Mandrill "Mango Meat" Montreux Jazz 2002

This is an excerpt from"Mandrill Live At Montreux 2002".
You can buy this DVD any where on the web.

[@MrPopdo]

The Best Band Ever. Been with them since 1973 Central Park. RIP Sweet Lou Wilson. They never got all their DUE..I pray that their music resurges!! again for the sake of the entire music industry. Great work Mandrill.

[@JeffGrimes-bo4cc]

Love this great tune the guitar so amazing and the horns is very nice

[@JeffGrimes-bo4cc]

Hard 2 pick 1 both tune so great so hornsection the drumer the symbols the singer Mandrill and war 2gether a show music on 2 your ears n mind wow

[@usesumlogicmanlogicman4334]

Found them as a teenager. This song still strikes a chord in my soul. Awesome stuff.

[@solomonizeal5674]

Mango Meat is still relevant,Mandrill's music stood the test of time,I've been on this ride since 71' #SoulGrooveVibrations

[@gordonaglass5589]

Oh, how we so adored this song back in the day in Lagos, Nigeria. No musical programme would be complete on our local Radio station without it.

[@charsebrown8043]

Mandrill,some of the BEST musicians,,,,EVER !

[@fhorton508]

5 stars for Mandrill. why cant i hear sounds like this today? Reminds me of my college frat days.......

[@dnjazz6840]

+Neftali Santiago, thank you for posting this... As a 13 year old girl in philly Mandrill, War, Kool and the Gang and Grover Washington Jr. kept my mind at peace! The compilations, musical expertise fed my craving and love for music! Kissing 60 in the lips and I still love them! Symphonic Revolution, I refuse to smile, House of wood. Hell, Just Mandrill period!

[@way75mit9]

27th and Oxford Street , North Philly in the early 70s WDAS FM , with DJ Butterball playing the quiet storm on Sunday evenings, growing up in Philadelphia in the 60s and 70s was really fun , class of 75, Simon Grats Senior High School!!!

[@shawnthomas397]

I am 62 years old and I'm still listening to mandrell in 2021 and I've been listening to Mandrill since 1972 or 75 and it just makes me just feel so young to listen to those gentlemen I noticed in this video I don't see cloud coffee cave the organ man//what happened to him???

[@yvettegibson8889]

I remember buying this album for this song and found a treasure trove of songs!!@@

[@donnaclinton991]

Neftali Santiago, you won't see this , but if you do, you're a badass drummer...for real! MANDRILL FOREVER!!! ❤ In 2024

[@wadesims1305]

I saw them live in 1974!! They were idols where I grew up!!

[@purplesop]

One of my favorite Mandrill songs, if I must choose. Thank you, Neftali!

[@odessashaw2270]

Now this is what's missing today....real musicians....performing live..no audio tricks....just raw...God given talent....and no need for 10 half naked women dancing around to cover-up the fact that the talent is lacking....

[@benniesims]

Finally a great funk band who plays original recorded tempos which keeps all the funk in yo faces!!!

[@usesumlogicmanlogicman4334]

Finally? They've been playing for 50 years! Love em.

[@benniesims]

@@usesumlogicmanlogicman4334 I’m well aware of how long they’ve been around. I bought every album they had done since the beginning. I’m talking about live performances where so many bands play their songs too fast !!

[@reginabond4722]

I second that

[@3peasinapodity]

It's time to perform in DC! We need your energy here!

[@avp0713]

From the moment I was spooked while looking through my uncles albums and came upon the Mandrill album... (the big Ape face startled me at my young age) I was hooked... I was a young sax player in 1971. From that moment on, I was hooked on Mandrill. . . saw them in Prospect Park Brooklyn in 2000?, Saw them at SOB's in NYC and saw them at BBKings theatre on 42nd street.... no band has quite the same funk flavor as Mandrill.. some have come close in other ways... EWF, Santana, War... and today Fela Kuti..

[@funkadrill310]

DJ Tony Vito! I really do appreciate your words. That Prospect Park Brooklyn was my first gig back with the band I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember feeling my drum solo. I have a video of that show I should put some songs up.

[@avp0713]

I have no words to describe that evening... I mean, to see Mandrill playing live IN BROOKLYN no less... just blocks from where they basically grew up.... and then also to have listened to, and played their music (with my own funk band, ECSTASY, Newburgh, NY)... it was too much for the senses. I couldn't even really relate it to the chick I brought to that concert because she was much younger than I. it was TOO real. Tony

[@JoseCorrea327]

A lot of my teen years was spent listening to Mandrill . Thanks for posting Neftali .

[@Logoned]

I remember these guys when they started. Bass player showed up with the Mandrill album "remember these guys they got signed" They are awesome. IMO they should have been bigger than they got recognition for.

[@KillaHill26]

mango meat was the jam, back in the day

[@russellnewlin2230]

It still is!!

[@russellnewlin2230]

It still is

[@Cody15241]

Man, I can't believe these brothers are still kicking after all these years! Still sounding baaaddd as ever!!!

[@Jazzhog]

You cats were and still are NUMERO UNO !! My boys and I grooved on your music plenty. We couldn't get enough of it. MANDRILL ROCKS !!!

[@billthomas7291]

Rebel music from Yesterday..ever fresh

[@RLW1967]

May Lou Wilson R.I.P. He brought the best out in Mandrill.

[@jfmax2000]

Oh Hell Yeah... Now This is What's Up.. One of My All Time Fav Mandrill Joints... One of The Greatest Bands to Come Out of The Late 60's Early 70's Hands Down.. Thank You for The Upload My Most Awesome Musical Big Brotha Neftali 😀😀😎👊💯💯❤️❤️

[@saxman2all]

Hey Neftail I don't if you remember me .Back in the day with George Bussey & Billy Pittman I live in Pemberton N.J I played sax with Black smoke & Black Truth back in the day you was with ash Fork jungle , YOU was always one of the best drummer around the tri state Take care your home boy !!! Greg B

[@Digginjim]

My 3 year old already loves mandrill!

[@2833124]

Great group. One of the best in his style. Long life to Mandrill.

[@usesumlogicmanlogicman4334]

I luckily found them in the 70s as a teenager. A blond haired white teenager. Thank you, Mandrill.

[@brighthect]

Mandrill WAS and still is the greatest funk band ever cause they had more culture than all the others you can tell by variety of music on their albums .MR santiago you are the MAN..

[@RoninAli1]

RIP&L Lou Wilson!

[@funkazoid2511]

My heart lives in this music...

[@renman16291]

Loved the Central Park Concert in '72 or 3?. Central Park is in my heart and will remain there. Can't you be everywhere?

[@Ravenoflight2275]

Another band my father introduced me too awesome group.

[@neftalisantiago]

@Too0masz, Welcome to Mandrill music. It's good to have such a young fan. I will be in Germany next week with "Sorgente". I am managing them. I think we are touring close to Poland but I'm not sure. Keep in touch and I will let you know. Any other Mandrill fans in Germany I know for sure we will be in Munich and Austria. email me if you would like the dates. I will be more than happy to meet and greet our fans.

[@AnthonySomber17]

If I am allowed to re-live life again, I want to be able to play the drums like Neftali Santiago. Truly amazing talent - clear, effortless, crisp, and technical precision that is off the chart. All band members have incredible talent. This band Mandrill and their music will LIVE FOREVER!!!

[@GeeLove]

You need to check out 'Tne Pocket Queen.' Six years since you post this so I hope you're alive and thriving to get this message fam.

[@AnthonySomber17]

@Gee Boges Oh Yes "Taylor Gordon" Your Musicology Knowledge is A+

[@clintcheeseboro2553]

Wow these are cats are awesome I'm a musician and we kick some of there stuff it's definitely an honor God bless

[@HARRIO333]

I love Mandrill these cats are still kicking after all these years. I remember living in Bklyn when Mandrill, Cymande, War, BT Express, and Crown Heights Affair were the SHIZNIT!

[@ebntje]

Loved all of these groups. Crown Heights Affair was my favorite back in the day. This song has a special groove.

[@Squirrelconga]

That's how you handle business, right there!!!! SERIOUS ✅

[@deepdivemusicreactions]

I was introduced to Mandrills music by my dad 5 years ago. I'm 23 now and this stuff never gets old! Well, how should it, when I see so many longtime fans around here :)) I hope I'll get a chance to see them live somewhere in europe soon

[@mrstanbmw]

i am ;lucky I grew up on this stuff real music 70's was the creative force in the African Disapora music all over the world we were killing it and the power that be knew that

[@belinda6848]

This made me smile

[@donnapowell3585]

Concert with MANDRILL anyday

[@fner0l8457]

Sweet Lou passed away today.. RIP brother Lou...

[@neftalisantiago]

LeondelSon, Thank you so much for your love of our music. It is a shame indeed about music today.

[@cedrob93cb39]

thanks Neftali i saw you at the new morning in france and it was unbelievable you were fantastics ,greats memories

[@joefrank700]

so did Mandrill influence War or was it the other way around? just wondering... great stuff either way.

[@reginaldholloway8748]

We Got this album when it first came out .I,Was 5th grade.Peace & Love.

[@pausemaster29]

I LOVE MANDRILL

[@nphilip1193]

I'm 29. And I think this group is Dope Great Musicians

[@williegilbert9852]

Mandrill escaped me during my teen years..I couldn't find their albums but found some good Osibisa. I'm getting an education on Mandrill's sound thru Pandora radio!!

[@quasifree]

Beautiful...just beautiful.

[@freddieandrettiful]

back in the day i was fortune enough to see the original Mandrill.@ Niagara University the group that open for Mandrill was from out of Buffalo NY Called United Funk. what a memberal time that was and by the way it was a great concert.

[@basementrecords100]

about 30 years and still the best

[@cedrob93cb39]

fantastic live band , great musicians , unbelievable in france at the new morning , love this group

[@jimy0803]

Man, they sounded GOOD!!!

[@SheilaAdamsPenn-dk3zo]

Thank u for this OMG

[@marvinsbprealty5760]

Masterful

[@peggyw1856]

love the sound

[@wheresalzo]

Masters of funk

[@loub8933]

Keyboard player was feeling the funk in his hips @ 2:05. Play that funky music on the clavinet white boy. Real Music, miss the old days with real funk musicians throwing it down.

[@DJAmericas]

Thank you ! You should have one othe the best youtube Channel

[@bohemianthugfly3700]

just amazing thanks you y buena onda hermanos pura vida y les quiero

[@b32nis]

i've met those guys amazing!!!!!

[@neftalisantiago]

@DJAmericas , Thank you I really appreciate that. God Bless

[@AntonioBustillos]

Años sin saber de este excelente grupo! Excelentes.

[@LeondelSon]

Neftali! Vaya!!! Mandrill was always one of my favorite Funk Latin Soul Bands...Sadly I've never seen you cats LIVE. Do you still do shows with the band. Sounded great at Montreaux, tight! I think this genre was abandoned by Urban Contempt Radio much too soon...it still has a lot of pop and I can't say that about many other 40+ yr old music styles...

[@nexdrums]

Fucking GREAT MANDRILL!

[@josephortizgarcia]

I heard this I think in 1973 or 74. It's STILL great.

[@spectre56j]

thanks Neftali ! you guys put the grooves down!

[@jerrelscoope]

This song is still kickin a... Been a Mandrill fan since the 70's. You guys will play The Netherlands in the near future?

[@freein2339]

Sounds good Nefta.....

[@matsnilsson565]

If only this FUNK (literally) group got their proper due! This is TRUE funk, believe me cause i have heard everything regarding music that succumb to the "On the one" rule. I'm a "Funkateer" to the bone, and i have yet found another group that get this thing called "FUNK" like MANDRILL did in the beginning of the seventies.

[@dostfez]

Plz come to Toronto! Go Neftali!

[@juanespinosa1259]

Unfortunately I moved 3 years later to Switzerland. I would have paid top-dollar to see these funk godfathers live here. These hermanos play some sweet funk 'n brass on this video. I guess I'll have to fly over to the states for that. However I have their full discography on vinyl which kinda makes up for that. Their later jazz-funk years (however overlooked) are very recommended.

[@funkadrill310]

Juan, Neftali! that's great! we were there in 2002 did you not get to go?

[@galvaofreitas8580]

Muito bom 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

[@DrSardonicuss]

RIP Lou :(

[@Louis5197]

YOU JUST GOT TO DANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@l.marsheharvey449]

My Soul aches for this music. Every member plays 5 or 6 instruments, and can sing on top of that! Just no comparison with todays music.

[@lawrencebarr3820]

Amazing...just amazing! BECAUSE there aren't people dedicated to the crafts of instruments today and in the past to bring what MANDRILL delivered to the stage.....meaning THE WORLD. PARLIMENT SAID ....TO......TAKE IT TO THE STAGE.....SUCKERS.......HE WAS TAKLING TO THESE LAZY MUSICIANS.

[@Odawg96]

@@lawrencebarr3820 I wouldn't say that. There are plenty of young people playing instruments, but there has been a concentrated effort to take the arts in general out of many school systems...public school music programs in particular. Back in the day, kids in the hood had access to instruments and at least one instructor at school. Today, schools are lucky to have a part-time instructor and parents have to fend for themselves when it comes to getting instruments. Meanwhile, the more affluent families send their kids to private schools and vote to de-fund the public schools. Their kids have access to the instruments and instructors...and today some of these trust fund kids are getting credit for "saving the music" (Snarky Puppy, the whole Daptone thing, etc.). Studying music has become a luxury unfortunately.

[@lawrencebarr3820]

@@Odawg96 can't argue with the war ON inner city CHILDREN. I see your point.I guess I was frustrated with drum machines and that STUPID electric voice SOUND "T". PAIN does.EVERY KID WANT TO RAP......AND DONT HAVE THE DISCIPLINE AND KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTAND THE LOGIC INVOLVED OR THE TRUTH OF THE FOUNDATION FOR RAP.....LIBERTY OR DEATH.... DEATH IS ALL WE GET.....OUR PEOPLES...OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE...OUR OWN LANGUAGE....OUR OWN RELIGION...OUR WEALTHY INHERITANCE, WE ARE THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE ON EARTH...YET THE MOST DISRESPECTED. WHY?! ....WE ALLOW IT....

[@Odawg96]

@@lawrencebarr3820 I hear you, and my opinion initially was similarly harsh...particularly since I'm a musician myself. Having school-age children in public school has been an eye-opening experience. Searching for a residence near a school with a FULL compliment of FULL-TIME fine arts instructors was a challenge. Then there is the magnet school issue. Kids audition for these magnet school programs for middle and high school. If your child is not zoned for an elementary school with full fine arts, they're already at a disadvantage. If your parents can't afford private lessons, the kids are at a deeper disadvantage. Yet when the magnet school audition happens, those kids have to compete against kids who have the best of everything during their elementary school years (maybe they even went to private school)...and inevitably they don't make the cut (and this is happening with more than just music; check out your own public school system for proof). So you can't be too hard on the young people today. They can't miss what they never had. Hip-hop--the commercial version--is what most of them know. It took me a long time to see that. But there are young people of color playing...in church, getting help from family, and even in some of those magnet programs. There's still hope.

[@lawrencebarr3820]

@@Odawg96 yes....the church...the one time foundation of the so-called "BLACK "community. Don't know what the " CHURCH " has become. The church used to be the bullseye ....know what I'm saying...these institutions you speak of used to target the church first.Now since the church is LITERALLY hiding behind RELIGION and separatist dog mentality we don't have a shield of faith so to speak. YEAH I lived in an impoverished area and watch my genius CHILDREN...I have two genius CHILDREN who suffered from impulsive nonrestrictive environmental penal trained educational design projects. I learned the basics then self TEACH...more like self medication in KNOWLEDGE. My children are brilliant but handicapped under the same systematic area code discrimination that you speak of.NOW WE ARE BEING DISTRACTED FROM THE REAL ISSUES .SMOKE AND MIRRORS DOG AND PONY SHOW .TRUMP.BIDEN.SANDERS.HARRIS....OBAMA AND THE WHOLE STAGE IS SET TO PUT ON A SHOW WHICH YOU WILL NEVER FORGET. Like night mare on elm street....better stay awake!

[@neftalisantiago]

Tommy was only with the band for a short time in the 70s. When I returned in 1998 he did one gig with the band, so no he is not on the sceen.

[@luiscolon3754]

You know if we can find Haglo live somewhere?

[@michaeleliades9079]

Best bsnd

[@mfpele]

Let's go to wa la la ❤

[@BarbButler]

Awesome!!

[@visorfotoestudio]

encías sangrantes...genial existe!!!

[@originalkillerguitar]

Is Guitarist Tommy Trujillo on the gig?

[@neftalisantiago]

@renman16291 Hey I loved perfuming in Central Park in 73. Those where the days. We really had the City in our hands. Thanks for your comment.

[@marvingonzalez6891]

Excellence

[@tftkadawidalle6342]

Ultimate Funk!

[@Vwjl1207]

Are there any groups out there today like this?

[@kevindiggs9261]

Wow..

[@juniorbug01]

My boy Bushwick chuck was right about this one dame!!!!

[@EarthWindandFirepower0990]

ME LIKEE

[@michaelgarrett2266]

Bet you can't do that with a laptop. I love these cats. Sound will live forever

[@moniquehicks9092]

Any Mandrill sitings....

[@AMIR-nw8co]

Funk.

[@nexdrums]

Aweeeeeesomeeeeeeeeeee XDDDD

[@agguth7]

What quasi said!

[@shahawndonaldson9674]

NWA sampled this track for their first or second album