![]() Vocalist Gretchen Rhodes – who serves as Mason’s opening act on the road – contributes as well for some Delaney and Bonnie-style give and take and rootsy wailing (as rock heads know, Mason toured with Delaney and Bonnie, who also had a hit with their version of his “Only You Know and I Know”). The core band includes Mason’s road warriors Johnne Sambataro (guitar), Alvino Bennett (drums), and Tony Patler (keyboards), along with a number of guests. There’s some Spanish guitar on “Sad and Deep as You,” banjo on “Just a Song,” and added keyboards on “Look at You Look at Me,” which clocks in far longer than the original version at over nine minutes. Most of the arrangements are not radically different. If I had had those same guys and we’d gone out on the road for about a month before we cut Alone Together, it would have had a lot different energy.” I had great musicians, great session guys on that original album. I wanted to try and do some of the songs in a different way. And I was really doing this for my own amusement to be honest. ![]() “I was never really happy with my vocals on the original. “Well…it’s a new old album!” Mason laughs. Record cover It’s part of a growing trend in classic rockers revisiting their back catalogs do to a little tinkering and updating, as Cat Stevens just did with Tea for the Tillerman 2 and Whitesnake’s The Purple Album where leader/vocalist David Coverdale and company delved into the works of his former group, Deep Purple. The first product of which is the release of Alone Together Again in which he’s re-recorded all the songs from his 1970 solo debut (after leaving Traffic-Mason was inducted into the Rock Hall as a member of the group in 2004). And since the Doobie Brothers’ planned 50th anniversary tour (which would include on-and-off-again member McDonald) was scratched for 2020, this video is actually the first evidence (sort of) of the highly-anticipated reunion.ĭave Mason is in a good mood these days, having just signed a new record and management deals. ![]() ![]() Gordon, the longtime manager of Alice Cooper, famously throws an all-star concert event in Hawaii each year to benefit the Maui Food Bank, which is also how Mason knew many of the “Quarantines.” Everyone recorded their part in their home studios while McFee played traffic cop with the files, piecing the song together, before each player filmed their video portion. And I met Sammy last year during Christmas time at a dinner at Shep Gordon’s.” I’ve done shows with the Doobie Brothers on and off since the ‘70s. Mick I’ve known a long time – I was part of Fleetwood Mac for a couple of years. But rather than me just sitting there with an acoustic guitar singing a couple of songs, I wanted to do something cooler. “People were bugging me to do something online. “Everybody’s knows ‘Feelin Alright’ There’s two chords, and you can’t fuck it up!” Mason laughs. But there was another reason Mason picked it for the “band.” Recently, classic Rocker Dave Mason got together friends and HOF club members Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac), Sammy Hagar (Van Halen), and Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons, Michael McDonald, and John McFee (the Doobie Brothers) for a virtual collaboration on Mason’s most famous song, “Feelin’ Alright” Written when he was all of 19, its lyrics are surprisingly relevant in a time where…well…most of us are not feelin’ alright (just like the song’s narrator). Unfortunately, for Dave Mason and the Quarantines, the scope of their entire career will probably be limited to one virtual video. During the current pandemic, there probably aren’t a whole lot of new rock bands forming around the country-much less one whose lineup consists solely of current or about-to-be-inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members.
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