Talk:Richard Wright (musician)

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Contents 1 Personal Problems 2 Equipment 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Broken china.jpg 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Gilmour concert.jpg 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Rick wright wet.jpg 6 Need a current picture 7 Is Nick Mason a prolific songwriter?

[edit] Personal Problems

The article on Roger Waters: "It was while recording The Wall that Waters with the agreement of Gilmour decided to fire Wright, after his personal problems (the lyric "...silver spoon on a chain" is a reference to Wright) began to affect the album production." Why aren't these personal problems mentioned in Wright's article, if they exist?

Always wondered why Rick agreed to come back as a session musician for The Wall. If I was in a band who'd done that, I'd tell told them to f^£k right off! Martyn Smith 18:23, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Its a fair point. According to the recently published book (Comfortably Numb) on the Pink Floyd by Mark Blake, he was basically in denial and hoping that him playing would convince the others to keep him in the band.. It was a very unhappy time for the band, what with being in debt because of the Norton Warburg disaster, which forced them to have to leave the country for tax purposes. Rick was also going through a seperation and I think he just wanted to be out of the situation (being in the group) anyway

Nick Mason said in the BBC Omnibus documentary that the Floyds attitude towards a problem was to just ignore it and not deal with it (though he was talking about the Syd situation). I guess thats how they dealt with one of the founding members being dismissed out of hand and Waters beginning to dominate the group lyrically and musically

[edit] Equipment

The ARP Quadra was also mentioned in Peter Forrest synthesizer book, but I don't no if Rick really played it. The instrument was produced since 1978/ 1979. That means that he only could used it on The Wall. But his main synth at this time was the Prophet 5. And Rick Wright never had towers of synths around him in the Seventies. Mostly just two at one time!

There's a claim that Wright did not play on The Wall at all: "The people who would eventually end up playing keyboards on The Wall: Rick Wright (keyboards, synthesizers & Hammond B3 organ), Bob Ezrin (keyboards), David Gilmour (keyboards), Freddie Mandell (Hammond B3 organ) and Peter Wood (keyboards). Most of the fans would only find out four years later when Wright's name did not appear in the credits of the follow-up album The Final Cut." http://www.dprp.net/proghistory/index.php?i=1979_012 If this is accurate, then even if Wright was using a Quadra at the time, it's not on that record! VisitorTalk 06:07, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Wasn't he born in 1945?

Well, Martyn Smith, he needed money to survive, right? Imadofus 03:59, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Rick was in a difficult financial situation during the time of The Wall, as was the entire band because they got screwed over royally by their investment company (the founder of whom eventually went to jail.) Plus, Rick wanted the Wall tour to be a final farewell for him. In the end Rick had the last laugh because he's the only one to make money off the tour. He was paid to play each show as a sideman while Roger, David and Nick all had to pay out of their own pockets for the financial loss of the massive concerts.

And although most sources say Rick was born in 1943, some extremely reliable sources say 1945. Until Rick actually clears this up in his own words, I don't think we'll ever know for sure.King Tarkus

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Broken china.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Gilmour concert.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Rick wright wet.jpg

Image:Rick wright wet.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Need a current picture

The article needs a present day picture of Wright. VisitorTalk 05:50, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is Nick Mason a prolific songwriter?

It is mentioned that Rick Wright is not as prolific songwriter as Nick Mason. If I'm correct, Nick does not have more songwriting credits in the Pink Floyd catalogue than Rick who has quite a few...