Pink Floyd Drummer Nick Mason: 'I'm Not Entirely Sure the Band's Over'

Hold on, David Gilmour. Nick Mason thinks there may be more to Pink Floyd after the release of their upcoming album The Endless River.

"I think I'll let David do the, 'This is the last, this is the end,'" the drummer told Rolling Stone. "I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over.'" The joke at least aired Mason's feelings toward calling it quits with the iconic band.

Now that Pink Floyd only features Gilmour and Mason, the drummer technically could keep going under the same banner once his bandmate splits. "It did cross my mind that if David announces this is really the end of it, if he resigns from Pink Floyd, that leaves me in total control. God knows I'll be out on the road playing the entirety of Dark Side of the Moon, just the drum parts. It'll be quite dull ... I can see the headline now, 'Nick Mason to Tour,'" he joked.

Gilmour's recent chat with RS went quite differently. "There's no room in my life for Pink Floyd," he said.

Mason also took the time to highlight how The Endless River, out November 10, came together. "Essentially, when we recorded The Division Bell 20 years ago the idea was to make a double album," he said. "We thought we might do one disc of songs and one disc of ambient music, a throwback to jamming. As so often happens, we ran out of time."

"There was a tour coming up and we'd got the songs finished," he added. "We'd probably also run out of steam. It seemed like too much of a mountain, that second element of it. It just got shelved. It stayed shelved for a very long time."

The band has been sharing previews of the album recently, and it is currently on track to become the most preordered album in history.

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Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, The Endless River