Talk:Gary Wright

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I removed some text that was a copyvio from All Music Guide (as revealed in a Google Search that brought up Yahoo Music sites crediting AMG). It was kind of a red flag when I saw text that looked like a professional review that didn't look like the rest of the article. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 20:18, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Come on guys ... "Dream weaver" in Wayne's World was the Steve Miller Band version for sure ... Aligma 23:35, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Linda Ronstadt's "Long, Long Time"
This heart-breaking song was written by Gary B. White, also.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3384

74.60.161.158 (talk) 18:51, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Category:American expatriates...
Is that reserved only for people who currently live (or died) in other countries? The article says he lives in California, not the UK... Dozzzzzzzzzing off (talk) 04:04, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Huh.
According to some guy (who was in the band), one of the "local bands" Wright was "continuing to perform with" in the mid-60s was the Coachmen V, who recorded an album, which was then released (without the permission or even knowledge of the band members) as an egregious Beatle rip-off, "The Beetle Beat" by The Buggs. Gary Wright was a Bugg!

The person's assertion is on the talk page of The Buggs, but there's no other reference than that so we can't include it. (It might be too trivial anyway, but I think it's kind of interesting). Wright would not have been on the album cover as those people were just models, unfortunately. It'd be nice to find a ref, but I consider it unlikely. Herostratus (talk) 20:01, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Article Edit: added info
I remember details of these events because I'd been touring as Wright's keyboardist since the fall of 1975, was his only tour keyboardist who played on every recorded song of "The Light of Smiles" and was the only of his keyboardists who remained faithfully employed by him throughout this period, including moving to an apartment in Manhattan Beach (near his home at Palos Verdes) which I shared with our tour road manager Ron Nahoda.

I edited part of this article, adding info to "The Light of Smiles" section and adding a section titled "Gary Wright tour band" which details on instrumentation might be an important part of Progressive Rock history (?) and certainly are a central part of this popular recording artist's biography in terms of its uniqueness and that there were so many millions of people who might remember this band (were entertained by our tour band at all the many concerts, including Bicentennial at JFK and many more outdoor festivals from late-1975 through 1976).

Thank you,

Pete Reilich

PeterReilich (talk) 03:59, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by PeterReilich (talk • contribs) 03:04, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Edit reverted via User:JG66 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gary_Wright&oldid=prev&diff=718021834

I guess being there doesn't matter. It has to have been published somewhere by journalists. As if journalists know better than the musicians who played these gigs. Whatever.

PeterReilich (talk) 04:17, 1 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Well, as I explained in my comment with that revert, we/you need sources for that new information, and you were inserting details that weren't supported by the sources that are there. I'll certainly add your name to the few Light of Smiles contributors that are mentioned (because your involvement is supported by the AllMusic source), but more-detailed credits belong in an article dedicated to the album. I sympathise with what you're saying – I'm a musician too and it drives me crazy when authors/journos mishear an instrument or completely ignore a certain part on a song they feel so qualified to comment on … But, in the case of that point about the 1976 European tour, it's supported by a contemporary source: Chris Salewicz, who was there. JG66 (talk) 05:01, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Please know that my words are not meant to contest anything in this fine article, which seems to be well researched and written with much care and diligence. I have great respect for the writers, you and Wikipedia and am grateful now there's a real human to speak with regarding these historic issues, which are not a huge part of my current cares but.. I guess I was being picky.

Thank you for offering to include my name in the album credits mention. My picky-ness came from having been one of the more faithful people involved with Gary Wright at the time and then to be regarded as "..others.." was a bit too insulting considering how the true story was that I cared about, and was far more involved with the album/band than David Foster and Jim Keltner ever were. As they were busy, veteran session musicians who spent a week out of their lives on the recordings, while I was 19 years old and had spent several months working with Gary. Including a period during the summer of 1976 when there was a break in the tour and Gary booked rooms in a Holiday Inn at West Palm Beach, Florida for two weeks, brought in all the keyboards, which filled an entire hotel room as we turned it into a rehearsal studio and the two of us, along with our tech Alan Barclay helped Gary as he worked on material for the upcoming album "The Light of Smiles."

Getting missed for album credits is typically ironic and should be expected. But the experience at Florida was one of the nicest of my life, so I guess I should be happy regardless who gets the historic details correct. As to the Europe tour with Frampton, I was wrong and corrected my comment above. Hiroshi Upshur (the fourth keyboardist) was indeed in the band that fall during these last legs of the tour before we returned to LA and began recording "The Light of Smiles." I thank you and the source article for refreshing/correcting my memory of the details of these 1976 events.

As I was speaking with my wife about this just an hour ago, it dawned that the details about "The Light of Smiles" do belong in a separate article about the album, not necessarily in Gary's biography article.. and then I came back here and sure enough, you wrote it.

But I guess there's nothing to be done about the tour band details because finding published sources would be difficult, with sketchy content at best from any published interviews that might be found. Actually, I am the best source, funny as that may sound. It's just that there's an orchestration value to a band like that one, and I'm just the oddball to care about such instrumentation details. More than others who worked on the tours.

I remember, for example, when we began rehearsing in 1977 for "The Light of Smiles" promotional tour, I actually notated everyone's part and passed out the music at the first rehearsal. What a funny look everyone gave me then. But my arranging efforts did not go completely to waste. For Richard Baker was actually thankful because, as it turned out, all those intricate David Foster synthesizer clarinet/strings overdubs were a pain to memorize. As you know, usually rock bands don't use notated music parts, Frank Zappa being a rare exception to the rule.

Thank you for caring enough to participate in this discussion.

PeterReilich (talk) 07:21, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

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