Crescendo

Mason remained a fine British gentleman throughout this book, resulting in some criticism on the lack of “dirt” included. One can only assume that the dirt desired by some concerns the usage of drugs or groupies because Mason does not gloss over the deterioration of personal relations between band members and the eventual irreparable splintering of some of those relationships. Mason is perhaps the most fitting member of the band to pen these memoirs as he is the only one who has managed to retain relations with all of the other members. Given that, he does not pull any punches when describing the events that led to best friend Roger Waters acrimoniously leaving the group.

	INSIDE OUT A Personal History Of Pink Floyd By Nick Mason Published by Chronicle Books Review by Ritchie Champagne
	I HATE PINK FLOYD! So read the t-shirt sported in the late 1970s by Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. Once a band on the cutting edge of music, doing things that no one else had even thought of, Pink Floyd had become the poster children for bloated corporate dinosaur rock. Pink Floyd continued to do things their way and well earned their status as living legends. For a band as famous as they are, they were always somewhat faceless. Except for a few of their earliest releases, their albums did not feature images of the musicians, fostering an air of mystery around the band. With the publication of drummer Nick Mason’s memoir Inside Out: A Personal History Of Pink Floyd, some of these mysteries are dispelled. Mason has produced more than 350 pages of text and photos, most culled from his personal collection and not publicly seen before now.
Mason remained a fine British gentleman throughout this book, resulting in some criticism on the lack of “dirt” included. One can only assume that the dirt desired by some concerns the usage of drugs or groupies because Mason does not gloss over the deterioration of personal relations between band members and the eventual irreparable splintering of some of those relationships. Mason is perhaps the most fitting member of the band to pen these memoirs as he is the only one who has managed to retain relations with all of the other members. Given that, he does not pull any punches when describing the events that led to best friend Roger Waters acrimoniously leaving the group.