Deep purple smoke on the water official video

In 2014 Ian Gillan joined scores of amateur rockers in playing the song on the beach in Lyme Regis in the UK, though they failed to beat the record achieved at a festival in Wroclaw, Poland, in 2009 when 6,346 guitarists performed it together, led by current Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse. ItвЂ™s a measure of вЂњSmoke on the WaterвЂќвЂ™s enduring regard among guitar obsessives that itвЂ™s repeatedly used in attempts break the world record for the number of guitarists playing at once. Similarly baffling was the finger-clicking swing-jazz version by the now-disgraced Australian entertainer Rolf Harris for his LP вЂњRolf Rules OKвЂќ, on which he employed his usual jaunty singing style, even while uttering the words, вЂњWatch it burnвЂќ. In the latter was Pat BooneвЂ™s deeply peculiar samba/big band treatment for 1997вЂ™s In a Metal Mood, an album of rock covers that seemed to have been made with the sole intention of showing that this white-bread singer had a sense of humour. In the former category was a charity recording to help victims of the 1988 Armenian earthquake that featured an all-male roll-call of top rockers including Bruce Dickinson, Bryan Adams, Tony Iommi, Brian May and Keith Emerson, and dialled up the rock histrionics to seismic effect. Over the years вЂњSmoke on the WaterвЂќ has yielded cover versions ranging from the decent to the inexplicable. His response was that they should listen to the opening of BeethovenвЂ™s Fifth Symphony. The guitarist would have to defend the riff against sniffy interviewers who suggested his use of just four notes made it too basic to be any good. Appearing on their sixth album, 1972вЂ™s Machine Head, вЂњSmoke on the WaterвЂќ was released as a single a year later and, thanks in part to the infectious simplicity of BlackmoreвЂ™s riff, is now held up as a classic rock anthem. But when Nobs heard it he said: вЂњYouвЂ™re crazy. Initially, the band had no plans to include вЂњSmoke on the WaterвЂќ on their as-yet-unrecorded album, not least because Gillan was worried the title made it sound like a drug song.

ItвЂ™s thanks to вЂњFunky ClaudeвЂќ that the song saw the light of day. Singer Ian Gillan took charge of the lyrics, writing a scene-by-scene account of what had taken place, from вЂњsome stupidвЂќ shooting the flare gun into the air to вЂњFunky ClaudeвЂќ, aka Claude Nobs, the CasinoвЂ™s owner (and founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival), вЂњrunning in and out pulling kids out of the groundвЂќ. It was bassist Roger Glover who came up with the name вЂњSmoke on the WaterвЂќ - the working title had been вЂњDurh Durh DurhвЂќ on account of guitarist Ritchie BlackmoreвЂ™s riff. The members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel across the lake and quickly set about writing a song. Within hours, the building had burnt to the ground. Deep Purple performing Smoke on the WaterFrom the album Machine HeadLyrics:We all came out to MontreuxOn the Lake Geneva shorelineTo make records with a mobi.

Zappa stopped the music and directed fans to the exits. Midway through the show a fan fired a flare gun into the wooden rafters, which swiftly caught fire.

Deep purple smoke on the water official video