Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason releases album and it's no Wall Part 2.

Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports: Can't Get My Motor To Start

On May 3, 1981 Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason released Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports, an album he recorded two years earlier with jazz artist Carla Bley, NRBQ's Terry Adams, Robert Wyatt, Chris Spedding and many other artists. It's an exercise in eccentricity and it most likely would have remained shelved if Pink Floyd's The Wall hadn't sold 30 million copies.

"I'm proud of what the group ( Pink Floyd) has done," Mason told Billboard. "But after 14 years with the band, it's almost an act of cowardice not to do anything else. Quite simply, it's good for me to do something different".

FM radio programmers didn't leap on this album. One music director in Hartford even saying nothing here is "airplayable", though he enjoyed the copy he took home. 

Billboard Review

"Hot River" got some airplay because it sounded most like Pink Floyd.