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1970 vintage Jon Lord interview
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 it must have an exposition based around the theme — that’s just the first movement! But look what they produced…incredible music, through putting themselves into a restricted formula, and then expanding from there. It’s often like the restriction on a painter. A piece of canvas, some oils and a brush are his restrictions, and he works within those limits, and extends beyond them. Working against a restriction — for me — often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries. Free from jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.
What is the guiding musical philosophy of Deep Purple?
We believe in experiment and excitement within the framework that we have set ourselves at this particular moment in time. That will change…we will extend, obviously. We’ll get older, get different influences; we’ve not reached a point where we are perfectly happy and contented to develop naturally. We were trying to develop un-naturally before. We would grasp all sorts of different ideas at once…like a child in a garden full of flowers: he wants them all at once. When Ian [Gillan] and Roger [Glover] joined, something very nice happened within the group.
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Great.Bring more like this.
July 22nd, 2012 at 01:40It will always be interesting to read some of Jon’s comments from years ago. Definitely more please!
July 22nd, 2012 at 21:47https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyNzwxSPokk
very interesting documentary….
now could someone collect any comment from famous musicians about Lord’s departure?
July 23rd, 2012 at 13:01http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/tributejonlord.htm
Here you can find some (yes, just some) of contributions in memory of Jon Lord…
July 23rd, 2012 at 13:10These are interesting too…:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=396iDlO6qZE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mApcjZSVEio&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivfGChF-RYI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsdTA4Z_u-w
July 23rd, 2012 at 23:48Second last sentence, first question, Should that be “free form jazz”?
July 25th, 2012 at 12:00Fantastic. He was a true gentleman and one of the finest musicians I have ever had the privilege of seeing. We will never see the likes of him again.
July 27th, 2012 at 18:55Rest in peace dear Jon.