Nick Mason has expressed his desire to use AI to create new Pink Floyd songs.
The drummer recently gave an interview to The Sunday Mirror (via Music News), where he discussed the potential to forge a Pink Floyd reunion via AI. David Gilmour declared the band to be over in 2015, saying that the iconic prog-rock band had “run its course.”
“It would be fascinating to see what AI could do with new music,” Mason told The Sunday Mirror. “If you tried to run it as a sort of ‘Where did Pink Floyd go after?’
“The thing to do would be to have an AI situation where David and Roger become friends again,” he continued, adding: “We could be like ABBA by the time we’ve finished with it.”
He also spoke of the feud between David Gilmour and Roger Waters, expressing disappointment that it had overshadowed the band: “In a 55-year career, most of it was great fun. We were enormously privileged to be in a successful band and tour the world and hang out with really interesting people. It’s a gold card to meet all sorts of your favourite sportsmen and actors.”
Mason, who currently plays some of Pink Floyd’s earlier music as Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets alongside Spandau Ballet‘s Gary Kemp and bassist Guy Pratt, also reflected on continuing to perform Pink Floyd songs.
“The best thing about keeping the thing going is for our benefit,” he said. “It makes sense to keep it going rather than shutting it down. I also enjoy it because the more time passes, the more you can look at it with a rosier glint.”
Gilmour himself has discussed the possibility of an ABBA-style Pink Floyd show, saying he would agree to it under “a series of very, very difficult and onerous conditions”.
Speaking about his experience watching ‘Voyage’, he said: “If you were a determined ABBA fan, you might enjoy it.
“I thought the images of them were sort of OK, but they weren’t ever going to convince me it was real. If you’re down the sort of mosh pit end of the thing and it’s all going on, it’s probably great. The best moment for me was when the live band played a song [‘Does Your Mother Know’] on their own.”
When asked if a Pink Floyd hologram show would ever be a possibility, he answered: “If someone came up with all the money and all the brilliant ideas – and then once we’ve agreed to a series of very, very difficult and onerous conditions – I’d say, ‘Yeah, OK.’”
In other news, Roger Waters and Piers Morgan have clashed over anti-Semitism claims and Israel Palestine conflict after being called “world’s dumbest rockstar”.
