the great rick in the sky

hani bazıları vardır, hakettikleri değerleri göremezler... işlerini ne kadar iyi yapsalar da yanlarında bir efsane olduğundan dolayı pek öne çıkmazlar. görev adamıdırlar bir nevi... efsaneyi belki de efsane yapanlar onlardır... ama adlarını söylesen çoğu kişi bilmez...

bunlar geçti kafamdan ntv'de 'rock müziğin yedi hali' adlı belgeseli izlerken... çünkü pink floyd vardı ekranda... arkada ise rick wright.

pink floyd soundunun ortaya çıkmasında onun o klavyesinin payı büyüktür. hiç bir zaman syd barrett, roger waters ya da david gilmour kadar öne çıkmamıştır. bu onlardan daha az efsane olduğunu göstermez. sadece karakterinden... dedim ya tam bir görev adamıdır rick...

syd barrett ile birlikte grubu tekrar toplamaya başladılar yukarda...



son olarak ölümünün ardından david gilmourun düşüncelerini yazmak istiyorum.


''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.''