Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has indicated a Pink Floyd anthology and catalog reissue might be in the works.
His comments appear in an interview published in the recent issue of Rhythm magazine.
“We’ve been developing the idea of a Pink Floyd anthology for a long time. I’ve spent quite a lot of time trying to find the material. I really enjoy that, but it’s time consuming,” he says.
“We’re talking about doing a big reissue of the Pink Floyd catalogue because there is the belief that there eventually will be the point that there simply won’t be enough market to generate those sort of packages. That would be a tragedy, so it’s a good time to do it.”
The U.K.’s Daily Mirror newspaper reports the Pink Floyd drummer arrived at his Hampstead, North London, home to find the garage unlocked and several crash helmets missing, including a pink one.
“It’s quite distinctive so the number of people who had a helmet that color would be limited,” he said. “It would be nice to get them back.”
Mason is nearly as famous for his love of motor sports as he is for being a member of Floyd.
Oddly, the thief or thieves left his Harley Davidson motorcycle untouched.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has joined Beat for Peace, a movement calling for renewed diplomatic efforts to prevent violence in the African nation of Sudan.
Mason appears in a video of drummers (below) across the globe lending their support to the cause.
Stewart Copeland (The Police), Phil Selway (Radiohead), Jonny Quinn (Snow Patrol) and many others also appear in the video.
The civil war between North and South Sudan was Africa’s longest-running civil war, killing more than 2 million people. With violence on the increase in southern Sudan, activists are trying to prevent the return of mass human rights violations to that area.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason will be heard on a new track to be released Nov. 1 to benefit a children’s charity.
Nick will drum — and sing! — on a cover of The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love.” The track will appear on “Bandaged Together,” a double-album to benefit the BBC’s Children in Need charity.
The track, which also features Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, and Bill Wyman, was recorded last month at EMI’s Abbey Road studio.
Nick’s track will be available as a download beginning Nov. 1. “Bandaged Together” will go on sale Nov. 9. You’ll be able to place your order online.
This will be the second “Bandaged Together” album. The first raised £250,000 for the charity.
London’s Metro newspaper reports 24-year-old singer/songwriter Lily Allen has spoken out against file sharing.
Her comments, posted on her MySpace page, are in response to a recent Times story quoting Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason suggesting prosecuting those who illegally share music files is misguided and shortsighted.
“I think music piracy is having a dangerous effect on British music, but some really rich and successful artists like Nick Mason from Pink Floyd and Ed O’Brien from Radiohead don’t seem to think so,” she wrote.
“These guys from huge bands said file-sharing music is fine. It probably is fine for them. They do sell-out arena tours and have the biggest Ferrari collections in the world.
“For new talent though, file-sharing is a disaster as it’s making it harder and harder for new acts to emerge.
“You don’t start out in music with the Ferraris. Instead you get a huge debt from your record company, which you spend years working your arse off to repay.”
The Ferrari reference would seem to be a jab at Mason’s impressive auto collection.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason (left) is one of many professional musicians lending a voice to the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), a group encouraging the British government to rethink its stance toward illegal file sharers.
“The last thing we want to be doing is going to war with our fanbase. File sharing means a new generation of fans for us,” Mason said.
“It’s a great thing to have another generation discovering your music and thinking you’re rather good. File sharing plays a part in that, because that generation don’t do it any other way.”
His comments are a reaction to British Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s plan to suspend the Internet accounts of those caught sharing digital music files.
FAC has drafted a resolution that calls on the government to innovate new business models that help fans obtain music legally.
That plan has received backing by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and the Music Producers’ Guild.
Pictured, from left: Mason and other FAC members — Ed O’Brien (Radiohead), Dave Rowntree (Blur) and Billy Bragg. (David Bebber/The Times)
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has told the BBC his band might consider a Floyd-themed video game along the lines of Guitar Hero or Rock Band.
“Everyone’s looking at new ways of selling the music because the business of selling records has almost disappeared,” he said.
“We’re all still interested in the catalog and trying to make the most of it, re-mastering when necessary, and looking at other things that we could do with it.”
His comments came on the eve of the release of “The Beatles: Rock Band” by MTV Games.
Mason and Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones) took the opportunity to question those games’ effect on budding musicians.
“It irritates me having watched my kids do it,” Mason said. “If they spent as much time practicing the guitar as learning how to press the buttons they’d be damn good by now.”
Wyman was more direct: “It encourages kids not to learn, that’s the trouble. … It makes less and less people dedicated to really get down and learn an instrument.”
The surviving members of Pink Floyd were surprise performers at last night’s sold-out Syd Barrett tribute concert in London.
“Madcap’s Last Laugh,” co-produced by Floyd producer Joe Boyd at Barbican Hall, promised names such as Chrissie Hynde, Robyn Hitchcock, Kevin Ayers and others.
But the audience got more than they planned for when Roger Waters, accompanied by Jon Carin, took the stage to perform “Flickering Flame” at the end of the evening’s first set.
David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright performed “Arnold Layne” at the end of the second set, only to join most of the evening’s performers in “Bike” to close the show.
Not a bad line-up for the show’s $30-50 ticket price.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has indicated a Pink Floyd anthology and catalog reissue might be in the works.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has joined Beat for Peace, a movement calling for renewed diplomatic efforts to prevent violence in the African nation of Sudan.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason offers up his recipe for bouillabaisse in a new charity cookbook.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason will be heard on a new track to be released Nov. 1 to benefit a children’s charity.
Pink Floyd drummer and auto enthusiast Nick Mason took the prize in his race Sunday at the Goodwood Revival, a nostalgic three-day auto event.
London’s Metro newspaper reports 24-year-old singer/songwriter Lily Allen has spoken out against file sharing.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason (left) is one of many professional musicians lending a voice to the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), a group encouraging the British government to rethink its stance toward illegal file sharers.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has told the BBC his band might consider a Floyd-themed video game along the lines of Guitar Hero or Rock Band.
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