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Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason made a surprise guest appearance on stage at his former colleague Roger Waters' Wembley Arena show in London last night (June 26). Mason played on Waters' version of the early Floyd composition "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun." The reunion marked Waters' first collaboration with any of his former bandmates since his acrimonious departure from Pink Floyd in 1983, and was greeted with standing ovations from the Wembley audience both before and after the song.
Billboard.com understands that Waters and Mason, who have remained on good terms despite the ill feeling caused by the band's subsequent use of the Pink Floyd name, met again by chance last December on the Caribbean island of Mustique. Two weeks ago, Waters telephoned Mason to invite him to guest at the show.
On Sunday, Waters will play the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival (on the same day and stage as Rod Stewart, Isaac Hayes, Badly Drawn Boy, and others). It will mark the end of an international tour of more than 50 dates, which started in South Africa in late February and has played in such locations as Santiago, Osaka, Seoul, Sydney, Bangalore, and Beirut.
Waters' official Web site says that his next rock album will be released in 2003. Work also continues on his longtime project "Ca Ira," an opera in French and English.
Click on the link above, or indeed here to get to Rex Features 32 pictures of Roger - including eight shots from the Wembley concert, including the Waters/Mason reunion, nine pictures from Glastonbury, three from Bangkok, and a selection of older pictures. Naturally, from the resulting page, you can also search for their pictures of Mr Gilmour, Mr Mason, Mr Barrett, but oddly, not Mr Wright.
Walking into the vast hangar of Wembley just as the first notes of this concert reverberated around the place was like taking a large step back in time.
On stage were three guitarists, three chick vocalists of impeccable pedigree, a drummer giving it the old bish-bosh, and a pair of keyboard players making noises. Posing triumphantly above them was the figure of Roger Waters, the man who was once in Pink Floyd and is still an avid guardian of their legacy.
I'll say this for old Rog, he's looking lean and mean in his black ensemble. The years of therapy and fighting with his erstwhile band-mates have kept him trim. But my overwhelming feeling was of déjà-vu. This was a progressive rock band. We don't do progressive rock bands any more.
And this feeling persisted for a good 40 minutes. Rog was determined to take us through what he regards at the best bits of The Wall. This has always seemed, by turns, a sour and preachy record. I was preparing to give this epoch-making In The Flesh world tour the bum's rush when, suddenly, Rog was at the microphone advertising a small surprise and on to the stage bounded Rick Mason, the Pink Floyd drummer.
He took the place of the bish-bosh man, and Rog launched into a version of the old Floyd classic Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun. It was rather good, and the huge video screen behind the group flickered with images of the good old days.
Following that came Shine On You Crazy Diamond, still the best song the Floyd ever wrote without Syd Barrett. But Syd was what these two highlights have in common. The liquid light show blossomed on the screen, a huge diamond rose from the stage, and the spirit of the man was in the house. Nostalgia is still what it used to be.
For the first time in 19 years Roger Waters appeared on stage with another member of Pink Floyd. Drummer Nick Mason made a surprise appearance at Waters' Wembley Arena show in London on Wednesday.
Mason played on Waters' version of "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun," an early Pink Floyd composition.
The reunion was Waters' first collaboration with a former bandmate since his rancorous exit from Pink Floyd in 1983. The duo received a standing ovation. Waters later said he ran into Mason last December on the Caribbean island of Mustique, where they renewed their friendship.
Waters bolted from the band over a fight over the rights of the Pink Floyd name. Waters invited Mason to join him on stage two weeks ago.
If you're hoping for a Pink Floyd reunion album, forget it. The band, which has been on hiatus for the last few years, has little interest in performing together again. Waters, who has continued to record and perform, is working on two projects, a new album and an opera.
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