But Pink Floyd wouldnt have been Pink Floyd if [we] hadnt had Rick.
Because the sound of Pink Floyd is more than the guitar, bass, and drum thing.
Rick was the sound that knitted it all together.
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He had a very special style.
That was, I think, probably rathergroundbreaking in 1967.
What was he like on a personal level?
[Laughs] hewas very like…Rick!
He was by far the quietest of the band,right from day one.
And, I think, probably harder to get to know thanthe rest of us.
But after 40 years, we probably felt we did know himquite well.
We were just beginning to make inroads, perhaps.
You form a gang.
And so, to the outside world, you mounta united front.
The first meeting with Roger I wouldnt lendhim my car and Rick wouldnt give him a cigarette.
But hes beginning to get over it, we think.
What was he like back then?Exactly the same.
Of course,with the people you really know, no one changes that much.
Roger was arather sort of forbidding presence in 1962, and he hasnt changed atall.
Hes just got a bit more grizzled.
And Rick was the quiet onethen, as it was throughout.
He also wrote a fair amount of songs for the Floyd.Somethinglike Us and Them was absolutely a Rick piece.
Its almost that GeorgeHarrison thing.
You sort of forget that they did a lot more thanperhaps theyre given credit for.
Id rather talk about him, I think, than not.
