At age 18, the Worcester England native teamed up with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood to form the legendary band Traffic. At 19, Mason penned the song "Feelin' Alright". This song has since become a rock and roll anthem, having been recorded by well over 48 artists, the best known version being Joe Cocker. The group's profound influence over rock music remains unquestioned even today.

Mason departed from the group after their second album. In 1969 Dave headed for the USA to pursue a solo career. He struck gold with the album "Alone Together", which is considered a rock classic. This was followed by five albums for CBS/Sony including "Dave Mason" and "Mariposa De Oro", four of which received gold albums. "Let It Flow", which has gone well over platinum, contained the classic "We Just Disagree", a top-ten single!

In addition to performing to sold-out audiences, Mason performed on a number of albums such as The Rolling Stones' "Beggars'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 "Ladyland" album, 
"All Along the Watchtower", featured Dave playing acoustic guitar. This song, written by Bob Dylan, remains a big favorite in Dave's live show!

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 and 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".

Dave Mason's career spans over 37 years and has encompassed producing, performing and song writing. Not to mention being one of rock's great guitar players! Along with his induction as a founding member of the group Traffic into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, he is currently putting the finishing touches to a brand new solo album. In January. Along with his partner Ravi Sawhney, Dave launched a brand new electric guitar company at the 2004 NAMM show, in Anaheim, CA. 
(www.rksguitars.com)

Gerald Johnson: bass player, born in Washington DC. One of his earliest credits is working with the Sweet Inspirations, the female group (in which Cissy Houston was a founding member) that at one time, backed up Elvis Presley.

He has toured with and appears extensively on Steve Miller's record catalog. In the 70's he went on to play with Dave Mason, along with Mike Finnigan as part of Mason's steady touring troupe. In 1977 Gerald worked on the CSN record. In 1978 he worked with Stills on his last Columbia records release Thoroughfare Gap".

He also toured with Stills in 1979, and was present at the now famous Havana Jam shows in March of 1979. He has also played with and appears on several records of both Les Dudek and Carl Wilson. He went on to tour with Stills solo in 1995, and has been working with him and CSN since then, for the 1996 and 1997 tours, as well as Stills and CSN gigs in 1998 & 1999. Currently residing in Los Angeles, he is also the bass player for The Jones Boys R&B Band.

Born John Sambataro on August 27, 1953 in South Florida Johnne started playing guitar at the age of 7. He has played in local bands in the South Florida area since middle school. His professional career started at around age 16. Johnne’s instruments include guitar, bass, mandolin, Midi-sequencing as well as being a vocalist. Among his other talents he has also been a song and jingle writer, record producer, and a recording engineer. 
 Inspired by his dad Louis, also a musician and band director and growing up in a musical family Johnne’s choice of career was easy. After attending schools in South Florida he then continued his education taking two years at Miami Dade Community College studying music theory and guitar. In 1975 Johnne began working at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami. There he was able to meet producers who used local musicians to create parts for their artist. Some of the artists that Johnne was fortunate to perform and record with are Andy Gibb, Barry Gibb, Stephen Stills, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Terri DeSario, Meat Loaf, John Parr, David Coverdale/Jimmy Page and other various artists. His experience at Criteria gave him the opportunity not only to record but to tour with Dave Mason, McGuinn, Clark & Hillman (The Byrds), Firefall as their new lead singer/guitarist and Dion (Dion & The Belmonts). 
 Johnne has performed on television shows with the following artists: In 1978 Midnight Special (McGuinn Clark & Hillman), 1979 Unicef Benefit (Andy Gibb), 1983 & 1984 MTV (Firefall Video), 1986 Solid Gold (Firefall), 1987 Nashville Now (Firefall), 1989 VH1 Special (Paul Shaffer & Dion), 1989 Producer, vocalist, mandolin & guitarist for the theme song on T.V. sitcom “Heartland”.
 In 1978 while Johnne was recording “Shadow Dancing” with Andy Gibb, Dave Mason was also at Criteria recording his album “Mariposa de Oro”. Johnne sang backing vocals on the Mariposa album and later that year Dave asked Johnne to go on his summer tour. Following that from 1979 – 1980 Johnne was the lead guitarist/vocalist for McGuinn, Clark and Hillman. In 1983 – 1989 the lead singer/guitarist and co-songwriter for the rock group Firefall. During that time Firefall recorded two albums “Break Of Dawn” & “Mirror Of The World”. In 1989 – 1996 Johnne was the lead guitarist/vocalist/musical director for Dion. In 2001 Dave touring again in Florida, asked Johnne to sit in on his DVD “Live At Sunrise”, recorded at Sunrise Musical Theater. Johnne’s now beginning his fourth year touring with Dave and loves every minute of it.
 Johnne admits that one of the most awesome things about playing with Dave on stage and in the studio is that ever since he was a teenager he has always been a fan and still is. He feels that Dave’s music and song writing are legendary. 
 Johnne lives in South Florida with his wife Cathe and has two sons Jason & Jarrad that are also musicians.

Born in Chicago, Alvino began playing drums at 10 years old with the William Penn Elementary School drum and bugle corps. Soon after, he started playing for various local bands. At fourteen, he began traveling the country, working the club circuit.

He was spotted in a club at age 17 and approached by blues legend, KoKo Taylor, to lend his talent. At the same time, many other blues and R&B luminaries began to call on him for his talent. These stars included: Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Cash McCall, and Mighty Joe Young just to name a few.

In 1974, Alvino got a call call to tour with the late great songstress, Minnie Ripperton. This tour opened the doors for many other projects, such as working with Gong Show Guest, Jaye P. Morgan and the vocal group "The Originals". In addition, Alvino also worked with the family singing group, "The Sylvers". This, in turn, led to many Motown and other recording sessions.

Alvino hit on one of the biggest projects of his career in 1978, which was the million selling R&B band, "L.T.D.", of which he was a member for 5 years.
Alvino quickly became a highly sought after "in demand drummer" for such stars as Cheryl Lynn, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Kenny Loggins, Bryan Ferry, Robin Trower, Sheena Easton, Little Richard, Slash's Blues Ball, Patrice Rushen, Little Richard, Bo Diddley and many more.

In 2003, while playing a local gig near his home in So. California, Bill Mason from Dave Mason's band stopped by to "sit in" with Alvino and friends. The two exchanged numbers and became friends. Within a few months, a spot was open for drums with the Dave Mason Band. Alvino has been an integral part of the band ever since!!

A Palm Springs, CA, native, Anthony Patler was born into a true show business family.*  He began playing professionally at age 6, fronting a trio with his brothers Kory (age 12) and Greg (age 13), and continuing his career by playing in several popular local bands during his jr. high and high school years.
 
After graduating, Tony moved to L.A., where he quickly landed his first major recording gig, collaborating with the songwriting hall of famer, Lamont Dozier.  In addition to co-writing several songs, he arranged and played drums, bass, guitar and keys on various albums.  During the same period he also co-founded and played with the underground funk band General Caine, recording a number of albums.
 
In ‘84 Tony began touring and recording with Chaka Khan, eventually becoming her music director (when he first played with Alvino Bennett).  From this, he went on to record and tour with many well know artists including Michael McDonald, Janet Jackson,  Patti Labelle, The Temptations, Was Not Was, George Michael, ABC, Michael Jackson, Rick Astley, Paul Young, Solomon Burke, and Smokey Robinson.  Patler’s credits also include film soundtracks and co-writing songs for Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan & LTD, among others.
 
To Tony’s delight, a recommendation by long time friend Alvino Bennett, led to him joining the Dave Mason Band in May, 2009.
 
*  Gene Carroll (grandfather) Radio & TV Star
     Albert Carroll (great-uncle) Award Winning Shakespearian Stage Actor
     Neal Patler (father)  Movie Actor & Dancer
     Terry Patler (mother)  Jazz Singer
     Louis Patler (cousin)  Best-selling Author

Dave's live sound engineer, Chris Curtis, has a long history of musical production in his background. Born and raised in Southern California, Chris became interested in music as a pre-teen after his older brother's friends formed a rock and roll band. Chris learned to play drums and started touring with bands as soon as he could drive. During those years, Chris played with various local bands, both professionally and for the sheer joy of music.
In 1978 Chris discovered he had an ear for sound engineering. He joined the local band Liquid Blue as their sound enginner. Additionally he mixed live shows for Artist's Vixen, Wanderlust, Mala, The Team and a number of other local Artists.

Chris' talent for mixing sound led him to become a recording sound engineer in the late 1980's, founding his own recording studio "Pacific Coast Recording" in 1990 located in Long Beach, CA. His client list included Eddie Money, War, Edgar Winter, Snoop Dogg and Keith Emerson while getting gold and platinum recognition for latin music artist Lupe Rivera. His audio engineering talents also crossed into the multimedia world where he recorded and edited audio for movies and commercials which included the talents of Carol Burnett, Barbara Eden, Gary Sandy while working with companies like Burger King, Disney, Carl's Jr., Medelsohn/Zien, Yamaha, Marvel films and most of the local Los Angeles radio stations.

After 14 successful years with his recording studio Chris decided to go back to live sound engineering. Introduced to the Dave Mason camp by long time friend and keyboardist Bill Mason, Chris has been with Dave since 2003. He continues to produce and engineer in the studio during his off-the-road times at home. He has quickly found his place as a valuable asset with the Dave Mason Band.