Nick Mason's book on the band, "Inside Out," drops Stateside this week. Mason has already been making the rounds to plug it, even dining with old bandmate Roger Waters after a Barnes & Noble appearance in NYC.
"Inside Out" is apparently more scrapbook than tell-all, but it does provide some insight into the band's ups and downs.
Amazing Nick Mason trivia that may or may not be addressed in the book:
-- He is the only Floyd member to be in every incarnation of the band, from the Syd days though the glory years of the 1970s and into the post-Roger arena era. He says the band is still not officially over yet. (But to many of us, it has been for a good while.)
-- He did not play on the track "Mother" from "The Wall." Jeff Porcaro of Toto fame was brought in when Mason couldn't get it right.
Waters, meanwhile, is threatening to unleash "Ca Ira," a symphonic piece inspired by the French Revolution.
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