was very under the radar and he's continued to stay there.
In the late sixties to the mid seventies he released a series of albums that were fantastic...he really could have done movie soundtracks his music is very atmospheric. By the eighties he was very under the radar and he's continued to stay there.
Canned Heat & 2 handed tapping aside, I have been mesmerized by Harvey Mandel’s instrumental guitar albums heavily, since I was 11 years old, playing guitar & digging through my pops record collection, that I’d inherited. Today at 47, I am still turning bewildered musicians onto Christo Redinator, Snake & Baby Batter & The Pure Food & Drug Act albums, that are critical super funky jazz rock fusion albums at the foundation of my own style. Harveys albums still hold up as current in 2024, featuring especially high level world class drumming on the level of Jeff Beck’s drummers on Wired & Blow by Blow albums…🎸
Harvey’s solo records going all the way back to 1970 are completely amazing. I’ve been a huge guitar fan since the mid 80s as a teenagers. I can’t believe I’ve just discovered him last year in a EVH book.
I had the privilege of hanging out with the Snake and even playing a little bass with him too. I have many vids of Harvey at my YT channel. Thanks for posting.
OK, not exactly Mr. Personality, but very influential on the instrument, quite beyond the level of fame he achieved, and this interview is very helpful in making it clear how technique on an instrument realistically develops, instead of the old "I met the Devil at the Crossroads" B.S.
Maybe not the best guitarist in the world but the most laid back imho. Gets so much sound with so little movement. Favorite of mine is My Baby by The Southside Band what I would give to go up on stage and lay something like that down.
Randy Resnick introduced the technique to Mandel, but within a rock music context Steve Hackett of Genesis did it first. Vittorio Camardese did it in a 1965 Italian program that no British or American guitarist saw until it was uploaded to the Internet. Way before Camardese a man named Roy Smeck used the technique in a 1932 film. Jazz guitarists like Barney Kessel, George Van Epps and especially Jimmie Webster used the technique in the 1950s (Webster even wrote a book on it).
Harvey had a residency in a small bar in Fort Lauderdale in the 1980's that was called "Harvey Mandel's Blue Mondays." Every Monday night Harvey sat on a stool under a staircase and played solo electric guitar for two hours from 10 pm to midnight. I lived less than a mile away from that bar at the time, and rarely ever missed a Monday night with Harvey. The beauty was that nobody cared who Harvey Mandel was in the 1980's except for those who knew better. Jaco Pastorius was a local drunk in Fort Lauderdale at that time, and he sat in on bass one night with Harvey which was a special treat to put it lightly. I don't remember these shows ever being too crowded, and you'd see the same happy faces there every week. Harvey would sit at the bar between sets and after the show and was very accessible to anyone who wanted to chat with him. He was just a regular guy who played mind bending guitar every week for a group of people who truly appreciated his talents and knew they were incredibly lucky to be there.
In the late sixties to the mid seventies he released a series of albums that were fantastic...he really could have done movie soundtracks his music is very atmospheric. By the eighties he was very under the radar and he's continued to stay there.
In the late sixties to the mid seventies he released a series of albums that were fantastic...he really could have done movie soundtracks his music is very atmospheric. By the eighties he was very under the radar and he's continued to stay there.
Canned Heat & 2 handed tapping aside, I have been mesmerized by Harvey Mandel’s instrumental guitar albums heavily, since I was 11 years old, playing guitar & digging through my pops record collection, that I’d inherited. Today at 47, I am still turning bewildered musicians onto Christo Redinator, Snake & Baby Batter & The Pure Food & Drug Act albums, that are critical super funky jazz rock fusion albums at the foundation of my own style. Harveys albums still hold up as current in 2024, featuring especially high level world class drumming on the level of Jeff Beck’s drummers on Wired & Blow by Blow albums…🎸
Harvey’s solo records going all the way back to 1970 are completely amazing. I’ve been a huge guitar fan since the mid 80s as a teenagers. I can’t believe I’ve just discovered him last year in a EVH book.
I had the privilege of hanging out with the Snake and even playing a little bass with him too. I have many vids of Harvey at my YT channel. Thanks for posting.
I've sent this to two young Aussie guitarists.
Hope they listen lol
What a legend
Hot Stuff.
Funky album
Thanks Harvey.
Canned Heat
Good
Peace
Wow!!! I love it
OK, not exactly Mr. Personality, but very influential on the instrument, quite beyond the level of fame he achieved, and this interview is very helpful in making it clear how technique on an instrument realistically develops, instead of the old "I met the Devil at the Crossroads" B.S.
Maybe not the best guitarist in the world but the most laid back imho. Gets so much sound with so little movement. Favorite of mine is My Baby by The Southside Band what I would give to go up on stage and lay something like that down.
Good interview. What is with the DC3 airplane motor sound in the background?
I watched Jack Ruby kill you on live TV. Man, that looked painful.
Shhh no plane talk when interviewing a musician
@@opentrunk gut shot - he didn't die - like Epstein in jail.
It was all part of the plan
Obviously worked well
People are so easily led.
For awhile
Sorry Harvey, Randy Resnik did not invent tapping. Now we all know it's probably Vittorio Camardese.
Randy Resnick introduced the technique to Mandel, but within a rock music context Steve Hackett of Genesis did it first. Vittorio Camardese did it in a 1965 Italian program that no British or American guitarist saw until it was uploaded to the Internet. Way before Camardese a man named Roy Smeck used the technique in a 1932 film. Jazz guitarists like Barney Kessel, George Van Epps and especially Jimmie Webster used the technique in the 1950s (Webster even wrote a book on it).