The B-side is dedicated to Lord‘s “Fantasia”.ĭivided in two parts – the first focused on the classical music compositions, so dear to Jon Lord, and the second featuring a crescendo of emotions going through some of his highlights as a rock musician – the concert gave fans a chance to relive Jon Lord's remarkable and extensive musical career, remembering music from Paice, Ashton Lord, Deep Purple, his later classical compositions and everything in between – all in aid for the charity organization The Sunflower Jam. The second 7” vinyl stands in the tradition of Deep Purple as it includes the band’s touching live version of “Above And Beyond” originally from the #1 album NOW What?! and here included in the magic Sunflower Jam 2014 live performance – a song dedicated to and inspired by Jon Lord. On top and as a real collector’s item, the box set also includes two very special 7” LPs: the first featuring the hypnotic live version of Deep Purple’s classic “You Keep On Moving” with Glenn Hughes, Bruce Dickinson, Ian Paice, Don Airey and Micky Moody and on the B-side “Soldier Of Fortune”, both taken from the 2CD – The Rock Legend. The Box Set features – besides the Blu-ray, 1CD The Composer and 2CD The Rock Legend – an exclusive T-shirt, a two-sided reproduction of an excerpt of Jon Lord’s original, handwritten music score for “Sarabande” - signed by Paul Mann as well as a 20 page reproduction of the evening’s original show program. All product configurations feature individual cover artworks.įootage of Deep Purple performing "Uncommon Man" from the release can be seen below: Celebrating Jon Lord is available now as 1CD – The Composer, 2CD – The Rock Legend, 2DVD, Blu-ray, Box Set and Download, via earMUSIC. On April 4th, some of the best-loved musicians in the world assembled at the Royal Albert Hall to pay tribute to one of the most-missed musicians of them all: Jon Lord.
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Go to this location for the complete interview. For that moment, we are talking Deep Purple In Rock, Fireball and Machine Head, he wanted that direct in your face, smash your skull open keyboard sound and that was the way he got it." Eventually, he went back to Hammonds through Leslies because the music again changed. What he found was that by putting the Hammond directly into a couple of Marshall stacks he was getting what he needed for the music that was being created at that time. He wanted something with a much more initial bite and aggression. When the band went through its first change in late ’69, and the music developed itself to a much harder direction, then he found what he wanted to get across, and he had the sound that he wanted to achieve and that was not going to come out of a Leslie cabinet. Ian: "When we started, he was playing pretty much standard through Leslie cabinets. Jeb: Jon made the keyboard a hard rock instrument when he played it through distortion. It was everything that we wanted it to be." If you believe in it, that the spirit was looking down, he would have thought it was a great night as there was joy in that room, admittedly tinged with a little sadness. That is the way that he would have wanted it to be. There was all of that going on, but the primary emotion that came off the stage was one of joy and happiness and it showed how music can rise above. If that didn’t bring a tear to your eye then nothing else ever would. There is a magic moment on the DVD where I come on stage with Jon’s wife Vicky, who has never been on a big stage and has never spoken into a microphone before, and we just say thank you to everybody.
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Ian: "Of course, it was an emotional night. Jeb: People in England tend to be better at controlling their emotions than Americans, but there must have been some emotional moments. An excerpt from the interview is available below:
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Jeb Wright at Classic Rock Revisited recently caught up with Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice to discuss the Jon Lord tribute concert, dedicated to the band's legendary keyboardist who passed away in July 2012.