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.”
