Blick ins Schaufenster von MARMUR - photo, art & music in Zierikzee: Metallica “Kill’ Em All” auf Vinyl - fast wie in den 80’ern. :-)

Leider hat der Laden Montags geschlossen, so daß es bei einer rein äußerlichen Betrachtung bleiben musste.

Die Liste der Songs aus “The Armageddon Rag” von George R.R. Martin:

• Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days

• Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising

• Lovin Spoonful - Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind

• Jimi Hendrix - House Burning Down

• The Beatles - Yesterday

• The Doors - Alabama Song (WHISKEY BAR)

• Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence

• Creedence Clearwater Revival - Don’t Look Now

• The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

• Supremes - Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In

• Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers

• The Doors - End Of The Night

• Jimi Hendrix - Up From The Skies

• Bob Dylan – Chimes of Freedom

• Simon And Garfunkel - Homeward Bound

• The Grateful Dead - Mexicali Blues

• The Beatles - Let It Be

• Melanie Safka - Look What They’ve Done To My Song

• Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

• The Lovin Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic

• Simon and Garfunkel - Patterns

• Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

• The Grateful Dead - Uncle John’s Band

• Creedence Clearwater Revival: Who’ll Stop The Rain

• The Rolling Stones - You Can’t Always Get What You Want

• The Who - Behind Blue Eyes

• The Doors - The End

• The Grateful Dead - Truckin’

Nach Iron Maiden, die zusammen mit Anthrax auf der “No Prayer On The Road ‘90”-Tour nicht sonderlich überzeugten, waren Slayer am 15. November 1991 in der Eberthalle in Ludwigshafen das zweite große Konzert das meinereiner besuchte und das fiel deutlich beeindruckender aus! Während bei den Erstgenannten nur ein laues Lüftchen von der Bühne wehte, entfachten Slayer einen wahren Sturm und machten aus mir einen überzeugten Konzert-Gänger.

Zwar ist Kerry King der in den Medien deutlich präsentere und prominentere der beiden Slayer-Gitarristen, doch genau wie die Song-Writing-Credits unterstrich die Live-Show sehr deutlich, daß Jeff für die Band nicht weniger bedeutend war.

In den letzten beiden Jahren durch eine Infektionskrankeit an Bandaktivitäten verhindert und eigentlich nur vertretungsweise durch Gary Holt ersetzt, ist Jeff Hanneman am 2. Mai 2013 verstorben.

R.I.P.

On October 1st, 2012 “The Highway Star” had the opportunity to do an interview with Paul Mann. Being the conductor of the 1999 “Concerto For Group And Orchestra” performance and the subsequent Deep Purple world tour, Paul became a close friend to Jon Lord. Being also heavily involved in the making of the brand new studio recording, he shares some insight on various topics.

… choosing the musicians

Right from the start my feeling was – and it was one Jon shared – that we should try to make this new recording about the piece itself, as a composition of Jon’s - to try and cast the net wider than Deep Purple. Which is not to take anything away from them - they made it so much their own through the original performance and the thirty or so performances we did between 1999 and 2001. But for some people it became regarded as Deep Purple’s rather than Jon’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra.

I wanted to try to make a recording that came as close to what I understood as his intention and certainly my own feelings about the piece, and to bring it as close to the ideal as we possibly could. The idea was to try to choose people that would be suited to each particular part rather than to use a single band. We would sort of handpick the guitarists, and what we ended up with was a very interesting cross-section of people:

Darin Vasilev, this Bulgarian guitarist who Jon had played live with a few times and had really loved his playing. I didn’t conduct any of those performances, but he told me about this amazing guy and said “I think we really should have him on the recording.“ He’s been the real discovery of this project for me - really outstanding. Joe [Bonamassa] of course is such a great blues guitarist that he’s perfect for the second movement.

When it came to the third movement, all sorts of names were being mentioned and finally I said to Jon: “Look, everyone that we’re thinking of, I would end up saying to them: go and listen to what Steve Morse did back in 1999 and do something like that!” And if you’ve got a great star name, you can’t start telling them to play like someone else, so in the end I just said to Jon “Why don’t we just ask Steve to do it?” So I called him, and he was in the middle of writing sessions for the new album in Germany and as usual was massively busy, but he dropped everything and said “Yes of course, anything for Jon. I’ll do it tonight." A couple of days later I got some e-mails with three completely different takes of the whole movement. It was incredibly difficult to choose one. I wanted to release them all as extras so everyone could hear how great they were. Maybe we will one day. Thirtieth anniversary remaster…

But in the end it was good to have Steve alongside Jon to represent the quintessential spirit of Deep Purple and also still have a way to acknowledge everything the band did for the piece. It’s a good way of having the best of both worlds in that sense.

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Jon Lord ist im Laufe des heutigen Tages in London verstorben.

Die Welt verliert nicht nur einen großartigen Musiker, sondern auch einen beeindruckenden Menschen.

Vielen Dank für alles und mögest Du in Frieden ruhen.