Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were booked to play that theater and the idea was that, after they vacated the premises-which were about to close down for the winter after their gig-Deep Purple would make their recording. Here’s the story behind “Smoke on the Water.” On December 4, 1971, Deep Purple was in Montreux, Switzerland, planning to cut an album using a mobile recording studio rented from the Rolling Stones (“the Rolling truck Stones thing” of the lyrics) at an entertainment complex on the Lake Geneva shoreline that included the Montreux Casino and a theater. But younger listeners, who may have gravitated toward the tune while learning to play guitar-or just heard it on classic rock radio-might not have a clue what Ian Gillan was singing about. Presumably, most who heard it around the time it was released-first on Deep Purple’s 1972 Machine Head album and then as a single, which reached #4 in Billboard the following year-were familiar with the true tale it told it was big news at the time. You can’t not break into an embarrassingly manic air guitar pose as soon as you hear it!īut it’s the backstory that makes “Smoke on the Water” even more intriguing. “Smoke on the Water” 7-inch picture sleeveĮvery rock fan knows Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” For one thing, it has one of the most memorable signature opening riffs-four notes, in G minor, played on a Fender Stratocaster by Ritchie Blackmore-that any band has ever devised. George Harrison’s ‘My Sweet Lord’ Gets All-Star Video.Todd Rundgren’s ‘Hello, It’s Me’: Wild Success Story.Yes Performs ‘Yours Is No Disgrace’ Live: 1972.Dan Fogelberg’s ‘Souvenirs’ - A Keepsake That Was Part of the Plan.Pink Floyd Sets Restored Editions of ‘Pulse’ Concert Film.Only 6 Albums Reached #1 in 1978: Here’s Why.Graham Nash, James Taylor to Perform at Joni Mitchell MusiCares 2022 Person of the Year Concert.Wanda Young, Singer of the Marvelettes’ ‘Don’t Mess With Bill,’ Dies.
YOUTUBE DEEP PURPLE SMOKE ON THE WATER LIVE 1973 UPGRADE
Frank Zappa’s ‘200 Motels’ Soundtrack Gets a 6-CD Upgrade.Free’s ‘Fire and Water’: More Than Just All Right.David Bowie’s ‘Berlin Trilogy’: ‘Low,’ ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lodger’ Reconsidered.Radio Hits in December 1967: Things Were ‘Different’.The Heartbreak Kid: A Cringe-Inducing Classic.Radio Hits of 1968: It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas.2021 in Review: Best Boxed Sets, Collections & Reissues.Chrysalis Co-Founder Chris Wright on Label’s Rise.13 Classic Triple Albums: When Rockers Expanded the Limits.
0 kommentar(er)
