100 Greatest Rock Keyboardists/Pianists

gminer · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:17 pm **Posts:** 2453

Jon Lord Blues Project 2011 ... Take care

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11797

gminer wrote:

Jon Lord Blues Project 2011 ... Take care

Not bad at all.
Gminer what do you think of the organ on this track? Truly one of the most hypnotic tones of anyone I've ever heard...

gminer · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:17 pm **Posts:** 2453

Negative Creep wrote:

gminer wrote:

Jon Lord Blues Project 2011 ... Take care

Not bad at all.
Gminer what do you think of the organ on this track? Truly one of the most hypnotic tones of anyone I've ever heard...

..interesting ... I had not heard that tune before, it had gonna of a Doors feel but was quite good ... Take care

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11797

That is simply the ultimate psychedelic album. Rick even has it at #1 on his list.

David Cohen on the organ surely never got the credit he deserved (as with most good organ players).

Alan Price of The Animals is another great one that hardly gets his just due.

The Man · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 9:29 pm

gminer wrote:

Jon Lord Blues Project 2011 ... Take care

Thanks for sharing! Solid stuff.

beaverteeth92 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:09 pm **Posts:** 1163

Negative Creep wrote:

I only have one album from Porcupine Tree and I can tell the guy is great.

Anyway, just thought I'd say that Manzarek is one of the most underrated musical geniuses in all of rock. Not a soloing beast like Emerson or Lord, but he's so much more concise and managed to come up with PERFECT accompaniment for whatever song the band played. His live improv was killer, and his tone and choice of notes were all his own.

In short, I just fuckin love Ray. Damn near as much as I love Jim...

The only reason Manzarek is so underrated is because of the vocalist he was backing.

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11797

Yah I agree. Jim was larger than life.

I've always felt that Jim and Ray were the most important elements to the band's sound.

gminer · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:17 pm **Posts:** 2453

KeithMoonIsGod · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:05 pm

Um... Why is David Rosenthal #62 (That's a bit high... I always thought his keyboards were perhaps the most disappointing part of that particular Rainbow line-up.) and Tony Carey isn't on the list?

That keyboard intro is incredible!

beaverteeth92 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:09 pm **Posts:** 1163

RIP Jon Lord.

This is the most devastated I've ever been by the death of a musician. He was legitimately my favorite individual musician in any band...

Freddie Bellamy · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:52 pm

beaverteeth92 wrote:

RIP Jon Lord.

This is the most devastated I've ever been by the death of a musician. He was legitimately my favorite individual musician in any band...

I just saw this from the DP page on Facebook. RIP. :sad:

Rick · **Joined:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:21 pm **Posts:** 456

It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Jon Lord, who suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism today, Monday 16th July at the London Clinic, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jon was surrounded by his loving family.

Jon Lord, the legendary keyboard player with Deep Purple co-wrote many of the bands legendary songs including Smoke On The Water and played with many bands and musicians throughout his career.

Best known for his Orchestral work Concerto for Group & Orchestra first performed at Royal Albert Hall with Deep Purple and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969 and conducted by the renowned Malcolm Arnold, a feat repeated in 1999 when it was again performed at the Royal Albert Hall by the London Symphony Orchestra and Deep Purple.

Jon’s solo work was universally acclaimed when he eventually retired from Deep Purple in 2002.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

Jon Lord 9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012.

KeithMoonIsGod · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:59 pm

beaverteeth92 wrote:

RIP Jon Lord.

This is the most devastated I've ever been by the death of a musician. He was legitimately my favorite individual musician in any band...

Yousha · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:48 pm

We're losing some really good ones in recent times....RIP.....

gminer · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:17 pm **Posts:** 2453

Rick wrote:

It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Jon Lord, who suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism today, Monday 16th July at the London Clinic, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jon was surrounded by his loving family.

Jon Lord, the legendary keyboard player with Deep Purple co-wrote many of the bands legendary songs including Smoke On The Water and played with many bands and musicians throughout his career.

Best known for his Orchestral work Concerto for Group & Orchestra first performed at Royal Albert Hall with Deep Purple and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969 and conducted by the renowned Malcolm Arnold, a feat repeated in 1999 when it was again performed at the Royal Albert Hall by the London Symphony Orchestra and Deep Purple.

Jon’s solo work was universally acclaimed when he eventually retired from Deep Purple in 2002.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

Jon Lord 9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012.

...such sad news and as I mentioned in a pm to you my friend ...... for me in my musical life`s journey it is the end of an era and another introduction to my own mortality .... Take care

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