Smoke on the water hadisesinin 50.yılı anısına…
4th December 1971
50 years ago today wth Deep Purple.
One of the most defining moments in the bands career.
The Rolling Stones’ mobile was parked outside the Montreux Casino, the venue - adjacent to the lakeside promenade - chosen for the recording of the bands new album. Deep Purple were invited to Frank Zappa’s afternoon show there that day, the last gig before Purple were to move in and begin recording the album.
“So we went there, and we had this mobile studio, and Zappa was playing a concert, and towards the end of the concert someone shot a flare gun, a pistol, into the ceiling of the hall. It just went ‘whoosh’, like that you know. It just caught fire, and it was just panic, you know. Well, not entirely panic, but everyone went outside, and within ten minutes there was smoke out on top of the building. And within half an hour there were flames 200, 300 feet high. The whole building was completely gutted. So that kind of blew out the idea of the concert because the Swiss authorities wouldn’t allow any rock concerts for some period of time in Switzerland, anyway. We had the recording unit down there, and we had to do something, you know.” Ian Gillan
Claude Nobs was standing there on stage when the fire erupted.
"I was there and next to him on stage, and with his guitar (Frank Zappa) he broke a big window, and then he picked up the mic and said very quietly, “There is a fire. Please go out quietly.” With bigger bow windows, with openings to the swimming pool to one side, and people didn’t have to run, so they just walked outside. Within two minutes, everyone was out watching the show and the fire. Some people said, “You know, Frank really knows how to finish the show. Now, look what he is doing!”
"We made sure that people got out of the hall; it was done very quickly. Then I went downstairs in the cellar in the kitchen, and I was the last one to leave the casino, and brought out the mother of the manager of the casino. She was the last one in the kitchen, so, I took her by the hand and I said, “Let’s go out.” And that’s it. " Claude Nobs
Later that evening …“We were sitting in this bar restaurant about a quarter of a mile from the Casino, and it was blazing. The wind was coming down off the mountains and taking the smoke and flames across the lake, and the smoke was hanging like a curtain over the lake. Roger grabbed a napkin and wrote on it Smoke On The Water.” Ian Gillan
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