10 Perfect Band Members That Everyone Forgets About

For most of Pink Floyd's career, you could pretty much call the entire band faceless. Long after Syd Barrett had left the band, you could only really pick out Roger Waters and David Gilmour as the co captains of the band, and even they weren't ones for being the most charismatic characters when they got onstage or anything. They were always focused on serving the music, and Richard Wright was where the band got their jazzy swagger.

Before Floyd had even gotten started on their classic run of albums like Meddle and Wish You Were Here, Richard was already starting to branch out into newer territory, creating different moods with his keyboard back in the psychedelic days of the band on songs like Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. Floyd were in for a change of scenery as the '70s wore on though, and Richard was matching his bandmates step for step, sprinkling bits of Miles Davis style jazz into nearly every track on the Dark Side of the Moon.

Even when his role was a bit more muted on albums like Animals, Richard was still at his most adventurous, looking to deconstruct what his instrument is capable of and going for ambient sounds that feel closer to what you would hear in film scores that the traditional rock band set up. Despite not really having that much time in the spotlight, taking Wright's keyboards out of Floyd's sound makes for a gaping hole in rock and roll history.