Rick Wright, the keyboard player with Pink Floyd just died.
To me, he was the George Harrison of the Floyd, and vastly underrated, while at the same time hugely influential. People raved about Waters' songwriting, and Dave Gilmours' guitar playing, but Rick Wrights' atmospheric space-rock keyboards where the heart and soul of that band, especially on "Dark Side of the Moon" and "Wish You Were Here". When he did contribute, compositionally, the results were often classic songs.
I was never a huge Floyd fan, certain songs notwithstanding, but I loved his tasteful and understated playing and textures, and the fact that he rejected the muscular pyrotechnics of a Jobson, Wakeman or Emerson, even though he was abundantly capable of doing that. His sound was unique, and continues, to this day, to be copied and borrowed, and the Floyd would not have been anywhere close to the band it became without him.
This song was one of his:
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