"Celebrating Jon Lord At The Albert Hall" (DVD, Blu-ray, CD) is a tribute to Jon Lord's diverse musical output. Ian Paice, who is married to the twin sister of the widow of his friend who died of cancer in 2012, played with the Hammond organist in Deep Purple and Whitesnake. At Whitesnake Paice also met guitarist Bernie Marsden again. He had worked with both of them on the exciting band project PAL (Paice, Ashton, Lord).
eclipsed: At the concert evening for Jon Lord you played with Bernie Marsden two tracks from the PAL album "Malice In Wonderland". Does that show in retrospect the significance this force had for you and Jon?
Ian Paice: That's great music, even if it makes me a little sad, because we've been missing the fabulous Tony Ashton for some time [Ashton died of cancer in 2001; note]. Tony's the reason we formed the band. Unfortunately, commercial expectations were simply too high because of our Purple past. That's more music for smaller halls, and Tony wasn't a frontman for arenas. By the way, Phil Campbell from The Temperance Movement did a great job with the songs. And it was fun playing with Bernie again.
eclipsed: Like it was fun playing for Whitesnake?
Paice: The most fun we had was about David [Coverdale]. While we just offered good hard blues rock and didn't care about anything else, David played the rock star twenty-four hours a day.
eclipsed: Micky Moody and Neil Murray were two more snake charmers on stage at the Royal Albert Hall.
Paice: A great reunion and a pity that Jon couldn't be there. He would have loved it.
