The Saucerful of Secrets, together with them, have therefore played together a version of "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", dating back to the 1968 album "Saucerful of Secrets". Here is a video of the event:
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And while there are no plans for a “Bohemian Rhapsody”-style Pink Floyd biopic, the drummer, known for his dry wit and impressive sports car collection, has some ideas about casting. -
“I thought Brad Pitt could play me and Danny DeVito can play David, and maybe Bette Midler would play Roger,” he says. “You can imagine coming up with a script that was acceptable to all of us. I think we’re a little bit away from that for a while.”
Whether or not the iconic and influential band gets the Hollywood treatment, it is firmly entrenched in music history, with albums like “Dark Side,” “Wish You Were Here” and “The Wall” maintaining lofty perches in the rock pantheon.
“I’m not that bothered about how we’ll be perceived in the future,” Mason says. “It’s very gratifying that people think it might still be around and be important, and I’m proud of what we’ve done, but one has to remember the construction of it at the time was done when music was important but no one ever thought that any record could last more than six months or a year.
“I think, as I say, I’m proud of it, and I’d like to think that my great-grandchildren would be absolutely mesmerized that great-grandpapa had been part of this enterprise.”
The Gilmour-Mason-Wright lineup released the final Floyd studio album, “The Endless River,” in 2014.
Mason has enjoyed playing in theater-sized venues with his new band, something he hadn’t done since before Floyd’s heyday.
“The pleasure of playing with a group when you’re on a normal-size stage is one of the things, so you have eye contact and a relationship with the other musicians. Towards the end of the giant Pink Floyd on huge stages, I couldn’t really have eye contact with some of the players.”
“It’s not the band playing, but it’s certainly the band doing something.”
There are also “always plans for remasters” of old Floyd releases, he says: “We’re talking a lot about ‘Animals’ in particular because that was an album that musically we like, but technically we sort of did it in our own studio and it’s not quite up to the standard of an Abbey Road production.”
