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Richard Wright, the astounding pianist of Pink Floyd died today after a short fight with cancer. His music was brilliant.

There was a movie made many years ago during Pink Floyd's meteoric rise to stardom called Zabriskie Point meant to be a counterculture film. Pink Floyd was brought in to make the score for it. The movie flopped. But one track that wasn't used in the film stayed in the back of the band's mind. It was called "The Violent Sequence" in which protesters and rioters were violently attacked during a demonstration. The music is eerily calm. It's slow and methodical, and above all else, painfully sad.

It was not chosen for the film because the director felt the song was brilliant but it was just too sad. You have to hear the song for yourself, and I know of no commercial release that includes it, so I'll post a link to it: [link] Listen to it and imagine the most horrific things possible. It could have been magical. And later the band couldn't simply let Wright's striking masterpiece go to waste.

"The Violent Sequence" from the Zabriskie Point recordings formed the basis for one of the most powerful songs Pink Floyd ever produced: "Us and Them" [link] which is intended to bring about the same feelings "The Violent Sequence" was supposed to evoke.

The loss of Rick Wright is the loss of a brilliant musician. There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.