The Deep Purple keyboardist and part-time classical composer has passed away at the age of 71.
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A really sad loss
to those of us who didn't buy the whole "guitar hero" thing Jon was an inspiration
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A much maligned work by many in both classical and rock circles but his collaboration with Malcolm Arnold in Concerto for Group and Orchestra was fascinating. Indeed MrGG an inspiration.Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostA really sad loss
to those of us who didn't buy the whole "guitar hero" thing Jon was an inspiration
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71 blimey,how time flies.Very sad news RIP.Originally posted by cloughie View Post
I still listen to that concerto from time to time.
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I seem to remember from the Malcolm Arnold documentary shown on TV several years ago, that Arnold made some reference to the size of Jon Lord's... organ.
If true, it further corroborates evidence that size does not automatically ensure.... longevity.
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RIP. One of the greats.Comment
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The very first LP I bought was... Deep Purple in Rock. (Bet you can't track down the album art for that one.)
Remember "Child in Time"? Wow! Isn't that Jon on the intro keyboards...?Comment
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Just gorgeous... thanks Beef.
I heard this first on Hilbre Island, a mile and a half out to sea off the Wirral coast... I used to strike out for the wilderness in my teens, away from family and society, taken under the wing of the Bird Observatory leader there we went for drinks one evening at the house of the isle warden... sounds began to drift from a closed door... the teenage son was soon "nonchalantly displaying" the album... I returned to the mainland and cadged 17s 6d off Dad to buy it! What? Of COURSE I paid it back... well, in kind at least...Comment
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Hard to believe that he was 71.
Never really into Deep purple, Led Zep etc...but for lots of my mates at school they could do no wrong. Made a lot of people very happy, gave a lot of people a lot of pleasure.
RIP.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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I remember The Book of Taliesyn had a great gatefold sleeve - the album contained those great expansive versions of Kentucky Woman and River Deep Mountain High - I guess JL's arrangements and adaptations!Comment
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Ridiculous, what we sometimes used to listen to in utter seriousness, back in them far-off days, innit!Comment
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Not sure really. Those fellas emerged like some kind of triffid in the garden. Their sound and appearance for a while was the new organic. The eight year old Lat took on board the hits - Black Night, Fireball, Strange Kind of Woman - along with all the other music of the day, if a little less easily. Yes, it was how the future was to be. We would all be required to be a part of it. But somehow the idea of becoming a friendly local bank manager with hair down to my shoulders, a beard, moustache and loon pants was a bit too difficult to contemplate, not to mention all that progressive ape man grunting on the tannoy in reception.
Such was the expectation about future requirements to assimilate, the return of short hair seemed a real surprise and initially retrograde. I had though absorbed sufficient music and speech at that point not to be taken in by others' fifteen year old assurances. Assurances like "this guy is really deep lyrically because he is obsessed with the issues of sight and blindness". Nevertheless as various records were brought to the home, though essentially those afternoons were "Smoke On The Water" on repeat, I got where they were coming from probably. It just wasn't really my cup of tea. There was nothing of it in my rack.
I remember when I drew the line completely. It was the era of Whitesnake, Rainbow and Kiss, the latter particularly ludicrous. Others had become seriously like their Dads and were no doubt heading towards trading in derivatives. To counter-balance that abysmal if lucrative future, they needed amusements to give them a laugh. Perhaps it was my class background. I seriously needed music to represent me and that stuff really didn't. I can now see some merit in it. It is that it is familiar and harmless. Which is more than can be said from a 2012 perspective for many I knew at the time who were purchasing it.Last edited by Guest; 17-07-12, 19:13.Comment
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Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
Wait til next year when Mssrs Jagger and Richards hit 70!
Also hard to believe: Stuart Copeland had his 60th this week.Comment
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