Frederick Lawrence Mandel is a Canadian session musician, keyboard player and guitarist.
[1] Born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Mandel started playing the piano at four and picked up the guitar aged eight.
Mandel did this for four years (1977–1981) progressing from keyboards to lead guitar and finally ending up working as the musical director.
[1] During his work with Alice Cooper, Mandel played keyboards on the Pink Floyd album The Wall and this was followed up by some recordings with Cheap Trick.
In 2013, Mandel worked with thrash band Anthrax on the track "Smokin'", originally by Boston, ultimately released on Anthrax's album Anthems, an EP principally featuring covers from some of the band's favorite acts of the 1970s, along with two versions of "Crawl", a song from their previous studio album.