General Music Chat

I will miss you Jon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAWReBmxEs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm8yOIJVwYU

Wow - 71 years old. I saw DP in 72 on Boston Common. I can remember getting off the bus (from Cape Cod) and hearing his overdriven Hammond echoing through the streets and we ran to catch the show.

Yeah Mike I saw them in 1972 too, Uriah Heep opened for them, what a great concert. I saw them years later with ELP after Blackmore had left, still good but not like the band I saw in 1972. What a shame more people here don't recognize the loss.

Deep Purple is listed as one of my influences on my page.. did you know Blackmore took guitar lessons from John McLauglin? ---> Mahavishnu Orchestra

RIP Jon Lord ... you can hear a bit of Jon everytime I sit at the Hammond
Probably one of the big influence on my playing in the early 70's ..

egad...yet another fallen giant... What the hell...? The last 12 weeks are being brutal.

Dane

I was never a huge Blackmore fan but McLauglin...he actually broke up a band I was in. We saw him on In Concert and were so freaked out, we all ended up going our separate ways - the lead player wrote the best song any of us ever did as a result.

And my next band did "Birds of Fire."

I've been hearing more DP on Sat Radio lately and yeah - that stuff was pretty darn good.

Adios Mr. Lord.

Talbot

Dane

I was never a huge Blackmore fan but McLauglin...he actually broke up a band I was in. We saw him on In Concert and were so freaked out, we all ended up going our separate ways - the lead player wrote the best song any of us ever did as a result.

And my next band did "Birds of Fire."

I've been hearing more DP on Sat Radio lately and yeah - that stuff was pretty darn good.

Adios Mr. Lord.

Talbot

Mike, I only wish you the best, how did McLaughlin freak you guys out?.. was it his playing that was so complex that humbled you into quitting?

SWEET CHILD IN TIME

Another great DP tune. I loved the whole In Rock album. Machine Head ended up being 'too commercial'/overplayed.

When I record rock organ on songs, I always try to imitate Lord's overdriven Hammond sound.

Man just heard this, huge loss to the musical community.

What I loved about the older DP was the way Lord and Blackmore combined thier sounds, Ive never gotten to play with a keyboard player who could do that, wish I had at one point or the other.

One of my favorite Dp songs was Perfect Strangers, especially the ending riff, it just sticks in my head to this day for some reason.

RIP Jon LORD!

Dane

Well, it certainly humbled us. But it set us into a creative frenzy - instead of a broke band we became a houseful of broke solo artists.

Ultimately we all made our way to LA and had varying degrees of success playing various styles. But we all wrote our own songs and pushed our own music. Still crackin' at it, just not prepared to live like a pauper any more.

And I'm still eager to get a violin player to work with. Jean Luc Ponty was another, and Larry Coryell, Jeff Beck et al. They didn't make me want to play what they were playing necessarily, but they impressed upon me the need for a) technical excellence; and b) a dedication to what the artist wants to play.

Talbot

Yes, totally sad. Been listening to Deep Purple non stop over the last few days. RIP Jon

I can listen to Highway Star over and over again with no problem.it was THAT GOOD!

I've got Fireball in the car player today. We worked up a nice cover of "My Woman From Tokyo" at rehearsal Monday night. To me him and Keith Emerson were the two best keyboardists in rock.