Dave Gate
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RIP Jon Lord
#998201 - 16/07/12 06:12 PM
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Another talent gone. Not turning out to be a good year. Guardian
Obituary
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Dave71
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
[Re: Dave Gate]
#998205 - 16/07/12 06:27 PM
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 A very talented musician indeed.
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The Elf
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998206 - 16/07/12 06:33 PM
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Deeply, deeply saddening. Here was a man who helped to define a whole genre of music.
Sad to see you go, Jon. RIP.
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Frisonic
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998227 - 16/07/12 08:49 PM
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Amen to all of the above. I was sorry to hear it was pancreatic cancer. Anyone deserves a
better card. RIP.
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Dave Gate
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998238 - 16/07/12 09:49 PM
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I was never a massive Deep Purple fan, but I loved what he did to underpin what that band
did. And I liked some of his later classical work. Plus he was one of the more
intelligent talking heads that turned up on those nostalgia programs.
I find
that I don't have anything by him here to listen to tonight, so I'm off to YouTube.
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tacitus
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998312 - 17/07/12 08:56 AM
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Bad news. I've fired up Wring that Neck - first Deep Purple I've played through my B&W
MM1's - sounds pretty good, even in elegiac mode.
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adrian_k
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998319 - 17/07/12 09:11 AM
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Quote Dave Gate:
I was never a
massive Deep Purple fan, but I loved what he did to underpin what that band did. And I
liked some of his later classical work. Plus he was one of the more intelligent talking
heads that turned up on those nostalgia programs.
I find that I don't have
anything by him here to listen to tonight, so I'm off to YouTube.
+1. But hearing this again after, what, 40
years (!) it somehow sounds better to me now than then..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OorZcOzNcgE
PS the audience
crack me up...
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Airfix
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998328 - 17/07/12 10:12 AM
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Quote The Elf:
Here was a man
who helped to define a whole genre of music.
This is true.
Also keyboards were somewhat
uncool in rock at the time. He changed that. Some of my friends would never have
considered a career in rock were it not for him. He was part of a new surge in music that
would make the 70s what it was, the most creative drug fuelled decade ever. What a time
that was! We may never see the likes again. His passing will be a landmark day for many
rockers.
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ConcertinaChap
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998331 - 17/07/12 10:52 AM
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Can't really add to what others have said. Another sad loss. He and Emerson defined rock
organ for me. CC
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Dave B
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Quote ConcertinaChap:
Emerson
defiled rock organ
Fixed
that one for you CC ! 
Very sad day all round for music.
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Chaconne
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998421 - 17/07/12 03:08 PM
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I just recently watched that BBC 4 doco about the British invasion during the 70's. There
is no doubting what a great time that was for music, the seeds of which were sown in the
fertile 60's of course.
I'm sad about the passing of any members of this golden
period, and will always be regardless of their excesses - especially those with the towers
of keyboards. I was never happier as a youngster as when I put my first synth on top of
the old family unwanted Hammond home organ!
R.I.P
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Martin Walker
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998473 - 17/07/12 10:23 PM
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RIP Indeed - Jon Lord was a formidable keyboard player that greatly enhanced the genre for
the rest of us  Ironically I was only watching him on TV a few days ago A tragic loss Martin
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Gone To Lunch
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998477 - 17/07/12 10:46 PM
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RIP
I was a big big Purple fan in the 70s..
While he was here he
made many truly great records....
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Hugh Robjohns
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Re: RIP Jon Lord
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#998554 - 18/07/12 12:43 PM
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Very sad. He was one of my all time musical heros. Got the chance to help out on a
recording of his Durham Concerto at Durham Cathedral a few years ago. Amazing guy. Sad
loss.
Hugh
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