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Post by emily on Aug 25, 2024 8:22:28 GMT
did you know that the song smoke on the water refers to a casino that burned down.
the water used to put out the fire was from lake geneva.
and that is my fact of the day..
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 25, 2024 9:16:12 GMT
It tells the story of Deep Purle trying to record the album Machine Head, a very fine body of work.
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Post by jenny on Aug 25, 2024 15:39:59 GMT
Deep Purle sounds like a very advanced knitting stitch.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 25, 2024 19:45:51 GMT
Deep Purle sounds like a very advanced knitting stitch. My typo has made me crotchety |
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Post by celebaelin on Aug 26, 2024 15:33:09 GMT
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Post by suze on Aug 26, 2024 21:47:10 GMT
As for "some stupid with a flare gun", his name was reported at the time to be Zdeněk Špička.
He was a Czech who had been living in the Lausanne area, and he has never been seen since. The Swiss authorities believe that he fled to France the same night to avoid arrest, and that he settled in France under a different name. If he's still alive, he will by now be 74.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 27, 2024 9:08:35 GMT
Smoke on the Water was released in 1972 on the album Machine Head. The opening line on the original studio version is...
(at approx. 0:50)
Vocalist Ian Gillan left the band a year or so after the album was released. His eventual replacement, David Coverdale, didn't want to sing those exact words because he wasn't part of the band when it was written, so he would change the lyrics slightly to...
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