Happy 64th, Mr. Mason!

Nick Mason of Pink Floyd turns 64 today.

Not to look like a total fanboy, but it came up on my RSS reader and I am doing a blog-series on all fourteen of their studio albums. So, happy birthday, Mr. Mason, and thank you for all the good records, the book, and everything else. Thank you for helping engineer the Live 8 reunion, and thank you for being the epitome of the laid-back, cooler-than-cool drummer.

Here's Mason in the early 1970s, in the film Live At Pompeii, thumping the hell out of the final blowout in "One Of These Days":