LORD-ALMIGHTY!!!! happy bday Jon Lord

Jon Douglas Lord... a legendary name in the classic rock circuit, god of the Hammond organ, the adjectives run for pages. The legendary keyboard player of the legendary rock band Deep Purple, was born on this very day 69 years ago( 9th June 1941 in Leicester). Well to begin with, thank u sir for all the wonderful pieces both as a member of deep purple and as a solo artist.And i genuinely hope that u come out of your retirement and come up with many more of them.

Well when I  think of Jon Lord the first thing that comes to my mind is the numerous bluesy and jazz based solos that u can find through out the Deep Purple discography.But his real greatness lies in the way he converted keyboards and organs from backup rock instruments to mainstream rock instruments on which u could solo, shread, or even orchestrate the bgm..(the others who did the same were probably Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Rick Wakeman of Yes an Keith Emerson of ELP.. gosh I've failed to gauge the similarity between them that all of them are from Classical to Jazz background)..Neways he through his work has inspired almost the generations of keyboard players who have followed him... And his blues and jazz style and almost mortally impossible fast solos are still a treat to ne keyboard lover..

Jon Lord employed the "hard rock" style on the Hammond, and he often used tube distortion and overdrive through regular speakers, as opposed to the Leslie. He was also known for playing heavy and fast keyboard riffs, in the same way that Blackmore would on his guitar. The best example of this is the song "Fireball," where he used thrash metal-like riffs, and he used a Maestro RM-1A ring modulator in the solo. He was also the first to play a Hammond through a (Marshall) guitar amp.



Some of his techniques are soloing in F blues (F - A flat - B flat - B natural - C - E flat - E natural - F) with repeated licks. Oftentimes he would play a lick three times, expound in the fourth, and then move on to something else. He also played extremely fast triplets (Hush, for instance), and strived to make his organ sound as dirty as a guitar.



As a classically trained musician (his father was a church organist) Jon Lord's style is a mixture of baroque, rock, blues and funk. A good example of this blend is the "Sarabande" album.



He is known for being the keyboardist of "Deep Purple" , but he played for many other great artists as well; The Kinks, Ian Gillan, Artwoods, Whitesnake, Sam Brown, and Tom Waits, among others.



He really trashed a C3 in one concert (Scandinavian Night); a key jumped out of its place and Jon put it back in. You can just imagine how hard and fast he played.


Equally important is his solo career which began after he left Deep Purple in 2002 ( before which he left all his audiences with pieces like perfect strangers during the MK 2 phase)..in which he has performed many of his classical compositions with various artists and orchestras...

At the of 69 his impact on music world is so profound that his albums are still raking chart.. His latest album "To Notice Such Things"( released at 29th March 2010) entered the UK charts at no 4... He s also among the top 10 living composers...

He is unarguably one of the greatest rock keyboardist of all time.. and its a divine experience every time that u play ne song of his, unaffected by the synth and electronic revolution that has caught up among keyboard players since the late 90s this wizard continues to weave his magic with the most traditional from of playin the keys.. on an analog organ or the piano... and proudly does he claim every piece he has created to be work of his mind and fingers and not a petty software runnin inside ur keyboard or on ur mac....

Jon Lord's Modified C-3

The following information comes from a March, 1983 Keyboard Magazine interview between Jon Lord and Bob Doerschuk. The interview is reprinted in the book Rock Keyboard. (Thanks to KonZissis for the reference.)


Jon had (the guts of) an RMI Electra Piano wired into the key contacts of his C-3 so that on the upper manual he can play organ, RMI piano, or both at the same time. Also, the bottom two octaves of the lower manual can be hooked up to trigger a synthesizer (Minimoog).

Well on his 69 bday all i would like to wish him many many many more years of glory a nd well being...

Truly life wouldn't have been the same for many a aspirant rock keyboardists if there was no JON LORD

Here my pick of  Top Ten Jon Lord Must Haves:

1) Highway Star *
2) Burn*
3) Fireball*
4) Perfect Strangers*
5) The Evening song
6) Pictured within
7) Sarabande
8) Sunrise
9) Circles of stones
10) Sunrise

*- Deep Purple songs

Well check the videos of his solo on youtube listen to songs on :Last.fm and if u r an aspiring keyboardist google search his style, download his gp files, check out his videos.......... 

Once again happy birthday lord of keyboard.... :-) :-)

ad btw his official site is : http://jonlord.org/

Cheerz and see ya guys with the next post....  and till en CHAO... :-)

TWEET CHILD O MINE !!!.. A guide to what u can do on Twitter

Ohk.. so i was wondering abt the topic of my next post and thats when my good friend Roach came with a question.. " U douf ... what do u do all day on that shitty twitter"...So this post goes out for all those who have an account on twitter and have wondered what to do with it..And how has the world caught upon the craze with a a simple question: "Whatss on your mind"...(Well all of us know twitter is gone way beyond that.. its gone real time with videos,pics,retweets,hashtags,apps,tools and what not)..But in this era of microblogin that proves to be the most important question... :-)

Ps for those if any who have no idea what twitter is go to http://twitter.com/login get urself an account and have a feel of it first hand...Those who have mastered the art of microblogin leave comments so that i get know stuff...and those who r wondering read through the post.

Ohk lemme start of by tellin u guys why does twitter contain the power its said to have..Currently we have email, instant messenger, and VoIP tools like Skype as one-to-one or one-to-few online communication tools. For one-to-many online communication, online publishers can turn to blogs to create and distribute content rapidly and reach anyone on the web through RSS feeds.Twitter is a combination of these various forms of communication, but its primary difference is that posts, or tweets, are restricted to 140 characters or less. As a Twitter user you can post updates, follow and view updates from other users (this is akin to subscribing to a blog’s RSS feed), and send a public reply or private direct message to connect with another Twitterer...

Ok so lets get to specifics.. What can u do on twitter

1) Twitter for fun: Well a thing ive always wondered about is how do i keep myself occupied.. cause aim on e of the most jobless human being on the planet yet iam seldom if ever bored.. No Iam not gonna say that I twitter but what i have found out is that ive got shit loads of jobless friends aside me all the time...So whats the point.. The point here is twitter is an easy way to broadcast your messsages to all your friends...Gone r those days when u had to personally scrap each and every one now u can just answer the question whats on your mind... Let ur friends know.. and know from ur friends..

Whats more u have tools, apps,and games u can sync ur twitter account with......to mention a few 140 mafia, tweetfight,snods(which expands as  Social Networks Online Defence Squad),trivia and my personal fav Spymaster....to say a lil bit about Spymaster:in this you play a character of Spy for any of these agencies; American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), or the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). And the game is all about your pursuit of becoming a Bond (with a caliber of James Bond). It is worth trying as it has surely revolutionized the whole concept of social networking games. Discover it...WARNING: its highly addictive.... :-)...

Among tools and apps.. U could literally give power to a city for an year if u divert the power spent on making Twitter apps and tools.. there r shit loads of them online..to retweet, to hastag,to create a new fridayfollow, to send easy tweets, to manage tweets and for every possible human online action.. just google your requirement out guys....

2)Twitter for jobs: Well yea...Its not a woohoooo concept... It would require the same skills out of u as it would take a person roamin around from one recruiter to the othe rfor a job..well ur activity would be just less physical... Well lets face no one gives u a job for nothin.. and ppl recruitin are smart.. so all thise ppl who have got the idea that they r just a couple of clicks away from a new job,, all ive got to tell u is get ur head outta ur arse...but TWITTER HELPS A GREAT DEAL NEVERTHELESS....

Ohk here the traditinal approach is make an impressive profile,add a link to your CV.. utilize the background to promote yourself... tweet about your field, get ppl interested in your tweets when they search(or arrange for retweets .. hehehehe...)..Get to know the right ppl through their bio(Stats tell that lotta recruiter use twitter for recruitment)..Send them direct message.. basically get interested in u or atleast in your account...BLAH BLAH..I have no clue how many ppl have got themselves employed this way.. but neways thats not the way Iam asking u to do it

I d like to give u guys 2 AMAZING TOOLS FOR SEARCHIN FOR JOBS ON TWITTER...

@Microjobs


Started by well-known PR professional, Brian Solis, @Microjobs was developed to bring together job seekers and recruiters through tweets.

How does it work?

Recruiters begin their tweets with @Microjobs, and then submit. The @Microjobs account automatically tweets out requests to its growing network of job seekers.



TweetMyJobs


Another tool born out of Twitter for job seekers and recruiters. Follow the hashtag #Tweetmyjobs and visit the website. This is a very simple (and free) tool for job seekers. You can subscribe to desired job channels and even have new openings automatically sent to your mobile phone. Even better? You can specify which cities you want notifications from.

Job search accounts:

There are a variety of Twitter accounts dedicated to providing job listings by field, company, region, and more. Once you’ve decided which best match your job search, consider turning on mobile alerts for these accounts to be among the first to receive messages (if your mobile phone plan includes SMS messages).

3)Twitter For Work: Well the real power of twitter is amount of ppl logged onto it.. all the above said turns to crap without it..This global nature of twitter has been a boon for the class of society that we fondly call celebs.. They can now connect with their fans in a way that dosent breach their highly valued privacy :-s and still reach out to each and evry one who wants to know abt them... I know u dont wanna read ne more abt this crap...So waht if SRK has 400,000 followers.. how does it make the experience any more usefull for us?

Well wanna promote an event.. or just let ppl know ur rock band is playin somewhere for that extra bit of crowd...Tweet it out mate(to be pronounced in an austrailian accent.. sounds weird without it....)...get a few retweets.. ppl will search.. ppl will stumble upon ur tweet

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Ohk what do u do if u r as jobless as me and are into twitter for nothin specific... Well search out key words u love.. find out how other ppl in the world feel abt it.. read their tweets.. follow their links.. see their pics..follow them if u find them interesting...Retweet the tweets u find interesting....and yea answer the most important question Whats on your mind?

If u r a coder.. the api s available.. the forum s runnin.. the documentation s available... get ur cap thinking cap on.. make an app.. share it with the world.. and just see the world using your creation
visit  http://dev.twitter.com/

And if u still r not having fun.. u r not engineered for social networking.. which is not a bad trait.. shut down ur pc... have a cup of coffee.. read a book.. text ur friends...let the world tweet itself out...ha ha



CHAO guys, see ya with the next post......

and ya i almost forgot:

Champions Leauge 2010 Finals:Pre Match Thoughts

8mins to go for findin out who would be the kings of Europe this.. so i thought why not put down my pre-match prediction..just to see how correct or incorrect i turn out to be...ps ive never written a blog in 8 mins..so that would be a challenge too...

                                                              

                                                               

                                                           Well they ve had a tremendous

                                                             run to the finals and probably..

                                                                 the more difficult one too..

                                                          beating the almost certain champs

                                                                    Barca  in the semis.

                                                          backed  by the shear genius called

                                                                  Mourinho..and boasting

                                                          the likes of Samuel Eto'o,Wesley 

                                                                 Sniejder, Cambiasso and 

                                                         Zenetti, they have surged ahead of

                                                             every obstacle..armed with an

                                                        uncanny strategic ability of nullifying

                                                        the strenghts of the opponents..Jose

                                                        would be lookin to disarm the bayern

                                                        attacking force by singling outRobben

                                                        and heavily marking Olic..And he has

                                                        the right resources for the job as Inter

                                                        boasts one of the best defensive lineup

                                                        with the amazing Julio Cesar guarding

                                                                        the goal post

                                                         Ps. no strategic compremise needed

                                                         cause Inter boast a dynamic attacking

                                                            parade with the likes of Eto'o,

                                                                   Milito and Pandev..

                                                          Championship stuff i must say..

                                                          Probable Lineup:

                                                          Cesar

                                                          Maicon

                                                          Lucio

                                                          Samuel

                                                          Zanetti

                                                          Cambiasso

                                                          Muntari

                                                          Sneijder

                                                          Eto'o

                                                          Pandev and

                                                          Milito.

                                                          Player to Watch out for:

                                                          Samuel Eto'o

                                                         

Well after a disastrous start in 

the group stages they have done                                                                                                                  to reach the finals.They undoubtedly

have the best midfield available.BUT

BUT BUT Franck Ribery is out.:(:(                      

 Was really looking forward to see him

play. a harsh decision followed by a

three match ban puts him out.. but

Ribery's loss is Alintop's gain he gets

a chance to make it big for him..Apart 

from that they own the skills of the 

maestro Schweinstiger and the invincible

Arjen Robben whose assists would be

welcomed by the in form Olic and highly 

talented Muller.. This one heck of an

attacking unit..Having their backs behind

there are the likes of Philip Lahm (one of

the best full backs in the world),Van Buyten

and Demichilles.. All toghether they look to

be a force to reckon with..But earlier matches

have shown us that they r defensively weak..

even with with the sort of players they ve got

behind.. I haven't seen much from Butt so no

comments over there..The player to watch

out for would be:

ARJEN ROBBEN:

Probable lineup:

Butt,

Lahm

Demichelis

van Buyten

Badstuber

Altintop

Schweinsteiger

van Bommel

Robben

Olic and

Muller

Well considering both the teams weighing the strategies and capabilities of respective managers ans assessing other factors my prediction is Inter would take it away 1-0.

Well its just one of those situation today my heart says Bayern while my mind says Inter..

PS....stuck without a tv: watch it live at:

http://www.free-football.tv/

Or follow it live at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8698033.stm

The Pac-Man Bug

I had just shut my laptop down and was wondering abt to dos for the rest of the day.. but somehow the Pac Man mania aint goin outta my head ... so here s another post

I don't know how many of u know abt it but there was a famous bug in the original PacMan.. As a side effect to its awesome unendability after the 255th level was done the 256th level's screen looked clogged withunwanted symbols a representation of generation of garbage values instead of the required symbols...

   It was called the "split screen"..evidently..and this meant Pac-Man was no longer infinite.... :(..But what caused this seemingly revolutionary game to fail...the game that u could paly untill u die wasn't so ne more..

This error was a result of a single 8-bit level counter which could store only 256 distinct values rangin from(0-255) and thus a kill screen at level 256.Normally, no more than seven fruits are displayed at any one time, but when the internal level counter (stored in a single byte) reaches 255, the subroutine erroneously causes this value to "roll over" to zero before drawing the fruit. This causes the routine to attempt to draw 256 fruits, which corrupts the bottom of the screen and the whole right half of the maze with seemingly random symbols.

Pac-Man and the ghosts can move freely throughout the right half of the screen, barring some fractured pieces of the maze. Despite claims that someone with enough knowledge of the maze pattern could play through the level, it is technically impossible to complete since the graphical corruption eliminates most of the dots on the right half of the maze. A few edible dots are scattered in the corrupted area, and these dots reset when the player loses a life (unlike in the uncorrupted areas), but these are insufficient to complete the level. As a result, the level has been given a number of names, including "the Final Level", "the Blind-Side", and the ending. It is known more generally as a kill screen.

A perfect Pac-Man game occurs when the player achieves the maximum possible score on the first 255 levels (by eating every possible dot, energizer, fruit, and monster) without losing a single life then scoring as many points as possible in the last level. The first person to achieve the maximum possible score (3,333,360 points) was Billy Mitchell of Hollywood, Florida, who performed the feat in about six hours.


An 8-year-old boy, Jeffrey R. Yee, supposedly received a letter from U.S. President Ronald Reagan congratulating him on a worldwide record of 6,131,940 points, a score only possible if the player has passed the Split-Screen Level. Whether or not this event happened as described has remained in heated debate among video-game circles since its supposed occurrence.No video game player could demonstrate this ability. In 1999, Billy Mitchell offered $100,000 to anyone who could provably pass through the Split-Screen Level before January 1, 2000; the prize went unclaimed.

Happy Bday to u...Happy Bday to u..Happy Bday to u dear PAC-MAN !!!!

Yep its party time 

                            .. cause our beloved Pac-Man has now become 3 decades old..Capturing imaginations of millions..it has walked into gaming hall of fame a s agame that has kept men occupied for more hours than any other game ever..A legend, a social icon in mid 80s and unarguably one of the most popular arcade games ever designed..has seen many transformations from a revolutionary video game at the time when only arcades developed were derivatives of pong or the space shooters or the astreoids to an omnipresent desktop game, to a cartoon and moviie character, to a highly selling merchendise to even its 3d avatar..this game has entertained millions with its simple yet elegent and fast gameplay.. Hats Off to you Toru Iwatani ...

  

Well the yellow pie character was percieved by Toru Iwatani as he describes it :"while having a pizza".And en began the next gen of responsive and interactive gaming..and whats more the game upon its release was the only indefinite game as in u could play untill u die...

If u think of it people who got hooked on to it since its release could probably be in their late thirties or forties. and probably would be seein their kids play the same game they were hooked on to...

And who can forget the four of the most famous monsters of the mordern gaming era Shadow,Speedy ,Bashful and Pokey didnt we love to turn them purple or freeze them, but the dreaded things always seemed to have a way of finding PacMan through any maze..

Neways on 21 may 1980 the game was originally christned as Pakkuman by the original distributors Namco..interestingly Paku means sound made by mouth( i wonder waht other kinds of sounds could be there ..and mouth produces all kinds of sounds..) and thePac Man name much later from some of its distributors in US.

well now we have all sorts of Pac Mans for all sort of consoles like atari,sega games boys, apple pcs of all gens, NES,and a 3d version for XBOX specially designed by Toru Iwatani himself.But my fav still remains the original Perfect Play version..

Neways i ll list out a few evolutions of Pc man:

1)Ms Pac Man: A spin off from original version                               

2)The Pac man vs: Originally designed for nintendo game cube.. was probably the first multiplayer game with one player taking car of the Pac Man and others control the monsters.It took advantage of the game cube-game boy connectivity....a playercould be even assigned to display the maze.

3)Pac Man the CHampionship Edition: The most recent game in the pac man franchize for XBOX and iphone..
 
Craze of Pac Man that still exist in the current society despite the availibility of high def virtual reality games can be gauged by the fact that there are numerous Pac man championships held annually the most famous of them bein the Pac Man World Championship held in NYC...also google dedicated a doodle to it on its 30th bday...


If u r readin this post and u still havent played PacMan(common dont tell me u r readin any further , how can u have not played Pac Man).. buy it, download it, play it online.. do somethin but plz do play it...Here are some usefull links if u wanna play online..

1) http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/pacman_flash/

2)http://www.freepacman.org/

3)http://www.pacmanworld.info/

Begining:

Well this post is just an indicator of wheen i started postin into this blog.And if i continue postin and maintain my blog and finally the remote probability of the blog becomin a little known becomes true then probably this post would act as a check point to reflect back..

Oh ya and a bit about myself:

Iam Vishnu  //people call me Unni
I am an ardent rock/metal follower,ps i play the keyboard too. have a genneral interest in coding, open source,and almost any techie stuff in general..if u guys share any of my interests or u just wanna socialize..

U can find me on:

Chao........ and see u soon with the next post...