Deep Purple – Ian Gillan – Smoke On The Water – Isolated Vocals

Deep Purple Isolated Vocals – Smoke On The Water maybe one of the greatest rock songs next to Stairway To Heaven of all time.

The inspiration behind the lyrics, The story goes that on Dec. 4, 1971, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were playing a gig at the Montreux casino. The band was nearly 90 minutes into the show, cranking through “King Kong,” when someone in the crowd fired a flare gun at the wooden roof, which instantly caught fire.
“Frank Zappa and the Mothers were at the best place around, But some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground.”

As the blaze spread, Montreux Jazz Festival organizer Claude Nobs joined firefighters to race in and out of the venue, dragging concert-goers to safety.

“They burned down the gambling house, It died with an awful sound.
Funky Claude was running in and out, yeah, Pulling kids out the ground.”

Deep Purple was in Montreux with a sound truck rented from the Rolling Stones to lay down some tracks. They were forced out of their rooms by the fire, but memories of the smoke billowing out across Lac Leman, or Lake Geneva, gave them a song title.

Before long, Ritchie Blackmore’s classic guitar riff was being copied, it seemed, by every cover band and guitar-playing teenager.

“Smoke on the Water” reached number 4 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1973, and in 2004 was included in Rolling Stone magazine’s “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”

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