Pink Floyd's Rick Wright dies

[Wolter]

I think I may be the biggest Floyd fan here with Flex, based on most posts about the group, and I'm quite depressed today.

Solidarity, KP.

Hey, count me in. I listed PinkFloyd as my religion on my college applications.

Oh yeah, as usual BBE knows the score. CK is a fan too. That's a pretty good endorsing coalition, methinks.

Anyways, played Ummagumma for the first time in a while today. It was a pretty somber listen to Sysyphus...

I like Meddle and Animals the best. I'm not too big on the 60s stuff but it's interesting for sure. They really found their legs with the More soundtrack and Atom Heart Mother and grew and changed from there in a very interesting way. Check Gilmore's first solo record, good stuff and I think Wright plays on it.

I like their 60 stuff, Meddle and Animals, actually. I went through an anti-Floyd phase, but that phase also coincided a lot with being anti-Beatles, so I think it was just pure Punk Rawk rejectionism.

[BostonBeaneater]

Solidarity, KP.

Hey, count me in. I listed PinkFloyd as my religion on my college applications.

Oh yeah, as usual BBE knows the score. CK is a fan too. That's a pretty good endorsing coalition, methinks.

Anyways, played Ummagumma for the first time in a while today. It was a pretty somber listen to Sysyphus...

I like Meddle and Animals the best. I'm not too big on the 60s stuff but it's interesting for sure. They really found their legs with the More soundtrack and Atom Heart Mother and grew and changed from there in a very interesting way. Check Gilmore's first solo record, good stuff and I think Wright plays on it.

I like their 60 stuff, Meddle and Animals, actually. I went through an anti-Floyd phase, but that phase also coincided a lot with being anti-Beatles, so I think it was just pure Punk Rawk rejectionism.

I'm with you on the Punk rejectionism thing. I'm over it. I can fall in love with the dumbest pop diddy now. I like to think of being a punk as rejecting the confines of of cliques and rejecting the concept of posing to be cool. The whole irony of punk is that it became what it was sort of intended to reject.

[tepista]

I like ...... Animals the best.

I love the lyric "Ha ha, Charade you are" so I'll sit through 10 minutes of "Pigs" just to hear it.

[eumaas]

Animals is my fave.

RIP.

[BostonBeaneater]

I like ...... Animals the best.

I love the lyric "Ha ha, Charade you are" so I'll sit through 10 minutes of "Pigs" just to hear it.

I think it was Chris who made the point about Animals and The Clash (ST) both coming out in 1977. Both records are a rage against the prevailing order and both are angry records. Funny how the sets of fans were so damn different.

[tepista]

Funny how the sets of fans were so damn different.

Coke vs Speed?

edit* or should that be pot vs speed?

[Wolter]

Hey, count me in. I listed PinkFloyd as my religion on my college applications.

Oh yeah, as usual BBE knows the score. CK is a fan too. That's a pretty good endorsing coalition, methinks.

Anyways, played Ummagumma for the first time in a while today. It was a pretty somber listen to Sysyphus...

I like Meddle and Animals the best. I'm not too big on the 60s stuff but it's interesting for sure. They really found their legs with the More soundtrack and Atom Heart Mother and grew and changed from there in a very interesting way. Check Gilmore's first solo record, good stuff and I think Wright plays on it.

I like their 60 stuff, Meddle and Animals, actually. I went through an anti-Floyd phase, but that phase also coincided a lot with being anti-Beatles, so I think it was just pure Punk Rawk rejectionism.

I'm with you on the Punk rejectionism thing. I'm over it. I can fall in love with the dumbest pop diddy now. I like to think of being a punk as rejecting the confines of of cliques and rejecting the concept of posing to be cool. The whole irony of punk is that it became what it was sort of intended to reject.

There is a line about Zen that (and this is a massive paraphrase) says when you study Zen, your perception of the world around you and the objects and concepts of your life are turned upside down, but when you master Zen you see the world the way you did before. I feel the same way about punk. I'm glad I went through it, but I'm glad that I shed its confines.

[eumaas]

There is a line about Zen that (and this is a massive paraphrase) says when you study Zen, your perception of the world around you and the objects and concepts of your life are turned upside down, but when you master Zen you see the world the way you did before. I feel the same way about punk. I'm glad I went through it, but I'm glad that I shed its confines.

I smell the stink of Zen about you.

But you're completely correct.

EDIT: we return to the face before we were born.

[Marky Dread]

What's more dangerous "We don't need no education" or "Your future dream is a shopping scheme" I know which I find more anarchic. Like many during the punk years I wouldn't listen to the so called uncool bands and then I heard "Animals" and thought fuck this cheese without pickle is just not on.

[BostonBeaneater]

What's more dangerous "We don't need no education" or "Your future dream is a shopping scheme" I know which I find more anarchic. Like many during the punk years I wouldn't listen to the so called uncool bands and then I heard "Animals" and thought fuck this cheese without pickle is just not on.

I never bought punk being about anarchy, that was just window dressing to me anyway. Though he turned into a bit of a self agrandising fraud, Jello put it best, "Punk ain't no religious cult/Punk means thinking for yourself".

[eumaas]

Punk wasn't really about true anarchy until folks like Colin Jerwood showed up.

[Marky Dread]

Punk wasn't really about true anarchy until folks like Colin Jerwood showed up.

Just a load of conflict to me.

[Wolter]

Punk wasn't really about true anarchy until folks like Colin Jerwood showed up.

Just a load of conflict to me.

This thread drift is crass, let's discharge it before a flux of pink indians come in and show us their rudimentary peni.

[Marky Dread]

No you'll ruin it for everyone with your penis envy.

[Wolter]

No you'll ruin it for everyone with your penis envy.

Hey, no envy here, I could feed 5000