Yesterday, at the age of 71, Jon Lord - co-founder and organist of DeepPurple - died
of a pulmonary embolism at the London Clinic.

Fare Thee Well Old Chap. See you on the other side.
You will be greatly missed.

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Yeah heard the news this morning, another great musician lost.

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Bye, bye Lord.
Hello Loneliness.

Oh Lord ... (yeah, both of them)

I'll have to dig out my remastered Machine Head and get some Smoke on the Water on full whack.

Pity the missus has already turned in ... now where are those headphones?

Thanks for all the power, Jon!

Best regards,

Niels

Edit: P.S. Actually, I just continued to the following track, Lazy. It shows off his organ wizardry even more. Amazing.

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nbache wrote: Oh Lord ... (yeah, both of them) I'll have to dig out my remastered Machine Head and get some Smoke on the Water on full whack. Pity the missus has already turned in ... now where are those headphones? Thanks for all the power, Jon! Best regards, Niels Edit: P.S. Actually, I just continued to the following track, Lazy. It shows off his organ wizardry even more. Amazing.

Just wrote it on amiga-news.de - last night I dug out my old VHS videos with DeepPurple concerts and documentations. Awesome!
And I remembered a lot of Deep Purple and Rainbow concerts. Most impressive was the 'Monsters Of Rock" festival 1987 in Nürnberg.
"When it all was over", roughly 250,000 people left the concert area and went back to their cars (half an hour later) - still singing: Smoke on the water and fire in the sky...
I still get goose skin when I think of that feeling - walking through the dark - and from all directions it sounded: Smoke on the water...

Ahh - memories...


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nbache wrote: Thanks for all the power, Jon!

Yeah - "they brought music to our solar system"...

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nbache wrote: Edit: P.S. Actually, I just continued to the following track, Lazy. It shows off his organ wizardry even more. Amazing.

Exactly - that also was one of the videos I watched. Jon shook his old Hammond organ and I shouted: "Yeah Jon - rock the organ!"

Did I already mention that in 1976 - on a Rainbow concert - Ritchie smashed his guitar and threw the pieces into the audience - and I got the neck of that Fender Micro Neck with the plate of the neck joint still attached with the serial number on it...

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If someone enjoys marching to military music, then I already despise him.
He got his brain accidently - the bone marrow in his back would have been sufficient for him!
(Albert Einstein)

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Dandy wrote: Did I already mention that in 1976 - on a Rainbow concert - Ritchie smashed his guitar and threw the pieces into the audience - and I got the neck of that Fender Micro Neck with the plate of the neck joint still attached with the serial number on it...

Cool - if we meet one day, I'd love to see that piece . Although of course as a (hobby) guitarist myself I always found it a bit weird when people deliberately destroy a fine instrument.

Best regards,

Niels

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nbache wrote: @Dandy Quote: Dandy wrote: Did I already mention that in 1976 - on a Rainbow concert - Ritchie smashed his guitar and threw the pieces into the audience - and I got the neck of that Fender Micro Neck with the plate of the neck joint still attached with the serial number on it... Cool - if we meet one day, I'd love to see that piece . Although of course as a (hobby) guitarist myself I always found it a bit weird when people deliberately destroy a fine instrument. Best regards, Niels

Me too!

I feel bad when someone takes a SID chip out of a working C64..

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