R.I.P JL, a true genius of the Hammond.

You young 'uns, ask your dad...

Sad news but leaves a great legacy.

RIP JL.

There is nothing that sounds quite like a Hammond Organ, not even a synthesizer can duplicate that sound.

RIP.

Never was a huge Deep Purple fan. Too many lineup changes and changes in musical direction for my liking.

However I was a big Emerson, Lake and Palmer fan for a while. Eventually the whole prog rock thing got on my nerves.

I never got tired of the new wave of British heavy melt and 80's thrash though .

Youtube "Big train Keith Emerson."

Sad news. I watched a BBC 4 documentary on the development of Heavy Metal just the other night and Lord featured on it. Came across as an intelligent, decent bloke.

I wasn't as in to Purple as some of my contemporaries but I still had a few of their albums. The main riff from Smoke On The Water is also the only guitar riff I ever learned and one of three things I can pick out on a piano.

strange coincidence, I haven't listened to Purple in a lot of years and recently had a lot of vinyls put into digital and only yesterday listened to the live album Made in Japan in my car.

RIP Jon Lord