Nick Mason, the magician of percussion

One day, I was discussing with a boy about our prefered bands. I like those classical ones (floyd, yes, rick wakeman, vangelis and etc.) and he those new ones (linkin park, avrill lavigne, green day and argh...).

And this was the discussion:

"What does the guitarrist does?"
Me - Sings, plays guitar, eletric guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar,keyboards e make songs;
He - Play guitar (and very bad);

"What does your bassist does?"
Me - Sings, plays guitar, bass guitar and make songs;

"What does your tecladist does?"
Me - Plays piano, organ, slide guitar, sings and make songs
He - Plays piano and keyboards

(Now the final cut!)
"What does your drummer does?"
He - Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Tum! Tum! Tum! Pa! Pum!!!!!!
Me - makes percurssion and make songs.

So he said: "Make songs? Lier! No drummer make songs!". To shut him up, I've showned the Ummagumma Studio CD: not one, but three beatiful musics made by a simple drummer.
Of course he didn't like it, 'cause he's only a air-head, but I want to prove that in pink floyd, everyone is important and special.

One great mark of Nick Mason is the reentrance of "Echoes", after that dark secion. While Waters give the bases and Wright level up the music, Mason makes an epic work of percursion with different kinds of plates and drums.

Well, I admiss that my prefered drummer is Carl Palmer (Emerson,Lake and Palmer), but Mason is my second one and an exaple for those new drummers, only provided with muscles, which can only hit, hit and hit, without feel the essence of his instrument. Nicholas Mason is great!!!!!

I wouldn't call that middle part anything close to 'beautiful musics'. But then again, I suck.

Nick also probably wrote or co-wrote "The Merry Xmas Song".