The principal songwriters included the song within their subsequent solo ventures after Deep Purple had split up. heathen, review Ian Gillan in particular performed a jazz-influenced version in early solo concerts. The fire was started by a young man from Eastern Europe (who fled the very next day back home). And at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I thought Ritchie Blackmore was going to show up. There were a set of incredible coincidences that made that day so infamous and saved the lives of hundreds of people whom otherwise would have been burnt to death in the fierce flames. heavy metal

People outside were taking photos of the building instead of helping us poor souls who had just escaped in the nick of time…Later, from our hotel room on the side of the mountain, the whole city was lit up with a giant wall of fire.

I was not into drugs and probably could not have obtained any since I was a student at the Monte Rosa school and had no access to enough money anyhow. heavy metal mexican ape-lord, review hard rock. We were lucky, we were right near the main entrance and were some of the first people to get out. 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. I seem to remember somebody at the microphone saying ‘Don’t panic’. A comment from John Raines: I was at the The Station nightclub in Rhode Island (USA) watching Great White on February 20, 2003 when the fire started. Deep Purple co-founder Ritchie Blackmore, who last played with the band in 1993, was recently interviewed by German website Rock N Roll Reporter. In fact nobody did panic because nearly everybody was so stoned that fear didn’t kick in and the audience exited in a more or less orderly fashion (like sheep, one following the other)!When the music stopped people got up in a daze and started to make their way out of the building. I could only see the beauty and not feel the danger! I do NOT think that it was started by a flare gun as it says in the song, but by the boy throwing lighted matches in the air, and one of them got stuck on the very low ceiling. Because of the incident and the exposure Montreux received when "Smoke on the Water" became an international hit, Deep Purple formed a lasting bond with the town. Deep Purple members were all in the audience and were shocked enough to write their world wide hit: SMOKE ON THE WATER and recorded the album MACHINE HEAD in a building close to where the fire started. They did not believe me when I said the Casino was burning down, so we went back and watched it collapse and burn. hard rock I was probably about five rows from the stage, (may have seen you) and we were all up close and personal sitting between the legs of the person seated behind us. On the Classic Albums series episode about Machine Head, Ritchie Blackmore claimed that friends of the band were not fans of the classic "Smoke on the Water" riff, because they thought it was too simplistic. Obviously the owners never went to collect them! nightmare, review The building was on the second floor, or at least half a floor up, so it was quite a jump. hard rock Their management would not allow it, I'm sure. But, when it caught, it went up like a fireworks display". The song is honoured in Montreux by a sculpture along the lake shore (right next to the statue of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury) with the band's name, the song title, and the riff in musical notes. heavy metal black death Actually played using "all fourths" as specified by Blackmore (or double stops), a power chord-driven variation on the main recognizable riff is not difficult, and consequently it is played by learners. They lost ALL THEIR EQUIPMENT and very very upset, and shocked as was everybody else. A national emergency was announced and police, firemen, medical staff, came from all over the area. This song was also featured live by Ritchie Blackmore's post-Deep Purple band Rainbow during their tours 1981–83, and again after the Rainbow was resurrected briefly in the mid-1990s. There were a set of incredible coincidences that made that day so infamous and saved the lives of hundreds of people whom otherwise would have been burnt to death in the fierce flames.

On the eve of the recording session, a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre. THE MONTREUX CASINO FIRE 1971: I WAS THE LAST ONE OUT!. Anyway, as far as I am concerned, all members, past and present and future (laughs) of Deep Purple, are welcome.". Morse: "Well, he's one of the founding members of Deep Purple. Another amazing coincidence is that on the day of the concert THERE WERE NO CHAIRS INSIDE THE AUDITORIUM.

They have their niche and are not into doing thigs like that. ", review As a firefighter-paramedic, after I made sure my wife and friends were out and safe, I did everything I could to help fight the fire and treat the injured. So when the fire started IT WAS STILL DAYLIGHT and the audience could see where they were going when they exited the building. Go to this location for the complete interview. I had taken a strong dose of an illicit drug and was totally engrossed by the show. napalm death, review Steve Morse, guitarist for Deep Purple, recently spoke with Billboard about the band's latest album, Infinite, and The Long Goodbye Tour, scheduled to play at least 65 dates around Europe, North America and South America. Once the windows were broken the air came in and the flames jumped up and headed straight towards us. The lyrics of the song tell a true story: on 4 December 1971 Deep Purple were in Montreux, Switzerland, where they had set up camp 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" and "a mobile" in the song lyrics) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino (referred to as "the gambling house" in the song lyric). Frank Zappa was playing again as the drum set had been fixed, and he had written a song about Switzerland, Swiss cheese and all that. The rest is history.Many years later I met Eddie (the big guy of Flo & Eddie from The Turtles) after a concert in Florida. So the fire started right above where the boy was sitting on the low lying ceiling beams. One of my buddies said Frank Zappa was standing outside saying, “My guitar! 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. She ran off and left me standing there, so I stood behind the crowd who were trying to get out through the LARGE GLASS WINDOWS which covered the whole of the front of the building from one side to the other. There were Christmas decorations hanging from the ceiling and lots of colorful paper mache. I am not a politician. I had been to the auditorium several times before, and usually there were chairs with numbered seating. "Smoke on the Water" was included on Machine Head, which was released in early 1972, but was not released as a single until a year later, in May 1973.

There have been a lot of bad things said and done amongst the guys, and anyhow, it is like the ice has to be broken. Olivia Trinidad Arias and George Harrison married, Started english punk rock band The Sex Pistols, W Paryżu odbył się ostatni koncert zespołu Deep Purple z udziałem Ritchie Blackmora, ELTON JOHN AND JOHN LENNON PERFORM “I SAW HER STANDING THERE”, The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, Концерт Джона Леннона в Мэдисон сквер Гарден, Нью-Йорк, Deep Purple released the sixth studio album Machine Head, По опросу «Led Zeppelin» становится лучшей группой года, Oficiāli beidz pastāvēt grupa The Beatles, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving The Beatles, 4 in Total Guitar magazine's "Top 20 Greatest Guitar Riffs Ever". I just came across your article and wanted to thank you for writing down your memories about that Frank Zappa concert. I heard later that he had helped saved many lives. As if that was not enough, another event happened that also saved precious lives: The drummer Ansley Dunbar’s drum set BROKE DOWN and Frank Zappa stopped the concert for several minutes whilst the drums where being fixed. My story of the Montreux casino fire started way back in 1968 when a young enthusiastic RICHARD BRANSON (of Virgin fame) came into our makeshift dormitory in the sanitarium of STOWE Public School (we were waiting for our new house LYTTLETON to be completed) with a copy of FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION’S first album: FREAK OUT. There was a large door on the right hand side as you face the stage but I do not know if it was open or cIosed. Anyhow, it was great to read about the experiences of someone else who was there. heavy metal Пропали пять человек, Российский суд оштрафовал DEEP PURPLE за исполнение песен DEEP PURPLE, Deivids Gilmors oficiāli paziņo, ka beidz pastāvēt grupa Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd released studio album The Division Bell, Live Aid was a dual-venue concert held on 13 July 1985. Usually all concerts at the casino, before and since are held at night, maybe at 8pm or 9 pm but this one started at 2 pm (?) jet jagura, review Q: Ritchie Blackmore has mentioned his interest in playing one last show with the band. In a fire, every second counts. The only song from Machine Head not recorded entirely in the Grand Hotel was "Smoke on the Water" itself, which had been partly recorded during the abortive Pavilion session. It was a beautiful Swiss winter day, cold but no rain. A recording of the outbreak and fire announcement can be found on a Frank Zappa Bootleg album titled Swiss Cheese/Fire! By the way the security people managed to get all the coats out of the building before the fire consumed them.The fire spread so quickly that all the people in the front were trapped. After the fire was over hundreds of coats were NOT collected from the cloakroom where you leave your winter coats (it gets very cold in Switzerland in December), and a few days later, when they were looking for name tags inside the coat pockets to see who the owners were, they found drugs in all the garments! That was up in the air. heavy metal At the beginning of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire when somebody in the audience fired a flare gun toward the rattan covered ceiling, as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line.

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