Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here Page #3

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Because the Records, you know, the very Records Were Good.

Dark Side was just a such a sort of thing.

All the Pieces fell into Place,

or as Nick Mason says,

"The drumming did IT."

So I Think That That was quite hard to Deal with.

What do you do next? What do you do to top it?

What do you do to be Different?

Well, I could not draw,

SO Fantasy Pictures Were out.

I could not paint, SO artsy fartsy was out.

I was not a graphic Designer, and Also, I was not Interested

in Band Pictures, Because I found a Them bit dull, you know, a group

of four musicians Who Play Guitar, Bass or Drums and Keyboards

Would seem to me to be four musicians. They could be anybody.

We Always felt Representing the Music That was the order of the Day.

I know, it sounds radical, even revolutionary!

So in order to Represent the Music, one did not really Want to be limited

in the Great palette of Art and life to a Picture of four Geezers.

We'd Mostly, in Those days, left to IT Storm to Come up with

Things Which We Would Give HIM a Desultory two minutes

Our Mixing of time, to Say That one, maybe, That one , not that, not that.

They Were recording at Abbey Road, and I Remember going there,

and I remember I was very ...

I was very Nervous doing in the Presentation.

He Came up with These - this, you know, from the lyrics,

from this Theme of Absence, and IT just Seemed Like a Good very idea.

I Remember Getting a Little Round of applause.

I was gratified Most, I CAN tell you.

Storm, actually, is probably one of the most argumentative people

Could you Ever Meet.

Roger and Storm Would have these intense conversations

over Fine Wines and SO on.

Roger Storm and two Were Great intellects and, you know,

there was Sparks flying in Their Brains, Those two.

I got very pre-Occupied with four, with the number four.

There Were four Words in the title, four members of the Band,

and four Elements to life - air, fire, water and earth.

So the first thing was Done That was a postcard.

The postcard said "Wish You Were Here."

Po found this fantastic Location, Called Mono Lake,

Which is such an amazing location

That you just Could Photograph About a plastic Duck in I

and you'd Like IT.

We Always Thought there was an element of Storm loving to Find

the Most expensive, Distant Location in the World

SO He Could go off and have a jolly Little for a FEW days at Our Expense.

This Guy is doing a Yoga Position

in a Yoga chair locked into the mud,

Poor MAN, with a Breathing apparatus on.

And He HAD to hold HIS Breath SO I did not Get any bubbles.

That's All for Real shot. That's not airbrushed or cut or anything.

That was a moment in time on a Magical Evening,

with amazing Light .

Did That Take a Long time to set up, That shot?

A f***ing Long time.

This shot was a Pain in the Arse.

I Came to the Notice of Pink Floyd,

I Thought That I Would do a kind of a diary Visual

of Americana at That time.

So I Drew Everything That I Could Think of at the time,

Like Black Power, Playboy magazine, Mickey Mouse.

Hi, guys.

There was a fantastic Mickey Mouse sequence, where Mickey

Goes from Being the mouse to Sort of Being a Drug crazed mouse.

HE SIGHS:

Hey, MAN. That was far out, man.

Mickey's such a clean Living Guy, and there He was ...

. . on drugs.

Thought I was absolutely Brilliant IT, and I just Thought

this, We Could really .. .

It'd be Great to work with someone Who Produced

something Like this.

And I took IT to Roger and Roger and Roger Showed loved IT.

It was very Awkward, Like All relationships at the Beginning,

Because They wanted one thing from me,

and I was not Coming up with the Goods, I felt.

When I Say this to Roger Today, He says, "Oh, I do not Remember That."

I just remember it was an enormous relief

After a Lot of the Visually flailing around

That we'd Done with Dark Side Of The Moon.

I Think the Sandman is a particularly Great Image.

You know, the Fact That We ' re all bits of sand that can blow away,

I Think IT's just an idea I HAD, really.

I wanted to do the impermanence of life or whatever, you know.

It All Sounds rather ... pretentious crap, really.

The Beginning of the Record Sounds very Melancholy,

and is very Melancholy is and Melancholy Music .

Sort of Blues,

IT's a Sort of G Minor Blues Whole That first Six or seven minutes.

We found a Mood Obviously That We wanted to not exactly jam to,

but Play around with and Find something within.

And We Were Never too afraid of leaving quite a Long period

of time before Instrumental Came in vocals.

You See, at the time, IT was a Case of let's See What works.

So then, hence, the Wine glass tape came out.

The Wine glasses Were Recorded an album for

They Were going to make Called Household Objects,

Which We HAD a loop on

and then Rick then built up the sound

with synthesisers and Organ.

They wanted a Big sound, SO was the Guitar Recorded

in a different studio,

SO hence the click Track.

He put HIS Amplifiers and speakers down in Studio one .. .

.. Being a Classical Music Studio, and then mic'd IT from a Distance.

I Think IT comes across on the album.

You Could Picture IT Being Played out somewhere in an Auditorium.

This Will be Rick featured on the end of Shine On,

He really where Came in to HIS element.

You have a Hammond Organ on there, you have grand piano ...

.. plus the Synthesised Other Instruments He Plays.

I CAN 't remember exactly what synthesiser that was,

but this is Richard's ... Trademark.

He's a Great piano player,

and does Highlight, I Think, HIS Classical Training.

And I Think if he'd HAD Another 20 minutes, you would have heard

Probably Like a Rick Wright Concerto.

And at the very end, where He does the tribute to Syd Barrett,

I do not Remember That if Rick was just Thinking of That

at the spur of the moment.

That was a nice ... a nice touching thing.

He was kind of a Crazy Diamond,

and the All Things IT says About HIM

in Brilliant Those lines are very, very Accurate, you know.

"You wore out your welcome with Random Precision" ,

Certainly was a Part of HIM.

# Well, you wore out your welcome With Random Precision

# Rode on the steel Breeze

# Come on, you Raver,

# You SEER of Visions

# Come on, you Painter, Piper you

# You Prisoner, and shine ! #

My Memory is That We Were recording a Radio One Show

at the BBC ...

.. and Syd did not Turn up.

And I Think IT was a Friday.

And no-one Could Find HIM.

So Basically We Waited and Waited, and I Think

We HAD to cancel the recording, or We tried to do some without HIM,

I'm not sure, and then the managers Went off Trying to Find HIM.

And When They found Syd, Which I Think was a Sunday or Monday,

They Told us, "Well, something's happened to Syd. "

And something HAD happened to HIM, Total Difference.

And I Remember HIM Like Being right this, and looking in his eyes,

and IT was just Like ...

HE MAKES CLICKING NOISE

.. HAD Somebody Turned the Lights out, you know,

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