Dave Mason Talks Joining & Quitting Derek & The Dominos in 1970 + Band He Formed with Ginger Baker
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- In this archival episode of All Day Vinyl's LEGENDS Podcast from mid 2020, host Scott Dudelson speaks with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and Traffic Co-Founder Dave Mason.
In this clip Dave talks a little about his experience and brief tenure in Derek and the Dominos with Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon and Carl Radle, and the coming together of his first solo album "Alone Together." Mason also mentions an intriguing band he started with Ginger Baker right after Cream broke up and whether some of the songs from Alone Together may have appeared on a Traffic album had he not left the band.
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INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED IN MID 2020
WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE: ua-cam.com/video/noDYvTyYwbo/v-deo.html
Good memories of buying the album Alone Together when I was just a kid and playing it over and over. 60 now and still love it. ☮️
Classic forever ❤️
Wow! It's great to see and hear your conversation with Dave Mason! He and his music were part of some extremely important and influential episodes of the best music that I was first aware of from the late 1960's and early 1970s.
Thank you for watching! I’m also a big Dave Mason fan, he’s been everywhere!
I really liked his comments about not being a "rockstar". Thanks for this interview
Thank you for watching!
Incredible album! The musicians on this Leons first solo and George's first album are mostly the same , Incredible albums
Totally, what an awesome time and scene that must have been to have witnessed
Always great to hear the legendary Dave Mason speak, as he is one of the greatest! Great topics covered 🎸🔥🔥🔥
Dave is awesome, thank you for watching!
Great interview! Thank It would be interesting to hear his comments being on “All long the Watchtower” with Hendrix.
Thank you! I hope to do a follow up soon and this will def be a topic of convo, he did so many interesting things in a short period of time
'Headkeeper' is a great song and recording. Excellent guitar sound.
Love it too
Alone Together is one of the best solo albums anyone ever made.
I just posted a clip on my channel about Dave talking about alone together.. if u have a moment check it out
@@alldayvinyl I watched it ! It was fascinating listening to Dave talk about the original musicians who played on it. Such fantastic guitar playing on that album and it the song selection is just stellar. And Dave sounding unhappy about the vocals ? I loved the vocals !
@@Bill_Jones.yeah, great record
i still have the 1970 marbled vinyl version that appears to be a rarity 54 yrs later...
Thanks for this. I always liked Dave Mason’s music. He seemed to be associated with lots of different great groups, but never became a household name. And there wasn’t a lot of information about him. I hope he enjoyed his career.
He had an amazing career and is still out there touring and playing this amazing music!
One of my favorite drummers played with Mason for a few albums, and a few live tours Rick Jaeger!!
A great drummer! His early mid 70s band was on fire, legendary session players - Bob Glaub and Mike finnigan among them
OUTSTANDING... THANK YOU!!!!!!
Thank you for watching!
Sometime in the last decade or so, I was able to read Bobby Whitlock's auto-bio on the internet. It was originally in print, but was long sold out and from what I could tell, if you could even find a copy they were going for three figures... Anyway, the book was on line and it is a fascinating look into D&TD. Bobby was, at that time, performing about in Texas and maybe elsewhere with his wife. Not sure if they're still at it, or if his book is still up somewhere...
In his book, Bobby briefly mentioned Dave Mason and how he was considered for D&TD. Now I DID read it a while back, but this episode did kinda stick with me... So D&TD were not a particularly hierarchical band. Obviously, Eric was the leader, but as Dave pointed out in the interview here, Eric was already into heroin, which is not a drug that brings out extroversion - more its opposite. Anyway, so with a generally laissez-faire attitude prevalent, Dave Mason somehow got into the mix of potential band members. (I think at that point the core four were already together). Bobby mentioned that one gig where Dave played with them. However, shortly thereafter, Dave was left adrift. Apparently, along with Dave came a small coterie of highly questionable, even creepy characters, and they were all quite involved, one way or another, with that other powder, so Dave got the hint and moved on, with no regrets from Bobby and the other three. Dave did some great work in his day no doubt, but the way this little story is presented in Bobby's book really is quite amusing - if you can find it.
Bobby and wife Carmel have a UA-cam channel. It's been going on for several years.
I need to find this and as the other poster mentioned, check out Bobby’s UA-cam it’s awesome I’ve learned a lot of great stories but didn’t know his take on Mason. Music history is fascinating and I love piecing it all together ❤️
So many great stories on Bobby’s channel
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also Thursday is my dad birthday ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you and happy bday to your dad!
I had the pleasure of seeing Dave on his split coconut tour with Little Feat. (Cool little factoid: Lowell George said that he was kicked out of the Mothers of Invention for having written Willin'. At first I thought: WTF?!! But TBH...Zappa was very anti-drug and WIlin' is a drug song, so then it made sense.)
Must have been awesome show!
Love Dave. His version of Watchtower is my favorite.
He does a great version; it’s become a staple of his live show too
@@alldayvinyl The video of Dave and Jim Krueger doing the acoustic rendition is epic. I briefly knew Jim many years ago - he would sometimes come to a little beer bar in Van Nuys for the bratwurst sandwiches, where I hung out in my early 20's. Jim was a nice guy, a most talented man.
Alone Together, Dave's first record, on Blue Thumb is it, with the pastel colored record, is just a beast, fantastic everything about it. Don't you mean All Things Must Pass, from George Harrison, produced by Phil Spector and featuring Dave. I've never seen a Derek nd the Dominoes recording with Dave. Maybe he jammed with them or something.
I agree alone together is amazing album. And there are actually two recordings with Dave and Derek and dominos - both produced by Phil Spector. They can be found and I think one was one a Clapton compilation and the other on a box set. Dave was also in those all things must pass sessions.. t
That would be the 45rpm single Tell The Truth / Roll It Over produced by Phil Spector and recorded during the All Things Must Pass sessions.
I saw Mason playing at the Lyceum with what would later be called Derek & the Dominos.
Wow! Legendary, how was it?
It looks like more people know now than only you and I know back then.
Thankfully so!
I saw the Dave Mason band back in the 70's. They were pretty hot. He did write "Feelin' Alright."
Yeah absolutely, I actually just interviewed Bob Glaub who played with Mason in that early 70s band. Great players in there… Mike finnigan was in band too
I wish I had a dollar for every time I jammed "Feelin' Alright" on a Saturday afternoon matinee stage.
Artemus fans rock...
I wonder if Lennon had lived to old age if he too would have lost his English/Liverpudlian accent.
Mason has almost lost his English 'accent' from living in USA since '71. Kind of sad.
Big fan, but wasn't the album he did with Mama Cass a disappointment?
Never heard of him, sure he's not Duane Mason?
Most interviews with Famous-Important Musicians (specially those who write almost all of the songs in their recordings) only focus on the trivialities of their times & bands...
they don't even mention the really important matters :
1- the Musical aspects-details of the instrumentations in their songs-albums
2- the lyrics-THEMES covered in their compositions, which shape the direction of their interpretations
3- Vocals & Parts Arrangements...
The words in a song are a product of the POET ASPECT in the Musician.
DM seems to mostly write-record about the fate of a BROKEN LOVE THAT IS STILL LOVED, STILL MISSED.
Dave Mason is a SUPERB
Poet-Composer-Guitarist-Singer.
This is a good reminder thank you
I always referred to him as a wizard of words. His lyrics were always outstanding!
Alone Together (DM first album after Traffic) :
super great - recognized & acclaimed.
Dave Mason & Cass Elliot (his 2nd after Traffic) :
super great - BUT NOT recognized & acclaimed...
It was/is a perfect blend between Traffic and Mamas & Papas.
It is in my 10 Favorite Albums of All Time list...
Alone together is an Uber classic🔥