RIP Dave Mason

To all us boomers the great ones are dying of too frequently. RIP to all of them. 

I'm not trying to be disagreeable, but "We Just Disagree" was written by Jim Krueger, long-time friend and guitarist for Dave.  They put out a very good live album of just the two of them playing acoustic guitars, Dave on a 12 string and Jim playing most of the leads titled "Live at Perkins Palace" also on DVD.  They both seem to be enjoying themselves quite a bit.  Jim died in 1993 at the age of 43.

@drmuso 

So did Winwood play a Firebird on John Barleycorn and Low Spark??? 

@pollockg 

Yes. Sad but true... and inevitable. 

@stuartk

I'd have to listen again to John Barleycorn--there's not a lot of electric guitar on the album, but I think it's the Firebird on both of those albums.  The Firebird pickups have a kind of harsh tone that's between a Gibson humbucker and a Strat pickup.  You can also hear it on "Had to Cry Today" on Blind Faith.

Winwood did play a Strat on "Dear Mr. Fantasy," and there are Strat tones on those earlier Traffic albums, and there's the fairly well-known video of SW playing a white Strat through a Marshall half-stack for a Spencer Davis Group video of "Keep on Running."  I especially like the Strat playing on "Heaven Is In Your Mind," which I think was Winwood.  I especially like the guitar on "Heaven Is In Your Mind."