To see the tab correctly you need microsoft office word (click the “web layout view” button on the lower left corner of the monitor!) How to play smoke on the water by deep purple rock guitar lesson. How to play smoke on the water acoustic guitar. View and play this tablature with sound in the new interactive tablature player! View and play this tablature with sound in the new interactive tablature player!.The guitar riff is so popular amongst beginning guitar players that a guitar store in London put up a sign saying "Absolutely, under no circumstances at all are customers allowed to play Stairway to Heaven, Sweet Child of Mine or Smoke on the Water while trying out guitars.Smoke on the Water is number 426 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The album Machine Head was released in 1972, but Smoke on the Water was only released in 1973 as a single. The band never really believed in the song and never thought it would be a hit.The water is Lake Geneva, close to the casino. Roger Glover, the bass player of Deep Purple, came up with the title Smoke on the Water, because of a dream he had a few nights after the fire.It must not have been Frank Zappa's best period: a couple of days after losing all his equipment, he broke his leg on a concert in England when someone pulled him into the crowd.Eventually Deep Purple recorded their album in the Rolling Stones' mobile studio. The roof caught fire and the whole place burned down, destroying all the equipment of Zappa's band. During that concert some idiot fired a flare gun towards the roof. The night before the recording there was a live concert of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. In 1971 the band was in Montreux (Switzerland) to record their album Machine Head in the casino of Montreux. Smoke on the Water tells a true story.Some interesting background information about Smoke on the Water:
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