Rick Wright Dead
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_on_en_mu/eu_britain_pink_floyd

Well, there goes my dreams of a Pink Floyd reunion.

sorry to hear this.
at first i thought you meant larry manetti from magnum p.i. [orville]

:(

Rip Rick - was hoping to see them one more time

Man that sucks... dammit.

Sad News, RIP.

ive been watching my Live at Pompeii dvd, through my class A tube amp and Klipschorns today......sonic bliss

I was lucky enough to see them a few times R.I.P. Rick :(

ill be doing the same when i get home from work, through my bryston...lighting a fatty with a glass of wine. he looked healthy and happy in the recent Gilmour DVD/tour...:confused:


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Rest in Peace, Rick Wright! I hope you are playing "The Great Gig in the Sky"!

I am glad I was able to see them them live. This is truly a bummer.

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Just heard the news, and as a big Pink Floyd fan I'm saddened

I was fortunate to see the Divison Bell concert while still living in the UK in 1994 - still one of the best concerts I have been to, to date.

RIP Richard and thanks for the music - I'll playing Dark Side tomorrow

Matt

Jim Ladd of KLOS is playing early Floyd at the moment. I shall be listening to various Floyd music, Comfortably Numb, all night.

Stream from KLOS 95.5 tribute starting at 9 PM,PST - http://www.955klos.com/article.asp?id=625820

The tribute has started.

http://www.955klos.com/article.asp?id=625820

That is too bad. 65 is too young these days. On VH1s Classic Albums: Dark Side of the Moon, he sat at the keyboard and demonstrated how he conciously used a "Bill Evans chord" as a transition in "Breath"...it is a really nice chord and if you listen to the piece you can clearly hear it.

This will take up some of your time but well worth checking out if you like music

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ive got that making of...dvd. very much worth having for the true floyd fan.

Too bad. Some of those musical geniuses live pretty hard, makes 'em go early, how old are Keith and Mick?

"Shine on" Rick, RIP...

Well said.

this article seems to say that he may have been ill during the Gilmour 2006 tour???

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/16/bmgilmour116.xml

The DVDs that came from that tour are worth owning. I especially loved the extra features showing the behind the scenes with Rick and the rest of the group travelling around. Im very much looking forward to next weeks CD/DVD release...the last Rick Wright performances captured live.

Never saw the full line up, but saw them during the Division Bell tour, and right around that same time, saw Roger Waters as a solo. I thought it odd that musicians would break up (presumably for "artistic reasons"), but then go on separately to perform mostly the same songs.

Too bad they could never get it all back together.

Thanks for this, Sonic. Great post.SmileWavy

R.I.P.

The story I always heard about reunion, etc.. was that Waters and Wright really had a lot of bad blood between them. More so than the lawsuits over the use of the Pink Floyd name, images, pigs, etc.. Mason and Gilmour for the most part had kinda resolved things with Waters.

At one point, he was simply considered a session musician. IIRC, he was fired from the band, and really didnt contribute much to the post Animals Floyd.

i think he received zero song writing credit on the wall and he did not play on the final cut and he was paid a salary to tour the wall after he was fired

despite what a monster waters may have been, in all of the interviews with him in the past 10 years or so, he has always spoken very highly of the other members, including rick. it has always been gilmour who did not want to tour. even roger said he would love to do it. perhaps, david was secretly speaking for rick?

hell the "WHO" lost (2) members, moon and entwistle and they are still touring. maybe this will give some impetus to a reunion tour.

wierder things have happened. im keeping my fingers crossed.

I thought this interpretation of Echoes was well done.

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should anyone be interested in getting the new 5 CD/DVD live set from gilmour next week when its released, i just noticed on his blog that the only place you can buy it in the USA is Best Buy

Love the Echoes 2001 mix!

i picked up Gilmour's 5 disc set today. it is, awsome! hearing and seeing Rick was a bit sad. but highly recommended. i would spring for the 5 disc and not the other versions...as there are some great extras just as there were on the Royal Albert Hall release last year of Dave and Rick jamming in David's barn-studio...a poster and some pretty nifty postcards etc..

the sound and video quality is really superb

http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/product/B001C4Z6SO?showViewpoints=1

http://www.realrocknews.com/cd-review-david-gilmour-live-gdansk/