Legendary bassist Man Pratt, identified for working with among the largest names within the music trade through the years not too long ago regarded again on collaborating with Pink Floyd and David Gilmour.

Pratt had joined Pink Floyd as a session and touring member. He was current on “Pulse,” which is arguably one of many largest stay albums of all time. Not solely that, he was additionally current in “The Division Bell” in addition to 2014’s “The Countless River.” Nonetheless, taking a spot that after belonged to Roger Waters, and coming in after Tony Levin, will need to have been a frightening process.

In a current interview on Classic Rock Pod, Pratt mirrored on his time with Pink Floyd. Requested how he truly met David Gilmour within the first place, he replied (transcribed by Final Guitar):

“I first imposed David’s consideration as a result of I used to be taking part in for Dream Academy, Nick Laird-Clowes band. I’ve performed on some demos which I feel David then went on and produced, and it’s obtained as a result of Nick Laird-Clowes.”

Man additionally recalled supporting David Gilmour stay and the way he truly obtained in contact with him by Nick. He additionally “began bumping into him in locations.” Nonetheless, he then went on a trip and, after coming again, there have been tons of voice messages from Gilmour. He defined:

“And I obtained again and there are all these messages from David, saying, ‘I’m doing this Amnesty Worldwide gig with Kate Bush. You need to come play with me?’ After which like, ‘Hello, Man! I actually need you for this gig.’, and ‘Hello, Man! The gig is tomorrow.’, after which ‘Okay. Sorry, Man…’ And I’m identical to, ‘Oh no! That was my one likelihood and I blow it!’”

“However then not lengthy after that, I noticed it in Q journal, which is model new, it simply come out, and there was this factor about them doing an album. I used to be like, ‘Oh, that’s fascinating.’ Then I obtained a name from David out of the blue and he was in LA.

“And this truly set the scene for my relationship with David for the subsequent 40 years. He simply mentioned, ‘Hey Man. So I don’t know in case you’ve seen however we’re placing Pink Floyd again collectively and happening the street. So I’ve obtained two questions. One, would you have an interest? And would you be obtainable? It’s 13 months?’ So I’m like, ‘I feel I may muster some curiosity, David. Sure. Yeah, yeah, I’m obtainable.’”

In the course of the chat, Pratt was additionally requested about how he approached moving into this position. However regardless of being an absolute skilled, Man admits that he initially “obtained all of it fallacious”:

“I obtained all of it fallacious. I used to be taking part in all of the fallacious basses. I used to be too in my very own. You already know, it was the ’80s, the ’80s had been about bass gamers. I used to be a kind of youngsters. Taking part in bass was all about placing your stamp on stuff. And as a lot as I attempted, it took me a very long time.”

“Which I feel in quite a lot of instances form of labored. Numerous the stuff I hated. I’ve form of reappraised all this at occasions, particularly when throughout lockdown once I did the sequence of YouTube movies ‘Lockdown Licks’. There was all these things that I hated and have been so embarrassed about for years, just like the slap break in ‘One other Brick within the Wall’, and my bass solo in ‘Cash’. It seems, the persons are extremely keen on them and connected to them. In order that’s truly actually, very nice.”