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A Sad Day for Floyd Freaks
Sep 15, 2008 | 9:55 PM
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Richard Wright of the rock group Pink Floyd passed away today at age 65. Wright was the keyboardist and wrote the song "Us and Them" which appeared on the 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon".

A sad day for Floyd fans worldwide.
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mmustangg read my blog view my photos
Sep 16, 2008 | 5:44 AM

Today, Pink Floyd fans are comfortably numb. I only saw them live once. It was the Delicate Sounds of Thunder tour at Tampa Stadium. Great show!
MoonOwl read my blog view my photos
Sep 16, 2008 | 8:24 AM

Two ways to know we're getting olde:

1. Our heroes are now being played in elevators

2. Our heroes are dying more frequently.

Hey, now Mr. Wright knows what the Dark Side of the Moon really looks like....

My sincere condolences FloydFreak.

AnotherBrickInTheWall
yellowdog read my blog view my photos
Sep 16, 2008 | 9:45 AM

Me too Freak. It's a bad day when a pinko of any kind checks out.
MoonOwl read my blog view my photos
Sep 16, 2008 | 9:54 AM

hehehehehehe.... beautiful...
My_Louie read my blog view my photos
Sep 16, 2008 | 9:55 AM

Sorry :( Mr Freak...
bozey45
Sep 16, 2008 | 11:48 AM

I fail to see the sadness in the passing of any 60's or 70's drugged out so-called rock star. Most are victims of their own doing of the past 40 or so years. So what's the big deal??? The family might be sad today; why anyone else is a mystery to me.
yellowdog read my blog view my photos
Sep 16, 2008 | 12:30 PM

Come on boozy, have a heart...our Pal Freak is heartbroken and you are not much help...are you a closet RWNJ ?
aschelan read my blog view my photos
Sep 16, 2008 | 8:32 PM

I feel for you Floyd. Floyd is one of my all time favorite bands, I still have all my records along with the attached posters and stickers.

He is in the Great Gig in the Sky now.... One heck of a band up there.
FloydFreak read my blog view my photos
Sep 17, 2008 | 5:59 AM

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, bozey. But I feel sorry for you.

'stangg: I saw them in Tampma Stadium in 1977 on their Animals tour (I still have my $8.50 ticket stub). Saw them twice on the '87/'88 tour - Tampa in October and Orlando the following April then again in '94.

So many great memories are conjured up while listening to their music - and, for me, that is what music is all about. I find it rather a shame that, aside from Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, and a few tunes from The Wall, their work did not get much airplay.

For a blast from the past, look for a tune called "Paint Box" which was written by Wright. It's on an album called "Relics".

You're right on, aschelan. Rock 'n' Roll Heaven.
DeborahLakeHelen read my blog view my photos
Sep 17, 2008 | 10:19 AM

Very sad indeed. I'm glad there is light on "The Dark Side Of The Moon"! "The sun is the same, in a relative way, but you're older, shorter of breath, one day closer to death..." Aren't we all!
You too, bozey. Isn't there some music YOU relate(d) to, something that touched your heart or made you think, when you were growing up?
leasheryn read my blog
Sep 17, 2008 | 8:22 PM

Sorry to hear this, Floyd. I was a bit youngish to be a Floyd Freak and only know a few of their songs, Another Brick in the Wall and Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here but I can feel for you. I guess Boozey won't realize what a drag it is when our old favorites start to leave to this world but figure you'll understand when it's your generation.
I'm just a bit younger than Floyd, but my generation of music is much different. I know many of the 70s bands but mine was the 80s. In a few years, they'll start to pop off too. No pun intended.
Apap read my blog
Sep 18, 2008 | 8:44 PM

I caught this thread a little late but this is a true loss.
Hopefully he is with "Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict".(my personal favorite)
DamianXaviarStone read my blog view my photos
Sep 23, 2008 | 12:40 AM

Rest in Peace Richard Wright! (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008)
Rest in Peace Syd Barret! (6 January 1946 - 7 July 2006)
Respectfully, Damian Stone!
Arky51 read my blog view my photos
Sep 23, 2008 | 12:52 PM

My condolences, too, Ol Buddy.

bozey45, I'm not much on Politically Correct and Sensitivity, and all that.  So, I won't lecture along those lines.  You would probably tell me to butt out, since you have never done anything "wrong" in your life.

I will just say to you what I am sure you heard your Mother and your Grandmother say TO YOU

. . . "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all!"
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