Bob Dylan brought Mason in to record with him because of how much he respected his singing and songwriting. But they did know they wanted Dave Mason playing on the session.
When the Rolling Stones recorded “Street Fighting Man” in 1968, they didn’t know it would become one of their best-loved anthems. Mason played in recording sessions with his friend Jimi Hendrix, crafting guitar parts and singing background vocals on some of Hendrix’s most iconic hits. It all comes back to all of the gold and platinum LPs on the walls. Unlike the thousands of others around him however, a few years later he’d be working with all of them (and many other legends). But keep perusing all the records on the wall and it hits you: that’s just the beginning…He came of age during England’s tumultuous musical explosion of the early 1960s, always working his way up close to the stage to watch, among many others, the Beatles, the Stones and Dylan. His role in Traffic alone, including writing the ubiquitous classic “Feelin’ Alright,” automatically solidifies Mason’s rarefied rock status. There’s the platinum record from the first Traffic album, the band he co-founded with Steve Winwood. When you poke around his recording studio, right away it’s clear that Dave Mason is not your average Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
Together with Sean Ulbs of The Eiffels, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dave Mason over Zoom video!
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