The album was later recorded in a corridor at the nearby empty Grand Hôtel de Territet, with the exception of the music track to "Smoke on the Water". In retrospect, Smoke On The Water is pretty hilarious. Smoke On The Water was then recorded for a live album, Made In Japan, in August 1972. Paul Murtha & Will Rapp - Hal Leonard Corporation The '70s brought us some of the best pop music of all time, and this may be … The band did not think this would be a hit and rarely played it live. "Smoke on the Water" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple. It didn't sell as well as they hoped. They included a live version from a show in Osaka on their 1972 live album Made In Japan, which was a huge seller.The album was released in America in April 1973, over a year after Machine Head was released there. That was recorded at a vacant theatre called The Pavillon before the band was asked to leave. When they did, though, it got a huge reaction. View the Product: Smoke on the Water, Series: Easy Contemporary Marching Band, Voicing: Score & Parts, Contributors: Michael Sweeney It was first released on their 1972 album Machine Head. The British rock band Deep Purple, shown here in 1971, wrote the hit song "Smoke on the Water," after watching the casino in Montreux, Switzerland, go up in flames later that year. The quintet immediately moved to the Pavillion, where recording finally commenced -- and "Smoke on the Water" was soon penned. Smoke on the Water Smoke on the Water arr. "Smoke on the Water" is a song by Deep Purple which is about a fire in the Casino at Montreux, Switzerland. It’s like writing a song about any mundane daily activity: 'I went to the grocery store / To buy some cheeeese.'" Smoke On The Water was too long for a single and the group were sure another album track, Never Before, would be a hit. This incident famously inspired the song "Smoke on the Water". The band was relocated to another hotel and recorded the album in the Rolling Stones mobile … “Smoke on the Water” tells the true story of a fire igniting during a 1971 Frank Zappa concert in Montreux, Switzerland, where the band had come to record their next album, Machine Head. The Works played at Fantasies in SIES Sion on the 16th of Dec 2010.This video captures one of the songs done by the band and the brilliant crowd at SIES Sion! The band was going to record their Machine Head album there right after a Frank Zappa concert, but someone fired a flare gun at the ceiling during Zappa's show, which set the place on fire. A massive album hit in Europe, their American label Warners didn't want to release this at first.
