Rick Wright
For those of you who are Pink Floyd fans, Rick Wright died today at age 65 of an unspecified cancer.
Wright was an amazing keyboard player, not because of his technical prowess, but because of his perfect intuition as a supporting member of a truly great rock band. It seemed as though Rick knew exactly what notes to play and what tone to use. He knew the role of a keyboard player in a rock band was to provide support, and he did a damn fine job at providing that support.
I never got to see the entire Pink Floyd in its 1969-1983 incarnation, but I did get to see them in the post-Roger era. It was July 12, 1994, during the Division Bell tour. I saw them at Soldier Field in Chicago. It was a great show in a great setting. Rick’s piano playing was simply amazing.
Rick Wright’s music will play long into the future.
I think you’re Wright about that!
My husbands best friend from college days,Kurt White also passed away the same day from Cancer.
It’s a pretty awesome story.He was a great musician and played in a band with my husband(who is also an incredible musician!)Kurt had cancer for a few years and then had gone ‘home’ to die at his sisters house and they thought he started hallucinating so they put him in the hospital.He kept having hallucinations(or so they thought)While there Kurt said he saw musicians from the Pink Floyd band outside of his window playing music out on the grass.He wasn’t really even a Pink Floyd fan so it was strange for him to speak about Pink Floyd.When they brought him back home from being in the hospital he kept talking about the guy Rick Wright and said they jammed together when he was in the hospital.
Kurt died that day…the same day Rick Wright died.
At least we all know we’ll have some good entertainment in heaven!