Legendary Band Almost THREW This RIFF Away… Became MOST FAMOUS in Rock History! | Professor of Rock

A flare gun fired by an idiot attending a concert led to the burning of a casino and a towering fire in the sky. The rock band Deep Purple happened to be in attendance and was supposed to record their new record Machine Head there the next day…they saw the whole thing. A few days later the band’s bassist Roger Glover had a nightmare about the fire and a legendary song title came to him Smoke on the Water…. sometime later a riff just as iconic came to guitarist Ritchie Blackmore that he borrowed from a famous classical piece… It would be a chore to record. They were shut down by the Police for playing too loud. Then they had to move to an abandoned hotel to record…It was a disaster. Once they recorded this legendary song. they didn’t think much of it. Ian Gillen sang the hell out of it. One day Deep Purple played it live and got a massive reaction. They decided to release it as the last single off the album and it became their biggest hit. The riveting story of the disaster in Montreux NEXT on Professor of Rock.

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It’s time for another episode of our series. Number one in our hearts where we talk about a song that should’ve gone to the top spot on the Billboard charts. December 4th, 1971. The quintet of Deep Purple and their crew were in Montreux, Switzerland. It was the night before they were to begin the recording session for their new album Machine Head using The Rolling Stones mobile studio that was adjacent to the entertainment complex of the Montreux Casino.

The band decided to take in the Frank Zappa & the Mothers show that was the marquis entertainment at the Casino de Montreux for the evening, and the last act scheduled to play the casino before it was to be closed to the public for winter remodeling.

Deep Purple had reserved the room, since it was going to be empty, to record their next LP. Zappa & the band were jamming along, about 90 minutes into their set, and they were just getting into Don Preston’s synthesizer solo for “King Kong" when someone from the audience fired a flare gun, and all hell broke loose!

The chaotic terror of what went down was memorialized in an unlikely rock standard titled “Smoke on the Water.”Deep Purple lead singer Ian Gillan, was in the audience and recalled two flares being shot by someone sitting behind him that landed in the top corner of the building and instantly set the roof ablaze.

Zappa stopped the show and helped ensure an orderly exit.
DP bassist Roger Glover shared that it was "the biggest fire” he'd ever seen. He remembered feeling very little panic to get out of the building because it didn't seem like much of a fire at first. But, when the band and the other concertgoers were out of harm's way, the casino went up like a fireworks display.

Although there were no major injuries, the blaze destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all of the gear for Zappa & the Mothers.