> From: GUEST,josepp
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> I think it was Emerson who taught him how to play the synth.

I suppose it hinges on what you mean by 'taught'.

I first discovered Deeple Purple through the album In Rock, with that wonderful send-up on the cover of the faces of American Presidents carved in the cliff-top overlooking Hollywood replaced by the members of the band. I then started buying their back catalog and went forward with them up to and including Fireball, so at that point I had every Deep Purple album and single. I tended to prefer Jon's keyboard solos to Ritchie Blackmore's guitar solos, the main exception being the guitar solo in Child In Time, the best song on In Rock.

I never replaced the albums with CDs, so I don't have them anymore, and, particularly, I don't therefore have the sleeve notes, so this is all based on recollection. IIRC, Jon Lord was classically trained from an early age (but perhaps I had better check my facts ... yes, that was right: Deep Purple's Jon Lord dies at 71), so I'd be surprised if Keith Emerson taught him anything except possibly the actual workings of a synth and what it could do - he couldn't have taught him much about keyboard playing.

In fact Jon was knowledgeable enough to write a Concerto For Rock Band which was performed with, I think, the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall around the turn of the decade 60s to 70s. I had that album as well.

So many good numbers, I really must get some CDs when I have some spare cash.