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Ron Dough
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« on: 17:33:53, 15-09-2008 »
Pink Floyd's keyboards player, Richard Wright, has died of cancer at the age of 65.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7617363.stm

It's probably difficult for those not of my generation to understand exactly how huge the influence of this band really was, and how in particular the excellence of Alan Parsons' engineering of the biggest albums had a huge effect on the uptake of real HiFi rather than just stereos in the mid-to-late 70s, moving it away from being a mainly classical aspiration to that of anyone who loved their music.

RIP
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Morticia
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« Reply #1 on: 17:41:32, 15-09-2008 »
Oh no. I actually said that out loud when I read that post. This is really sad. Another little piece of the musical past gone. I'm really not knowledgeable enough to post in detail about the impact and influence of the Floyd. So I won't.

RIP Richard Wright. Make a fabulous sound wherever you are now.
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« Reply #2 on: 17:57:14, 15-09-2008 »
I'm just old enough to have loved their stuff and to have had an inkling of how important they were. Sad news. RIP
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« Reply #3 on: 18:13:45, 15-09-2008 »
Quote from: martle on 17:57:14, 15-09-2008
I'm just old enough to have loved their stuff and to have had an inkling of how important they were. Sad news. RIP

What do you kids know? Wink I saw Pink Floyd play when Syd Barrett was still with them Undecided
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« Reply #4 on: 22:46:27, 15-09-2008 »
I only got into Pink Floyd about 10 years ago when a friend played it endlessly, our favourite was Shine on you Crazy Diamond, so in view of the sad news, here it is with Vegetable Man Syd.  In fact I think I am going to buy the cd, Delicate Sound of Thunder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNhHV03vVCk&feature=related
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« Reply #5 on: 22:51:05, 15-09-2008 »
What a bummer, as they said back in the day. Sad

He always came across as a very charming, modest and gentle man in interviews, with very few bad words to say about anyone.

His keyboard work, from the early Floyd singles onwards, speaks for itself.

His family aren't the only ones who'll miss him. Sad

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« Reply #6 on: 23:04:11, 15-09-2008 »
More sad news to follow Vernon Handley's recent death.  I am of the generation Ron mentions and can confirm that in my teens Pink Floyd were recognised as being probably the contemporary band whose name was guaranteed to go down in history.  Whatever people say now, this was a far more confident prediction after the departure of poor Syd Barrett than before.  Rick Wright was, of course, an indispensable member of the band both with and after Syd.  He and Nick Mason probably never got the same amount of publicity as Barrett, Gilmour and Waters, but Wright's contribution was surely the equal of any.
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« Reply #7 on: 00:33:06, 16-09-2008 »
Well I'm of a younger generation as far as I know, but Pink Floyd have been a massive influence on me and my appreciation for music. My very earliest musical memory is of being completely absorbed in the intro to Shine on you Crazy Diamond at the age of 6 (a mere 7 years after Wish you were here was released Roll Eyes ). I reckon Wright's work on that album is absolutely iconic of the 70s - many of the chord sequences are his doing, as far as I understand it, and his use of the Moog and VCS3 is definitive.

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« Reply #8 on: 01:29:32, 16-09-2008 »
Quote from: stuart macrae on 00:33:06, 16-09-2008
Well I'm of a younger generation as far as I know, but Pink Floyd have been a massive influence on me and my appreciation for music. My very earliest musical memory is of being completely absorbed in the intro to Shine on you Crazy Diamond at the age of 6 (a mere 7 years after Wish you were here was released Roll Eyes ). I reckon Wright's work on that album is absolutely iconic of the 70s - many of the chord sequences are his doing, as far as I understand it, and his use of the Moog and VCS3 is definitive.

RIP

Ditto. I have musical memories pre-Shine on, but my dad's copy of Wish you were here was something that I must have listened to literally hundreds of times at the age of about 10 or 11. The band never really sounded the same after Roger Waters sacked him.

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« Reply #9 on: 14:46:27, 19-09-2008 »
The Last Word on Radio 4 at 1600 today (rpt 2030 Sunday) will have a piece about Rick Wright, I've just heard.
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