Nick Mason needs to make use of AI to create new Pink Floyd songs
Nick Mason has expressed his need to make use of AI to create new Pink Floyd songs.
The drummer lately gave an interview to The Sunday Mirror (by way of Music News), the place he mentioned the potential to forge a Pink Floyd reunion by way of AI. David Gilmour declared the band to be over in 2015, saying that the long-lasting prog-rock band had “run its course.”
“It could be fascinating to see what AI might do with new music,” Mason instructed The Sunday Mirror. “If you happen to tried to run it as a kind of ‘The place did Pink Floyd go after?’
“The factor to do can be to have an AI scenario the place David and Roger develop into associates once more,” he continued, including: “We could possibly be like ABBA by the point we’ve completed with it.”
He additionally spoke of the feud between David Gilmour and Roger Waters, expressing disappointment that it had overshadowed the band: “In a 55-year profession, most of it was nice enjoyable. We had been enormously privileged to be in a profitable band and tour the world and hang around with actually fascinating folks. It’s a gold card to satisfy all types of your favorite sportsmen and actors.”
Mason, who at the moment performs a few of Pink Floyd’s earlier music as Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets and techniques alongside Spandau Ballet‘s Gary Kemp and bassist Man Pratt, additionally mirrored on persevering with to carry out Pink Floyd songs.
“The perfect factor about retaining the factor going is for our profit,” he stated. “It is smart to maintain it going somewhat than shutting it down. I additionally take pleasure in it as a result of the extra time passes, the extra you may take a look at it with a rosier glint.”
Gilmour himself has mentioned the opportunity of an ABBA-style Pink Floyd present, saying he would conform to it underneath “a sequence of very, very troublesome and onerous situations”.
Talking about his expertise watching ‘Voyage’, he stated: “If you happen to had been a decided ABBA fan, you would possibly take pleasure in it.
“I believed the photographs of them had been kind of OK, however they weren’t ever going to persuade me it was actual. If you happen to’re down the kind of mosh pit finish of the factor and it’s all occurring, it’s in all probability nice. The perfect second for me was when the reside band performed a track [‘Does Your Mother Know’] on their very own.”
When requested if a Pink Floyd hologram present would ever be a chance, he answered: “If somebody got here up with all the cash and all of the sensible concepts – after which as soon as we’ve agreed to a sequence of very, very troublesome and onerous situations – I’d say, ‘Yeah, OK.’”
In different information, Roger Waters and Piers Morgan have clashed over anti-Semitism claims and Israel Palestine battle after being known as “world’s dumbest rockstar”.