RIP Jon Lord

[torchthebitch]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...co-wrote-Smoke-on-the-Water-dies-aged-71.html

The Leicester-born keyboard player, who had pancreatic cancer, died in London today.
A statement on his website said he had passed "from Darkness to Light".
The statement said Lord was "surrounded by his loving family" when he died.
Last year, Lord told fans he was "fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure".

 

[torchthebitch]

Lazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STFWapwyqMo

 

[torchthebitch]

"Our sound has a lot to do with my organ"

 

[Sean]

Hobbit will be gutted.

 

[torchthebitch]

Hobbit will be gutted.

Kinda gutted myself. They formed a core part of my vinyl.

 

[VATSEB]

Great shame, great talent.

 

[ChinaBandit]

I am sad about this death. Deep Purple has always been a favorite band. One feels their own mortality when the reaper comes calling folks like this.

 

[torchthebitch]

I am sad about this death. Deep Purple has always been a favorite band. One feels their own mortality when the reaper comes calling folks like this.

Yup. I discovered Deep Purple when I was 16. The age difference between Jon Lord and myself is less than that.