S1E1: Nick Mason

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music. In episode 1 Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt speak to Nick Mason from Pink Floyd.

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0:00.0	Hello and I am Guy Pratt.
0:02.0	And each week we're going to the Rock on Tours podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Gary Kemp.
0:09.0	And I am Guy Pratt.
0:11.0	And each week we're going to be in the studio on the road or backstage with an artist we know love respect or owe money to
0:18.1	Exactly so what do I know about you guy Well we met when we were both in Rum for your wife at the Eastbourne Winter Gardens in 1973.
0:29.0	Arthur Lowe was amazing, wasn't he? But in actualityity he's a bass player this guy I first met
0:36.4	you at some TV we were doing in beauty it was in Budapest in Budapest
0:41.6	I was playing for ice house You of course were spanned our
0:44.8	ballet at the time. All five of them. Yeah. And yeah, and it was mad knight and shoot and we and then well we kind of knew we were you know on the similar sort of circuit
0:57.3	But then I suppose we kind of got close when I was asked to come and help you put together your solo album.
1:03.4	Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, about 95, yeah.
1:05.9	But just, I'm just, 93.
1:07.8	I'm just going to talk about you for a second and just say what a bass play you are and what you've done.
1:12.0	So Ice House, and then of course in
1:13.9	in about in the late 80s 87 you when Roger Waters quit the band Pink Floyd and
1:21.0	you took over on bass and toured with them for big two massive tours right?
1:25.6	Yeah to yeah two massive tour well yeah it was yes
1:29.2	Momentary lapse of reason moment relapse of reason yeah and well and I did actually play on on on albums as well so I'm known as the touring basis but I did actually
1:38.8	turn up the studio.
1:39.8	Yeah I played the division about.
1:41.8	And of course she played with Madonna and Michael Jackson and Roxy Music and well, you know, it's not a bad CV, is it?
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