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Co-founder
Dave Mason's career spans over 30 years and has encompassed producing,
performing, and song writing. At age 18, the Worcester, England
native was one of the founding members of the group Traffic. While
with Traffic, and only 19 years old, Mason penned the song Feelin'
Alright. The group's profound influence over rock music remains
unquestioned even today.
Mason left Traffic after their second album. In 1969, Dave headed
for the U.S. to pursue a solo career. He struck gold with the album
Alone Together (considered to be a rock and roll classic). Three
more albums followed this for CBS/Sony, Dave Mason, Let It Flow,
and Mariposa De Oro, all of which received gold records.
In addition to performing to sold-out audiences, Mason performed
on a number of albums such as The Rolling Stones' Beggar's Banquet,
George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Paul McCartney's Listen
To What The Man Said and Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland. One
of the songs from the Electric Ladyland album, All Along The Watchtower,
featured Dave playing guitar.
In October of 1993, Dave Mason formally joined the legendary group
Fleetwood Mac and spent two years touring with them around the
world. The band completed an album for Warner Brothers called Time,
which was released in October 1995, and features Dave's lead vocals
on songs including Blow By Blow and I Wonder Why.
In 1996 Dave returned to touring with his own band, which included
former Three Dog Night bassist Rich Campbell. In 1998, he toured
with Traffic band-mate Jim Capaldi, and now is performing as The
Dave Mason Band throughout North America, which includes Bobby
Scumaci on keyboards and Greg Babcock on drums.
Dave's Involvement with RKS Guitars
Dave has been involved with the design team almost from the very
start and is known around the design studio as the 'not yet guy.'
That means, we keep bringing him designs and ideas and he goes
'it's cool, but...not yet. Take it back and do this.' In short,
Dave's job is to take the designs and actually make them sound,
work, and feel the way a guitar should feel and sound to a professional
musician. Dave's contributions to the project have taken the guitars
from being in the league of being a guitar that you would go out
and buy for your kid to a guitar that you will go out and play
in concert.
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