Harvey Mandel & Snake Crew 'Baby Batter' 5 6 09

It was a night to remember, the great Harvey Mandel, King of the psychedelic blues rock guitarists with a top flight band backing him up at Biscuits & Blues, San Francisco. In the Snake crew were Pete Sears on keyboards (Rod Stewart, Jefferson Starship), Billy Johnson on drums (Santana, Patti LaBelle), Steve Evans on bass guitar (Coco Montoya, Elvin Bishop), Jose Najera (Santana, Quicksilver Gold), and Michael Borbridge (Country Joe McDonald) on percussion. There were 3 guest artists on other songs, Roberta Donnay on vocals (Dan Hicks), Joli Valenti on vocals (Quicksilver Gold) and Mick Martin on vocals and harmonica (Mick Martin and the Blues Rockers, NPR blues show). They all tore the packed house down, as you can see from this clip from one of Harvey's favorite songs, Baby Batter. It's obvious to Harvey Mandel fans why he likes this one! Look for a live CD from this show too. What a treat. Enjoy!

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[tundradog]

Harvey still got it goin on,even after all these years!

[Circuit7Active]

Thanks for posting all this footage of The Snake

[WELLBRAN]

one of the few old musicians that does not look out of date...some look down right embarassing...i include the stones and a few others in that

[flipotronic1]

Harvey is still Cooool .. Ride on man..!

[gatlingun15]

why did i get this

[MrJasonroy]

i would appreciate if you could upload the first track from the snake album

i had it in the 70`s.

remember the title had to do with "uno...."

it was for me one of the best tracks, a clear solo style like no other

[UniversalAudioVideo1]

smoooothe as silk!

[lazur1]

Jazz great Tal Farlow was right-hand tapping & sliding as far back as the late '40s, usually only for sliding an added tonic bass tone to an already-picked chord at the end of a ballad, or a 13th tone (or higher) tap-added to a 9th chord. Just fun stuff mostly, but tapping nonetheless.

[lazur1]

@G: Holdsworth actually does VERY little (2-hand) tapping. His long fingers, allow him to use a four-scale-tones per string left hand technique. This, a very compressed tone, his ungodly physical ability & unique ear for original interval choices, make him seem to be the greatest tapper ever, without actually tapping. (I've also seen Holdsworth a good handful of times ;-)

[lazur1]

@G Sorry, I may have my gigs / album release timeline off, but unless Harvey included that he got the idea from Randy, I distrust any other explanation: He heard Randy tap every night for a year, & never tapped a note himself.

[GalaxyRover1020]

@highwaychile67 Oh yeah, it's more of a "pioneering" the technique.

I'll take Mandel over Eddie Van Halen anyday though.

Eddie gives me a headache.

If I wanna hear tapping i'll listen to Allan Holdsworth.

[GalaxyRover1020]

@lazur1 Cool you saw Pure Food & Drug Act .

I saw / met Harvey in the 80's when he was playing with Canned Heat again.

Matter of fact I gave him a mint copy of "Shangrenade" in 8-track for his collection, very nice guy.

In the Repertoire cd reissue booklet written by noted music scribe Chris Welch it relays how Harvey claims he first used the "tapping" on the album.

Also Randy Resnick is not on the album.