Nick Mason has expressed his need to make use of AI to create new Pink Floyd songs.
The drummer just lately gave an interview to The Sunday Mirror (by way of Music Information), 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 enduring prog-rock band had “run its course.”
“It will be fascinating to see what AI might do with new music,” Mason instructed The Sunday Mirror. “In case you tried to run it as a type of ‘The place did Pink Floyd go after?’
“The factor to do can be to have an AI state of affairs the place David and Roger grow to be pals once more,” he continued, including: “We may very well 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 have been enormously privileged to be in a profitable band and tour the world and hang around with actually attention-grabbing individuals. It’s a gold card to satisfy all types of your favorite sportsmen and actors.”
Mason, who presently 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 very best factor about preserving the factor going is for our profit,” he stated. “It is smart to maintain it going relatively than shutting it down. I additionally get pleasure from it as a result of the extra time passes, the extra you’ll be able to 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 comply with it below “a sequence of very, very tough and onerous circumstances”.
Talking about his expertise watching ‘Voyage’, he stated: “In case you have been a decided ABBA fan, you may get pleasure from it.
“I believed the photographs of them have been type of OK, however they weren’t ever going to persuade me it was actual. In case you’re down the type of mosh pit finish of the factor and it’s all occurring, it’s in all probability nice. The very best second for me was when the dwell 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 tough and onerous circumstances – 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”.
