― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 31 October 2003 23:34 (twenty years ago) link
Now that's high comedy, Dan. There's nothing quite as painful as losing discs of a boxed set -- I had the same thing happen to me w/ the Eno instrumental box, and now that's OUT OF FUCKING PRINT.
That said, I think that early Floyd disc was available seperately -- I think we had it at the Coop Bookstore, actually (Dan will know what I'm talking about -- we both worked there!)...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 1 November 2003 03:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 1 November 2003 04:14 (twenty years ago) link
My friend Jim, I made him watch it, and he was like "Hey, this is totally like..." and then the shot of the speaker cabs w/ "Pink Floyd London" stenciled on them came up and he just laughed his ass off. It was pretty good.
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 November 2003 07:29 (twenty years ago) link
I don't know if Lydon did ever like early Floyd but it as actually Malcolm McLaren who first had the idea of getting in Syd Barrett as a producer - tho, knowing him, that might have been some sort of situationist prank.
― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 1 November 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 2 November 2003 00:39 (twenty years ago) link
but yes, lovely harmonies, esp. Summer '68 and Shine 1 & 9, and i snapped up that funny little singles cd too when i saw it secondhand, and i like that (and yes, why of all things would someone sell that ?)
There's a scene in Fellini's Roma where all the "hippy free-lovers" are doing their thing juxtaposed with the "decadent ruling bourgeoisie" looking down at them from a majestrial private balcony, a mildly operatic scene, and there's a guy that looks _just_ _like_ Richard Wright in the middle of the "hippies", staring at the camera -- not Pompeii, but close time/place -- maybe something to do with "mates" like Antonioni or that weirder Barbet Schroeder (whose 2 PF movies i've found hard to find, and although critical consensus warns they're dire, i always imagined PF just suppressed them -- i just want to see the music in action as soundtrack)
― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 2 November 2003 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
Both More and La Vallee are easy to find on video and/or DVD. Amazon has them both. I haven't gotten around to La Vallee yet, but More is a pretty good little hippie nihilist junkie movie.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 2 November 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link
Fellini's Roma, that's summer '72. I figure it is Wright, centre stage middle of the free-loving transistor-toting Italian hippies, reprising "Summer '68" as he stares at the camera with a sad "is this it" expression on his face, not participating feverishly like the other long-hairs. Probably my imagination, and there's no "Alberto Sordi/ Gore Vidal/ Federico Fellini/ Marcello Mastroianni as himself" credit for Wright, but then that would be Wright's almost anonymous style. Fellini's Roma _is_ a movie i have put effort into obtaining. The vignettes are too beautiful and mostly all too plausible (except for the Vatican City Liturgical Fashion Show, which is _clearly_ o.t.t., far too camp and spooky to be anything but specious and spurious, _definitely_, but it's the best audio-cinematic music video short of high-church communion with incense, possibly the main reason i obtained the film).
― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
That's Wright singing the verse parts on "Matilda Mother", isn't it?
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Sunday, 2 November 2003 23:22 (twenty years ago) link
It occurs to me, though, that there's more to this story for me — a part that I forgot to mention, but seems relevant. My classical piano teacher—a geeky, bespectacled guy with a deviated septum who knew nothing about popular music—gave up teaching me classical around the time I was 13 or 14 because pop tunes were the only thing I really cared about. And one of the songs I INSISTED this guy teach me was "Summer '68" — which he begrudgingly did (though I'm sure that beat helping me figure out J Geils Band organ solos and so forth).
In retrospect, there's no way I would have kept up w/ music if the guy had insisted we keep doing Beethoven. But really, had this guy not taught me this song, not only might I have never attended the Oberlin Conservatory, but I never would have even met Dan Selzer! How's that for kizmit?
Thank you, Richard Wright!
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Gilmour's first solo record since 1984, feat. Ricky, Phil Manzenera and Robert Wyatt among others.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
At least I hope to hear "Fat Old Sun" at Radio City (and just maybe some of the lesser-known/played Floyd songs). Can happily pass on any Floyd material post-Animals.
― drewo (drewo), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 22 December 2005 05:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 22 December 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link
And you know, I recently came across an mp3 of Robert Wyatt singing Roger's part on a solo Dave version of "Comfortably Numb"...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 22 December 2005 05:34 (eighteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3m_RzweM0E
This is really gorgeous.
― Euler, Monday, 18 April 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
happy birthday...
http://gozie.com/video/A98DXBYDUR38/Pink-Floyd--Paint-Box
― dan selzer, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
wright is rad! i think lots of proggy bands would've benefitted from someone like this guy, who wasn't into flash so much as mood/heaviness. is this good? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Rick_Wright_Wet_Dream_album_300.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
oh, see there's some discussion up thread
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
this sounds tight. representative of the rest of the record? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEISO8cGKyo
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
Summer '68 is my jam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNvEWtNa33c
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
This is really gorgeous. --Euler
This is really gorgeous. --Euler
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 29 July 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
New web site that his family put up. Worth checking out if you're a PF fan.https://rickwright.com
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 12 December 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
All the interviews on this site make me wonder whether someone was working on a documentary film at some point. It's interesting to hear the perspectives of collaborators like Manzanera and Anthony Moore, who are sort of tangential to the conventional Pink Floyd story.
I'm puzzled, though, why there aren't any pages specifically about his solo albums. I guess there are fan sites that have that information, but it seems disrespectful somehow to deal with his work so obliquely. Incidentally, it seems that the Zee album was reissued last year as Identity 2019, credited to Wright and Harris. Despite the "new" title, it seems to be the original album with bonus tracks.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 13 December 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
I only recently discovered Wet Dream, it's a really good record and probably has more of the flavors that make Pink Floyd great than anything Gilmour or Wright ever did separately.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 13 December 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
yeah I think Wet Dream has aged well - when I was a teenager it seemed unlistenably smooth but 2020 ears are much more forgiving - lyrically there’s a sense of someone with not much to say making a solo album because “the others are”, but I guess I find that charming now as well! and yep there’s plenty of lovely Floydy chord sequences (& high end production)
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Sunday, 13 December 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
heh I just posted abt that record today
Pink Floyd - Animals (Poll and discussion thread)
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Sunday, 13 December 2020 05:06 (three years ago) link
Full 80min interview unearthed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URbiyWY-szY
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Details on the reissue of Wet Dream, obligatory Steven Wilson remix, etc.https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/richard-wright-wet-dream-reissue-with-steven-wilson-remix-release-de.html
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 July 2023 18:36 (nine months ago) link
When "balearic" was originally described to me, my first thought was, "Oh, like Richard Wright's Wet Dream record?"
― sawdust lagoon, Friday, 14 July 2023 23:20 (nine months ago) link
All I've ever really known about this record is that he recorded it while he was on vacation or living in the Mediterranean -- something the pool suggests. I remember listening to it and hoping it would sound like the synths on DSOTM/WYWH/Animals, with his pillowy "Summer '68" vocals and being mostly disappointed.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 17 July 2023 20:21 (nine months ago) link