Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets 4/12/19 Oakdale

What constitutes a super fan ? Listening to Lucifer Sam through the wall of your sister's room (1975), coveting your vinyl only copy of Dark Side of The Moo (sic) (1988), or purchasing a costly but worth it LP A Perfect Pair (2019)? Maybe it is watching Nick Mason and crew plow through early Pink Floyd material to a devoted corps of aging rock fans. Everyone has a point in their musical appreciation trajectory to which a phenom happened just prior to their awakening ( would have been painful to cajole my mom into driving me to Shea Stadium and wait to drive me home). So it is a welcome concert to see under-appreciated Floyd drummer Mason, bass, two guitarists, keys, play songs that were out of my concert realm but definitely in my conscious realm. Interstellar Overdrive, Lucifer Sam, Remember a Day, One of These Days, Fearless, Nile Song,, Arnold Layne, See Emily Play, Bike, Let There Be More Light, Childhood's End, Set The Controls, Astonomy Domine, even Vegetable Man ( unearthed from The Screaming Abdab days?), closed with Saucerful. I'm sure I'm missing things, the point is that no one, I mean no one, could escape the 80s without an Andy Burke mixtape with Childhood's End happily seared on to a tdk 90. The band was able, bass player Pratt played Water's part after the split, one guitarist was from Ian Dury's band, the other and lead singer was in Spandau Ballet ( no sniggering, because, well, this much is true-hoo). Pratt introduced Remember A Day as having been written by his son's grandfather, which sent the audience into a phone-induced search-a-verse (Pratt is married to original keys man Richard Wright's daughter Gaia). The animosity has tamed, Mason said that Water's never sanctioned a gong solo but now it was ok to willingly launch one. It's becoming clear, Mason and I are reaching and childhood may have yet to find it's end.