Rick has said numerous times that he and Roger never got on "it was a personal thing" I think in terms of friends that Nick and ROger were the closest and only true "friends" in the band Syd and Rick were close and David and SYd were close too. ROger and Syd had a bond (dead dads) and Nick and Syd were just acquaintances. An example of a close band would be Led Zeppelin. They did everything and (every body) together. I was in a ROck chat room and some chum said that YES was better than Led Zeppelin???? I was in disbelief that anybody could say that