''Dave Mason Is Alive'' is an album of live recordings by Dave Mason. Recorded in 1971 at the

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club in Los Angeles, the album was released in 1973 by

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. It has been re-released by MCA Coral (MCA 713).

Background

As reported by William Ruhlmann of

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, the album was released without Mason's approval. Its release by Blue Thumb was prompted by the dispute between it and Mason, a dispute that started midway during the recording of Mason's previous album. That previous album, '' Headkeeper'', had been intended to be a double album, with one disk composed of live recordings made at the Troubador and the other of studio recordings. But after Mason ceased work and took possession of some of the studio masters, Blue Thumb released ''Headkeeper'' as a single album, one side live and one side studio recordings. As the dispute with Mason continued, Blue Thumb issued ''Dave Mason Is Alive'', composed entirely of recordings from the same live performance that had been used for ''Headkeeper''. Of the seven tracks on ''Alive'', two of them, "

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" and "Just a Song", are repeated from ''Headkeeper''.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Dave Mason, except where indicated.

Side one

# "Walk to the Point" - 4:15 # "Shouldn't Have Took More than You Gave" - 5:20 # "Look at You Look at Me" (Mason,

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) - 8:18

Side two

# "Only You Know and I Know" - 4:12 # "Sad and Deep as You" - 4:00 # "Just a Song" - 3:14 # "

" - 5:54

Personnel

*Dave Mason - electric and acoustic guitar, vocals *Felix Falcon aka "Flaco" - conga and percussion *"Dr." Rick Jaeger - drums *Mark Jordan - keyboards *Lonnie Turner - bass

Production

*Produced by Tommy LiPuma and Dave Mason *Compiled by Tommy LiPuma *Recording and mixing engineer - Al Schmitt *Remote equipment by Wally Helder and crew - Miles Weiner, Terry Stark, Chris Chigaridas *Graphics and photography – Barry Feinstein, Camouflage Productions, Vicki Hodgetts *Photograph of Dave Mason - Jim Marshall

References

*The information under "Track listing", "Personnel" and "Production" was taken from the cover and labels of the 1973 release by Blue Thumb Records (BTS 54). {{Authority control 1973 albums Dave Mason albums Blue Thumb Records albums Albums produced by Dave Mason Albums produced by Tommy LiPuma