09.01.2008: Was würden wir nur ohne Nick Mason machen. Immer wieder tauchen Interviews von ihm auf. So wie jetzt im Sydney Morning Herald anlässlich der Oh By The Way Box. Auch wenn es nichts großartig neues gibt, ein paar Kleinigkeiten sind immer wieder zu dabei.
Nick Mason über Punk
"Punk, I seem to remember, was when we were doing Animals, which was 1977 and Johnny Rotten was wearing a T-shirt which said, 'I hate Pink Floyd'."
Nick Mason über Musik
"One still listens to music that one once listened to very seriously but it's funny how one does grow out of taking music like that seriously."
Ob er noch Pink Floyd Alben hört?
"No. I tend to absolutely not do that. I think I reflect but I don't listen to the music. Funny enough, I just got one of the box sets and its interest is in looking at the box, flicking through what's actually included and trying to, not make sense of it, but think about it harder, about the way there is a sort of progression where some albums drop out of the progression."
Mason über die explosive Beziehungen in der Band.
"Well, I think apart from the principals, the four or five of us, including Syd - which is a story in itself - there is an interesting thing about the way bands who survive or produce good work need a certain element of conflict quite often. You certainly need more than one person driving it. I think it's infinitely fascinating and I think there is probably a great book to be written - but probably by a psychiatrist."
Mason über Roger Waters
"I think what one looks for is unreasonable behaviour and quite often behaviour isn't that unreasonable. I think I'm slightly sympathetic to Roger's position. Having reunited with him and seen him at work, he is so driven and I think it probably did drive him mad [being in Pink Floyd]. He had got to the point where he didn't want to be in a band any more.
"The problems are quite often other band members having trouble letting go. When you look at what happened with Syd, we should have let Syd leave much earlier, or helped him leave. Funnily enough we could almost be accused of the same thing with Roger, that if we detected earlier and worked out that really we should have let him get on with doing what he wanted it might have been a little less fraught."
Mason über The Final Cut und Dinge die sie nicht getan haben.
"I don't have regrets about the Final Cut. I think that was one of those albums that ended up being really Roger's album and we didn't realise that at the time. I haven't got many regrets about what we did, apart from possibly doing the bitter lemon commercial in 1971, which was a bit of a sell-out.
"But it's the things we didn't do. In terms of touring, going to some of the more remote places. Certainly, from learning about touring in 1987-88 when Dave [Gilmour] and I went out, I wish we'd done, the four of us, bigger tours because we could have done better tours early on but they were so short that the investment in the tour was by today's standards fairly lightweight really. They tended to be three- or four-week tours rather than the whole year."
Quelle: The Sydney Morning Herald
