.nickmasondrums speaks on reimagining early pinkfloyd– but not 'becoming my own tribute band.'
, I was reminded how special and undervalued the early period of Pink Floyd is. Then Lee Harris came along with the suggestion of putting a band together. It had been 25 years since I’d been out with a band playing live, but it made me realize I wanted to play this music live again, so the timing was everything.”
“Syd’s ghost has held sway over every British music movement that’s come along since he left Pink Floyd,” says bassist Guy Pratt, who started playing with Pink Floyd in 1987 and has since toured regularly with David Gilmour. “It is interesting getting inside the glass display case of Syd, re-humanizing Pink Floyd, rather than doing some note-perfect stadium show. Our Pink Floyd is this rather scrappy, poppy, punk group.
For his part, keyboardist Beken adds a bit of a wildcard element to the band. “There’s only two people in this band who are not lifelong Floyd fans: me and Nick,” he jokes. “I did work with Rick , but I think that distance is essential when you’re playing music that is so alive and of the moment.”
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