Why Pink Floyd? Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason Tells Us

I saw them on the Division Bell tour in 94 awesome.

One of the greatest bands ever, indeed. If not THE greatest.

I was able to see them in 1987 they were great!!!!!

I was able to see them in 1987 they were great!!!!!

I can't think of a band that's really tried to copy or do albums with similar themes and structure to Pink Floyd. Some elements of their music or guitar sound maybe, but no-one's copied them the way so many bands have completely copied say Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones. Considering they've sold 200 million + albums I'm wondering... why not?

Great interview! People who only like Floyd because of Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and The Wall need to branch out. Meddle is an awesome album as well as Piper. You can skip the Final Cut though :)

The year is 1991 and I`m in the kingdom PINKFLOYD is playing to say this was a concert of the mind if you had the mind.Real interactive music and fisheye video in a softly spoken magic spell.Arnold Layne was there don`t do it again !!!PF is cerebral a moment in time captured in music , molecular structure after collision an emotion that stripped the mylin covering on your nerves.This creative mind used no drugs they were`nt needed.

"On the first day, Pink Floyd created God." -Bumper sticker.

Caught them live in Toronto (wish you were here tour) I think, one of the best concerts I have ever seen.
They had a huge pink pig balloon fixed to Q107 at Yonge & Bloor for a week it was great.

I love Pink Floyd except the Wall. I think that the Wall was a chopped up pieced together hack job that lacked any consistency and a very poor theme. As far as it being a sound track, I dont even think it was very good at that.

It lacked Richard Wright the keyboard player. Without Richard Wright the theme sound behind Pink Floyd will never be there.

Richard was resposible for the US and Them sound, The Great Gig In the Sky and all of the sound effects and synthesiser work that was later ineffectively replaced by underskilled keyboard players that couldnt carry Richard's jock strap.

Gilmore admitted that he would never again be able to play those songs again live as only Richard could play them. Remember when Floyd had truckloads and truckloads of synthesiser equipment? That was for Richard.

RIP RICHARD WRIGHT. We love you!

this is a great interview! thanks for posting this

Still to this day I`ll never forget thier concert at the Kingdom it`s 1991.Real interactive music and fisheye video if you were there you get it and it does`nt have to be explained to you.A moment in time turned into music and the final crazy sounds of BIKE pass thru my headphones.

A true artist and a true gentleman.

Emily tries but misunderstands. She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tommorrow.......

I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like , its got a basket and a horn and it's yellow......

...ther is no other way. You'll lose your mind and play, free games for May,

Shes the kind of girl who fits in with my world. Id give her everything, anything if she'd want it......

Greatest band on earth! After all these years they can still sell out Stadium after Stadium! Not like this rap @#$% called music. And as for the person that called them smelly hippies, just remember at least when they open their mouths you can understand what they're saying. They are very well educated!

No better or worse then Adler Addicts poolside show in Vegas last weekend. At least Axl can draw a crowd. Maybe 50 people showed for the GnR cover band with Appetite for Destruction drummer. @#$% the critics Axl.

I was lucky enough to catch the Medle tour stop at the Hollywood Bowl. At that time no one, not one band was using speakers all around the venue. But on that night with quad sound and multicolor spotlights behind the shell sending their beams over the audience to provide a psudo-roof, my vision of what was possible with music changed forever. Here was a band that started off playing 12bar blues that had transcended the format of music to include the audience in a total sensory experience.
Subsequent shows paled in comarison with the exception of the first The Wall show. There was something special about being outside and inside all at the same time in the Hollywood Bowl that will live in this old heart until I die.

The article cuts off right before the interview for me!! Bummer!!

Why the dig on hip hop though? I don't care for the crap on the top 40 either but hip hop does have it's place in music history. Hip hop is american. It has nothing to do with africa. What an ignorant statement.

In my eye, PF will always be # one to me. I was on stage for both concerts in Foxboro, MA in the late 80's. LOVED IT.

I can only say two things.....Roger, you are not Pink....and Rick, Wish You Were Here!

If only the big head could have seen the future, there wouldn't have been so much wasted Time.......but I'll always love the Lads and their music.