jtull wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2025 4:22 pm
You are right, mosespa. But still, Nick said himself he had a problems with Remember a Day and Mother. ''Those songs had a different drum feel to our usual pounding style'',
Supposedly, at some point during the whole Rick affair, someone put forth the idea of getting rid of Nick, too. I've read in various books that the idea was floated by Gilmour, but if that's true, I think he was being sarcastic and trying to demonstrate to Waters how absurd he was being vis-a-vis Rick. But, I wasn't there and I don't know anyone involved personally, I'm just speculating.
Of course, I could also see Waters thinking it's not a bad idea since Nick obviously has problems with odd time signatures...but then when Waters went solo, the odd time signatures seem to have been dropped. Unless I'm missing something.
Nick has also admitted to marital problems taking his focus off not just Pink Floyd, but playing drums entirely; never mind what Waters thought about his drumming.
I don´t think that Gilmour wanting to get rid of Nick too is sarcastic or out of the question. Gilmour is not the nice buddy of Nick like some people want to believe. There is the documented episode during the 1987 rehearsals were he threatened to fire Mason if he doesn´t get the drumming right. The only reason that Mason remained in PF after 1985 is that Gilmour needed him for legal reasons. Gilmour didn´t even bother to show up at the Saucers concert in his backyard, there have been more occasions that Mason played with Waters than with Gilmour since 2000. Mason is obviously not Gilmours favourite drummer and I don´t think he would have had any problems in replacing him.
