RIP Richard Wright

[Prodigy]

Bon ben le clavier des Pink Floyd est mort :

http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/09/15/le-clavier-des-pink-floyd-est-mort_1095567_3246.html

 

Fait chier, déjà que la mort de Syd Barrett ça m'avait vraiment fichu un coup, là c'est encore un bout de ma jeunesse qui fout le camp (ouais j'avais 5 ans quand leur dernier "vrai" album est sorti mais n'empêche). Saleté de vie de merde à la con.

[niko13]

Celle-la, elle me fait vraiment mal. Je suis devaste...

Quelle tristesse !

[niko13]

David Gilmour, au sujet de son partenaire musical depuis pres de 40 ans:

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

[Tidji]

"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I

don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?

There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."

"I never said I was frightened of dying."

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enwnt7-j90k

 

REP