Showing posts with label Nick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nick. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2012

Come Into My Music Box


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This is a compilation that... Well.... Probably should've been avoided. In fact, let me just say that if you are anything but an obsessive die-hard Pink Floyd crazy person, you really should attempt to avoid this CD. Your sanity will be your reward.

There is a Pink Floyd connection - an intersection - on three songs. "My Advice To You" and "I Don't Believe You" both feature Mr. Nick Mason on drums. There is a reason that these songs are obscure. Few have lived to describe them to others.

When I heard that this CD was going to contain the song "The Committee", I phoned up the nice fellow who wrote the short story and film and asked him about the song. Paul Jones, as you may know, starred in the film "The Committee" - so it was only natural to think that he might record a song for the soundtrack.. But.. I'd seen the film and knew already that there wasn't a song in it remotely resembling anything that Jones had done. In the end, it turned out that Jones had written & recorded the song. It was played at the film's premier party. But, it was not used in the film itself. Once I received my copy of the CD, it became rather clear why this choice had been made as it had. The Floyd material, although very hastily assembled, was *absolutely* the better option.

NM & RWright - Chimera


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** The pain!! The Pain!! Why doesn't anyone stop them?!?

NM & RF - White Of The Eye


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** Won't someone make it stop?!?

NM & RF - Tank Malling


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** This is another example of the sort of weirdness that you will never find in any other forum. It also rather definitively answers the question of why so very little of the Mason/Fenn collaboration has ever been released. To paraphrase Mr. Mason: If you sit down to listen to this material, I think you will remember, rather suddenly, that you have other things to do.