Rick Wrights style fused jazz, neoclassical and experimental music influences, which complemented the simple harmonic structures of the more blues and folk-based songs of Roger Waters and David Gilmour. As a keyboardist, he was more interested in complementing each piece with organ or synthesizer layers and tasteful piano or electric piano passages. Unlike his contemporaries Rick Wakeman, Tony Banks or Keith Emerson, he opted for solo playing only occasionally, notably in Atom Heart Mother, Echoes, Any Colour You Like, Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1–5 and 6–9, Welcome to the Machine, Dogs, Run Like Hell and Keep Talking. Rick was known for his ghostly, atmospheric textures such as the Leslie piano arpeggios at the beginning of Echoes, the echoed Farfisa Organ in the live versions of Careful with That Axe, Eugene and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, the distinctive Minimoog solo in Shine On You Crazy Diamond and the Wurlitzer passages in Money, Time and the Fender Rhodes riffs in Sheep. In A Saucerful of Secrets and Sysyphus he experimented with treated piano. Sysyphus also made extensive use of Mellotron sounds, something of a rarity in the Pink Floyd canon. #RickWright #PinkFloyd #Proggers
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:15:02 +0000
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