Pink Floyd drummer has joined with David Gilmour in sharing his sadness over the death of his band-mate Richard Wright.
Mason and Wright were founding members of Pink Floyd.In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Mason called Wright “the George Harrison of Pink Floyd”. “Something like "Us and Them" was absolutely a Rick piece. It’s almost that George Harrison thing. You sort of forget that they did a lot more than perhaps they’re given credit for,” he said.
Mason shared an insight into why Roger Waters is the outcast of the band. “I have to say that I think a number of our memories have to do with the ways that we all dealt with money. The first meeting with Roger I wouldn’t lend him my car and Rick wouldn’t give him a cigarette. And really we just carried on exactly like that for the next 40 years”.
He said that Wright was the soul of the band. “Pink Floyd wouldn’t have been Pink Floyd if [we] hadn’t had Rick. I think there’s a feeling now ? particularly after all the warfare that went on with Roger and David trying to make clear what their contribution was ? that perhaps Rick rather got pushed into the background. Because the sound of Pink Floyd is more than the guitar, bass, and drum thing. Rick was the sound that knitted it all together”.
Rick Wright died after a short fight with cancer on September 15. He was 65 years old.
