I really like this interview. It's nothing like the standard talk show interview. It feels like I'm with my family around the dining room table just telling stories, only about one of the most famous songs ever recorded.
In 'Live at Pompeii', after the middle-break with the seagull-noises and when the organ returns, you can tell Roger is at the piano and playing the B-note. You can tell it's him cause, Rick's playing the Farfisa and Nick and David are busy with their instruments. And you can't hear the bass yet, so halfway through the song, it was Roger who played the note
The more I listen to and learn about Pink Floyd the more I feel like Rick was really the glue that made it all.... Pink Floyd. From listening to interviews with Rick I get the impression he never even realized it :'(
I got really sad when I listened to the Endless River. It really showed me how much Rick did and it made me realize the others aren't too far behind him
Rick was "The Back Bone of Pink Floyd " He was Superb on Floyd"s last Division Bell Tour Back doing Lead Vocals/Composing etc I was totally Shocked when i heard he"d Passed On that Day back in Sept 08
To me this is like the sweetest thing. The scenario is like a nice chat in front of a beer with our dearest friends, telling our stories and jokes... a feeling we all know about... It's just that at this table are, among the others, dave and rick recalling the birth of one of their masterpieces, with guy pratt on the other side in awe for more... brilliant...
Oh my god.... For a short video, this is one of the best i have seen. David Gilmour and Wright were really the closest from the Pink Floyd members. And that friendship held across what, almost 40 years until Wright's passing away. This made my day! RIP Wright. And Gilmour, i freaking love you man.
I really wish they could've released more of these friendly memories all together on camera with all the original members! It adds so much more colour that reading about it could never match IMHO.
I love this video, how could anyone dislike it? "that note really pinged, I must try it again" - Priceless, it's like there is an obsessive-compulsive musical side that would not have allowed him not to try it again. ... "and what does this note here sound like - BONG!". Oh Rick, the world lost a great man when you left. PING!
Ricks playing always was very much linked to all other instruments including vocals. Fantastic humble player, not an egoistic soloist! One of those who are not on the forefront but when he stops playing, everything will fall apart. Grande Ricardo!
That's why he's my favorite Pink Floyd member. I like his creativity when it comes to his keyboards, as creative as John Lennon and George Harrison, two of my favorite members of The Beatles. And that's what inspired me to become a keyboardist myself, starting as former drummer (from a school band but now that we disbanded), and now I follow the footsteps of my boy Rick.
"Echoes" was special to me in my teens, as a young songwriter. (I was heavily into Meddle, About Face, and Radio KAOS for a month that summer.) It represented the freedom to experiment, to build a song architecturally, by structure, rather than waiting for inspiration. The slow tempo was right for it, if overdone since. I miss Nick's SWING! The C#minor intro leading to an A#min7, Amaj, G#sus4-G#maj is lovely. Dave & Rick's harmonies, Roger's classic chorus riff, an organic collaborative beauty.
Man I feel like I just want to hang out with these guys for days & just listen to all their stories, and everything they can possibly remember. Back in the 70s before you could just go online & watch or listen to anything you wanted, & look up thousands of pictures, PF was very private & mysterious. Once in a while you'd get an interview in a magazine if you caught it, or were lucky enough to catch something on TV, but most of all you knew of bands was what they put on their record jackets. They
There was a story on the radio from a guy who lives in Edmonton which went something along the lines of, he was in Britain with his uncle who happened to be friends with David Gilmour and this guy got to go to Gilmour's house and play his Stratocaster. Can you imagine? One of the most envy ridden moments of my life! It's funny though because really these rock-stars are just a bunch of regular blokes and ladies like the rest of us.
I wish I was there, they seem like such good people to be around. RIP Rick Wright. This video was taken only a year before his death. They literally invented a new sound.
seemed super-human because you never really got to see them except when they were performing on stage. Now you can go online & there are hundreds of recorded performances & interviews, and you get to hear great stories like this, and see they had a great sense of humor. I think near the end, Rick was really happy to be included in a lot of stuff with David...even when he didn't look too healthy, he still wanted to tour & keep on going. RIP Rick :( No one can replace him.
This video touches my heart in so many ways -- David and Rick, the greatest musical collaboration since the dawn of rock and roll, casually chatting about the epic intro to 'Echoes', the most masterful piece of music since the dawn of rock and roll. (In my humble opinion, etc.)
Tania, thank you so much for uploading this rare glimpse into the process and the happy accidents that helped make Pink Floyd who they were. Now that Rick Wright has passed, it's just amazing to get his take on how he and the band innovated so they could get the sound they already heard in their heads. (BTW, Echoes is my favorite Pink Floyd album.) Wonderful.
I absolutely ADORE hearing these types of stories of how all that wonderful music came to be!! Wish I could be there...I'd gladly listen for hours!!! ❤❤
Please tell me there's more??? This is what we all would love to hear. I don't think either Dave or Rick interview particularly well - especially Rick, who takes his time and always seemed to be warming up to something but then the interviewer would simply lose their patience 😒. Next question - and then the same bloody questions about DSOTM and The Wall over and over. What about that Roger Waters rift eh? When will Pink Floyd get back together? The same inane questions over and over again. No wonder you watch the shutters go down with them sometimes. I can see it in their eyes. Always patient and polite but on autopilot. To see them animated and enjoying themselves and obviously keen to share their memories of this incredible recording is a delight. Guy Pratt should have just sat down and interviewed them or talked to them like this.
Absoloutley priceless piece of video there. Looks like they really had a great time. I would give anything to sit at a table with those guys. Unfortunately no-longer possible because of the sad loss of Rick. But what an honour it must have been.
one of the most interesting floyd stories ive heard, thanks for posting. its funny because ive always thought the beginning of the song sounded like someone just sort of tentatively fiddling around and experimenting, which then gracefully coalesces into the carefully constructed full idea. the lyrics of the first 2 vocal sections depict the primordial ocean, life mysteriously transitioning to land, and then becoming sentient. the intro is such gorgeous musical illustration of that imagery. its a rare, masterful blending of ideas from john cage (chance operations) and romantic song structure. this really explains why!
echoes is right there with anything the classical composers like mozart ever did-if you look at the arrangement ....picture it like this a huge ballon filling with air to splendor and then slowly deflating --for me the song evokes a palette of emotions but all connected and if they had to do it again they just play it like it already because its perfect art
A lot of this rings true with my experience. "RIGHT on the edge of feeding back", as Gilmour says (1:13), I've found, that volume level is indeed where things can get quite special. Also, Rick saying it was the very first note he sat and plunked, that sounded best - I believe it, that's often how creative endeavors work best!
Floyd fans know how talented Wright was but among casual fans he's overlooked somewhat. He was a superlative musician and an underrated vocalist. He and Gilmour's harmonies were sometimes beautiful. His death was a huge loss.
I Wish there was More of this video, obviously this didn't start at the beginning of their conversation, and I'm Sure there was Way More of it. So Awesome to watch this kind of Homey Unscripted sort of thing, Especially with Rick there!!!
Once i had a dream.... David called me and said" hey my friend, why don't you join us, sit around the table and have a drink with us ?"" That surely would have been the best day of my life with the birth of my children...RIP Rick
I love the concept of changing the name of the song from "Nothing" to "Something". They took a page from Syd's book with his infamous "Have You Got It Yet?".
