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Nick Mason interviews   05/??/1981

BBC Studio, London, England
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Notes 7:02 min [I uploaded to Traders Den 6/14/15]
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Nick Mason
BBC Studios
London, England

May 1981

The Stonecutter Collection Vol 43

Source: FM Broadcast > Low Generation Cassette

Transfer: Sony Deck TC-WE 475 > gold tipped-rca cables > JVC XL-R2010 CD-RW

Editing: Soundforge 9.0 > Wav > TLH [SB's aligned] Flac Level 6

Traders Den 6/14/15

Transferred, channels balanced and tracked by kingrue Upload 513

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Here we have a rare BBC interview with Pink Floyd Drummer Nick Mason.

Nick had just released his first solo album entitled Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports in May of 1981.

This album may say Nick Mason as the name of the artist, seeing as he played all the drums and co-produced and helped record the

album, but the tracks were all written and co-produced by jazz artist/musician Carla Bley.

The album featured a good collection of jazz artists like Carla, her husband trumpet player Michael Mantler (whom also helped record

the album) and saxophonist (the late) Gary Windo plus rock artists like former Soft Machine drummer and singer Robert Wyatt who

appears on all but one track and session guitarist Chris Spedding.

The album was recorded in November of 1979 but it wasn't released until mid 1981 as CBS (Nick's label in the US at the time) saw that

it would be bad luck to release in England before America and not to compete with Pink Floyd's blockbuster The Wall.

When this album came out there were Pink Floyd fans that hated this album, probably because they had never heard of Carla Bley or

Robert Wyatt. Basically felt snookered into buying something that carried a connection to Pink Floyd.

When the dust settled and they gave it some time to sink in, they still weren't too happy with it.

This short 7 minute interview gives you a little insight into this album, just before the mighty Floyd were calling it a day..

Quality is crystal clean.

01 Interview
02 Interview

Total Time = 7:02 min

Enjoy

George

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