Nick says a thing then that only a member of the later Pink Floyd could say: “It’s lovely to play to an audience that are totally engaged. Whatever the problems of working with Syd became, those happy days when we all wanted the same success, travelling in a transit van and playing clubs, there was something very special about it.” On the experience of playing those songs after such a long time, he says: “I found it delightful.
He did a lot of writing in a short time.” Something like Scarecrow is almost pastoral while others are full-on psychedelic, interstellar overdrive. It was tricky and that was part of its attraction.
“I‘d forgotten how complex Syd’s writing was. Pink Floyd of course have been very well served by writers, particularly Roger Waters, Richard Wright and David Gilmour, but initially, too, the enigmatic Syd Barrett. Pink Floyd in 1967: Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett and Rick Wright. “Yes,” he says, “and for this project we went to early demos recorded in 1966 when we were trying to get into a beats competition, and yes, we were an R&B band.” “But,” he adds, “if you want to get somewhere, you have to quickly do something else, something original, and that comes down to the writing, the writing of unique songs.” Which is as good a place to start as any, as when it formed, Pink Floyd were closer to being an R&B band, like their then peers, The Rolling Stones or Them, than the progressive experimental band they would become. “I wanted to become a New Romantic,” Nick Laughs, “but he can play different things. Nick, the only ever-present member of Pink Floyd, who has featured on every album, was promoting his side project, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, who played the Convention Centre in Dublin earlier this week. Pink Floyd is a Behemoth.īut that was not why Nick (CBE) came to have my mobile number.
More than 250 million albums sold and enough classic albums like Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and The Wall (1979), to name but two, to fill out an entire season of the Classic Albums Show. It is an example of the power of Pink Floyd.
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