Jon Lord

Role

Keyboardist

Genre

Rock Classical Electronic

Group

Deep Purple The Singing Rebel's Band WhoCares

Credits

Kinks (Deluxe Edition)

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Role

Keyboardist

Genre

Rock Classical Electronic

Group

Deep Purple The Singing Rebel's Band WhoCares

Credits

Kinks (Deluxe Edition)

Social

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Marshall Major Model 1967 200-watt head

Bass Amplifier Heads

In 1971 Deep Purple recorded his album "Machine Head" (edited in 1972). At some point, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore said he was to tired to record rhythm guitars, so Jon Lord decided to emulate it himself. For doing that, he conected Hammond organ to distorted Ritchie's amplifiers (Marshall Major at this time), and developed what he called "The Beast", one of his caracteristic sounds.

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Leslie 122 Speaker Cabinet

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Jon Lord is known for using Leslie cabinets in his entire career. In this video you can see this cabinet behind him at 5:03, while playing Continuo on BACH, a Bach inconclused fugue - BWV1080 - adapted by him for his Windows solo album (Munich 01.06.74)

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