Nick Mason forms new band, European Tour

Good to hear that Nick is keeping it going. Takes a ton of money to tour these days so I don't expect to hear much beyond this, but I'm glad to hear even this much.

There's a European tour now. See the Brain Damage web site in the OP or google it for details.

On the HD Pink Floyd YouTube channel there's videos put up of his shows.
Would be better if you were there.

Very interesting news!

FS is a good album and my introduction to Carla Bley. The song Hot River has a guitar solo that DG would be proud of.

As far as MLOR is concerned, I thought that would have come out on the 30 anniversary. I imagine the remix ship has sailed.

Edited by tdfloyd - May 13 2018 at 03:41

Just like Wright´s Wet Dream, Fictitious Sport is the only album from Mason I like. I just can´t stand those horrible eighties sounds! Haven´t heard Broken China as whole, but songs that I´ve heard isn´t very interesting, though sounds are ok.

^ I used to have it - only the lengthy opener was worthy. Very 80’s in the production, I bought it on LP in the mid-90’s and it sounded hideous then !! Thinking about it though, I shouldn’t have ditched it.

^ in reality, FS is a Carla Bley album in disguise - and a bloody good one with Robert Wyatt, heck, great line-up of jazzers on this one !!

moshkito wrote: Hi, Hmmmm ... seems to me that what this band needs is Robert Wyatt to shake up the cobwebs of a time long gone! Oh well ... so much for new music! I think this will probably be the first PF solo album that I will pass on ... I think I'm going to put on Fictitious Sports for a while ... much more fun!

I gotta doubt that Nick Mason will EVER put out a another solo disc unless it is a live album or an archival project. He once, said, and this is me recalling something I read somewhere, that he wanted to redo Momentary Lapse with HIS drumming (it was done with a combo of studio drummers and drum machines). David Gilmour said he wanted to "mix the 80s out of" Momentary Lapse too, if he could, so maybe Nick could get the go ahead on that kind of tinkering. He's kind of the Pink Floyd Legacy guy, especially in public appearances and interviews, whereas David and Roger are usually concerned a little more about their solo work.


Edited by ReactioninG - May 02 2018 at 10:29

It would be great if this one would work well and it resulted a bigger tour. And yeah, I guess early Pink Floyd makes a lot of sense for Nick Mason, since he had more of a spotlight on those years.