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Posted: Sep. 16 2008, 04:46 |
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| Quote (Scatterplot @ Sep. 15 2008, 19:10) | I sat outside for a while and thought......September 15th.?...? Overnight the weather went from a long brutal triple digit summer to 70 degrees(front brought in by Ike). Then Richard Wright dies. Wow. This man meant a lot to me. He was very much like Mike Oldfield in his music and thinking. He was PF's Lyle Mays, or to make a more accurate comparison, Tony Banks, and that is a compliment. I think the world over, PF probably had a larger fan base than Genesis. I can't see a Pink Floyd without him. He was a user of a lot of the same stuff at the same time as MO. Farfisa organ, then later the same synths of the time(s). I'm sad for Rick's family and friends. I am glad that Rick had a rich life of great music, great moments on the biggest stages in the world, admiration by millions. He deserved it all, he was fantastic at what he did. I listened to September 15th just before I got on here to find out....dammit. I'm gonna listen to Time and his solo album Broken China now.
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Well you had me thinking about that yesterday Jim I must admit.There I was listening to this album about Syd Barrett and I was kind of thinking about Syd and Pink Floyd.And then I thought "Oh I wonder if any Floyd fans out there have heard this album"?You know just curious what they would make of it I suppose.For a lot of years I was quite heavily into PF but it`s very rare now for me to listen to any of their albums.I don`t really know why that is to be honest because I still have a huge admiration for them in a way.But yeah of course at that exact moment I started to wonder about them again Rick had passed away.Almost immediatly in fact it struck me about what you`d said earlier about co-incedinces and September the 15th.And Bill Evans as well the Jazz Pianist to whom that track is dedicated to died September 15th 28 years ago now.I mean I don`t want to make a big cosmic thing out of it or anything but you certainly got me wondering about it all.And oddly enough even before you mentioned it yesterday whenever I think about Pat Metheney the first piece of music that always comes into my head is September 15th.And now even more so I guess.
Anyway it`s nice to see raven4x4x mention Echoes there,on which Rick plays such a massive part I agree.But yeah that was the first track that I heard from Pink Floyd that really got me hooked big time.I was about 13 years old and I can remember sitting on my knees over this crappy little tape player that I had back then just been completely blown away by it all.Eveybody talked about Pink Floyd being the big "Hi-Fi enthusiasts" band back then if you like.But even on this cheapo tinny fidelity thing they sounded awesome to me.I mean I can`t even describe how jaw dropping that experience was in some respects.And then I think listening to Floyd and especialy some of their longer instrumental passages certainly helped me to appreciate the music of Mike Oldfield at such a young age as well.You know I kind of like had a reference point in a way which 99% of all the other music I listened to back then would`nt have given me.I mean Pink Floyd were innovative and daring and pretty bizzare at times.But they nearly always seemed to have something captivating and intriguing about them that somehow appealed to the common man.Even in some of their more stranger/experimental passages of music such as Echoes itself of course.
@Major Gowan I`m right there with you on those early tracks from Rick which are also some of my own favourites as well.Relics still tends to be the album that my hand goes to first for instance if I`m ever in the mood for some Pink Floyd.And I know it`s kind of throwaway stuff and Waters and Mason supposedly slagged it off somewhat.But I`m actualy a big fan of Rick`s early song It Would Be So Nice.Yeah great stuff.
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