Deep Purple's Jon Lord dies aged 71

Think I seen them around 10 times. My wife and I even drove to Indianapolis to see them once when they were sold out here.

They were great every time.

They had the "Big Sound", down pat. Think they were one of the first bands to get that right.

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at Pirates World in Dania, Florida. They were fantastic.

Good times!

Deep Purple, one of the greatest rock bands EVER! Ian Gillian had pipes like no other.

a short doc - the making of Machine Head

if you are a fan - it's definitely worth checking out

One of the best they did.

Who's Next
Graceland
Paranoid
Damn the Torpedos
etc.

It's a great series

The one for Cream's Disraeli Gears was pretty good, as was the first Doors album.

I'll check out the Cream one

their is an Exile on Main Street one
I think that is not part of the series - but it is very interesting

I believe it came with the "Mega-Super-Deluxe" re-issue of "Exile" (whatever the most expensive version was).

It's sort of a companion piece to the EXCELLENT "Ladies & Gentlemen" The Rolling Stones" DVD. Excerpted performances from that DVD show up in the "Exile" documentary. It was definitely worth watching. Supposedly recording "Exile" in the basement of Keith's rented chateau was like working in a boiler room.

their best album

but I think Sticky Fingers is better

one of the best albums ever recorded

I would love to see an in the studio on that album

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I remember watching it on ABC's "In Concert," LONG before MTV, VHS, DVD...

...when it did come out on DVD I snagged it immediately. Notable for (among other things) Blackmore going on a rampage and destroying his amps, his guitar, and a TV camera during a lengthy "Space Truckin'"...

The original is so raw! I had it on a 45

Rest in peace Jon, rest in peace.

...major, major influences during my "Wonder Years." People I never met who wrote the backdrop for my life.

and actually being EXCITED when new music came out and the dozens upon dozens of concerts I went to.



Now I just don't give a fuck and most of the music from the 60's and 70's is rubbish (being stoned then) now that I listen to it. I have hundreds of recrds from then I haven't LISTENED to since the 70's collecting dust which will be recycled soon.


Deep Purple wan't rubbish.


I miss my youth.

twice in '85 when the Mark II lineup had reunited, and hearing the old classics pounded out on stage was a phenomenal experience!

...I as kind of glad he did after Blackmore left.

Steve Morse is a virtuoso and a gentleman.

Ritchie Blackmore is an animal.

Half the joy of watching / listening to Deep Purple, whether it was Mark II, Mark III, or the reunited Mark II, was the inevitable locking of the horns between Blackmore and Lord.

The only other time I think that happened in a "classic rock" sense was the interplay between John Entwistle and Pete Townshend in The Who...quite often, Entwistle was playing lead while Townshend and Moon pushed him on.

Cream, maybe...but they could be very, very sloppy, and I'v seen them described more than once as an almost "free form jazz" band where each individual was just blowing non-stop, hermetically sealed in their own little worlds. On the short songs, they could be a tight and cohesive unit. On the longer jams, they were a train wreck with moments of brilliance. Deep Purple...no matter HOW chaotic things got onstage...were always a tight band. By the time of the last Mark II tour...finished by guest guitarist Joe Satriani after Blackmore walked off...the tension between Blackmore and the rest of the band was so bad that most of the cohesion was gone. Gillan hates the recordings of those tours so much (like the "Live At The NEC" double CD) that he's tried to have them blocked on many occasions.