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ElfDude
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From David Golmour's webpage:
"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
"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
Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?
Richard Wright was the "pink" in Pink Floyd. His was the sound so subtle and unnoticed that weaved their magic into the melodic tapestry we have all become so familiar with. Nonetheless, without his influence, PF would have been just another band with a guitarist who could never play fast. So sweet were his sounds, PF could be played during a moment of total silence in his memory.
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Big Blue Owl
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I'll have mine on the bike as I putt around.
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Big Blue Owl
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you ain't right, but it was funny.Big Blue Owl wrote:I've often seen those bumper stickers, "POW MIA" and I think, "Leave that poor girl alone! Woody Allen dumped on her enough already! Why should anyone wanna POW her?
Seriously, though, my flag will be unfurled on Friday as well. Thanks, Cygman.
Don't start none...won't be none.
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ElfDude
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Was she in the middle of a great scambait with a Nigerian 419 guy?CygnusX1 wrote:Sarah Palin's e-mail hacked....
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/18 ... il-hacked/
Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?
ElfDude wrote:Was she in the middle of a great scambait with a Nigerian 419 guy?CygnusX1 wrote:Sarah Palin's e-mail hacked....
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/18 ... il-hacked/
HAHAHAHA no, but I would be VERY worried if I were the poster and host,
gawker.com.
They're gonna send them so far away - they won't hear a dog
barkin'.
My heart pumps pure PISS for them too. Let 'em rot.
Don't start none...won't be none.