Montag, 15. September 2008

Rick Wright ist tot!


Eine furchtbare Nachricht erreicht uns heute: Richard Wright, ist tot. Wright ist 65-jährig nach einem Kampf gegen den Krebs gestorben! Ich weiß gar nicht was ich schreiben soll!
No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.

In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick's enormous input was frequently forgotten.

He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound.
I have never played with anyone quite like him. The blend of his and my voices and our musical telepathy reached their first major flowering in 1971 on 'Echoes'. In my view all the greatest PF moments are the ones where he is in full flow. After all, without 'Us and Them' and 'The Great Gig In The Sky', both of which he wrote, what would 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' have been? Without his quiet touch the Album 'Wish You Were Here' would not quite have worked.

In our middle years, for many reasons he lost his way for a while, but in the early Nineties, with 'The Division Bell', his vitality, spark and humour returned to him and then the audience reaction to his appearances on my tour in 2006 was hugely uplifting and it's a mark of his modesty that those standing ovations came as a huge surprise to him, (though not to the rest of us).

Like Rick, I don't find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously.

David Gilmour
15. September 2008

Freitag, 5. September 2008

Die 90 Besten Pink Floyd Songs!

Vielen dank für die rege Beteiligung! Aus den 20 Lieblings Songs von Pink Floyd nach denen ich euch gefragt habe ist jetzt eine Liste mit über 90 Songs geworden! Auf den ersten 3 Rängen gibt es eigentlich keine Überraschung! "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" ist der beste Pink Floyd Song zumindest für heute, gefolgt von "Echoes" und "Comfortably Numb". Interessant finde ich, dass es "Time" so weit, auf Platz 5 nach vor geschafft hat! Von Animals ist mit "Dogs", "Pigs" und "Sheep" beinahe das komplette Album in den Top 20 vertreten.

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond - London Earls Court 20.10.1994


Die Besten Pink Floyd Songs:
  1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
  2. Echoes
  3. Comfortably Numb
  4. Dogs
  5. Time
  6. Wish You Were Here
  7. Atom Heart Mother
  8. Astronomy Domine
  9. High Hopes
  10. Fat Old Sun
  11. Pigs (3 Different Ones)
  12. Brain Damage
  13. One Of These Days
  14. Hey You
  15. Welcome to the Machine
  16. Eclipsed - Marooned
  17. Us and them
  18. Set the controls for the Heart of the Sun
  19. Sheep - Breathe
  20. The Great Gig In The Sky
  21. Careful with that Axe, Eugene
  22. Money
  23. Cymbaline - The Fletcher Memorial Home
  24. The Gunners Dream
  25. Run like hell
  26. Wots Uh .. The Deal
  27. On the turning away
  28. Mother
  29. Have A Cigar
  30. Sorrow
  31. Childhoods End
  32. Obscured by Clouds
  33. If
  34. Green Is The Colour - Another Brick in the Wall Pt2
  35. Nobody Home
  36. In The Flesh
  37. A Great Day For Freedom - The Final Cut
  38. Cluster One
  39. When The Tigers Broke Free - When you are in
  40. The Fletcher Memorial Home - Pigs On The Wing
  41. Arnold layne
  42. Stay
  43. Waiting for the Worms
  44. On The Run
  45. Two Suns in the Sunset - Empty Spaces - Summer 68 - Coming Back to Life
  46. Poles apart -Wearing The Inside Out - Interstellar Overdrive - On The Run
  47. Any Colour You Like - Speak To Me
  48. A Saucerful Of Secrets
  49. The Embryo - Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
  50. Paint Box
  51. Julia Dream
  52. Breathe Reprise - Pigs On The Wing - San Tropez - Free Four
  53. Nobody Home
  54. Fearless
  55. Mudmen
  56. Goodbye Blue Sky - Let There Be More Light - Southampton Dock - Dont leave Me Now - Seamus
  57. One Of My Turns
  58. Keep Talking - The Narrow Way - Signs Of Life
  59. Is There Anybody Out There? - Jugband Blues
  60. Vera
  61. The Nile Song - Your Possible Pasts - Take It Back
  62. Learning to Fly -Terminal Frost - Bike -Alans Psychedelic Breakfast - The Trial