“My piano has more significance than just making music with the Floyd. It’s been a therapy for me.”
Happy birthday, Richard Wright! 🩷
Reblogged callmemissodell
In different ways, both Syd Barrett and Rick Wright were let down by Pink Floyd. Neither really wanted to leave the group, yet both were forced to, leaving a nasty taste in the mouth, no matter how well Roger Waters and David Gilmour managed without them.
Oh, Syd was mad, though, wasn’t he…? Actually, he had never been required to take medication specifically for his mental health. There was some speculation that he might have suffered from Asperger’s syndrome, a developmental disorder on the autism spectrum. Classic symptoms include difficulty with social interactions and incorrectly interpreting social cues. Asperger’s sufferers are often highly intelligent, just unconcerned with anything that doesn’t directly affect them.
As for Wright, he was a victim of Waters’s ungovernable egotism, banished to the shadows after The Wall. Go back to those earliest Floyd recordings, though, and you’re reminded that neither Waters nor Gilmour had much to do with the musical mien of a group that, at its best, relished its outsider status, as evidenced by its two most fragile personalities: Barrett and Wright.
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In so many ways, Wright was the yin to Barrett’s yang; as pretty as Syd, but full of light where Syd was found by darkness, and almost as prolific on his fairy-tale keyboards and buttercup vocals as Syd was on his scribbly guitar and permanently astonished songs. And as easy to scare away when things finally got too much.
50 years of Floyd: Remembering Syd Barrett & Rick Wright – Loudersound.com, 12 August 2015
Reblogged glassfirefly
i think this is the purest thing ive ever drawn and it has cleansed my soul
Reblogged pinkvomit-1
Syd Barrett and Richard Wright performing at the UFO Club.
Reblogged alphitak
I was doodling yesterday and came across the Rick-In-The-Box. Thought he was adorable so I made a digital version :3
Hello everyone! Hope you all had a great Valentine's Day!! Here are the results of the dating game!!
The winner was...Date #2!!! Who was our lovely David Gilmour! ;)
Date 1 was Syd Barrett
Date 2 was David Gilmour
Date 3 was Rick Wright
Date 4 was Nick Mason
and Date 5 was Roger Waters!
Thank you all for playing!!!
The Valentine's Day Pink Floyd Dating Game
Welcome back to the Pink Floyd dating game! The boys had a great time with you the last two times, and they are just dying to spend Valentine's Day together! What do you say? Would you like to spend the day with them?
They've written out their dream dates. All you need to do is pick your favorite!
Take a peek behind the curtain?
(Y/N?)
Y