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Blitz-Wing
Sep 15 2008, 09:18 AM
QUOTE
LONDON - A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65. Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death. The spokesman is Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist.

Richard Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at college and joined their early band Sigma 6. Sigma 6 eventually became Pink Floyd and Wright wrote and sang some of the band's key songs. He wrote "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them" from Pink Floyd's 1973 "The Dark Side Of The Moon."

He left the group in the early 1980s to form his own band but rejoined Pink Floyd for their 1987 album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason."



Lord Madhammer
Sep 15 2008, 09:49 AM
holy shot eektf.gif

RIP rumblecry.gif
ReverendNash
Sep 15 2008, 12:30 PM
R.I.P.
Hobbes-timus Prime
Sep 15 2008, 12:41 PM
I turned the sound down on the Wizard of Oz and read this article outloud...

Nothin'. icon_sad.gif
DarkNarcoleptic
Sep 15 2008, 12:43 PM
rumblecry.gif Man...
Cool Hand Lube
Sep 15 2008, 12:43 PM
Needs moar LSD.
Wildling
Sep 15 2008, 02:22 PM
rumblecry.gif
Ultra Bumblemus
Sep 15 2008, 02:48 PM
wow
Bestimus Mucho
Sep 15 2008, 03:13 PM
*insert Shine on You crazy Diamond lyric*


yes yes, I know, I know...
Blitz-Wing
Sep 15 2008, 06:29 PM
Appropriate for the occation
Haggisjin
Sep 15 2008, 07:02 PM
Holy shit he was still alive?! For some reason I've always assumed that he overdosed 20 years ago...
Blitz-Wing
Sep 15 2008, 08:19 PM
QUOTE (Haggisjin @ Sep 15 2008, 08:02 PM) *
Holy shit he was still alive?! For some reason I've always assumed that he overdosed 20 years ago...


He just toured with David Gilmour in support of Gilmour's latest solo album. Strange the family is being tight lipped about the cancer though.
Stormtrooper53
Sep 16 2008, 04:44 AM
QUOTE (Not Letting The Acronym Go @ Sep 15 2008, 06:13 PM) *
*insert Shine on You crazy Diamond lyric*

And also Wish You Were Here

I was listening to The Wall just yesterday...
Satan's Camaro
Sep 16 2008, 05:39 AM
damn, that sucks rumblecry.gif

R.I.P.
Lord Madhammer
Sep 16 2008, 06:39 AM
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 07:44 AM) *
I was listening to The Wall just yesterday...

which Wright totally hated
Stormtrooper53
Sep 16 2008, 06:45 AM
QUOTE (Lord Madhammer @ Sep 16 2008, 09:39 AM) *
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 07:44 AM) *
I was listening to The Wall just yesterday...

which Wright totally hated

...which I'm sure had nothing to do with the fact that Roger Waters made him quit the during the recording of said album. (David Gilmour hates it, too, but that doesn't change the fact that its an awesome album.)

Wright was actually the only person that made any money off The Wall tour because he was hired back on to perform, but shared none of the financial burden of putting on the shows that the Waters, Gilmour, and Mason did.
Lord Madhammer
Sep 16 2008, 06:49 AM
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 09:45 AM) *
QUOTE (Lord Madhammer @ Sep 16 2008, 09:39 AM) *
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 07:44 AM) *
I was listening to The Wall just yesterday...

which Wright totally hated

...which I'm sure had nothing to do with the fact that Roger Waters made him quit the during the recording of said album. (David Gilmour hates it, too, but that doesn't change the fact that its an awesome album.)

Wright was actually the only person that made any money off The Wall tour because he was hired back on to perform, but shared none of the financial burden of putting on the shows that the Waters, Gilmour, and Mason did.

I feel like we just did the secret Pink Floyd handshake or something...
Stormtrooper53
Sep 16 2008, 07:05 AM
shhhh...you must speak no more of this!
Lord Madhammer
Sep 16 2008, 07:12 AM
So yeah, Richard Wright was a total cokehead in the 70's and Waters was like "you're not pulling your weight" and basically kicked him out. And Wright felt that he was being shoved out and that Waters was just taking control of the band. Wright went to see a Waters show recently, having mentioned that his therapist thought it would be a good thing to do.

Good times... so anyway, I like the music
Stormtrooper53
Sep 16 2008, 07:28 AM
I like how bands kick people out for being drug users and stuff. Because I'm sure David Gilmour and Roger Waters NEVER touched drugs and showed up late for a recording session or concert.

I always laugh to the fact that the band nicknamed "Alcoholica" kicked out a person (Dave Mustaine) because his "drinking was out of hand."
Bestimus Mucho
Sep 16 2008, 07:38 AM


nerds
DarkNarcoleptic
Sep 16 2008, 07:40 AM
optimuslaugh2.gif

*is listening to all his Pink Floyd vinyl today*
Stormtrooper53
Sep 16 2008, 07:41 AM
HEY! I TAKE EXCEPTION TO...

baww, you're right....

*just got called a nerd by NLTAG* raincloudyi7.gif
Lord Madhammer
Sep 16 2008, 08:12 AM
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 10:28 AM) *
I like how bands kick people out for being drug users and stuff. Because I'm sure David Gilmour and Roger Waters NEVER touched drugs and showed up late for a recording session or concert.

I think Syd Barrett did enough drugs for everyone else in the band.
DarkNarcoleptic
Sep 16 2008, 08:28 AM
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Bestimus Mucho
Sep 16 2008, 08:49 AM
Poor Sid, atleast he went out like I want to, completely apeshot insane and yelling at kids to get off my lawn.
Talkie Toaster
Sep 16 2008, 09:56 AM
heard about this yesterday and out of respect I didn't do a Pink Floyd song at Karaoke, (was going to do wish you were here but they didn't have it)

:rip condolences to his family and hopes that his passing was peaceful.
Lord Madhammer
Sep 16 2008, 10:30 AM
QUOTE (Not Letting The Acronym Go @ Sep 16 2008, 11:49 AM) *
Poor Sid, atleast he went out like I want to, completely apeshot insane and yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

According to his sister, he may have had Asperger's





seriously
Stormtrooper53
Sep 16 2008, 10:51 AM
Ass Burger? I hardly even know h...

Wait, that doesn't work.
ReverendNash
Sep 16 2008, 12:30 PM
QUOTE (Lord Madhammer @ Sep 16 2008, 09:12 AM) *
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 10:28 AM) *
I like how bands kick people out for being drug users and stuff. Because I'm sure David Gilmour and Roger Waters NEVER touched drugs and showed up late for a recording session or concert.

I think Syd Barrett did enough drugs for everyone else in the band UK.

fix'd
Wildling
Sep 16 2008, 12:48 PM
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 10:28 AM) *
I always laugh to the fact that the band nicknamed "Alcoholica" kicked out a person (Dave Mustaine) because his "drinking was out of hand."

Well there was also the heroin ....
Cool Hand Lube
Sep 16 2008, 12:48 PM
QUOTE (Lord Madhammer @ Sep 16 2008, 11:30 AM) *
According to his sister, he may have had Asperger's
seriously


So he was an asshat on the internet, too?
Blitz-Wing
Sep 16 2008, 12:49 PM
QUOTE (ReverendNash @ Sep 16 2008, 01:30 PM) *
QUOTE (Lord Madhammer @ Sep 16 2008, 09:12 AM) *
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 10:28 AM) *
I like how bands kick people out for being drug users and stuff. Because I'm sure David Gilmour and Roger Waters NEVER touched drugs and showed up late for a recording session or concert.

I think Syd Barrett did enough drugs for everyone else in the band UK EU.

fix'd

DITTO
Stormtrooper53
Sep 16 2008, 01:12 PM
QUOTE (Cadogen @ Sep 16 2008, 03:49 PM) *
QUOTE (ReverendNash @ Sep 16 2008, 01:30 PM) *
QUOTE (Lord Madhammer @ Sep 16 2008, 09:12 AM) *
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 10:28 AM) *
I like how bands kick people out for being drug users and stuff. Because I'm sure David Gilmour and Roger Waters NEVER touched drugs and showed up late for a recording session or concert.

I think Syd Barrett did enough drugs for everyone else in the band UK EU known universe and several parallel dimensions.

fix'd

DITTO

That's better.

QUOTE (Wildling @ Sep 16 2008, 03:48 PM) *
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 10:28 AM) *
I always laugh to the fact that the band nicknamed "Alcoholica" kicked out a person (Dave Mustaine) because his "drinking was out of hand."

Well there was also the heroin ....

optimuslaugh2.gif, Yeah, there was also that. And the general douchebaggery that comes with being Dave Mustaine.
Lord Madhammer
Sep 16 2008, 01:13 PM
Although there is also a certain amount of irony in someone getting kicked out of Metallica for being a douchebag.
Stormtrooper53
Sep 16 2008, 01:19 PM
Well, this was back before they had lots of money and cared if people stole their music.
Lord Madhammer
Sep 16 2008, 01:21 PM
*attempts to copyright E-to-F chord progression*
Wildling
Sep 16 2008, 06:37 PM
QUOTE (Stormtrooper53 @ Sep 16 2008, 04:19 PM) *
Well, this was back before they had lots of money and cared if people stole their music.

They certainly had no fear of taking what Mustaine had written.

But anyway, this is supposed to be about Rick Wright passing away, not douchebags being douchebaggish to other douchebags.
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