Axemen to show off rock chops at HippieFest
The rock tour rolling into the Phillips Center on Wednesday is dubbed HippieFest, a nod to its performers who recorded seminal hits of the ’60s and ’70s and are performing their own 30-minute sets. But it could also be tagged “GuitarFest” — due to the inclusion of Dave Mason, Mark Farner and Rick Derringer — or “KeyboardGala,” with the participation of Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals and Gary Wright.
As guitarists, Mason, Farner and Derringer are all known for their work with chart-topping groups as well as solo careers: Mason formerly with the British rockers Traffic; Farner with the ’70s American group Grand Funk Railroad, and Derringer, who along with his solo hits, also widely toured and performed with such others as Edgar Winter and Johnny Winter and went on to appear on more than 200 recordings by dozens of other acts including Steely Dan and Alice Cooper.
The British-born Mason was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 as a co-founder and original member of Traffic, and in Wednesday’s Chords of Color for a Cause performance at the Phillips Center, he will perform three songs by Traffic: the Mason-penned hits “Hole in My Shoe” and “Feelin’ Alright,” as well as a new arrangement of the band’s single, “Dear Mr. Fantasy.”
The latter will get a reworked treatment during Mason’s show-closing set on Wednesday. “I did a whole new arrangement to it; I put it in a minor key and put a bridge in it that was never there,” Mason says by phone from a recent tour stop in Morristown, N.J.
The singer/guitarist’s set also will include his solo hits “Only You Know and I Know,” “We Just Disagree” and Let It Go, Let It Flow” along with his traditional concert homage of “All Along the Watchtower” — a song whose version by Jimi Hendrix featured Mason on acoustic guitar.
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