“I underestimated it.”
Nick Mason speaks to Mark Blake.
Here and now: “It was like hitting a brick wall,” says Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason on the making of
Wish You Were Here
.
The last time Roger Waters spoke to MOJO he said that making
Wish You Were Here
was “torture!” Was it that bad?
“Compared to the records we’d made before and since, it was like hitting a brick wall. To start with, we didn’t have an idea between us. We did it all wrong, though. We should have delayed going back into the studio and toured The Dark Side Of The Moon for longer. Something else that gets forgotten is that we were all, if not growing up, definitely growing older. We weren’t four lovable mop tops any more.”