Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Nick Mason Recieve Honor at University of Westminster [WATCH]

Although Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters steers clear from any possibility of a reunion tour, he came together with living co-founder Nick Mason to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the influential psychedelic/progressive rock band at its formation site.

Formerly known as Regent Street Polytechnic, the two reunited at London's University of Westminster on Thursday to reveal an honorary plaque while reflecting on their skills during the band's materialization. "Put it like this: if we'd gone up for Britain's Got Talent, I don't think we would have made it past the audition stage; we weren't terribly good," Mason notes to Reuters. "We were effing awful," Waters added.

The Pink Floyd drummer and guitarist were all smiles during the ceremony as Mason added that they were receiving "recognition for something that I think we're proud of."

Waters hasn't been shy about his feelings towards music streaming services, stating "all those bastards in Silicon Valley who are stealing not just our work but all the work that all the musicians all over the world are doing," he detailed in the same Reuters interview.

"I feel enormously privileged to have been born in 1943 and not 1983," he said. "To have been around when there was a music business and the takeover by Silicon Valley hadn't happened, and in consequence, you could still make a living writing and recording songs and playing them to people. When this gallery of rogues and thieves had not yet injected themselves between the people who aspire to be creative and their potential audience and steal every fucking cent anybody ever made."

Mason and Waters may have shared the blissful 50th anniversary ceremony with one another but a Pink Floyd reunion tour remains out of sight. "A reunion is out of the question," Waters told the Times UK. "Life, after all, gets shorter and shorter the closer you get to the end of it and time becomes more and more precious and in my view should be entirely devoted to doing the things you want to do. One can't look backwards."

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