The song is famous for having one of the most famous guitars riffs and was played in the rock history and has a story behind it : the song tells a true history that happened on December 4th, 1971, when Deep Purple arrived in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones called "Rolling truck Stones thing" ) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino.
On the eve of the recording session a concert of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention was made at the theater and the casino during the show, the fire started in the middle of the synthesizer solo of "King Kong" when someone in the audience fired a flare gun at the ceiling, which is mentioned in verse "some stupid with a flare gun".The fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the equipment of Mothers. The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song credited to bassist Roger Glover, referring to the smoke coming from the fire, which spread through the lake of Geneva from the burning casino while the band members attended the scene of the hotel, across the lake, where they were staying. The "Funky Claude", according to the letter, "went out and came running” is Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival, which helped part of the audience to escape the flames.
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ResponderExcluirThe song is famous for hav(ING) on of the most famous guitar(S) riffs and (WAS) played in (THE)rock history and has a story behind it : the song tells a true history that happened on December 4(TH), 1971, when Deep Purple arrived in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones called "Rolling truck Stones thing" ) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino.
On the eve of the recording session a concert of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention was made at the theater and the casino during the show, the fire started in the middle of the synthesizer solo of "King Kong" when someone in the audience fired a flare gun at the ceiling, which is mentioned in verse "some stupid with a flare gun".
The fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the equipment of Mothers. The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song credited to bassist Roger Glover, referring to the smoke coming from the fire, which spread through the lake of Geneva from the burning casino while the band members attended the scene of the hotel, across the lake, where they were staying. The "Funky Claude", according to the letter, "went out and came running” is Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival, which helped part of the audience to escape the flames.
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