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