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Dave Mason
Dave Mason is a musician from Birmingham, England who found fame with rock band Traffic.
Mason was a close friend of Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix first heard "All Along The Watchtower" by Bob Dylan at a party he was invited to by Mason, and decided to record his own version. The same night he recorded the song at Olympic Barnes , South West London, with Mason playing acoustic guitar and Brian Jones hanging out at the session. When the song came out as a single, in October, 1968, it reached number 5 in the UK charts.
Mason left Traffic in the 1970s and had a moderately successful solo career, but later returned to record new material.
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