Harvey Mandel

Self-taught guitarist Harvey "The Snake" Mandel is a musical innovator whose guitar style comes out of the electric Chicago blues of his youth. He helped develop the use of sustained and controlled feedback during the mid-'60s, and the two-handed tapping guitar technique in the 1970s. After playing in the bands of Charlie Musselwhite and Barry Goldberg, he issued his own widely acclaimed Cristo Redentor in 1968. He joined Canned Heat in time for Woodstock, then John Mayall's band for USA Union and Back to the Roots, before being recruited for the Rolling Stones, and appearing ...