Richard Wright

For 'Off Topic' and non-PSB music threads.
Post Reply
Message
Author
whateverman42
Posts: 1028
Joined: Fri 17 Mar 2006, 6:34 pm

Richard Wright

#1 Post by whateverman42 »

The keyboardist from Pink Floyd died. Sucks, guess Live 8 was the last time they performed as a full unit.

User avatar
glennjridge
Posts: 8205
Joined: Sat 01 Nov 2003, 9:28 pm

#2 Post by glennjridge »

bummer. I remember when I was a teen we all got high and went to see the wall playing at 12:00 at night at a movie theater. it was kind of a right of passage for some reason.

I still love that story about how they had a giant 40 foot inflatable pink pig created for a outdoor photoshoot and it broke free of its moorings and floated to heathrow airport.

Bulldog

#3 Post by Bulldog »

Richard Wright was the only one in PF who tried something close to electronics with Zee project, around 1984. The album was downright terrible but it always makes
me wonder how Pink Floyd would have approached the '80s sound had they remained a proper band and not a Waters/Gilmour solo toy.

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=2is2fvQKjXE
Last edited by Bulldog on Thu 18 Sep 2008, 9:29 am, edited 1 time in total.

User avatar
meiakitty
Posts: 516
Joined: Mon 18 Aug 2008, 2:45 am

#4 Post by meiakitty »

Oh it reminds me when I taped the Venice concert in 89..I think ...I was a young one and my cousins didn't take me with them. Brilliant stuff.
You, you're my lover, you're my hope, you're my dreams my life, my passion, my love, my sex, my money
violence, religion, injustice and death

Bulldog

#5 Post by Bulldog »

meiakitty wrote:Oh it reminds me when I taped the Venice concert in 89..I think ...I was a young one and my cousins didn't take me with them. Brilliant stuff.
And I was too young to see them in Monza (1989) and Turin (1994). Shame! However, from a musical point of view both "Delicate sound of thunder" and "Pulse" are pretty formulaic, aren't they?

User avatar
meiakitty
Posts: 516
Joined: Mon 18 Aug 2008, 2:45 am

#6 Post by meiakitty »

bobo wrote:
meiakitty wrote:Oh it reminds me when I taped the Venice concert in 89..I think ...I was a young one and my cousins didn't take me with them. Brilliant stuff.
And I was too young to see them in Monza (1989) and Turin (1994). Shame! However, from a musical point of view both "Delicate sound of thunder" and "Pulse" are pretty formulaic, aren't they?
Delicate Sound of Thunder was my fave!! I was fascinated by the man in the lightbulbs suit...LOL That album became the space anthem! Everytime there's a show on tv about NASA or any other out of space related news, you hear bits from that album...it might be because apparently the cassette was the first rock album to be played in space by some soviet cosmonauts!

R.I.P. Richard!
You, you're my lover, you're my hope, you're my dreams my life, my passion, my love, my sex, my money
violence, religion, injustice and death

Bulldog

#7 Post by Bulldog »

wonderful tribute by David Gilmour.

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=HSurg2GGvw0

Post Reply