My 3 year old is humming Smoke on the Water, her music education is going well the classics are taking hold : Child in Time, Thunderstruck, Sweet Child of Mine. Bohemian Rhapsody is next  MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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Funny how few Swiss know the story of Smoke on the Water.

I actually went to school with Jon Lord's daughter Sara, and although I was a big Deep Purple fan I thought it rather unfair to discuss it with her so I never did. RIP Jon - sadly missed.

Made in Japan is just one of the best live albums ever.

Hey Kurt, you've got me trying to shoo a fly away from my screen lol. The reason women's minds are cleaner than a mans mind is that women change their minds more often!
When women say fine a mans in deep doodoo as fine has so many meanings.

It is amazing to me how incredibly good Smoke on the Water and Child in Time are (not forgetting their other great songs) so many years later, to me they haven't lost any of their brilliance.

Same as Queen, my favourite band of all times still. MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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Yip, apart from sex, cars and red wine it's music that makes me tick... When the kids were, well, kids I always made sure they had to listen to "dad" music as well as their own stuff. It's a good idea to make sure they have at least subliminally heard real music... Just last week my mother commented on a song on the radio and my youngest picked her up and said "eh no, that was the eagles".. She was very impressed. Previously..
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So I may not be the oldest on this forum  Geoff

For the young ones: (from WIKI)

The lyrics of the song tell a true story: on 4 December 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" and "the 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). On the eve of the recording session a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre. In the middle of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire when somebody in the audience fired a flare gun into the rattan covered ceiling, as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line.[9][10] 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 guitarist 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. 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
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 Blackmore's riff and temporarily named Title n°1), before the local police shut them down.
Finally, after about a week of searching, the band rented 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.
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. The lyrics of "Smoke on the Water" were composed later, and the vocals were recorded in the Grand Hotel.
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.
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. Blackmore retaliated by making comparisons to the first movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony, which revolves around a similar four note arrangement—and is arguably the most famous piece of music in the world.

Contraband wrote:

Yip, apart from sex, cars and red wine it's music that makes me tick .......

Well three out of four ain't bad - as they say  Geoff

Gazellio @ Prestige Cars wrote:

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.

This is the statue of Freddie. I took this picture last year. I will admit I didn't see or know about the Deep Purple one. Will have a closer look next time as Montreux is one of my favorite places.

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Funkey Claude died earlier this year.

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I didn't know that Freddy had a statue there, I did find the same Wiki bit though that Gaz put up here. Yes Geoff you may not be the oldest one around here

I did see that Claude died this year, RIP.

So Montreux is now high on the visit list for next time when we are in Switzerland (we were in Geneva visiting friends for a few days in August).

The humming is still going and she loves watching YouTube live clips of Smoke on the Water  MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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Understandably proud.

My 6 year-old (at the time) was with us in a pub listening to a local band do Black Sabbath covers. He pointed out to me that they were singing in the wrong key. Which they were. He's been raised since conception to rock music. Si. <This is my name.

I eat rat poison.

A man ain't truly been insulted until he stands buck naked in front of a woman and she didn't even notice. Or care.

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