People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business.

Mason appears on the Rolling Stones' 1968 album Beggars Banquet although uncredited. At one time Mason lived in the Ojai Valley in California. Hendrix first heard the song "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan at a party to which he was invited by Mason and promptly decided to record his own version.

In his long career Mason has played and recorded with many of the era's most notable pop and rock musicians including Michael Jackson Jimi Hendrix Delaney Bramlett The Rolling Stones Eric Clapton George Harrison Fleetwood Mac and Cass Elliot. David Thomas "Dave" Mason (born 10 May 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester who first found fame with the rock band Traffic.