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In reply to the discussion: NAME a band that "went synth" and got BETTER. We KNOW Rush wasn't that band. But NAME one! [View all]harmonicon
(12,008 posts)23. Rick Wright was the secret force behind that band.
You may or may not know that half of the vocals on "Comfortably Numb" are sung by him.
I think their earliest stuff (first two albums, but especially early singles - check out "Relics" if you haven't) is the best. Wright wrote "paint box" which I think is one of their greatest songs, including the Barrett ones. On their later albums, it was him providing a lot of the glue holding the group together.
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NAME a band that "went synth" and got BETTER. We KNOW Rush wasn't that band. But NAME one! [View all]
Amerigo Vespucci
May 2012
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"You only have to listen to solo ... to know that Pink Floyd were more than the sum of their parts"
fishwax
May 2012
#40
Believe it ot not, I know of them...very well...but have never heard them.
Amerigo Vespucci
May 2012
#14
99% of the praise for Antenna was "thank God they've backed off on the synths."
Amerigo Vespucci
May 2012
#9