Jon Lord

The album we heard side one.

You and Me, Medicine Man, Help Me Through the Day, a Leon Russell composition, Walking in the Shadow of the Blues, and what about John Lord in that? And the first 45 RPM from the album Long Way from Home.

It was released September 21st, 1979, recorded in May 79, and recorded by the Rolling Stone Truck Thing, or Rolling Truck Stone Thing, at Clearwater Castle.

The labels in America was United Artist and Japan Polydor.

Hmm.

And the personnel, David Coverdale, of course, vocals, All But Track 8, Mickey Moody, Slide Guitar, Guitars, Backing Vocals, Bernie Marsden, Guitars, Backing Vocals, and Lead Vocals on Track 8, Neil Murray Bass, Duck Dow on Drums, John Lord on Keyboards, produced and engineered by Martin Birch at Central Recorders Studio, London.

It made 229 in the UK charts.

Didn't chart in America.

I'm a frustrated musician.

I wish I was John Lord from Deep Purple.

I'm not John Lord from Deep Purple, but then John Lord's not me.

John Lord can't describe a wall of crisps.

The problem is that John Lord is quite the Bon Vivre, so I think he'd look down at the Watsits and the Quavers.

I mean, he might entertain a ridged crisp, but he'd probably have to crush it into some caviar.

Yes, you're right.

As brilliant as John Lord was, he didn't have that eye for detail.

While famous for their heavy sound, Deep Purple's true innovation was not in speed, but in fusion.

Their complex structures were driven by the dialogue between the powerful drums of Ian Pace and the revolutionary Hammond organ of John Lord.

Lord, a virtuoso who trained in classical music, pioneered the integration of baroque and classical structures directly into hard rock.

Pace's aggressive yet technically brilliant drumming provided the rhythmic precision and force needed to underpin this classical scale.

It was a very popular album.

And in rock, they had hired an artist that drew the faces of Richie Blackmore, Ian Gyllen, Ian Pace, Roger Glover, and John Lord instead of the faces of the presidents on Mount Rushmore.

Who are the presidents, by the way, on Mount Rushmore? George Washington? Yep.

Lincoln? Yep.

I mean, I was influenced by all the usual suspects.

You know, I love John Lord.

I mean, I just thought he was I just thought he was exceptional.

He was, you know, and Keith Emerson as well.

So when he played, I'd never heard anything that loud in my life, these high watts.

But his energy and his recklessness, just like going for it, you know? And that's I love that kind of playing in anybody.

And John Lord, even though he was a schooled guy and some of his stuff was very technical, he had that that thing.

And I don't know what you call it, but he had that.

energy to the whole thing.

the use of the organ is one of the standout things for me because it just reminds me of John Lord, right? And I've got a bit of a, and I like to see a good bit of organ in my metal sometimes.

We do love an organ.

And it's like, you know, it's a wonderful instrument.

It matches, more so than a piano.

for me for metal like because it's again it's so grandiose yeah right that's it that's it you know when you like one of the things one of the first like hard rock albums i i ever heard was made in japan by deep purple you've got that amazing uh organ work by john lord on it all the way through you know even even when he's like sailing away and so like yeah organs are great uh electric organs full full like you know church organs great i i really like that

Yeah, there's now.

So on the point, we mentioned Deep Purple a few times now.

But that's him.

The other cool thing about stuff like that is it has that kind of guitar-y sound, which is fun, which is the same reason why I love Deep Purple so much, because John Lord plays through a goddamn Marshall.

Yeah.

I

Yeah.

The only thing I can add to that is when we get to May, there's a version by John Lord and the Coochie Men.

Oh, really? Okay.

He was performing with them when he came out in 2003.

Okay.

So we'll drop in on John Lord doing his version of which is quite a very common thing that he would quite often do that with deep purple too sometimes.

Yeah, good.

Okay, Craig, back to you.

It would sound like this.

The rhythm sounds like a cross between the two, but where's John Lord when you need him? It really needs some kind of really distorted Hammond right in the middle of this.

But then here comes Billy channeling Albert King again, and it's still all good.

This is a good tune.

Thanks, Lou.

I'm going to need some of that Schmitz gay beer to drown the fact that I can now picture Paul McCartney slipping into John Lord.

Thanks, buddy.

Richie Blackmore.