Dave Mason Talks Joining & Quitting Derek & The Dominos in 1970 + Band He Formed with Ginger Baker 

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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. ☮️

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.

I really liked his comments about not being a "rockstar". Thanks for this interview

Incredible album! The musicians on this Leons first solo and George's first album are mostly the same , Incredible albums

Dave is a true legend that continues to get better, voice still has youthful timber.

Always great to hear the legendary Dave Mason speak, as he is one of the greatest! Great topics covered 🎸🔥🔥🔥

Great interview! Thank It would be interesting to hear his comments being on “All long the Watchtower” with Hendrix.

Alone Together is one of the best solo albums anyone ever made.

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.

One of my favorite drummers played with Mason for a few albums, and a few live tours Rick Jaeger!!

'Headkeeper' is a great song and recording. Excellent guitar sound.

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.

OUTSTANDING... THANK YOU!!!!!!

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also Thursday is my dad birthday ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

Love Dave. His version of Watchtower is my favorite.

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.)

I saw the Dave Mason band back in the 70's. They were pretty hot. He did write "Feelin' Alright."

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 saw Mason playing at the Lyceum with what would later be called Derek & the Dominos.

It looks like more people know now than only you and I know back then.

I wonder if Lennon had lived to old age if he too would have lost his English/Liverpudlian accent.

Artemus fans rock...

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.

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...