Dave Mason RIP

[felser]

'Alone Together' is a GREAT album, and he did some good (though admittedly spotty) work before (with Traffic) and after. 

[sgcim]

That multi-colored dic looked so good, I wanted to take a bite out of it!

I'm glad he managed to tell his side of things in his autobiography "Only You Know and I Know", which I read last year. It was no secret that he was very ill.
He and Winwood couldn't see eye to eye on the creation of Traffic's songs.He would piss Winwood off to no end when he brought in his songs written alone without the input of Winwood, Capaldi or Wood.
When "Hole In My Shoe" became a huge hit in the UK, that prompted DM's first firing from Traffic.

It turned out to be the best thing that could happen to DM. He came to the US and finally got recognition for his fine singing, songwriting and guitar playing
RIP

[felser]

3 hours ago, sgcim said:

It turned out to be the best thing that could happen to DM. 

And also to Winwood/Capaldi/Wood.  'Alone Together' and 'John Barleycorn' were classic unified albums.  The first couple of Traffic albums were somewhat schizo collections of songs.

Incidentally, amazing how much stronger the US version of the first traffic album is than the British version (out:  "Utterly Simple" and "Hope I Never Find Me There" in: "Paper Sun", "Hole in My Shoe", and "Smiling Phases").

Weird fact:  'Low Spark of High Heeled Boys' did not chart in UK, despite going Top 10 in USA.

Edited Wednesday at 11:20 PM by felser

[Neal Pomea]

Loved his music! He played the loudest concert I ever went to, at the Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans ~1975. What an artist!

[medjuck]

I saw him with what I think was the first performance of "Derek and the Dominos" at a fundraiser  in London.   (Can't remember the theater but it was on The Strand.) I once had an argument with someone who knew Mason and said that couldn't be true or he would  have known about it. He  picked up his phone and called Mason who confirmed my story. 

[T.D.]

RIP. I discovered him via Traffic and still have a copy of Alone Together. 

He played nearby (Bearsville Theater) in 2015 but I was too cheap to go. Now I regret that.

 

[sgcim]

22 hours ago, felser said:

And also to Winwood/Capaldi/Wood.  'Alone Together' and 'John Barleycorn' were classic unified albums.  The first couple of Traffic albums were somewhat schizo collections of songs.

Incidentally, amazing how much stronger the US version of the first traffic album is than the British version (out:  "Utterly Simple" and "Hope I Never Find Me There" in: "Paper Sun", "Hole in My Shoe", and "Smiling Phases").

Weird fact:  'Low Spark of High Heeled Boys' did not chart in UK, despite going Top 10 in USA.

Never heard "Utterly Simple" and "Hope I Never Find Me There". Are they worth listening to?

Yeah, DM's songs were coming from a different place than SW's. Maybe that was what SW was mad about.

Here's this guy who was playing gigs in his dad's jazz band at the age of twelve, then being compared to Ray Charles when was sixteen in the Spencer Davis Group. How are you going to put yourself above him? 

Weird about LSOHHB. What up wit dose Brits?

20 hours ago, medjuck said:

I saw him with what I think was the first performance of "Derek and the Dominos" at a fundraiser  in London.   (Can't remember the theater but it was on The Strand.) I once had an argument with someone who knew Mason and said that couldn't be true or he would  have known about it. He  picked up his phone and called Mason who confirmed my story. 

I read DM's recent autobio "Only You Know and I Know", and I think that was the only gig he did with DATD. Lucky you!

[gvopedz]

This song brings back memories:

 

[jazzbo]

I was a fan of Mason with Traffic and his "Alone Together" and "Live" albums got a lot of play. RIP Dave.