Richard Wright of Pink Floyd dead

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_on_en_mu/eu_britain_pink_floyd
 
He died of cancer at 65. As a Pink Floyd fan, I am a little depressed. I always think of these guys as being younger than the old geezers in the Beatles, Rolling Stones, or the Who. I guess they\'re not that much younger. I liked Wright\'s songwriting abilities and his contribution to the flavor of the classic PF sound.
 
I recently ordered both the Pink Floyd biography Comfortably Numb and the new book The Black Strat about David Gilmour\'s famous stratocaster.
http://www.amazon.com/Comfortably-Numb-Mark-Blake/dp/1568583834/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221511591&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Pink-Floyd-History-Gilmours-Stratocaster/dp/1423445597/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221511623&sr=1-1
 
Speaking of which, Fender finally released the David Gilmour signature model Stratocaster, but it\'s $4,000 for the new old stock version! (Even more for the "relic" aged version.) I think if I want a strat like that, I would save most of the money and build it myself.
http://www.fender.com/customshop/instruments/search.php?partno=0150068806

A loss indeed. Not much I can say about the awesomeness of Pink Floyd that hasn\'t been said time and time again. But aye it sucks.

[Titan]

That\'s a real shame. I love Pink Floyd. One of my favorite bands of all time. RIP.