"The Pink Floyd Exhibition -
Their Mortal Remains" is to make the first leg of its
international tour in Italy, where it will open at Rome's MACRO
on January 19, 2018.
The exhibition is an audio-visual journey through Pink
Floyd's unique and extraordinary worlds, chronicling the music,
design, and staging of the band, from their debut in the 1960s
through to the present day.
It combines memorabilia, vintage instruments, film,
unpublished documents and famous scenic elements that have
contributed to the band's legend.
Drummer Nick Mason, 73, attended the presentation in Rome.
"I don't collect memorabilia, rather I accumulate things.
Over time I have also started to write memoirs, but I am not the
band's biographer," he explained.
"There have been many surprises during this project, for
example I found an old pedalboard used by Dave Gilmour, which at
the time I thought only the Rolling Stones had," Mason
continued.
The exhibition in Rome will be slightly different from the
original in London, with more space devoted to Pink Floyd's
relationship with Italy.
"Particularly the concerts in Venice and Pompeii, because I
don't think anything remains of our first time in Italy, at
Rome's Piper club in 1968," Mason said.
The drummer said Roger Waters would also be at the opening on
January 19.
Gilmour, the other surviving band member, hasn't seen the
exhibition.
Mason said he is "ready" for another reunion after the
historic one for the concert Live 8 in 2005.
However, "currently neither David nor Roger are available".
"We are constantly in touch but let's say not as if we were a
single unit," he added.
The exhibition logo is a reworking of the cover image of "The
Dark Side of the Moon", one of the most important and
best-selling albums in history.
"Musically speaking 'The Dark Side of the Moon' marked a
shift in the band's sound away from the psychedelic period. Our
music never followed a strictly linear path, but we tried to
renew our sound with each album. Of course none of us imagined
it would be so successful. It is always difficult to explain
what makes an album so special; in the case of 'The Dark Side' I
think it is simply a coming together of several positive
elements: the music, the lyrics, the quality of the recording,
the work of the record company," Mason said.
"What do I listen to today? I follow the young bands, because
I am convinced that today it is more difficult to emerge than it
was when we stared," he concluded.
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