On Dec 4, 1971 The band Deep Purple was in Montreux Switzerland using a mobile studio known as “The Rolling Truck Stones Thing” at the Montreux casino aka “The Gambling House”.
A Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino’s theater. 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, “some stupid with a flare gun”
By now I am sure most of you know the rest of the story…for those who dont…
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.
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@MikeSouth1226 interesting article(with photos. Is it authenticates that event?
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