Nick Mason Discusses Pink Floyd's "The Early Years Box Set: 1965-1972" | BUILD Series

Pink Floyd drummer, Nick Mason, is visiting BUILD to discuss Pink Floyd’s “The Early Years Box Set: 1965-1972,” out on November 11. The collection is a comprehensive 27-disc box set, with 7 individual book style volumes. With twenty plus unreleased songs and over 5 hours of rare concert footage, there is still a lot for Pink Floyd fans to enjoy. Interview at AOL HQ in NYC for BUILD Series.
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[@nickmason6577]

Thanks for listening to our music. Best wishes- Nick Mason

[@blackmore4]

@Julian Armenti I think suicide's a bit severe.

[@Zeupater]

+Nick Mason Thank you for all the tasteful and inspiring beats. You're one of my favorite touchstones when working through a dilemma in the writing or recording my own music. "...hmmm, what would Mr. Mason do?"

[@millionminimagicmice]

be funny it was really him. LOL!!!!!

[@santallum]

wouldn't it just !!!

[@williamkinsey4979]

Nick Mason what a brilliant way to celebrate fifty years of Pink Floyd, s 50th birthday. A friend is going to the exhibition. I,ll stay at home and enjoy Early Years! LOL

[@mojorisin7317]

The most underrated member of Floyd. His signature timing and groove laid down the back bone of all those great songs, and let's not forget his swag, by far the most free spirited of the band.

[@ethanc1719]

Glimore most inderated

[@marc8131]

Did you know that Nick Mason is the only member of the band to play on every album that they made.

[@macmuggo5459]

Marcus what about rick?

[@patrickstecher4817]

Rick didn't play on the Final Cut.

[@ThatIsDopeBro]

@@patrickstecher4817 well that's a fucking lie. He was only absent for two sun's in the sunset

[@jakehodgson82]

@@ThatIsDopeBro That's a track not an album.

[@rapsody9546]

@@ThatIsDopeBro why do you have to use profanity….?….I just don’t get it….such anger 👎🏼

[@SluffAdlin]

Nick Mason is my favorite drummer. He's not technically proficient but it's his slightly behind the beat drumming that hypnotizes you when you are listening to the Floyd. Waters gives tone to those drum patterns while Rick and David play on and around it with melancholic riffs and melodies. Those elements Waters deep, cynical, angry and philosophical lyrics is the essence of Pink Floyd.

[@robinstone1196]

you are so right

[@mattaki]

not technically proficient?!!

[@theinvisibleman2194]

mattaki He just means he's not Neil Peart.

[@SluffAdlin]

thank you Ping

[@motokev2727]

I agree, drums drive the song. When I make something up, I always start with a drum pattern. Just a slight deviation can change the out-come. Most professionals probably have some riff or progression to start with. Long live PINK FLOYD.......

[@Albee213]

What makes Mason and Pink Floyd so great is that they never over do anything. Everything feels like it was meant to be there. His drum playing is what the song needed. Its not flashy and over the top. Ok, there are a few times like Saucer and stuff early on but it was what the song needed. This group of musicians (GROUP, something Roger forgot) will go down in history as some of the best to ever live.

[@sarahkinsey5434]

I can't believe nobody mentioned Nick playing in the 2012 Olympics Closing Ceromonies with Ed Sheeran and Mike Rutherford

[@pauldianno6464]

I would love a 1972-1983 box set

[@MrMallorcaboy]

there are immersion versions of this period

[@BADASSxMONTExCARLOx1971]

Pink Floyd at Cleveland Stadium,1987,2 dates,you guys played 3 hours in the pouring rain. Best concert ever! Thanks!

[@tbwatch88]

I'll have one without crust, please.

[@quidestveritas8713]

Haha

[@Caroline-xe8bo]

Awesome, to have found this Mr. Mason.. THANK YOU.. For all of the wonderful music and memories.. GOD BLESS YOU ALL..

[@theageoftheawakening4806]

Dark side sounds so modern I can't imagine that it was made when it was. What a masterpiece

[@zenpaganwarrior]

Excellent interview with Nick. Thanks for the upload, very enjoyable!

[@beefheart1410]

Wish I could afford this. It looks amazing.

[@xfilesfoxisdead7979]

You can buy individual volumes like i did

[@johnkimbrough970]

I have listening to you for 35 years .I wish you would get out and play one more time for us fans i your love your music I also believe Pink Floyd is one of the most unique bands ever

[@williamkinsey4979]

Thanks Nick Early Years was brilliant!

[@soarornor]

Who directed Syd’s Jugband Blues video? Any stories about that. One of the most amazing videos in the set.

[@DaPoopIsInDaPudding]

Put out any and all Pink Floyd 70’s footage and recordings. Please.

[@stewkirkwood8021]

Great interview and great interviewer!

[@jasonlefler3456]

Moonhead, the tune that Pink Floyd played during the moon landing, features a section that later surfaced in Money.

[@wati52]

Thank you Nick

[@MK-nn7gm]

Nick is the reason my PF Instagram page is so 🔥 thanks for restoring those old live videos. I think I have them all screen recorded on my phone 🙃

[@jeffbecker8716]

I see that this set has not only the music from The Committee, but also the film, as well as La Vallee and More on DVD/Blu Ray. Worth it almost just for those to get quality sound since the ones posted on KZbin are low quality audio. After hearing the Complete Zabriskie Point Sessions, I wonder if there's any lost music from these other movies. I'm sure it's equally as awesome. Thanks Nick!!

[@williamkinsey4979]

I love being a Pink Floyd fan! They are so generous! LOL

[@om5101]

Mmmm dont know about that

[@kevanbodsworth9868]

Saw them for about two pounds with Fairport Convention in 72,

[@StevieZero]

Great drummer

[@saraheart2804]

Saucerful of Secrets tour with Nick Mason 2019. Just wonderful.

[@lobolonewolf8824]

Own it . Love it .

[@jameschavez6400]

Really Nick Pink Floyd Is It’s Own Genre You’re The Only Place To Get That Fix

[@warriorv9359]

Mr nick mason your the bomb

[@prodromospartheniou639]

Hi Nick from Greece ....

[@tonyrapata]

Revisiting this and I wanna say that full footage does exist of Pink Floyd performing The Wall, Roger discovered after Steve O Rourke died the camera guys just kept rolling and caught the entire show or shows, and before Roger went out in 2010 he had it transferred and cleaned up and edited together to show his Wall band. So it does exist.

[@xfilesfoxisdead7979]

I like to have official releasings, with booklets and good quality so im not complaining. For me also is important to give credit to bands , to pay for their music. I dont steal others stuff, that's why im buying cds.

[@markymark20127410]

Where Can I Purchase Pink Floyd's The Early Years Box Set: 1965-1972 when its Released?

[@ayra_c3781]

It's already released.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Try amazon but it’s £350 now. Not worth it in my opinion.

[@Patriot1389]

Best of all in legendary Pompeii

[@BOFsensai]

Nick.- work hard (in ya retirement?) with / persuade the others to get those 77 'In the Flesh' live sets out: - it's known that it exists in "high quality" since way back at the time of the immersion sets rip offs (sorry, I mean re-issues) 'Vernon Fitch' revealed/ was quoted to have confirmed (in UNCUT magazine interview WITH YOU, Oct '11)so that fans and newbies could finally here the superbly extended reordered Animals sets plus WYWH in which both David's but especially Rick's playing is exquisite on the last ever gig

[@BOFsensai]

The encore ('Blues' - Nick still playing down to the snare drum) to the last ever '77 'in the flesh' gig (Montreal, Canada) has now turned up (4.20) in 'soundboard' (like) - nakamichi tape? - quality = kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqvCgnZqer5kiZo&start_radio=1&t=5857 : so, someone / somewhere 'out there' has it 'available' = come on three guys left - get it out before many earlier fans have their own 'great gig' coming ..

[@joshmancell4539]

Why isn't the actual song Sea Birds included? The instrumental that's called Sea Birds here is actually just another Quicksilver-type mood piece- not the (rather good) Roger Waters song...

[@Ratelzwatel]

It's said to be a lost recording.

[@autistichead8137]

The holy grail! It’s too bad it’s lost

[@EaSTihR]

Lost recording notwithstanding... there is no way that Nick nor anyone else involved in the compiling of material for TEY could have been unaware of the countless bootlegs with "Seabirds" appearing as a DVD-CDR transfer (with the movie dialogue) on them. Don't get me wrong - I have a second bedroom to house my Floyd collection so I'd have bought TEY box if it had been a 12-disc John Latham box (with isolated tracks etc), but when I read the track listing and saw "Seabirds" listed as part of the More movie outtakes, my eyes bulged out like a 1940's cartoon character... upon unboxing, I went straight to the 1969 volume, pulled out CD 1, skipped to track 4 and heard (basically) an alternative version of Quicksilver. Scanned through/listened to both 1969 discs three times before resigning myself to two cold, hard facts: 1) If Seabirds had been my sole motivation for the purchase, I'd have been rooked... 2) Seabirds and the alternate Cymbaline are truly lost forever :(

[@beefheart1410]

At least 90% of the entire Wall album from the Earls Court Gigs in 79 is available already on KZbin. It's obviously bootleg but quite clearly taken from professionally filmed multi camera stock with perfectly acceptable sound. I wonder if Mason thinks less of the show was filmed than there actually was in reality? There's also film of at least some songs from the American Wall shows available on KZbin. I'm sure this could all be cleaned up quite easily and professionally released as the complete (or nearly complete) show, if the Floyd Co wanted to do this at some point.

[@briantalbert9285]

Beefheart1

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Waters won’t release it because of him still doing wall tours, he has the footage from Earl’s Court and has sat on it for years, I have audio of that full show and it’s a perfect soundboard recording that doesn’t really need anything doing to it, it’s a pity he won’t officially release the video footage to go with it. The way they can clean grainy videos up with today’s tech they could get it near or on hd standard.

[@flosyd7891]

Roger didnt release because it was dark. He mentioned in one of the interview i guess. That time video camera technology was not good to record in dark with less lights.

[@mevs357]

kudos Nick as always humble witty and honest .but is that gravy or chilli sauce all on your shirt?

[@intricacy9490]

Probably ate some spag bol for dinner

[@CultureJudge]

Lovely to hear from Mr. Mason about this. But he does seem to inhabit another universe when he talks about bootlegging - imagining it only really began after Dark Side! There are PILES of bootlegs of their 1969, 1970, 1971 shows...there's even a whole Syd show - Copenhagen, 1967.

[@tamasonor4011]

Absolutely! Most of what's in the box set HAS already been bootlegged. Nice to have "official" versions though...finally!

[@christthisisdifficul]

Exactly. I'd love to see a slew of classic Floyd shows, "from the vault," officially released, like the Dick's Picks series from the Dead. I could be wrong, but from Piper to Final Cut, Ummagumma and Pompeii are the only officially released live Floyd. 1969 shows = grail

[@Ratelzwatel]

The 1967 BBC radio sessions (with Barrett) have superior sound on some bootlegs. On the box, inferior copies have been used. Sounding terrible, as if recorded through a telephone.

[@irplane]

He's didnt say that nothing was bootlegged, in the beginning he admits that Veg Man and Screan thy have both probably been bootleged. He was saying it was harder to make copies back then and that's why alot hasnt ever been bootlegged. John Latham, some of 65 tracks for examples from this box, and there are still things in the vault from this era specifically that aren't out, andthat noones heard to this day.

[@alanmeires]

Boot legging still gos on now especially as everyone's got iPhones and can just record bands and up load anything straight away.

[@intricacy9490]

I tend to not watch these...for many reasons and I'm sure most die hards will know why. On that, live concerts would be so much better if phones stayed in your pocket....or purse

[@timetogo1831]

5:05

[@jmann8109]

Wait, Zabriskie point and what was the other?

[@jasonlefler3456]

A Car There were a few soundtracks at the time. More (from 1969), Zabriskie Point (from 1970), Obscured By Clouds (from 1972), and something fairly obscure from 1968, I believe, called The Committee. Roger Waters worked with Atom Heart Mother producer Ron Geesin on a soundtrack to a film called The Body. Off the top of my head, I think that's it for soundtracks between 1967-1972. Well, there's a bit of music from a psychedelic soundtrack done with Syd early on. I can't recall the title or the tunes on it.

[@jmann8109]

But Zabriskie Point and The Committe are most likely not studio albums.

[@williamkinsey4979]

And so was Endless River! LOL

[@patrykwalentowicz4691]

Mr Mason.Can you tell me why all of you cheated by named one track of boxset (1969 part) Seabirds-wich of course it is not Seabirds...?

[@Sevcrow]

Gilmour & Waters must be talking-probably had to talk to come up with the song list for the album

[@cesargallo7424]

The Wall material belongs to Roger and not to Nick, Dave & Rick, so this is why maybe Nick cannot answer abour further release related

[@senileanimal79]

Super dorkfest during the audience Q&A.

[@777jones]

To be fair, the interviewer sucked too, as grateful as I am to see this interview.

[@jkorshak]

Talking about playing during the moon landing - "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. Setting the controls for the heart of the Sun."

[@SpaceCattttt]

A piece of furniture? If it floats, I'm planning on circumnavigating the globe in it!

[@beefheart1410]

Anybody else finding the three splashes of pasta sauce over his left breast to be distracting from what he's saying?

[@briantalbert9285]

Beefheart1

[@jeffbecker8716]

Wonder if he still cuts the crust off his pie?

[@Zeupater]

+Beefheart1 I find it endearing. That could happen to anybody.

[@misanthrop1958]

muahahaha, I wonder that, too!

[@davidbowers7852]

i just noticed lol

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

Footage had been bootlegged for years. Nothing is new

[@user-wx9xp6vk2k]

Очень плохо,что нет русских субтитров, хотелось бы понять о чём идёт речь!

[@unclejulis1]

I would like to see for years now the Animals record done without all the background sound effects. Like the Beatles naked record. It would sell big .Just singing and playing,

[@EaSTihR]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZ_aZ51mgriKldU Not exactly a "Naked" thing but more a demo version

[@shineon808]

I think this whole box set is Nick's project and he is only gon get paid more.

[@DaPoopIsInDaPudding]

bob marlins no ones making you buy it so don’t hate. I hope nick makes more and more money.

[@meshplates]

whatever happened to prepared interviewers? this guy is embarrassing.

[@flickdasher1775]

i hear the sound of barrels being scraped.

[@BedroomScenesMovie]

And given tons and tons of treble boost until your ears bleed.

[@FuzzyDancingBear]

The Seabirds sham tho... smh

[@tangram72]

Nick, you have orange colored food stains on your t-shirt :) You should have changed it.

[@randalclarke5487]

Yeh they charged an arm and leg for stuff you can find on KZbin and sold about 5 copies lol. Arrogant aging rockers

[@xfilesfoxisdead7979]

Not everyone is robbing bands off their money. I dont have bootlegs and i dont listen music on KZbin. This box set is great compiled material.

[@xfilesfoxisdead7979]

And if this box would come out in pre internet 90 , you would salivate. But now when you can steal every musical content you say they are arrogant. Its YOU that's arrogant

[@aalexjohna]

This old age pensioner needs to lay down.