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nitecrawler · Post by **nitecrawler** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:05 pm

RIP John Lord. The Deep Purple keyboardist has passed away.

nitecrawler

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:48 pm

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:48 pm

Thoraldus · Post by **Thoraldus** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:02 pm

RIP Jon Douglas "Hammond" Lord. What an immense contribution to music you made.

csteen · Post by **csteen** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:53 pm

Machine Head was my very first Album I owned. I could never say enough good things about the organ from that album alone... RIP

jg:: · Post by **jg::** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:38 am

Machine Head was a classic album, continuing the band's ground-breaking work on "In Rock" a few years earlier. Jon's passing has truly saddened me.

About 10 years ago he gave a "solo" concert here in Melbourne, playing nothing but blues with some local musicians. (No hits, very few vocals, just blues standards with lots of keyboard solos.) It was an unusual concert, in a format that he rarely repeated, anywhere in the world. A great memory of a great musician.

jg::

kimu · Post by **kimu** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:31 am

rip jon

EJ2 · Post by **EJ2** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:11 pm

Sad. I loved his work, especially on Machine Head.

SoulBe · Post by **SoulBe** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:23 pm

Very sad indeed. My first Purple album was Made in Japan and still it is pure pleasure and amazing to listen to Jon´s playing.

regards
SoulBe

Post by **mikemolloyuk** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:04 pm

Legend.. I worked with Don Airey a few times who replaced him on the Purple tour.. He was a hard worker by all accounts...

cotler · Post by **cotler** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:42 am

I'll never forget when I first heard that unforgettable organ part that opens Hush.

Or the time my friend JJ's buddy was giving us a ride down Lake Shore Drive in his Charger Hemi and Highway Star came on the radio. He had it up to 130 by the time we reached our exit (I remember that vividly because the Dodge speedo in that model went to 150!)

In high school I bought my pal Gary the Burn album for his birthday, and I still have my big sister's "missing" Who Do We Think We Are album in a box of vinyl in my studio closet (sorry Sis!).

Thanks Mr. Lord, for your contributions to the soundtrack of my youth. I will always remember you.

John Hendry · Post by **John Hendry** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 7:15 am

Age carries time and my feeling of sadness in losing this great talent is for his wife and his two daughters and everyone else in his life that loved him. His music will live on and I hope his business practices and the attorneys left his family secure. He was a great musician and influenced generations to come making music with others that touched on the deepest realms of reality to explore.

"In a room within a room
In a hole within a hole
You've got to learn to share
your secrets
Or you'll lose your soul...."

“The story's been told, now I'm gettin' old.”

“I'm dreaming, let me go”

Sail well....cast off.

John^^

PauloF · Post by **PauloF** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:58 pm

Jon Lord was one of my first inspirations when I started to play with bands, back in the 70's.

RIP Jon

lotty1 · Post by **lotty1** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:52 pm

Will be badly missed

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RIP

RIP

He's left a wonderful legacy

Travel safe...

Jon Lord