RARE LIVE .PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT . HARVEY MANDEL .1971

[@Hiwatt100W1]

Sugarcane Harris was just the most amazing musician that I've ever heard on record; I regreat so much that I never saw him live.

[@Michael-n2p5w]

I tried to see PFDA when they played here, but couldn't get into the club. The only time I saw Harvey Mandel was when he was playing with John Mayall; I had no idea he was with Mayall until seeing him onstage. Truly a happy surprise!

[@gailvaughn3277]

I still have that PFDA album. A local band, Albatross, I always included My Soul's On Fire in their setlists. The lead guitar, Steve Barnes, sang and played it well.

[@laszlokovacs5885]

god, this is a historical recording. Sugarcane live - priceless.

[@stevenbernfeld6415]

My brother was their road mgr. and he showed me this lick when Harvey first came up with it. 50+ years later and I'm still playing it wrong. Harvey completely inspired me to learn guitar.......Legendary!

[@Hiwatt100W1]

I would love to hear your brother's stories about Sugarcane! I once communicated with Randy Resnick about Sugarcane- very, very nice guy. He essentially told me that Sugarcane was a force of nature really. BUT, when he got down into a cadenza he just had the capability of transfixing an audience, like Hendrix did.

[@johnmitchelljr]

All I know is when I bought and played Christo Redentor I knew it was going with me to my desert island. Thank you.

[@Michael-n2p5w]

My first album too. I was already playing guitar; I still play a version of Wade In The Water inspired by that album.

[@keithvallencourt7901]

I used to see the Pure Food and Drug Act at Alice's Revisited in Chicago during the late Sixties and early Seventies. Always a great show.

[@Magnetron33]

Harvey Mandel...One of the ORIGINAL tonemeisters

[@danielosullivan3110]

Sounds no one else can make❤🌈🎈✌️

[@Magnetron33]

@@danielosullivan3110 true

[@randallbrown3317]

Had the Choice Cuts album as a senior in High School. That record was crazy good. For about 10 years i played with a B-3 and piano player who had been with Linn County Band, The early Elvin Bishop Band, and Grinderswitch. Stephen A. Miller. He was on Harvey Mandel - Cristo Redentor album...I have some video's on my page of Stephen in a local band called the Groove Monsters...He was quite the Character

[@MrZootalores]

what a story! i bought Cristo Redentor as a teen back in the 60's,i love that your friend Stephen played on it & was such a great musician.I'm a big fan of Harvey's playing,he had such a big fat sound!

[@christineschonberg9024]

Danke Dir Shivaya, hab mich an die guten Gefühle lang vergangener Zeit!

[@stevenbernfeld6415]

When you hear Jimi Hendrix' solos you can tell he listened to Harvey, a lot.

[@AshWednesday1]

naw totally different, i saw harvey live.

[@pesachBtov]

I saw Harvey Mandel and Sugarcane Harris at The Cheetah, Pacific Ocean Park, around 1970!

[@brentnoland7974]

I was in the eleventh grade when I saw p f & d a in Calgary Alberta. They played in an agriculture building that smelled of manure ... Must have been a highlight of their tour.

[@robomaster4882]

POP closed in 1967. So I guess the Cheetah was in the vicinity? I used to go to POP as a kid.

[@Circuit7Active]

I saw Harvey and Sugarcane when they were with Mayall

[@antimurphy8212]

Wow..that's so cool. You're definitely old though. Lol

[@lazur1]

RIP Sugarcane Harris & Paul Lagos.

[@LuisVera-uq6hb]

Que arrecho está ese álbum, disfruté todo eso en mi adolescencia, tenía 14años cuando ese disco, me gustan las fotos de la época, cómo tocaban ésa gente, gracias a ustedes por este viaje en el tiempo.

[@howardale1]

Stunningly Spectacular !

[@EachHitMusic]

This was our most requested song. I miss Paul, my mentor. Great musician, great cook.

[@danielosullivan3110]

Thanks for sharing this ❤

[@director2bob]

this is amazing.

[@hjk1213]

I was there and I think we had been them🎉

[@juozasjuskevicius6444]

wonderfull

[@lazur1]

Anyone want that tone?: Acoustic 154 , (solid-state/110w/6x10", same amp Terry Kath used on "Freeform Guitar" on the first CTA/Chicago LP), with two of the original LP-1s, directly plugged into the input, in series.

[@KeithOtisEdwards]

What guitar is The Snake playing?

[@lazur1]

@@KeithOtisEdwards Custom made by Bozzio. In the 1960's he was the only full-fledged guitar-maker in Chicago.This was the only electric he ever made. Harvey stopped using it because it was neck-heavy. I never heard it. It's definitely not on this audio.

[@MetamorphosisYa]

Hey, any ideas on how Harvey got his flange/phaser sound? I love it so much he used it a lot in Canned Heat and bit with Mayall in the late 60s and early 70s.

[@wadayaduin5517]

@@MetamorphosisYa I’ve seen Harvey live MANY times, and never saw a flanger in his rig. Maybe it was a studio rack-mounted effect box.

[@MrZootalores]

f**k yeah!!! i want Harvey tone mofo..oh, now yer telling me it's all in his hands? don't get sh*ty with me

[@daishoryujin95]

Anyone else here from Music Is Win? In his video about the origin of tapping?

[@lazur1]

The best seventeen minutes and forty-seven seconds of Harvey Mandel's fifty-three-plus year career.

[@brianhammer5107]

I like it a lot, but his first two albums and the Janus records I like the best - plus his stint in Canned Heat

[@bigmonmagoomba9634]

Peruvian Flake.

[@lesanne2]

Sweet.

[@tacey505]

WTF??? where has THIS been? some great Harvey shit

[@MrZootalores]

he kicks ass as usual...and he kicks yer ass with a big fat tone-that sounds like a Les Paul!!

[@notadri11]

Thanks for that!

[@neebinmakwah349]

Opened up for PFDA at Alice's on Wrightwood in 71, weird angled basement floor. First time I ever saw someone do heroin, I was 20.

[@annpowers7135]

Wow, to hear someone say they went to Alice's. I used to go their too, great music, great vibe! Bravo.

[@thelearningcenter]

But what was the band like? Help describe it for all of us since there is no footage on the band. (Please?)

[@neebinmakwah349]

@@thelearningcenter great rhythm section...Lagos on drums...Harvey on lead...first dude I ever saw tapping was the rhythm guitarist...Randy Resnick...Sugarcane Harris on Violin and vocals...Harvey was kind enough to show me his compressor/sustain unit, that was built by an electronic store on Western ave, which I also got one.

[@AshWednesday1]

I was there!!! me and my Drummer from the band Ash Wednesday, the only two black guys in the whole place.

[@AshWednesday1]

@@annpowers7135 i was there.

[@oldmandaff3598]

brilliant

[@Seventysongs]

Very good

[@fintanoclery2698]

Pretty sure you're destined for greatness when you're named "Sugarcane".

[@jameskennedy721]

There's a few singles out by DON AND DEWEY . Im not sure how far back the group goes , maybe 1960 . Don is Sugarcane Harris .

[@Hiwatt100W1]

He sure is. He was decent guitarist too back with Dewey!

[@lalo5318]

I came here for the tapping

[@EachHitMusic]

You'll find some on my channel, too.

[@SpaceGuitar69]

Same

[@ptose]

while I've appreciated Harvey Mandel for a long time and Sugarcane Harris too for his work with Zappa, I have to say I'm here for Randy Resnick, after I read an interview with the ultimate Yoda of the guitar, mr. Ted Greene, saying this: "I heard a guy out here named Randy Resnick, who’s a legend among a few other guitarists in L.A., like Jay Graydon and Dan Sawyer, some of the best players, because he wanted to sound like John Coltrane in the late Sixties and early Seventies. He tried for ten or twenty years to do it. And every means he devised had come up a little short. He had very high standards and really wanted to sound like Trane and he ended up coming up with the two- handed thing way back then. Of course Jimmy Webster had done it, but Resnick’s version of it was with the lines of Coltrane and Dolphy’s. So he sounded like an avant-garde jazzer way back then. And it was so far ahead of what we had heard other guitarists doing. And then he disappeared."

[@riverlethe2236]

Wish I could find tab for his main riff here!

[@buddy2798]

A quand une video ? On peut rever...merci Bruno..

[@GlenGoodwin-l7w]

Harvey Mandel the snake to clear the drains.

[@danielclergeau5504]

des ex canned heat!!!!ex john mayall!!super!!

[@Adonfffunk]

🧡🧡🧡

[@mikejones-go8vz]

Live street version with Lori Davidson is the best in my humble opinion

[@RandyResnick]

What gig was this?

[@daviddoyle4516]

Hollywood Palladium 1971 I was in the front row

[@RandyResnick]

That doesn't sound right as I was in the band then and don't think we played the Palladium, unless you mean the photo which could have been Harvey and Don with Mayall.

[@daviddoyle4516]

Yo Randy ,,,!!!!!! Glad youre still around!!! Maybe it was the old Fox Theater in Long Beach? That was a "kickin" band ,,I asked you about your setup at a break ,,you said you sere using a "compressor" pedal with your Strat

[@RandyResnick]

Fox sounds right, there was a waitress there called Lucy Bush, I think I do remember that gig! But that was Harvey with the compressor, I think. I remember the waitress, but not the gear :-)

[@shivaya77]

Harvey compressor with Lucy Bush , oh my God !

[@tslick75]

victor conte of balco fame

[@rustynales4597]

No soul

[@KeithOtisEdwards]

Sorry to hear that. What are your other problems?

[@paulricketts1089]

@@KeithOtisEdwards ....nailed it....................

[@MrZootalores]

@@KeithOtisEdwards good one