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Why the Death of 'Deep Purple' Keyboardist Jon Lord, Matters More Than Ever
Yahoo News ^ | 07/18/2012 | Douglas Maher

Posted on 07/18/2012 2:21:28 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

Jon Lord passed away on the morning of July 16th at the age of 71. Mr. Lord left the Earth surrounded by loved ones and leaving behind a legacy that has been so criminally underrated and disregarded by the "intelligentsia media critics" and "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame clique", that his death is creating not only an outpouring of grief and reflection....but anger as well.

Lord served as a founding member of one of the most successful rock and roll bands of all time: Deep Purple. Deep Purple is the band that during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s had guitar shops posting signs reading "If you plan to try out our guitars please don't play "Smoke on the Water" or "Stairway to Heaven", we can't handle it any longer."

You know your band has made it when a single guitar riff is one of the most iconic and hummed riffs and melodies in the history of all man-kind.

But Deep Purple was so much more than "Smoke on the Water", they were and are an institution that continues to perform to this day in venues across the globe. With such classics as "Hush", "We Can Work It Out", "Highway Star", "Space Truckin'", "Perfect Strangers", "Knocking At Your Back Door" , and "Chasing Shadows", it is just appalling that the band has never even once been nominated for "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame".

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: deeppurple; halloffame; jonlord; legacy; music; rockandroll; tribute
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1 posted on 07/18/2012 2:21:32 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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The riffs on “Hush” all but invented a new genre of KB style.


2 posted on 07/18/2012 2:24:54 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (obozo could bring back literal slavery with chains and still he will get 85+% of the black vote)
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To: My Favorite Headache

All I can say to this article is, “A-Frickin-Men!”


3 posted on 07/18/2012 2:27:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: My Favorite Headache

don’t get mad, get even.


4 posted on 07/18/2012 2:29:07 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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"With such classics as "Hush", "We Can Work It Out", "Highway Star", "Space Truckin'", "Perfect Strangers", "Knocking At Your Back Door" , and "Chasing Shadows""

What, no Woman From Tokyo? That's my favorite.
5 posted on 07/18/2012 2:30:10 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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And I thought the holocaust was bad.


6 posted on 07/18/2012 2:33:44 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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What, no Woman From Tokyo? That's my favorite.

That's on account it's now considered to have waisis undertones, dontcha see?

7 posted on 07/18/2012 2:36:46 PM PDT by Dysart (Race card is tyranny. Don't be cowed.)
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Deep Purple Fireball is their best album and song( in my opinion )


8 posted on 07/18/2012 2:39:45 PM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and drill)
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When discussing the nominating committee for the R&R HOF, the author writes this...

And who is "THEY" you ask? Well "THEY" are people such as Late Night With David Letterman keyboardist, Paul Shaffer, MSNBC political commentator and black social activist Toure'. Bruce Springsteen manager Jon Landau, Hip-Hop and Rap magazine Source editor Reginald C. Dennis, 73-year-old music critic Robert Hilburn, Sire Records founder Seymour Stein, Co-Founder and Publisher of Rolling Stone magazine and owner of Men's Journal and US Magazine Jann Wenner, Lenny Kaye who is the guitarist for Patti Smith to name a few.

Paul Shaffer's name jumps out. As a keyboardist you'd think he'd have an appreciation for Lord's body of work. OTOH, watching Shaffer bopping around on-stage in his geeky style, maybe he's going to push for Deep Purple now so that he can "stand in" for the missing keyboard great.

9 posted on 07/18/2012 2:40:16 PM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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Hip hop and rap are not rock n roll and don’t belong in the Hall. Now if anyone wants to honor these alleged artists, then let someone form a separate hall of fame for them.


10 posted on 07/18/2012 2:40:29 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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I saw Deep Purple in concert on their Machine Head tour. It was the first 8-track I ever bought. I wore it out.......................


11 posted on 07/18/2012 2:43:14 PM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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How many heavy metal bands were started because of “Machine Head”?


12 posted on 07/18/2012 2:43:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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A lot of “Rock and Roll” has always been at least as much about the sizzle as it has been about the steak. Just ask Col. Tom Parker. (well that is if he were still around to ask).


13 posted on 07/18/2012 2:44:13 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: South Dakota

Fireball isn’t their song though.
They even admit it in the liner notes on their greatest hits album. They stole it from rockstar by warpig.


14 posted on 07/18/2012 2:47:51 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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If you were white, I would not go to the rap hall of fame. Anyplace where rap music is played and young blacks congregate, there always are shootings there. The black hip hop clubs basically have the dead body sihlouette floor tape on rolls behind the bar ready to go.

If they made a rap hall of fame they’d be having daily shootings, they could probably put them on the daily schedule, it’d be happening so regularly.


15 posted on 07/18/2012 2:56:46 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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Tommy Bolin of Deep Purple was from my hometown. I used to work (and party) with his brother(s).

My brush with "fame" ...

16 posted on 07/18/2012 2:59:52 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: Mount Athos
Hey Joe

Back in their EARLY days when they were GREAT! (without Ian Gillan however)

17 posted on 07/18/2012 3:01:21 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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...it is just appalling that the band has never even once been nominated for "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame".
That truly is a shame. A great band with some great music.
18 posted on 07/18/2012 3:09:59 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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Once upon a time back in the mid 1970s at Taylor University, someone switched out the evening hymn carillon tape with Smoke on the Water.


19 posted on 07/18/2012 3:10:43 PM PDT by aruanan
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I’m not sure a legit rock act or their fans should be pining to get in the R&R hall. Just look at the number of complete stiffs they inducted already. I mean if purple isn’t in yet, that’s on the numb-nuts who run the thing and their understanding of rock.

Freegards


20 posted on 07/18/2012 3:14:22 PM PDT by Ransomed
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