DEEP PURPLE "HIGHWAY STAR" ['VEVO' ON POOTUBE] . . . . VALE JOHN LORD, DEEP PURPLE'S FOUNDER SADLY SUCCUMBS TO CANCER AGED 71 . . . . THE MAN WHO GAVE THE PURPLE ONES THEIR UNIQUE SOUND . . . . THE LOUDEST HAMMOND SOUNDS EVER GENERATED . . . . ALSO WRITING THE ALL TIME RIFF FOR GUITAR BEGINNERS..

IN THE ANNALS OF ROCK FOLKLORE THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A SPECIAL PLACE FOR DEEP PURPLE FOUNDER/KEYBOARDIST/SONGWRITER, JOHN LORD . . . . APART FROM SHEER VOLUME, HE PROVED BEYOND DOUBT THAT THE VENERABLE HAMMOND HAD A PLACE IN THE PANTHEON OF ROCK AND ROLL . . . . STORIES OF HIS MONSTER STACK OF LESLIES, THE UNITS RESPONSIBLE FOR GENERATING THE EARDRUM SHATTERING VOLUME FROM HIS HAMMOND, WILL REMAIN LEGEND . . . . IT WAS LORD WHO CAME UP WITH EVERY LEARNER GUITARISTS FIRST RIFF, "SMOKE ON THE WATER'S", DA DA DA, DA DA, DADA, DA DA DA, DADA . . . .

DEEP PURPLE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN MY FAVOURITE BAND BUT I LOVED EM ALL THE SAME, AND A LOT OF THAT WAS DOWN TO THE SUPER POWERFUL, DARK MIST SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE'S LOUDEST HAMMOND ORGAN . . . . WHEN THEY PLAYED IN BRISBANE IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES, IT WAS SAID YOU COULD HEAR THE NOISE IN MT GRAVATT . . . . THAT IS NEARLY TEN FUCKING MILES AWAY !! I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED, A LOT OF THAT WOULD'VE BEEN THE THUNDERING, VIBRATORY, GUT CHURNING, BOTTOM END HUM PUT OUT BY LORD AND HIS KILLER KEYBOARD.

HE MAY WELL BE RESTING NOW BUT I DOUBT VERY MUCH IF IT WILL BE 'IN PEACE' IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE . . . . ROCK ON JOHN LORD, ROCK ON !!!!