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The Great Gig In The Sky (A la memoria de Richard Wright)

Seguro les extraniara de que escriba algo serio, asi es. Ayer Lunes 15 de Septiembre me he enterado que el misterio de la muerte ha caido sobre otro grupo legendario. Hasta hace algunos meses me encontraba emocionado debido a la posible reunion de Pink Floyd [y de posible gira mundial (rumores que cada dia comenzaban a tomar fuerza)].

En Julio del 2005 durante el concierto Live 8 nos deleitamos con la energia, la emocion, los nervios y esa sentimiento extranio (que te da una tranquilidad "euforica"), que reflejeaban 4 personajes, que depues de 25 anios se juntaban en un escenario, y crearon un moustro llamado originalmente The Pink Floyd Sound. Eso, todos sabemos que es el Pink Floyd Sound. Ahora no mas.

Richard Wirght, murio a los 65 anios de cancer, es lo unico que se ha informado y los detalles no han querido ser revelados. Quizas no fue tan reconocido como los demas y ellos lo sabian, Gilmour al respecto dice -

"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 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."

Lo recordaremos con creaciones muy apasionantes como Mudmen & Stay (ambas del disco "Obscured by Clouds"). Su gran aportacion experimental a: A Saurceful of Secrets, y la siempre calida y esperanzadora See-Saw ambas del disco A Saurceful of Secrets. Su aportacion a canciones epicas como, Atom hearth Mother, Echoes y Shine on!. Su sello de calidad en The Great Gig In The Sky y Marooned. Su solo en Sheep, su rola fresona pero que habla de una puta Summer '68, y lo que yo creo fueron sus obras maestras en Pink Floyd Sound y definio eso Sysphus I-IV del disco Ummagumma. Ademas de que su interpretacion era simpre muy sentimental y calido, como lo fue Crumbling Land.