What is "Rick's Turkish Delight"?

"Mad for...aaa... years!"
You recognize yourself, BoaB? (j/k)

It's pretty difficult what with all the rest of you mad fekkers about.

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I finally undertand what the hell you're all on about (with a little help from a scottish dude).

Charade you are Byron!!!

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Ha Ha! :grin:

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Rick's Turkish Delight is not a single particular riff, but a "style" Rick used in late 60s-early 70s that is arabian or oriental-style lines of keyboard. One of them is on Set The Controls. I heard the name came from a TV advertising of something called "Fry's turkish delight".

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Does he ever do it on Broken China? Even though it never really sounds Oriental.

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WrightSatellite #2

It's hard to say, actually. Rick developed his style through the years and Pink Floyd changed their direction. I think the proper R'sTD hasn't been used in compositions after 1972. But many solos post-Dark Side are an evolution of that style though.

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If you listen to "Keep Talking", you can hear something of an Eastern influence on the synthesiser solo.

Cluster One, I can't recall any very obvious examples, but sometimes there's a way of bending the pitch between notes (the notes of the Western scale) that he uses, which may be an Eastern-influenced technique. I'll give the album a listen again tonight, and if I catch anything I'll let you know.

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WrightSatellite #1

Thanks.

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WrightSatellite #2

Since you brought this back, I heard an excerpt classical piece where the cello effect was very similar to that in "Unfair Ground". The similarity isn't constant, but almost gave me a chill in a few places. It is called "Spiral" by Chinery Ung, and according to what I read, it is intended to have an Asian influence.

Western music tends not to have so much pitch-bending. Mr. Wright, however, uses a good deal of it. Perhaps that song shows some of it.

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WrightSatellite #1

Turkish candy is good.

Mmmmm....

Hey, I'm from Turkey, and I don't like Turkish Deligths at all... So sweet to eat... By the way, Echoes turns out to be better than I expected!!! But they didn't include "Waiting for the Worms"...

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Welcome to the board! So, out of curiosity, are Turkish Delights TOO sweet?

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WrightSatellite #1

All the Turkish candy I've eaten is pukey sweet.

Mmmmmmmmm..... candy..........