I remember reading last year he was retiring from the music business due to on going health challenges. 

I saw him with Traffic late 60's and solo years ago. I think he opened for Edgar Winter Group when I saw Dave. Edgar had a big hit called Frankenstein then. Sometime in the 1970's. 

Dave Mason was very talented. RIP!! 

I loved Joe's treatment of Feelin' Alright. 

@robertdee Yeah, Cocker's version became so iconic that Dave would play that arrangement in later years. I still really like the Traffic version.

Delaney and Bonnie kind of made Mason's "Only You Know and I Know" their own in a similar fashion. Here's them playing it with Duane and King Curtis.

and full circle, Dave sitting in with the brothers in 2009

@porkchopbob Those are real fine. Thanks. 

I remember in a couple of interviews years ago Dickey talked about a recurring dream he used to have after Duane passed. 

The Allman Brothers were on tour without Duane and eventually they had a show with Delaney and Bonnie and there was Duane Allman playing in their band. 

Dickey said in the dream as soon as they stopped playing he ran up to Duane Allman and said " Hey man where have you been? Why aren't you playing with  us?". 

Also I read Jimi Hendrix met and saw Dave Mason in London and while they were enjoying some drinks at a bar, Jimi asked Dave if he would replace his bass player and play bass in Jimi's band? Dave said he wasn't that interested in switching to bass but he would come by the studio when they record again and I think it was in New York. Dave declined to play bass on this but did play a 12 string acoustic guitar on this Bob Dylan cover. 

I didn't know Dave Mason was on this track until a few years ago. 

I caught Dave twice in the last 8 years most recently about 4 years ago in Orlando. He was the headliner and was backed up by another ole player from the Moodie Blues. Dave came on with a 4 or 5 piece band and rocked. He had a few stories to tell and two stuck with me.

Towards the end of nice set, he thanked the crowd, all musicians who covered his big song Feelin Alright and made it clear that song allowed him to live a wonderful life and paid all the bills. He was not rude, quite thankful. He then started talking about playing with Hendrix. He clearly loved Watchtower and being part of that rock history. I was saddened a year or so ago when he announced he was

done touring after 60 years. Thank you, I enjoyed the music.  

@vtab I caught him live a few times as well and agree he put on a solid show. He even performed a few Winwood-penned Traffic tunes. Based on what Mason has said it seemed like Winwood held a grudge against Dave over the years. It's a shame when old people are still angry about stuff that happened when they were kids. But quite a career, I heard Dave refer to himself as the Forrest Gump of rock n roll for stumbling into all of these seminal music moments.

Spot on Porkchop he played Fantasy, Can't find my way home, Low Spark and I'm a man along with his songs on tour.  

I read a comment from Winwood that Winwood, Wood & Capaldi wrote together and Dave wrote solo. Dave never seemed to

stop touring I glanced at setlists and was playing a lot of dates into his mid 70's. He played with a lot of people for short 

periods of time - 3 times in/out of Traffic if i remember correctly. 

Huge loss to the world of music.  Caught Dave and the Colonel in Ponte Vedra a few years back:

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I remember reading last year he was retiring from the music business due to on going health challenges. 

I saw him with Traffic late 60's and solo years ago. I think he opened for Edgar Winter Group when I saw Dave. Edgar had a big hit called Frankenstein then. Sometime in the 1970's. 

Dave Mason was very talented. RIP!! 

I loved Joe's treatment of Feelin' Alright. 

@kcjimmy:  Chris Stainton.  He's been with Clapton for many, many years now and last I knew, he still was.

Just curious, what was/is Winwood’s grudge?

I only heard one quote of Dave addressing Traffic and it was basically “I liked that band, but at some point the music they were doing and the music I wanted to do started to diverge.”  His take on leaving Traffic was rather run of the mill. 

@cmgst34 

Dave just published a book, probably goes into it more. I think Winwood and Capaldi were collaborating and Dave was writing his own stuff and they just didn't get along. Maybe Winwood and Capaldi were tired of Dave joining and leaving Traffic multiple times, once right after they recorded Welcome to the Canteen. They all seemed like reasonable people, liked in the industry, sometimes personalities just don't mix.

https://possibilitiesofzero.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/highlights-and-low-sparks-traffics-induction-into-the-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame/

And although flutist and sax player Chris Wood melded into a musical unit with Steve and Jim, guitarist and songwriter Mason, even at the very beginning stood slightly apart from the others – Jim again: “Yeah, the combination was very interesting. Me, Steve and Chris were like three introverts really, and Dave was the massive – ‘Hey man’ – with the fuckin’ cowboy hat on. He was out there, Dave”. And although he came up with great songs, such as ‘Feelin’ Alright’, the yin and yang of creativity and conflict meant that Dave Mason would be in and out of the group at least three times – leaving lingering psychic wounds on all sides.

Flash to forward to Saturday, March 13^th 2004:  Traffic’s intended rehearsals for the Hall of Fame show were not on.  Steve Winwood had previously announced in Billboard that the song Traffic would perform was probably going to be ‘Dear Mr. Fantasy’, and that Dave Mason would play bass as he had back in ‘67. Dave showed up for the sessions, but was not happy, indicating that his ‘assigned’ instrument was out of the question since: “I haven’t played bass for over thirty years”.  He insisted that playing guitar, alongside Steve – as he had done on the ‘live’ Welcome to the Canteen album was the best way to proceed. The more things change…

Traffic's woodwind player, Chris Wood, had passed in the early 1980s so when Traffic reunited for some shows in the early 1990s (including Woodstock '94) he was replaced with  Randall Bramlett (of Gregg Allman / Cowboy / Sea Level-fame), who ended up playing bass at the show with organ pedals, a al Ray Manzarek. Dave, Steve, and Jim did all take the stage for the final big jam on "Feelin' Alright" so there's that.

Too young to see him with Traffic or D & B, although I did catch him onstage @ Cal Jam II in 1978.  Some good memories associated with him and the music he helped create 7 perform.  RIP