What is the some Smoke On The Water about?!
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The lyrics of the song tell a true story: on December 4, 1971, Deep Purple had set up camp in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones and known as the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio - referred to as the "Rolling truck Stones thing" in the song lyric) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino (referred to as "the gambling house" in the song lyric). On the eve of the recording session a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre. During the gig a fire broke out: "In the middle of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire. Somebody in the audience had fired a flare gun into the ceiling, at which point the rattan covering started to burn." as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line. There is an undocumented version of the story that claims the blaze was a result of faulty wiring, but whatever the cause, the resulting fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers' equipment. The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song
its about a gig, when the venue went on fire
"Smoke on the Water" is a famous and influential rock song by British rock band Deep Purple. It was first released on the 1972 album Machine Head. The single release is a 3:47 edit of the album version.
The lyrics of the song tell a true story: on December 4, 1971, Deep Purple had set up camp in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones and known as the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio - referred to as the "Rolling truck Stones thing" in the song lyric) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino (referred to as "the gambling house" in the song lyric). On the eve of the recording session a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre. During the gig a fire broke out: "In the middle of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire. Somebody in the audience had fired a flare gun into the ceiling, at which point the rattan covering started to burn."[1][2], as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line. There is an undocumented version of the story that claims the blaze was a result of faulty wiring, but whatever the cause, the resulting fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers' equipment. The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song (credited to bass player Roger Glover, who related how the title occurred to him when he suddenly woke from a dream a few days later) referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino as the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel across the lake. The "Funky Claude" running in and out is referring to Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival who helped some of the audience escape the fire.
Claude Nobs (2006), the "Funky Claude" mentioned in the song
Claude Nobs (2006), the "Funky Claude" mentioned in the song
Left with an expensive mobile recording unit and no place to record, the band was forced to scout the town for another place to set up. One promising venue (found by Nobs) was a local theatre called The Pavilion, but soon after the band had loaded in and started working/recording, the nearby neighbours took offence at the noise, and the band was only able to lay down backing tracks for one song (based on Ritchie's riff and temporarily named Title no1), before the local police shut them down.
Finally, after about a week of searching, the band rented out the nearly-empty Montreux Grand Hotel and converted its hallways and stairwells into a makeshift recording studio, where they laid down most of the tracks for what would become their most commercially successful album, Machine Head.
Ironically, the only song from Machine Head not recorded in the Grand Hotel was "Smoke on the water" itself, which had been recorded during the aborted Pavilion session; only the lyrics were composed later, and the vocals were laid down in the Grand Hotel.
When Steve Morse joined the band, it became Deep Purple tradition to have him play a solo preceding the song in concert. This solo would consist of a medley of solos, licks, and riffs from many various classic rock songs. Rather than blend them into one another, Morse separates most of the licks by playing some one-handed tapping in between them.
It was from a British band (deep purple) from the early 70's.
It could also be reference to something that may seem very clear (water) has something hidden within (smoke is hiding).
i think its about the bands experience in europe
while they were on tour there. supposedly a huge
fire erupted around the area they playing.
not sure, but might be about smokin weed
ths song is about a party on Frank Zappas boat .Somebody Grabed the emergency flare gun and shoot the boat andit went up in flame.but they got rescued and proceed to party and thus a song was wrote.If I am wrong then i have been lied to in my youth.
Deep Purple, Guinness book of world records holder at one point, known as the loudest rock band of all time. One of the First Heavy Metal bands that emerged from the end of the 1960s to become a super group. Smoke on the water was one of their classics that got air play on top 40 stations and FM progressive rock stations at the time. It became a hit in the early 1970s and entered the charts again later in the mid 1970s.
The group is still together and have had numerous platinum albums. They played at the Live 8 concert two years ago in Toronto. I saw them live in the 1980s and have to say they rate in my top 10 as one of the best rock bands I ever saw.
it's a song by Deep Purple....maybe they mean smoking weed out of a bong?
I love this song, it's from a drug era (late 60's, early 70's), so it probably either has something to do with drug induced dreams or something or possibly war since there were wars and political crap going on then.