Richard Wright: The Great Gig In The Sky

Another Brick Out of Wall

Wright, who played the keyboard and wrote music for classic albums The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, died aged 65 after a short battle with cancer.

Speaking shortly after his death was announced, Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour said his musical partner and friend was "gentle, unassuming and private".

He added: "His soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound.

"Like Rick, I don't find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously.

"I have never played with anyone quite like him."

In the early days of Pink Floyd, Wright was seen as the group's dominant musical force, composing masterpieces such as The Great Gig In The Sky, and Us And Them.

"Without Us And Them and The Great Gig In The Sky, what would The Dark Side Of The Moon have been?" Gilmour said.

"Without his quiet touch the album Wish You Were Here would not quite have worked.

"In my view all the greatest PF moments are the ones where he is in full flow."

London-born Wright mastered the trombone, saxophone, guitar and piano in his teenage years, and had hoped to emulate Miles Davis and John Coltrane, before enrolling in architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic.

There he met fellow band mates Roger Waters and Nick Mason, and they went on to form the Pink Floyd Sound in 1965.

Their first studio album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was released in 1967.

After tensions with Waters, Wright left the band shortly after recording sessions for The Wall in 1979.

He released two solo albums including Broken China in 1996, but they never attracted the band's level of critical acclaim.

Gilmour said that the musician had "lost his way for a while" during that time.

He officially returned to the band in 1987, playing the keyboards and adding vocals to the A Momentary Lapse Of Reason album.

"In the early 90s, with The Division Bell, his vitality, spark and humour returned to him," Gilmour said.

Wright performed on every Pink Floyd tour and played with the surviving members of the band at Live 8 in 2005.

His performances during those times were "uplifting", Gilmour said.

"It's a mark of his modesty that those standing ovations came as a huge surprise to him, (though not to the rest of us)," he said

XCUSE ME

XCUSE ME

Starving:
I'm hungry now. Too tired to walk. Nothing left for my boy to nurse. Can you see me here?
Fed:
I'm sorry, but no time right now. I have to take my children to their shiny sc hool after their pancake breakfast.
Starving:
Do you see my boy. My heart is broken afresh every day that I cannot feed him. Fed:
Sorry? What was that? I'm late you know. Have to go. We'll chat later.
Starving:
Somehow I have to walk another 15 miles. It's said there's water there. Can you see me here?
Fed:
No time, no time, I have back to back meetings today. Important business, important plannings.
Starving:
Perhaps your wife then?
Fed:
Oh no, no no. She's busy, booked up with chores and errands and things we need.
Starving:
Oh.
Fed:
Now don't be that way. We help, you know.
Starving:
How? Do you mind if my boy and I lie down now. We're very tired.
Fed:
(wiping hands) Er, um, of course. Well, we give. Money. To charity. Starving: We don't want your money.
Fed:
It's not our fault, you know. Starving: We don't care whose fault it is. We're just hungry. And sick.
Fed:
I don't have time for this right now. I have important planning to do. Starving: We don't want your time.
Fed:
I'll help tomorrow. That's what. I'll book 5 minutes for you at one. Starving: We can't make it.
Fed:
What?
Starving:
We're dead at 6:00 today.
Fed:
Oh. It's not my fault you know.
Starving:
I still don't care.
Fed:
I'm doing important work here. You'll see.
Starving:
Not us. We won't.
Fed:
Well, those after you. Next year. We're making some beautiful buildings. They'll change things.
Starving:
When? Not for us.
Fed:
You'll see. Well those after you. Our buildings will bring in only the best people. Only the best. They're the ones.
Starving:
We need you. Now.
Fed:
No time today. No time. Important meetings, plannings. What was it you wanted? Starving:
Just a glass of milk. For my boy. So he can die without his stomach hurting.

An unidentified child carrying an empty plate of food stands outside a house

Ailing 15 year old Hussein Nuru arrived a week ago with his mother, Jamila Ilhoro and baby brother. The family had to walk for 4 hours to get to the Therapeutic Feeding Center. Husseins father, sick at home for the past year, is unable to provide food for the family.

Child hunger

The International Food Policy Research Institute shows that 40 per cent of the world's underweight children under five live in India. Add disadvantaged groups like the poor and women who have a hard time feeding themselves and you get 400 million people. Priests and activists point the finger at corruption and bad governance.

Dozens of illegal slums serving as monuments to misery, neighborhoods with barnyard animals and mucky kids in the streets were no longer the homes of a thrifty working class, but embarrassing eyesores.

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.

God bring long-term change in the lives of people.

People are literally starving to death. In some cases people have gone searching for food on the mountain and eaten poisonous plants and died.

Through all of this we are reminded that God is in control and our main focus still needs to be on getting the gospel to these people.

A researcher named Kris Kaspersky claims to have found a way to hack into any computer with an Intel processor at its core, independent of the operating system running on the system. Kaspersky claims to have found a way for an attacker to take control of an Intel-based system by using JavaScript and TCP/IP.
For those of you who would like the technical details, here is the basic rundown. Many processors contain bugs, known as errata, which can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler. As of now, there are plenty of bugs in Intel processors, though they are not noticeable since they do not affect processing abilities, they are a major security risk nonetheless. While some may just crash the system or give full control of the system, some others may attack just Vista, disabling all security restrictions. Manufacturers (like Intel and AMD) try to patch these bugs by providing solutions in the BIOS but sometimes vendors do not implement the latest BIOS, making the system vulnerable. Kaspersky, who opened this can of worms, has promised to tell all but at his terms. These terms are the stage and the nature of the revelation.

Stage:

Hack in the box security conference at Kuala Lumpur

Time:

October

Nature of revelation:

An attack on Intel based computers running the latest patched versions of Windows (XP,Vista,Server 2003,Server 2008), Linux and BSD at the conference and public distribution of the attack code. Well for those of you running Intel computers here's something for you to watch out for in the future

SUN's new 'Datacentre in a Box'
" S E X Y "

an all-weather, indoor/outdoor, instant-on, datacentre inside a shipping container.

It's a simply briliant design - it uses less power, much less space and it's fully recycable and refurbishable, with a commitment from Sun for responsible disposal.

Now they should publish the design as an open standard of some sort, to encourage everyone to make these things so you don't have to be a Sun shop to reap the benefits.

• Project Blackbox will give customers the flexibility to move applications to optimal locations to take advantage of lower energy rates, avoid power outages, and tap cheaper, greener energy.
• Customers who select a configuration with the Sun Fire CoolThreads technology-based servers will save about $1,000 a year per Sun Fire T2000 or Sun Fire T1000 server in energy costs, in addition to cost savings provided by the container's cooling advantage over existing datacenter implementations.
• Sun will extend its electronic waste and hazardous material leadership by taking back Project Blackbox containers and their systems for upgrading, reuse, recycling, or responsible disposal.

Pictory is the newest segment my Blog too .
A pictory is the short form for ”A story in a Picture”.
In this segment we will pick an issue related to our society and discuss it objectively to enhance our comprehension of the world.

It is the kind of line to prick a newspaper editor's conscience. Early in his new book, The End of Poverty, Professor Jeffrey Sachs comments that every day our newspapers could report "more than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty". But it doesn't work that way. The story is too big for the news.

The death of more than 20,000 people on a single day would be one of the most momentous stories of the year - full of heartbreak and horror, particularly as so many of the victims were children.

The headlines would be massive, the news coverage extensive, the analysis compelling and in the days ahead, the letters page would be full of reader feedback.

But because this event happens every day of the year, for complex reasons that are hard to solve, it makes little news.

The problem with worldwide poverty and the unimaginable death toll, is that it is happening everywhere, all the time.

There is no sudden trigger or cause. It is a disaster without a single cataclysmic event. No single site of the tragedy. A mundane horror.

Jimi Hendrix’s torched guitar to sell for £500,000 at auction
July 17, 2008
London, July 17
( The first guitar to ever be torched by late American guitarist Jimi Hendrix is expected to fetch at least 500,000 pounds when it goes under the hammer.
Hendrix torched the guitar during a gig in 1967, when he poured lighter fuel over the 1965 Fender Stratocaster and then lighted it.
While he got treatment for his burns, his pal Tony Garland retrieved the guitar – and it landed up in his garage for 41 years.
Garland had later stored the instrument at his parents’ garage in Hove, East Sussex, where his nephew found it last year.
“The owner had forgotten he had it. When he found it he thought, ‘Bloody hell, I remember what that is.’ He thought it might be worth £10,000,” the Sun quoted rock memorabilia expert Ted Owen as saying.
The guitar, which made history at the Finsbury Astoria, North London, was one of several Hendrix burned and will be auctioned at the Idea Generation Gallery, East London, in September.
Other lots include Jim Morrison’s last notebook and a song-sheet of USA For Africa’s ‘We are the World’ signed by Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan. (ANI)

Hurricane Norman Blows Out

10 Mar 2008
We are sad to report the passing, on Monday 3rd March, of early Pink Floyd producer Norman Smith, who went on to have hits in his own right as 'Hurricane Smith'.

An EMI engineer who had worked closely with George Martin on the Beatles recordings at Abbey Road, Norman was the designated producer when EMI signed Pink Floyd in 1967, replacing Joe Boyd, who had produced Arnold Layne independently. Norman acted as producer on the early Pink Floyd recordings, including The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and A Saucerful Of Secrets, ceding production control as the band gradually took over, culminating in his Executive Producer credit for Atom Heart Mother.

Norman's other production work included one of the first rock concept albums, S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things, while he also developed a role as a solo singing star: using the pseudonym 'Hurricane Smith', he had his first of three UK Top 40 singles in 1971. His self-penned composition Oh Babe What Would You Say? was originally a song demo, which Mickie Most decided was good enough as it was; in 1972 it went to No. 3 in the U.S. Chart and No. 4 in the UK.

In recent years, he had been working on an expanded version of his book John Lennon Called Me Normal, which covered his career, including his time working at Abbey Road Studios.



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Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,
They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home.
Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone ya when you're walkin' 'long the street.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to keep your seat.
They'll stone ya when you're walkin' on the floor.
They'll stone ya when you're walkin' to the door.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

"I think there's a whole region of images and feelings inside us that rarely are given outlet in daily life. And when they do come out, they can take perverse forms. It's the dark side. Everyone, when he sees it, recognizes the same thing in himself. It's a recognition of forces that rarely see the light of day. The more civilized we get on the surface, the more the other forces make their plea."

We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
But can you still recall
The time we cried

"What we think or what we know or what we
believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do."

I want to know God's thoughts;
the rest are details.

If I were to sleep, I could dream.
If I were afraid, I could hide.
If I go insane, please don't put
Your wires in my brain.

As good as you've been to this world

So good I wanna be right back to you.

As good as you've been now,

As good as you've been to this whole wide world,

So good I wanna be.

As good as you've been now, say,

As good as you've been to this whole wide world,

As good as you've been, babe,

So good I wanna be here.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by
every experience in which you really stop to
look fear in the face.  You must do the thing which
you think you cannot do.

We have to face the fact that either
all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

No work....It is a boring day...got to get busy.........somehow...dont know how....

As for me... I am blind without a cause

And now I reazlied what I have lost

It was something real that I could have had

Now I play the fool whose stable soul's gone bad

Got a crazy feeling I don't understand
'Gotta get away from here
Feelin' like I should have kept my feet on the ground
Waitin' for the sun to appear
Mamma's gonna worry
I've been a bad, bad boy

No use sayin' sorry
It's something that I enjoy

If i Could have Many Wishes and If wishes Did Come True,Then..

I Wont be Here,Infact ..

Is there anybody out there?


Is there anybody out there?



Is there anybody out there?




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wish that i have some respect in this world,i wish that people in this world can never hurt others,i wish that everyone in this world luv eachother,i wish that people who luv me can also understand my feelings,i wish that someone can respect my thoughts and feelings,i wish so much that now its all turn to a world which is MY IMAGINARY WORLD.It's so un real now that we cant think of getting such things in real so we can have rights to live in our own Imaginary World,where we live on our own.We have rights to do anything.It is our Dream World.

Well, the clock says it's time to close now
I guess I'd better go now
I'd really like to stay here all night

The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes
Street lights share their hollow glow
Your brain seems bruised with numb surprise

Still one place to go
Still one place to go

Despair is a major reason why some people in the extreme moments of their lives seek assistance in dying.They want no more. They want out. They are
not depressed. Wonder drugs will not help them. They simply have a realistic appreciation
of their situation, and it is terrible. They despair of this life, and want to move on.
Hopelessness is one form of despair.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

Freedom, so I can give
Freedom, yeah
Freedom, that's what I need

You don't have to say that you love
if you don't mean it
You'd better believe
If you need me
or you just wanna bleed me
you'd better stickin' your dagger in someone else
So I can leave

It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here

And I'm much obliged to you for making it clear That I'm not here.

NO MAN'S LAND

You would hold your head up high

you even try

you would hold another hand:

oh understand!

They even see me under call

we under all,

we awful, awful, crawl

to hear my hour

come see me cry...

Just searching you even try

I can make you smile

if it's there will you go there too?

When I live I die!

They even see me under call

we under all, we awful, awful, crawl

because of you, to see me be.

A New Day Yesterday !!