Rare interview with Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright from 1974 before the start of their ‘Winter Tour
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- Rare interview with Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright from 1974 before the start of their ‘Winter Tour
#pinkfloyd #rickwright
#richardwright - Hudba
This guy, Richard Wright, no question was largely responsible for the harmonic and sonic feel of DSOTM, WYWH and Animals - the prime years. Really, it was all of them, of course. But, without Richard’s contributions, things would certainly have been “different”.
all is work is
his chord progressions are really something else.. he sneaked in the jazz harmonics everywhere in Floyd's music, though some got unfairly uncredited.. The unsung hero behind the background music, setting the sails for Roger and Dave to shine
My favorite Pink Floyd musician… he was the the magic that made them so unique
i love richard❤
I was at the Edinburgh gig at the usher hall on nov 5 1974. I have some great photos taken that night .
Do you have them posted anywhere?
@@alexanderatherton7602 No i have not ever posted the photos. I took one of each individual member and in the photo Roger Waters is wearing a white t shirt that says Onion Bagger. The photos are all textured and have the date nov 74 on the print . I’m not sure how i could post them as i don’t have a scanner or printer ?
@@alexanderatherton7602 My photos of the band that night are great quality and not from a distance. Each photo has each person in focus and great detail.
@@67psych id really like to see those
@@67psych you can take a picture of them with a smartphone, and post them from the phone
Future Animals and Wish You Were Here album tracks in progress,
Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety,
and Echoes as an encore.
What an outstanding night out!
Thank you very much for the upload!
He’s so reserved but actually reveals a lot
@@PinkFloydCollectors Agreed!
Echoes sounds like it could have been on Darkside.
@@MrOctober44 would def make dsotm a double lp
Rick was the Floyd sound all the way from the organ solo on Arnold Layne to the end of the band's career.
The radioshow was called 'Rockspeak' and was broadcast 25 October '74
Ah thank you
Can you tell us who the interviewer is/was?
@@ianhill3446 Sorry, the book didn't say that.
Thank u!
You are welcome
Interesting remark about Roger, that he could “get into anything, possibly not related to r’n’r at all.. like theatre”
Great listen 👍
Funny you mention that, that caught my attention
“Wish you were here” is on the way - my favorite Floyd album. There is a wonderful live recording by Mike Millard in Los Angeles in early 1975 - that first set that Richard is talking about before they play DSOTM is amazing in LA. It’s on CZcams - have a look for it.
Interesting comments around 25:00 about Syd. Unequivocally says that Syd was a "maniac" and was consciously trying to derail the band. Seems very relieved that Syd left and thinks the band got much better. Pretty stark contrast to the way to the spoke about him in later years.
Good catch. Syd was a disaster when he was in the band at the end and would have derailed the group had he stayed. No agent would have booked them for gigs if they continued to have a disruptive Syd on stage or not even reliable to go on stage.
Its interesting that Richard Wright did not mention anything about all of the rowdy and indifferent audience members shouting for "Money" and other stuff that David Gilmour and Roger Waters themselves said had spoiled most of those gigs from summer 1973 through summer 1977 and caused Pink Floyd to become alienated from their audience. At least at this point in late 1974, the problem for Wright playing live was simply playing gigs at the same place for many consecutive dates on the same tour. That seems to disprove my theory that Wright was badly affected by the sudden onset of the rowdy and indifferent audiences starting in June 1973 that ultimately resulted in Wright becoming burned out by time Wish You Were Here was finished which also negatively affected his post-1975 creativity and first marriage.
Sounds like Michael Wale. He knew the old Pink Floyd because of his book Voxpop publ Harrap
Reminiscent of Pete and Dud seasoned with a pinch of Spinal Tap. I think they might be stoned.
Very interesting. Takes a lot of shots at Syd, lol
Yeah i noticed that I guess time softened his views..
@@PinkFloydCollectors I've gone through all their interviews chronologically, and there's a lot of revisionist history to be on "the right side".
@@LoyalOpposition Revisionist like how they wrote an entire album about him as a tribute in 1975, almost 50 years ago?
Then as he gets older he pretty much does a 360 and somewhat dislikes the immediate post Syd stuff as opposed to the Syd stuff.
@@nectarinedreams7208 That's revisionist history to say the entire album Is about him. Roger has said on numerous occasions that Syd inspired Shine on. The rest of the album isn't.
Rick was too close to those Syd Barrett albums and too much of a perfectionist suffering the frustration of working with an unbalanced Syd. He does acknowledge that the songs are great, but i LOVE the raw shakiness of the performances too!
Agree
I don't know how that typo happened: 'pretentious'
Not sure I understand
It's great that you have suddenly appeared as its a fresh perspective that's for sure.
Like I've said, if you've got RELICS and UMMA GUMMA that's all you need by Pink Floyd; after 1970 they became totally pretentious bread heads. I've never listened to DARK SIDE OF THE MOON all the way thru. In a nut shell they're boring.
Because you're drunk, and pretentious.
What an insufferable interviewer.
On tour in 1974, Floyd refused to give interviews, but a Melody Maker journalist bought his own ticket to an Edinburgh Usher Hall gig, and secured an interview with Wright. When the rest of the group complained, Rick said that he'd “felt sorry for the chap”.
MOJO, November 2008.
I'm 75, I gave up on Pink Floyd after UMMA GUMMA when they became a super group and got worse and worse till what's left of them today in 2022 where I've just heard that Pink Floyd Inc are going to be paid $500 million for their back catalogue!!! Who'll get what? There's only 2 of them left isn't there? And I'm so ill informed I don't even know what Richard Wright played in the group; and I've never once listened to 'Dark side of the moon.'
Yeah there are some who gave up after Syd left also, each to their own.. not sure they hot super group status until DSOTM though
@@PinkFloydCollectors I've now learned he played keyboards and sang with the group from the start; so he'd have played those magical organ solos on Arnold Layne and See Emily play yeah? The other one who gets forgotten was Dave Nason the drummer.? How these record companies expect to make any money back on these huge catalogue payouts is a mystery to me. You can hear Pink Floyd's work on CZcams for free and I wouldn't give tuppence for them after 1970 and the pretentiopd rubbish they turned out.
@@PinkFloydCollectors So it's Nick Mason who's been the drummer since the mid 1960s and he's still alive according to Wiki. David Gilmour and Roger Waters incur most of my wrath; I detest them both, especially Gilmour. The Syd Barrett Estate should benefit most from this $500 million payoff for Pink Floyd's back catalog which is totally obscene given the state the planet's in; the same with Dylan and Springsteen.
Are you okay?
And?