Martin Antonenko
A Fixture
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2008
- Messages
- 8,995
Smoke on The Water...
On December 4th, 1971 the members of the English rock band "Deep Purple"...
... just happened to be in Montreux, Switzerland, to record their new album "Machine Head", which will be later become their most successful...:
They borrowed the mobile recording studio for this from their band "The Rolling Stones". The next morning, the recordings should begin in the city's casino ...:
Actually, "Deep Purple" wanted to set up the studio in the casino on the evening of the 4th, but that was not possible because a concert by Frank Zappa and his band "The Mothers of Invention" is planned there for that evening ...:
Zappa is no less famous than "Deep Purple" and the "Stones" and so the casino is packed when his performance begins.
Zappa as his best! The spectators get their money's worth until at some point an euphoric Swiss fan ("some stupid with a flare gun") shoots a flare into the ceiling with a signal pistol he has brought with him ...:
Fire breaks out immediately - as a result, the entire building complex burns down completely!
The equipment of Zappa's band will also be completely destroyed!
The next picture of Frank Zappa is a still photo of an amateur film and was taken immediately after the disaster ...:
Frank Zappa will later insist that a sound recording of his performance be given the cover of an obituary ...:
The fact that there are no deaths to complain is not least thanks to the sheer superhuman efforts of Claube Nobbs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival, who helps many visitors to save themselves from the fire at risk of his own death.
Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, John Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice, the band members of "Deep Purple" watch the disaster from a hotel window across the street.
You also watch how the flames hit the sky from the destroyed roof and how a thick plume of smoke and smoke drifts over Lake Geneva.
Ian Paice scribbles a few notes on a piece of paper, which he overwrites with "Durh, Durh, Durh" (roughly "smoke, smoke, smoke").
Claude Nobbs also bailed out the band "Deep Purple", which now has an expensive recording studio but no longer has space.
The band's new album was created in the city's "Grand Hotel", which was quickly rented, and was almost empty.
Shortly after the recordings at the Grand Hotel, Ian Paice wrote the title "Smoke on The Water", the most famous song by "Deep Purple" - based on the notes he made from the night of fire!
The song is also being recorded for the new album, and it's the one that makes it so successful!
There is also a memorial to the life-saver Claube Nobbs: “Funky Claude was running in and out. Pulling kids out of the ground ”.
And anyone of my generation who has ever held a guitar for whatever reason has guaranteed to have tried the first chords of "Smoke on The Water" ...
And even if you don't know "Smoke on The Water" - you probably know these first chords ...:
And now you know how this famous song came about.
On December 4th, 1971 the members of the English rock band "Deep Purple"...
... just happened to be in Montreux, Switzerland, to record their new album "Machine Head", which will be later become their most successful...:
They borrowed the mobile recording studio for this from their band "The Rolling Stones". The next morning, the recordings should begin in the city's casino ...:
Actually, "Deep Purple" wanted to set up the studio in the casino on the evening of the 4th, but that was not possible because a concert by Frank Zappa and his band "The Mothers of Invention" is planned there for that evening ...:
Zappa is no less famous than "Deep Purple" and the "Stones" and so the casino is packed when his performance begins.
Zappa as his best! The spectators get their money's worth until at some point an euphoric Swiss fan ("some stupid with a flare gun") shoots a flare into the ceiling with a signal pistol he has brought with him ...:
Fire breaks out immediately - as a result, the entire building complex burns down completely!
The equipment of Zappa's band will also be completely destroyed!
The next picture of Frank Zappa is a still photo of an amateur film and was taken immediately after the disaster ...:
Frank Zappa will later insist that a sound recording of his performance be given the cover of an obituary ...:
The fact that there are no deaths to complain is not least thanks to the sheer superhuman efforts of Claube Nobbs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival, who helps many visitors to save themselves from the fire at risk of his own death.
Rod Evans, Ritchie Blackmore, John Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice, the band members of "Deep Purple" watch the disaster from a hotel window across the street.
You also watch how the flames hit the sky from the destroyed roof and how a thick plume of smoke and smoke drifts over Lake Geneva.
Ian Paice scribbles a few notes on a piece of paper, which he overwrites with "Durh, Durh, Durh" (roughly "smoke, smoke, smoke").
Claude Nobbs also bailed out the band "Deep Purple", which now has an expensive recording studio but no longer has space.
The band's new album was created in the city's "Grand Hotel", which was quickly rented, and was almost empty.
Shortly after the recordings at the Grand Hotel, Ian Paice wrote the title "Smoke on The Water", the most famous song by "Deep Purple" - based on the notes he made from the night of fire!
The song is also being recorded for the new album, and it's the one that makes it so successful!
There is also a memorial to the life-saver Claube Nobbs: “Funky Claude was running in and out. Pulling kids out of the ground ”.
And anyone of my generation who has ever held a guitar for whatever reason has guaranteed to have tried the first chords of "Smoke on The Water" ...
And even if you don't know "Smoke on The Water" - you probably know these first chords ...:
And now you know how this famous song came about.
