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Amazing what he does
Louder Sound publishes a Prog magazine feature on Carl Sentance talking about Don Airey.
“I first met Don through a friend many years ago, when I was in Welsh heavy metal band Persian Risk. It was around the time he’d just joined Rainbow, and it was the first time I’d met someone quite famous. He was just so down-to-earth – a normal guy, a wonderful guy.
Then years later when I was in Krokus, we were doing a festival in Switzerland; Don was playing too and he took my number, and in 2006 we did our first gig together, in Austria.
Continue reading in Louder Sound.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Was the down to earth comment meant to be a pun?
June 23rd, 2025 at 23:15And if you scroll down from Carl’s article, you arrive here:
https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/epica-rob-van-der-loo-jon-lord-deep-purple
and Symphonic Metallist Rob van der Loo (I’m, uhum, relieved he didn’t anglicize his name into Rob Leak …) will confess his love for that other Deep Purple keyboarder:
“My favourite band of all time is Deep Purple, and my musical hero from that band is definitely Jon Lord. Even though I’m a bass player, I’m still in awe of what he did with music.
What I love about the music of Deep Purple – especially in the late 60s and early 70s – was that they moulded classical music and blues music into what I would call the ultimate heavy rock.
There are a lot of elements you can find in the music I make in what Deep Purple did. For example, they were one of the first rock bands to play with an orchestra. It was Jon Lord’s idea because he wrote Concerto For Group And Orchestra [1969], which was performed in the Albert Hall. Epica did a similar thing – we did a three-hour show with a 70-piece orchestra, which was amazing!
Lord’s sound is the Hammond organ, particularly the distorted Hammond organ. On one hand he’s a keyboardist, but on the other he’s a kind of second guitar player because of the guitar-like sound of his distortion. On my other project, Mayan, we use a lot of Hammond organ with symphonic death metal.“
See, and you guys always lie to yourselves about DP not being responsible for Heavy Metal … ☝️🤓
https://youtu.be/hccXTr_AJSc
June 23rd, 2025 at 23:21