Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”Cheap Trick” is in!
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Finally, the RNRHOF has a good line up this year to induct. Cheap Trick, Deep Purple, The Steve Miller Band and…NWA? Not sure how much “Rock” NWA is but I didn’t vote on it. Article is below this awesome gate fold of Cheap Trick!
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From Rolling Stone:
Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen is rarely speechless, but the news that his band got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame briefly left him unable to find find words. “Usually I’m a man of many words, but this has got me in a tizzy here,” he says on the phone. “I’m verklempt. I don’t know what to say. It’s very exciting.” The moment passed quickly, and soon enough he was chatting about the induction ceremony, a possible reunion with original drummer Bun E. Carlos and why Cheap Trick will never stop touring.
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“Deep Purple” on the Today Show!
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Formed in 1968. Deep Purple despite a few key line up changes (mainly Ritchie Blackmore) is still kicking butt! Kids, this is how its done! Think not? You write a song that still gets the people up and moving when it’s 40 plus years old then we can talk. And by the way, listen to those real vocals… Ian Gillian is the man behind the pipes! Here it is. Off their 1972 album titled “Machine Head”. One of the first riffs most guitarists learn…
“Smoke on the Water”
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R.I.P. Jon Lord….
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If you don’t know who Jon Lord is, please check yourself at the door…
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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.
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