Pink Floyd legend delivers a must-see concert experience

Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets touched down Friday (March 15) at The Masonic, delivering a spellbinding evening of early Pink Floyd music for the fans who filled the San Francisco venue to capacity.

It was part of the band’s inaugural North American tour, which marks the first time Mason — who co-founded the British rock act Pink Floyd with vocalist-guitarist Syd Barrett, bassist Roger Waters and keyboardist Richard Wright in 1965 — has performed on this side of the pond since Floyd’s blockbuster Division Bell trek in 1994.

The drummer and his terrific band — consisting of Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp, longtime Pink Floyd touring bassist Guy Pratt, guitarist Lee Harris and keyboardist Dom Beken — kicked off the evening with a trip back to the beginning, opening the show with an epic workout of the “Interstellar Overdrive” from “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.”