Richard Wright
David Gilmour is very affected by Rick Wright’s death on 15 Sept and we can only imagine that the friendship between these two guys was far beyond their musical compatibility inside Pink Floyd.
Rick Wright’s is the second Pink Floyd member that dies after former frontman Syd Barrett has died on 6 July 2006.
Former Pink Floyd guitarist and composer, David Gilmour speaks about Richard Wright on his website:
No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.
In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick’s enormous input was frequently forgotten.
He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound.
I have never played with anyone quite like him. The blend of his and my voices and our musical telepathy reached their first major flowering in 1971 on ‘Echoes’. In my view all the greatest PF moments are the ones where he is in full flow. After all, without ‘Us and Them’ and ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’, both of which he wrote, what would ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ have been? Without his quiet touch the Album ‘Wish You Were Here’ would not quite have worked.
In our middle years, for many reasons he lost his way for a while, but in the early Nineties, with ‘The Division Bell’, his vitality, spark and humour returned to him and then the audience reaction to his appearances on my tour in 2006 was hugely uplifting and it’s a mark of his modesty that those standing ovations came as a huge surprise to him, (though not to the rest of us).
Like Rick, I don’t find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously.
David Gilmour
Monday 15th September 2008
via DavidGilmour.com
Roger Waters, with whom Wright was in conflict in the ’80s, didn’t make any statement yet.
His website is no longer available, Roger-Waters.com has been silenced by the light of each small candle.
Roger-waters.com
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