Nick Mason - Blog Posts
Oh cursed spite, that ever I was born to have a full time job instead of blogging about Pink Floyd all day
i am starting to get into pink floyd again. but i feel i need it to take me over and possess me.
✨I CURSE YOU WITH PINK FLOYD ADDICTION✨
Now go listen to Meddle and save as many Pink Floyd photos as you can to your phone trust me this is healthy and good
Saw Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets: Echoes tour in DC last night. Among lots of funny little things Nick said, he introduced Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun thusly:
"We're going to play a song now that is very near and dear to my heart, because I spent many a year watching Roger Waters bang holy hell out of this gong, and I was never allowed to play it. But, I've got my own gong now and I've given myself permission to play it." 😌
If you're a Floyd fan and you get the chance, go see the show. It was absolutely wonderful. All the pre-Dark Side classics were played and some of the more obscure stuff - like Vegetable Man, one that NO OTHER member of Pink Floyd or Floyd tribute band has ever played live - and they use the "old ways" for producing unique visual effects each night (e.g., using 2 concave clock faces, baby oil, ink, and water to create live lava lamp-like projections). All the old hippies in the audience were bouncing in their seats or jumping out of them to dance. Nick is SO sweet and funny, you can tell by watching him that he's having the best time. The band is also phenomenal and work really well together (Guy Pratt's in the band!). 10/10, if he had another show booked closer I'd see it again. The merch is nice too!
Hi! I'm new to Pink Floyd, and I wanted to ask you if you could recomend some interview or video?
I would definitely steer you to Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii first! It’s a great film they made in 1972 right before Dark Side was released. It has performances interspersed with footage of them recording in the studio and has interviews as well! You can find most of the clips on YouTube I believe.
I would also recommend watching all of the members’ (sans Syd) interviews for John Edginton’s Syd Barrett documentary, as well as the documentary itself. You can watch these on YouTube as well and Edginton has posted the full versions of them with info you don’t get from the actual documentary. Here’s Roger’s, Rick’s, and David’s: https://youtu.be/hI0lFi1JFHQ https://youtu.be/URbiyWY-szY https://youtu.be/RQhxEpXEaNA
Hope this was helpful!
Nick Mason and Roger Waters reunited, September 13, 2006
Photo by Eleanor Reiche
Each of them is approximately 75% limbs, 15% hair, and 10% angst. Except Syd with his lil smile
Roger & Nick - Pink Floyd, Kralingen Holland Pop Festival, Kralingse Bos Rotterdam The Netherlands, June 28 1970. 🎧
“The Scarecrow” edit! Hope y’all enjoy🕺