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Vibrato of a Hammond is what powers this man
MetalTalk has a positively glowing review of Don Airey’s new album Pushed To The Edge:
For a bloke who is one of the most revered and reliable musicians in the business, Don Airey appears to take it all in his stride. Playing with global heavyweights like Ozzy Osbourne, Rainbow and Whitesnake and breathing life into timeless classics like Here I Go Again, Since You Been Gone, I Surrender, and Mr Crowley is just meat and potatoes and another day at the office for the Sunderland A.F.C. fanatic.
And for such a reluctant rock star, he knows how to fire up an album with copious amounts of shock and awe. This thing goes off like an alarm on a Scotsman’s wallet with the straight-to-the-vein rocker Tell Me.
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I don’t really remember any side project of a Purplite during his time with the band getting as many rave reviews.
But it’s deserved because Pushed To The Edge has real swagger, something that is not exactly common with releases of that type.
Jon’s solo projects were always met with muted critical benevolence (fueled more than anything by respect for his gentleman keyboarder elder statesman role in DP), yet no one really ever got excited about them. Same thing with Roger’s solo exploits which were generally perceived as whimsical detours and met by slight bemusement (as did Accidentally On Purpose). And Steve’s solo and side releases regularly registered with Morse nerds only though the Flying Colors albums at least – and rightly so – elated some people in PROG circles (though that might have been more due to the Neal Morse and Mike Portnoy involvement).
Anyway, good (and deserved) for Don, a man with such an unassuming and kind demeanor who has become a central creative force within modern day Purple.
April 12th, 2025 at 11:15About me, Here I Go Again belong to J.Lord..
April 12th, 2025 at 13:30Don played on the 1987 version. But I prefer Jon’s organ intro too.
April 12th, 2025 at 17:43Talking ‘keyboard’ players in or out of Deep Purple and yes Jon Lord’s ‘solo’ music wasn’t really ‘rock’ music, so inevitably most fans are not going to take to that. Is his album Before I Forget the closest Jon came to a ‘solo’ rock record? Indeed it seems to be. Quite ironic for me as that is my favourite Lord album. That doesn’t mean ‘classical’ music isn’t as good etc, it is just less accessible for many and especially if he is trying to build a bridge between the two genres. Plus the fact that Don has danced and weaved his way throughout the most popular rock musicians during the 1980’s, when mainstream rock music was at its peak. As you said Uwe, Mr Lord was much more stately and I do remember reading about his displeasure at being labelled as ‘keyboards’ rather than ‘piano and organ’ back in the day. He was also much more serious about his solo music. Out of all of those keyboard ‘giants’ of the 1970’s, Don Airey is really the only one who hasn’t ventured that much into classical music, in that sense. He is also, as we are well aware the last from that era still rocking. Even ole grumpy Rick doesn’t go out there very much these days. Talking of Rick and I still favour his early to mid 70’s releases (three albums) as the best combination of the two genres, although Jon Lord’s ‘Sarabande” is also very good. Don Airey is the last bastion of the keyboard ‘warriors’, if that is the way to put it and the last throw of the dice. Cheers.
April 13th, 2025 at 00:29Can’t wait to get the Airey CD. As for Jon’s work outside DP, I love it all. My favorites being Sarabande, First of the Big Bands, Before I Forget, and To Notice Such Things. Malace in Wonderland wasn’t really a solo project but, recently, has become one of my most listened to CD’s. As for Roger, Mask is excellent!!
April 13th, 2025 at 12:01Don arrived a little late on the scene, given his youth. Had he been around in the late 60s, early 70s, he would have turned the reigning popular keyboard trio of Emerson/Lord/Wakeman into a quartet. He’s a bit like Eddie Jobson in that way.
But these days he is in fact one of the few living and still touring elder statesmen of keyboard rock. Much as I miss Jon, I’m really happy about Don joining the Purple fold now more than 20 years ago. It was good for them and good for him as it got him out of that session vicious circle and had him play live via the eternal DP touring machine more often, he became more fluid through it. He’s pivotal for modern day Purple. When I hear him solo (unlike Jon he’s always a little frantic doing so and still has a hint of the mechanical though it is much less than it used to be), it always draws a smile to my face, the mad professor …
April 13th, 2025 at 13:38I probably consider Sarabande, Pictured Within and Beyond The Notes the ultimate trinity of Jon’s outside Purple work. Before I Forget contains nice songs galore, but I miss a common musical thread, a Leitmotiv, you know how us Krauts are, we need that philosophical Überbau. It’s more an album of Jon wishing to get songs out of his system, some of them great (Where Are You, Say It’s Alright and Burntwood), some of them B-side quality (Hollywood Rock’n’Roll). But it’s by no means a bad album and the knotted trunk elephant is of course brilliant!!!
I have a soft spot for Windows (both sides), the album no one seems to like/understand. After having bought it in the 70s, I forced myself to listen to it so often until one day I liked it, even the soprano vocals. I still go back to it regularly.
To Notice Such Things, Durham Concerto and Boom Of The Tinkling Strings are of course nice too.
Although not really Jon Lord solo albums, I really love First Of The Big Bands (the most recent remaster finally sounding good and getting those obnoxious mids out that already plagued the original vinyl) and the PAL debut, Martinez and Paice were a heck of a rhythm section (really up there with the best US session rhythm sections) and Ashton’s non-singer voice has a charm that grows on you after a while, kinda like Ian Hunter’s. But then I was a great fan of Blood, Sweat & Tears already long before so the PAL album was not such a shock to the central nervous system for me as it seemed to be to a lot of other Purple aficionados. I heard it and though: keyboard riffs and a prominent horn section plus an exquisitely funky rhythm section with witty lyrics and that really melodic chubby guitarist with a pleasant voice – how très cool! It seems like I was the only one in Germany thinking that though … 🤣
I believe PAL’s decision to (halfheartedly) tour the UK during the punk craze was a mistake. If you do something, do it right. Rather, they should have secured an opening slot with a band like Little Feat (a band they patterned themselves after), Atlanta Rhythm Section (ditto), Tower of Power or Steely Dan and toured the US for a few months, that would have been the right audience for them. Of course Lordy’s and Paicey’s “ex-DP” albatross around their necks didn’t help matters here, they were both unjustly typecast as stadium hard rock merchants and little else.
Jon’s music always had a lot of warmth (to the point of twee sometimes), that is not really Don’s strongest department, he’s more cerebral/witty, bit like Colin Towns in that way, but not nearly as off-the-wall.
April 13th, 2025 at 15:54It is a small trivial thing in that Rick Wakeman is almost 12 months younger than Don Airey. As Rick is often deemed old school in that sense with the keyboards and his early career, he was an early starter compared to Don. Airey has looked after himself though unlike Rick during the 1970’s, with all that hedonism and everything that went with it. Cheers.
April 13th, 2025 at 22:42Malice in Wonderland is a gem and it kinda makes me angry to this day those dump DP-followers wouldn’t buy it!
But about Hollywood Rock’n’Roll I have to disagree strongly. Very nice song, groovy, with a catchy hook, imagine Dr. John did it. A stand out track for me.
April 14th, 2025 at 05:27Well at least I have escaped the WRATH of Max @ 9- I did purchase the PAL vinyl back in the late 70’s and did listen to that album quite often. I found it hard at the time to get into, but it has grown on me thankfully because of the live concert and also because of a few harsh words from Uwe making me feel really guilty. There is that Lawyer talk again, guilty or not guilty? Will we ever escape this brutal punishment? I haven’t purchased the album on cd as I would be more interested in the live concert DVD as I think that really is a good one. It has a little more to it, as a live gig should have. Thankfully it is online to watch occasionally, well it was last time I looked a few months ago. Court dismissed. Cheers
April 14th, 2025 at 07:25Yes, Max, the Dr John comparison is apt, perhaps I was a little harsh in my judgement.
April 14th, 2025 at 11:45Pictured Whiten is a very emotional album to me mainly because of the title song John wrote about his parents at the time, a very touching tribute. In hole the album has a close to heart feeling about family and the loved ones we lose along the way in life.
April 14th, 2025 at 11:47Oh yes, Pictured Within (the album, not just the song) is basically one long eulogy to departed loved ones.
Beyond The Notes is more upbeat, though it has its share of songs about loss too, inter alia “I’ll Send You a Postcard (Pavane for Tony)”, “The Sun Will Shine Again” about Frida’s loss, and
“A Smile When I Shook His Hand (In Memoriam George Harrison)”.
Jon very much focused on the subject once he was in the sixth decade of his life – as if he had an inkling that his remaining time here with us might not be the longest. 😞
April 14th, 2025 at 13:21@13
‘Pictures Within’ is among my top 3 favorites!
It is BEAUTIFUL 😍
I understand why Ian once said he would like Jon to be more involved with writing the material for Purple☺️
April 14th, 2025 at 15:13( and yes Uwe, Ian actually said that, it was in an interview with Hans Otto Bisgaard, in Danish television! I can dig it up for ya, if you don’t believe me….)
@ 13… Yes Uwe is true, when we are born we are dying. Jon’s touching lyrics.
April 14th, 2025 at 16:46Why should I not believe you, Karin? I hear from trusted sources that Herr Gillan is very popular in your good country.
Actually, he has said that more than once. He once mentioned in an interview outside of Denmark how Ritchie would always be intentionally destructive if the band jammed on an idea of Jon’s with Ritchie joining later. Ritchie would instead start to play his own stuff at maximum volume. And to Ian’s chagrin, Jon would accept such rude behavior every time.
April 14th, 2025 at 21:35@16
“Why should I not believe you, Karin?”
Because every time I say something in here, you’re not exactly cheering me on! (Re: ‘Been around the boring Alice’!)
But that’s ok, I am used to flight… (ups should’ve been fight, but who cares ☺️)
And Ian did say that he wanted Jon more in the creative writing process!
And see what I just found:
https://youtu.be/FEqjWzYDONQ?si=TeGrzp4QoVVcTZ7C
April 15th, 2025 at 08:33Hi, the new album of Don inspires me beyond measure, I have been spinning it non-stop on the record player for a week and it gets better and better when listening, because it is the essence of the kind of hard rock that has inspired me so much since Purple/Rainbow and Don knows exactly that he wanted to hit this essence here and has hit it! I’m happy that such a top hard rock album with the spirit of the 70s Purple records is back. Great and fantastic, the best solo album by a Purple musician next to Tommy Bolin’s studio albums, I think.
April 15th, 2025 at 15:14The wrath of Max shall not be upon you, Sir MacGregor! I never considered you one of those hools in the first place, how could I? I just think it’s kinda sad people often ignore the pleasures solo albums can hold for the listener – just because they (the people that is) have preconceptions. How many fantastic solo albums are out there that noone bought. I seem to remember JL once joked about it when a journalist said he had listened to Before I forget and Jon said ‘oh that was you!’
April 15th, 2025 at 17:27@17: Yup, I’ve seen this before, it’s from 12 Nov 1993. the day of the Copenhagen gig, after in Prague on 30 Oct 1993 Ritchie had let his termination (effective 17 Nov, after the end of the European leg of the tour in Helsinki) be read our aloud by Colin Hart to the rest of the band for dramatic effect and – for good measure – had torn up his Japanese work visa, also in front of the band, in Rotterdam four days later on 3 Nov. (In my book: Ritchie would have deserved one on the chin both times.) That is why Ian sounds so world-weary in the interview, he was fed up with the drama, it’s exhausting, who can blame him.
There must be some explanation lodged deep in human psyche why the final Mk II gigs are bathed in this warm light of romantic nostalgia, especially here on these pages; a more neutral stance would be to say that it was overall a raspberry of a tour with scarcely half the gigs being actually good (that is about how many Mk IV gigs were good in 1975/1976, yet Mk IV’s first and final tour is always presented as a Purple nadir while the endgame of Mk 2.3 is depicted as a glorious last hurrah, go figure 🙄) with a band desperately clinging on to what little social fabric it still had. I saw a very good one (Frankfurt, 3 Oct 1993, commonly lauded as one of the best along with Stuttgart) and a very bad one (Mannheim, 15 Oct 1993), but the bad one was so dejecting to watch as a fan – a total deterioration of any spirit of communion between Ian (manfully soldiering on) and a listless Ritchie – I left the (suitably ugly and impersonal) hall knowing that DP Mk 2.3 was bound to implode. I’m still happy though I saw that gig, it has spared me from the misconception of how allegedly continuously great Mk II still was in its death throes. No, it wasn’t!
Rasmus Heide’s very good depiction of the final days here
https://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/CHoHW/story.html
is still very much worth a read to refresh your memory of the emotional rollercoaster that tour was.
Epilogue: A (still) married couple who is totally alienated from another can still put on a show of how great their relationship is, going through the motions for other people, but don’t mistake that as “a happy marriage”. DP in 1993 sure wasn’t one.
April 15th, 2025 at 18:04@20
Thank you for the link to RH’s words.
But ehm, what is this:
“In 1993 it featured Ian Paice coming to the front of the stage to play tambourine – often introduced by Ian Gillan as Elton John (think about it – the resemblance is there!).” – what resemblance.??
“Ian Gillan kept a lid on his hitherto much loved stream-of-consciousness nonsense between the songs” – arhhh?! I love Ian’s talks between the songs 😊
“In the letter Blackmore had announced he was tired of Deep Purple and would leave the band after the last European date in Helsinki, Finland on November 17 – a two-week notice.” – I remember that Ian was otherwise faithful to the band in ‘73, and the concerts they still hadn’t performed! RB was not professional leaving them high and dry with only 2 weeks notice 😞
April 15th, 2025 at 20:45@20
“Epilogue: A (still) married couple who is totally alienated from another can still put on a show of how great their relationship is, going through the motions for other people, but don’t mistake that as “a happy marriage”. DP in 1993 sure wasn’t one.”
Ahem, I do know what you’re thinking of but the comparison isn’t good Uwe.
Now and then a still married couple can rediscover each other, stir up the love and affection they have for each other, maybe even because of a period of time where they let other things get in their way!
But a band usually doesn’t have old feelings and the commitment in common, as seen clearly by the way RB treated his teammates!
I’m no expert on the matter, but I do know this: both parties need to feel obligated for each other, and also consideration for the children – or here: the great and loyal fan base ☺️
RB must have had his reason for being a nuisance, but still he lacked respect and consideration for the 4 remaining members.
April 15th, 2025 at 21:07@ 20 – Uwe, advocating violence, well I never!!!!!! Most people want to see a positive aspect to things in life, not the negative. Negativity is poison, being optimistic and seeing things in a more ‘it is what it is’ light is not poisonous. If people want to be positive surely that is a better world? So what if you went to second MKII concert and it was shite, maybe you should have left it at the first one you attended, go out on top etc. Surely by that stage you would have been aware there was bad blood between Gillan and Blackmore again and nothing should be taken for granted. Hell, we were joking (as I have said before) about the commencement of the 1984 tour in New Zealand and Australia about the ‘how long’ scenario. Curiosity does kill the cat though, most of us have been there, done that. If I had attended a really good performance of any band, but especially MKII at that time I sure as hell wouldn’t be risking that experience being spoilt by a possible bad concert. It is all water under the bridge long gone, it is what it is. Cheers.
April 15th, 2025 at 21:59What’s the rarest, most obscure solo album of a DP member while he was still with the band or immediately after or in close proximity to his departure? Pre-Deep Purple work and session contributions for/with other people don’t count. I’m thinking …
Jon’s great Pictured Within is not even in print anymore and has been out of print like forever. Try finding a new copy of it. For someone of the stature of Jon and considering the quality of that album, this is criminal. It basically means that not even every 10th DP fan bought a copy. Feel ashamed of yourself.
Hughes’ Play Me Out has been by and large available since its release (though it was very much under the radar upon its release and never toured), so have DC’s two 70s solo albums.
Roger’s Mask has been hard to get (as has Elements).
Steve’s Angelfire project with Sarah Spencer disappeared quickly from sight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNG7d0t92g&t=81s
There was never a time when you could not get Tommy’s Teaser or Private Eyes.
Blackmore’s Rainbow debut was never an issue though it has never received a proper remaster, much less a remix.
Ian Gillan’s Cherkazzo and the IGB’s debut (how I would like to hear a remix of that!) have been largely available if you looked a bit.
Joe Lynn Turner’s various solo albums have had reasonably good availability over the decades too.
That really does leave poor Jon as the only Purple member where a very significant solo album has been completely deleted. 😑 When he passed in 2012, I would have never deemed that possible. I thought a comprehensive boxed set would only be a matter of time, yet all we got was the (commendable) ‘Celebrating Jon Lord’ release and that would have never happened if it it hadn’t been for Little Ian and his wife.
Of course, the non-release of Roger’s live performance of the Butterfly Ball is criminal too, but we’ve been through that before.
April 15th, 2025 at 22:06Uwe, the market forces as you well know are at play there. How many records went to pressing back in the 70’s in regards to the IGB, Tommy Bolin and others. There probably are truckloads of those albums stored in a warehouse somewhere. well you know what I mean, are there more of those available from initial pressings etc and they are rock music albums too, not ‘classical’ in style like Jon Lords’. In regards to material from Roger Glover and Jon Lord in particular. How many were ever printed in the first instance? Who is looking after their music, family, an estate perhaps or at worst a record company. I can imagine a record company being approached to releasing those albums, ‘who’ would most likely be a response. Am I being a little cynical as to their attitude to certain artists, obscure or not. When I bumped into Jon Lord following the Hoochie Coochie gig in 2003, I said to him after thanking him for all his music and venturing out to Australia, ‘your music is hard to find, especially out here’, his response was ‘well we are working on that’. I did purchase his ‘new’ album Pictured Within around that time, by ordering it from an import music store. The internet wasn’t up to speed as such back then. As the record store said to me at that time, Jon Lord’s music isn’t easily available. I didn’t expect Mr Lord to clarify anymore with a query like mine with so many other people gathering around trying to talk to him. Anyway, was he aware of that at that time, most probably not and he would have other things on his mind. Now days it would have to be someone interested and having the financial backing for any of his music to be re released. Even Cherry Red Records who appear to be involved in ‘obscure’ artists from Britain with re releases and box sets, would have to consider the above matters I would think. Before I Forget was re released in 2012 on Purple records, looking online at this moment. Sarabande appears harder to get. At least we can listen online to his music if it isn’t available to purchase. I realise that isn’t good enough as we do sometimes like to have a hard copy etc. Cheers.
April 16th, 2025 at 02:14Karin, no one has ever seen Ian Paice and Reg Dwight in the same room together. That should answer all your questions and is evidence enough for me.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c8/78/42/c8784275ca07d23d25368178471602eb.jpg
https://i0.wp.com/deep-purple.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Paice.png?resize=209%2C300&ssl=1
You can‘t unsee it.
April 16th, 2025 at 04:35@ 19 -thanks Max, appreciate your words and the reprieve, he he he.. Regarding artists we enjoy doing other projects, it is a sometimes interesting and sometimes better left alone situation for many, including myself. I did start to venture into solo projects from some of those musicians many decades ago but then lost interest in doing so after hearing a few albums or collaborations. I do think it is easier to appreciate solo records from non singers projects. Maybe because we can get more variation and different musicians etc. Where as if a lead vocalist does an album, I may like some of it but do find the song lyrics and melodies are predictable and too similar, if that is the best way to express it. Jon Lord’s Before I Forget album is a very good example of that mixed collaboration with different musicians that works so well and one of the reasons I like it so much. Different vocalists, drummers etc and songs plus instrumentals. The internet gives us a-reprieve these day as we can still have a listen to some music out of curiosity. We can sometimes find a good album here and there or even just a few really good songs.. However I have found something missing in regards to the songwriting in most cases, but not always. There is a certain chemistry in some bands that doesn’t flow into a band members solo work. They have to do or should do things differently and it is a fine line as to getting what they are doing or not getting it at all for me. I usually keep returning to the ‘mothership’ of the initial band situation for that craving of what I enjoy. In regards to rock music at least. There are a few very good collaborations with a few musicians occasionally that venture outside their normal musical environment. I do think the solo situation should be explored at least by certain musicians in a band. Some don’t do hardly anything outside their respective bands and I do wonder about that. Rush the Canadian rock band was a good example of that. Chris Squire from Yes is another. Cheers.
April 16th, 2025 at 06:09@24
Ich habe gerade „Pictured Within“ von Jon Lord gekauft, und wenn Sie aufhören, mich eine Hexe zu nennen, würde ich Ihnen gerne sagen, wo Sie es kaufen können 😄
Noooo I would never put such a strain on you Uwe! 😉☺️
April 16th, 2025 at 08:46@26
I can indeed un-see it!
There is no resemblance whatsoever…..
April 16th, 2025 at 11:38I have my copy of Pictured Within, Wikingerweib, danke! 😘
Dein Deutsch ist sehr gut. 👍
April 16th, 2025 at 12:27@ 24 ….. Glad i picked it up right away then Uwe, cause the price of a used one is criminal. It is now stored in my vault with all my other valuables 🤣
April 16th, 2025 at 12:34@30
vielen Dank! Ich glaube, das liegt an dem vielen deutschen Fernsehen, das ich geschaut habe, als ich etwa 4 bis 5 Jahre alt war!
April 16th, 2025 at 13:40Besonders die Werbespots haben mich fasziniert, da es damals im dänischen Fernsehen keine Werbung gab.
(And then I have a good Deutsches Wörterbuch online ☺️)
@31
Timmi, I have a vault for all my remedies (I am a homeopath) and I would be completely devastated if our house burned down and all the remedies was destroyed (many of them cannot be repurchased), so I will now put in all my valuables re Purple and Gillan 😍
April 16th, 2025 at 13:56Blind Karin @29: Yes there is, they are spitting images of another. 😂
Such an obstinate woman. Does Anton have guide dog training? He really should.
April 16th, 2025 at 17:05Herr McGregor, compiling Jon’s solo stuff outside of Purple is not that huge a body of work to manage and would hardly be rocket science. But if you did it lovingly, added the Purple version of Gemini Suite etc, had someone who knows his way around classical music write a booklet plus have his wife or daughters write a few lines about him Nd what music meant to him and put the whole thing in a box the shape of a Hammond organ (I’m not kidding) plus produce only a a limited number, I’m sure more than a few people would buy it even if upmarket priced. Hell, you could even crowdfund it.
But no one seems to give a damn. There are even unrecorded classical compositions by Jon in a drawer somewhere that could have long been performed by someone else and released. His 1984 soundtrack to the TV series The Country Diary Of An Edwardian Lady
https://youtu.be/TGozIY2eiJk?si=BEVG8JvXXlhGEqDq
has NEVER EVER seen a CD release, how criminal is that? 😑
https://youtu.be/mepnsQL49gQ
I have a hunch Jon would appreciate something like that too.
April 16th, 2025 at 22:45Uwe, is this the link to Rick Wakeman interviewing Jon Lord that you cannot watch in Germany. I am not sure if I have sent this one before. Cheers.
https://vimeo.com/901658437
April 16th, 2025 at 23:36@34
🤣🤣🤣
Anton as a guide dog!
Well I would end up at all the cute lady-dogs in our neighbourhood and eventually also at the butchers in Randers City 🫣😄
I am afraid Anton isn’t guide dog material, but he is cute and loveable and downright spoiled!
And my comment on the allegedly resemblance between the best drummer ever and some English dude who once wrote a nice song about Marilyn Monroe (and later on shameless turned that song into a tribute to the late Princess Diana), I have only this: 😝😝 (😄)
April 17th, 2025 at 05:56@33… Very well Karin, cheers ! 😁
April 17th, 2025 at 11:58@34… Uwe, Mr. Paice and Sir Mr. John are not related, we suppose! 🤔
April 17th, 2025 at 12:05Timmi, even I couldn’t find anything on that – all ties between DP and EJ are tenuous at best. I remember just one promotional interview of Jon Lord when PAL still existed where he was asked where he thought the band might be heading and he said: “Something between Little Feat and Elton John sounds about right.” So there must have been some appreciation there.
Forget all the Nikita-crap, EJ is a national treasure when he puts his mind to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSN12rYgoRo
April 17th, 2025 at 18:34The wonderful Herr MacGregor @36, I don’t offer this lightly and to the extent men are concerned it is not really an area of expertise for me either, but would you like to have gratuitous oral sex performed by me on you as a token of my everlasting thanks for giving me access to that blinder of an interview with Jon by Rick? What I lack in experience, I would compensate in devotion to the task at hand, promise!
April 17th, 2025 at 20:50@ 41 – Uwe, well I never. From that Wild Thing video to this………………sheeesh, what a morning interlude! So it worked then, the video link I sent. I thought it was a different link to the last one sent a while ago, in thatone being from the ‘dailymotion’ site from my memory and this one being Vimeo may just work, hooray! Wonderful and yes I watched the camaraderie between those two gentlemen again yesterday, it is one of the best interviews I have ever watched from two of my favourite musicians. And it is grand because it does focus on that 1960’s Jon Lord a lot and gives a little insight into the 70’s too. So much enjoyment and laughter from them and yes it does leave a rather poignant feeling about it all. Cheers.
April 17th, 2025 at 23:25I hear you Uwe in regards to the Jon Lord box set. Of course if anyone really wanted to they could possibly get that together we would hope. In regards to the television screening of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, I have actually commenced watching that, purely to listen to Jon’s music and how and where it fits into each episode. Those sort of period ‘dramas’ are a bit too twee at times for me, I will see how I go. I enjoy looking at the countryside and all that scenery etc. Some of them can be ok, I have only watched the first episode, approximately 30 minutes each episode by the look of it. Cheers.
April 18th, 2025 at 00:52Lucky bastard, I think it was never shown in mainland Europe and is currently not even streamed for access anywhere in Germany.
I can watch romantic costume dramas of worlds from past centuries ok. I don’t binge-watch Bridgerton or The Outlander like Edith does, but I don’t mind, say, Jane Austen films at all. So yeah, I’d give the Country Diary a watch – it’s also a bit of a female empowerment story with which I am fine with as well.
Jon’s music has always had that romantic, pastoral, elegiac & sometimes even outright kitschy (English classical music of any ilk is often in danger to border on that —> Edward Elgar) influence to it. I never forget when they reviewed Sarabande (the album) in German rock radio in 1976 and they played Aria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP7ijIRo8qo
while taking the piss out of it with a voice-over describing a romantic-erotic bodice ripper approach (“he draws her closer … her lips part as her dress slips from her shoulder … heavy breathing … her body first stiffens then relaxes as if an electric current had jolted through her body …”). 😂
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379769889i/283088.jpg
It was totally respectless, but quite hilarious. Jon would have seen the humor in it.
April 18th, 2025 at 14:04I found it here Uwe, at this Classic British Telly YouTube site. Not sure if that works over there or not. Yes it is very pastoral and quaint, but that is ok. Nice to watch when in a relaxed mood and I am bored with trying to watch something else. I have noticed a couple of positive comments in regards to the music. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdDQRlSi66PidENUH8WjRrA/videos
April 18th, 2025 at 22:29Sorry Uwe, I should have sent you to this link which is the first episode of The Edwardian Lady tv series at YouTube. I initially found it at that Classic British Telly site. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaV_oM9JxQ
April 19th, 2025 at 06:41Danke schön!
April 21st, 2025 at 14:47