First 'proper' gig I ever attended was Deep Purple touring In Rock
'night Lordy, Thank for all the memories

Excerpt from Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969)

RIP Jon,

When I first started listening to music it was Beethoven's 9th and the Can Can from the old man's record collection. I guess the old fella thought I should come up to speed and bought me DP's Made in Japan and PF Animals, from then on I never looked back

Jon Lord and Richie Blackmore's duet's were awesome , something no one had ever done before.

Boots wrote:
Yep.

Best ever Lord/Blackmore 'duet' ever...



RIP JL.

Excellent DG, I agree one of the best blues rock duet's by them.

It has to be said that Blackmore was one of the moodiest bastards ever to throw a guitar strap over his shoulder though.
I saw DP in all it's permutations and Rainbow a couple of times.
When Blackmore was into it he was stunning, when he was throwing a strop, he just stood there pouting and 'played the notes'.

He was feather, I'm one of his fan's still dont think his the best in the world but in that category, as a person a real arsehole .

Never took to Rainbow. Since You've Been Gone is s truly awful song

Whitesnake were better.

DG Since You've Been Gone was one of the first songs I learnt to play on the guitar

Boots wrote:
I first learnt Smoke On The Water, on one string

*edit*...and the absolute worst Rainbow track ever is I Surrender....far worse than SYBG..

diamondgeezer wrote: Rainbow were really two bands.
One fronted by Ronnie James Dio playing rock and the other fronted by Graham Bonnet or Joe Lynn Turner playing pop aimed at the American market.

Agreed Whitesnake were far better.

diamondgeezer wrote:
I liked that song tooooooo



I learn't to play smoke on the water with 2 strings

The start of "knocking at your back door" is my favorite Jon Lord.... R.I.P

I was 5 years old when this album came out...

My Dad was the first person in The U.S.A to have Perfect Strangers the album on compact disc...

That's just what Real Americans do...

Lord's re-emergence with Deep Purple in 1984 resulted in huge audiences for the reformed Mk II line-up, including 1985s second largest grossing tour in the US and an appearance in front of 70,000 rain-soaked fans headlining Knebworth on 22 June 1985, all to support the Perfect Strangers album. Playing with a rejuvenated Mk. II Purple line-up (including spells at a health farm to get the band including Lord into shape) and being onstage and in the studio with Blackmore, gave Lord the chance to push himself once again. His 'rubato' classical opening sequence to the album's opener, "Knocking at Your Back Door" (complete with F-Minor to G polychordal harmony sequence), gave Lord the chance to do his most powerful work for years, including the song "Perfect Strangers". Further Deep Purple albums followed, often of varying quality, and by the late-1990s, Lord was clearly keen to explore new avenues for his musical career.

I had to share this joke with you somewhere and somehow this seems the most appropriate thread

70's rock band Journey are gonna be pissed off with me, this morning, albeit fleetingly, I stopped believing.

diamondgeezer wrote:
That might be true, but that was like the worst song by Rainbow.