Dave Mason - Live At Perkins Palace (2002)

A founding member of Traffic and sometime member of Fleetwood Mac, Dave Mason had a hand in some the 1960s and 1970s both as a collaborator and a solo artist. This concert features Mason in an acoustic setting accompanied by the guitarist Jim Krueger, with whom he plays some of his greatest hits.

Dave Mason isn't exactly a household name anymore, so here's a snapshot for the uninformed. After a stint as the road manager for The Spencer Davis Group, guitarist Dave Mason helped form the heady fusion band Traffic in 1967, along with Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi. While Traffic went on to release a string of then influential albums, Mason left the band after Traffic's debut title Mr. Fantasy, citing that old artistic bugaboo, "creative differences." He bounced across the next few decades, occasionally teaming up with other artists (Delaney and Bonnie, Mama Cass, Fleetwood Mac), or putting out lukewarm solo albums, trading on his name as a founder of Traffic. 1977 was his strongest year, with the single We Just Disagree hitting number twelve on the pop charts.

This 1981 concert, recorded at Perkins Palace in Pasadena, finds Mason and guitarist Jim Krueger (who wrote We Just Disagree) doing an acoustic set to a generally enthusiastic crowd. Production values are very basic, alternating between a few static shots of Mason and Krueger, whose stage presence is relatively lifeless throughout.

Mason has a pleasant enough voice, well-suited for softer pop songs, and he performs a nice cross-section of material from his career, including more than a few covers. Some of the performances still work well, like The Words (about author John Steinbeck), which feature some nice harmonies between the duo. The hits are trotted out (We Just Disagree, Let It Go, Feelin' Alright), as well as his spirited take on Dylan's All Along The Watchtower. His tepid covers of All Shook Up and Stand By Me, on the other hand, are weak, and seem like simple set filler. ~ Review By: Rich Rosell





Live At Perkins Palace

01. Introduction
02. It's Just a Song
03. Stand by Me
04. Sad and Deep as You
05. Dust My Blues
06. We Just Disagree
07. Let It Go
08. Feelin' Alright
09. All Shook Up
10. Every Woman
11. The Words
12. Bring It on Home to Me
13. All Along the Watchtower
14. Take It to the Limit

Disc Extras

Full Motion menu with music
Scene Access with 15 cues and remote access
Subtitles/Captions in English with remote access
Cast and Crew Biographies
1 Feature/Episode commentary by Dave Mason
Packaging: Amaray
Picture Disc
1 Disc
1-Sided disc(s)
Layers: single

Extra Extras

1. Photo Gallery
2. Trivia Game

Subtitles: English






Many thanks to the original uploader: YWM1957