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Smoke on the Water
Genius.com ^ | 1973 | Deep Purple

Posted on 05/19/2024 9:06:16 PM PDT by DallasBiff

We all came out to Montreux On the Lake Geneva shoreline To make records with a mobile We didn't have much time But Frank Zappa and the Mothers Were at the best place around But some stupid with a flare gun Burned the place to the ground

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KEYWORDS: deeppurple; riff
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Probably the best guitar riff of all time, can't believe it is over 50 years old.
1 posted on 05/19/2024 9:06:16 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

First song I learned on guitar @11 years old.


2 posted on 05/19/2024 9:11:34 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: DallasBiff

Tampa Stadium summer 1973...


3 posted on 05/19/2024 9:13:31 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: DallasBiff

Songs like that drove me to 80’s metal the radio never stopped playing it and now I hope to die without ever hearing it again


4 posted on 05/19/2024 9:23:52 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: DallasBiff

Switzerland became the home of most British rock stars of the 1960s and 1970s due to the confiscatory taxes of post-war British socialists

There’s a Queen museum in Montreaux


5 posted on 05/19/2024 9:29:00 PM PDT by PGR88
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I agree..it’s one of the best constructed chord assembly as well as the drum rhythm starts nicking in


6 posted on 05/19/2024 9:34:21 PM PDT by BigSkyVic
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To: DallasBiff

This is their best song. Ritchie Blackmore on guitar. Think he also played the cello intro.

https://youtu.be/G7GERh0sQzY?si=dFGS8ynUC_aCDEJE

Sweet Lucy was a dancer
But none of us would chance her
Because she was a samurai......


7 posted on 05/19/2024 9:34:35 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: BigSkyVic

Don’t get me started on Highway Star!


8 posted on 05/19/2024 9:35:55 PM PDT by BigSkyVic
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To: BigSkyVic

Good driving song.


9 posted on 05/19/2024 9:44:47 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: DallasBiff
Here's Pat's version . . . LIVE!
10 posted on 05/19/2024 9:53:50 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: DallasBiff

One of my favorite bands in the 70s…


11 posted on 05/19/2024 10:19:35 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: DallasBiff

“”If you think it’s too loud, you’re too old.””
-John Belushi


12 posted on 05/19/2024 11:27:25 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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My favorite on the radio when I was a kid. About a decade later, when I was old enough, I saw DP in concert. They were great live.


13 posted on 05/19/2024 11:36:27 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: waterhill

“Perfect Strangers” was a great album.


14 posted on 05/19/2024 11:42:45 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: waterhill

Heh that’s the first song EVERYBODY learned on guitar.


15 posted on 05/20/2024 1:21:51 AM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: DallasBiff

I beg to differ.

And, this is *the one riff* (except for maybe stairway to heaven) NOT to play in a guitar store.


16 posted on 05/20/2024 2:22:37 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: DallasBiff

Deep Purple can wait...Where can I find a recording of that Frank Zappa and The Mothers show?


17 posted on 05/20/2024 2:53:38 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
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Deep Purple and Billy Preston...first concert I ever saw...early 70s..


18 posted on 05/20/2024 3:01:22 AM PDT by magyars4 (To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men!)
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Highway Star is a terrible song to drive to. The cop writing you a ticket won’t take it as a good excuse for speeding.


19 posted on 05/20/2024 3:12:14 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: Chode

“Tampa Stadium summer 1973...”

Madison Square Garden 1974...


20 posted on 05/20/2024 3:47:58 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Give the Anti-Israel Protesters a one way ticket to fight with Hamas. )
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