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Tommy Bolin Memorial Fund has opened a new official website dedicated to Tommy: tommybolin-official.com. It has much of what one would expect from it (an RSS feed for updates would be nice though) and is well worth a visit. The Tommy Bolin Memorial Fund is a charitable foundation in memory of Tommy run with active […]
Read more »429 Records is preparing a Tommy Bolin box set The Definitive Teaser — a three-CD collection featuring a remastered version of his classic album along with two CDs of outtakes and alternates. The project is produced by Greg Hampton and Johnnie Bolin. Along with the three-CD Teaser box set, 429 Records will release a five-CD […]
Read more »Classic Rock Magazine has a new interview with Ian Gillan focusing on his Ian Gillan Band years: Why the jazz-rock-fusion direction? I donāt know exactly, it was all a bit chaotic. To start off with we didnāt really have any direction at all, because nobody knew what they were doing. Of course, my hero Johnny […]
Read more »Eddie Hardin: JON LORD – THE GENTLEMAN OF MUSIC My first encounter with Jon, well, I must have been 16! He was playing with THE ARTWOODS and I was rehearsing in a room nearby; I was immediately struck by the growling sound of his Hammond. I tried my best to be inconspicuous, though Jon spotted […]
Read more »Jon Lord’s home town newspaper Henley Standard also did a tribute to him which puts his character in quite a unique perspective: Lord was a close friend of author, playwright and barrister Sir John Mortimer, who died in 2009, and they performed together at the Kenton Theatre in Henley. Nansi Diamond, an amateur actress and […]
Read more »British radio station GTFM did a special on Jon Lord in the wake of his death. It is one of the better done ones and covers his whole career in and outside of Purple. You can listen to it online (sadly, sans the music, due to licensing restrictions). Listen to the second half of the […]
Read more »According to Ā BlabbermouthĀ , the track listing forĀ “Re-Machined: A Tribute To Machine Head” has been finalized and features: Smoke On The Water – CARLOS SANTANA Highway Star – CHICKENFOOT Maybe I’m A Leo – GLENN HUGHES, CHAD SMITH, LUIS MALDONADO Pictures Of Home – BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Never Before – KINGS OF CHAOS (Joe Elliott, Steve […]
Read more »Rock Backpages have reprinted a vintage interview with Jon Lord, which originally appeared in the November 1970 issue of Beat Instrumental: Do you believe in musical discipline? Yes. You take the great symphony writers like Beethoven…they wrote within an incredibly strict framework…you know, it must have a first subject, a second subject, a dominant key…and […]
Read more »Not all the news this week are of a somber nature. Life goes on and Black Country Communion have gathered in the studio in Los Angeles to work on their third album.
Read more »Bernie Marsden: June and July have been very busy, but all has been brought back to base with the loss of my great friend and colleague Jon Lord on Monday 16th July. Jon Lord was to many millions of people THE keyboard player in the great days of Deep Purple, and so he was. But […]
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