Traffic’s Dave Mason: ‘On one level, I could hate every one of them’

Traffic’s Dave Mason: ‘On one level, I could hate every one of them’

Singer-songwriter’s explores tussles with the band in a frank new memoir looking back at a storied, starry career

In the final month of 1968, Dave Mason was summoned to a meeting with his band Traffic for a reason that haunts him to this day. According to Mason, the band’s biggest star, Steve Winwood, wasted no time in telling him four cold things: “I don’t like the way you write. I don’t like the way you sing. I don’t like the way you play. And we don’t want you in the band any more.”

“I was in shock,” Mason recalls. “For me, that was the ultimate band.”

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