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Check them out at  http://masonrack.com

The Mason Rack band are an energetic Australian blues rock trio. If you haven’t seen them, do so, because they are amazing.

Mason originates from Southport on Queensland’s sunny Gold Coast. With his outstanding vocals, guitar and lap slide guitar, Mason continues to deliver a high impact performances to audiences everywhere he and his members appear.

Together with his band , Mason feels most comfortable playing blues, rock and original live music locally and interstate. MASON started performing at the tender age of 6, father BILLY RACK was an awesome muso and all round LEGEND. Mason is a local artist with incredible talent and passion for his music!
The early days…

Mason was born in the Southport Hospital, Queensland, Australia and raised on jazz, rock and surfing. He looked set to have a career in surfing, but the lifestyle he was living had other ideas.After a visit to re-hab,music was the saving grace…ALONG with a friend, ”bill wilson”.
The band, and the music

Mason’s dad, Billy Rack, was a multi-talented jazz musician, playing different instruments and performing in different areas of the stage. He was the nicest man Mason ever knew. Other influences include: Tom Waites, Tex Perkins, Jeff Buckley, Ben Harper, Violent Femmes, Dave Mathews, etc etc.

The most exciting thing to happen to the band is Mason’s new Weissenborn guitar - a lap slide guitar, the same type used by Ben Harper and Xavier Rudd. Mason’s shows are spell-binding! He pumps out his music and people can’t help but stare… he also does this drum thing in the audience, where he plays on the tables, chairs, walls, bar etc, only to return to the stage to duel it out with drummer extraordinaire, [AUSTRLIA= JAY CONNWAY,[CANADA= JOEL”thunderfoot”PERKUS,. It is a must-see thing!AND WELCOMING NEW BASSIST ”IN CANADA= MARUS”gottabig1”ENGEL , IN AUSTRALIA RAY charles  GODDARD..”.!!! AWSOME.

The band have released 3 cd’s - Night Train , Show Me Yours and Join Hands”with award winning song ”DUST”as heard on JJJ..
Songwriting

Mason: “I can remember the first song i wrote. I had just broken up with a girl and wanted to express just how I felt in a song, I dont play it much these days but I still like it, and still remember how it felt to write it…….

A lot of songs have come from that space of hurt and heart break, for me it seems the pain helps to draw deep feelings,words,energy,momentum,and though heart broken I feel relief to have expressed myself ,to have unloaded the pain, to have voiced it,to have addressed it , and then to share it..

NOW … my songs are NOT always about her leaving him or pain,today I like writing woven lyrics of life and success in hardship. Also, I like writing about a subject and bring it to life by calling it [the subject] she,or him…the connection between things in general and me [a human being] are very relavent……AND some songs are just fantasy…….. I love getting lost in fantasy. REALLY……
Mason’s favorite sayings…

the truth will set you free,but it may really piss you off before it does…

the truth is alsways simple,never complex,or hard to explain…

Some people never go insane ,what truly awful lives they must live [from movie BARFLY]
be a human being, not a human doing…..
forever and beyond….. [gives a sense of eternal living,loving]
its better to love someone you can’t have, than having someone you can’t love[mum]
a day at a time..[ life]
shoot for the moon, if you miss at least you’re up with the stars……
the vioce of god can be heard in my conscience [yours too]
to give something you really like or love, is giving [true]
if you believe it then it is so…..
love is the all we all desire, no matter who you are, or what you are,
love can bring you home… and can faith saves lives…..
go hard, rock on, just get lots of sleep and eat fruit….[ha ha]

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