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Take the trouble to decide the things you do
Will not be the things that don't appeal to you
See the mess your makin' can't you see your fakin'
Gonna make it hard for you, you're gonna--into the fire

Turn on the mandrake that was given to you
See if you can make it like the others do
Feel the blood a knockin' when you're finger poppin'
Gonna make it hard for you, you're gonna--into the fire

Stop your bleeding mind before it's over and done
Listen very closely to the message I've sung
Feel the blood a knockin' when you're finger poppin'
Gonna get a message through, you're gonna--into the fire


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The sky is red, I don't understand,
past midnight I still see the land.
People are sayin' the woman is damned,
she makes you burn with a wave of her hand.
The city's a blaze, the town's on fire.
The woman's flames are reaching higher.
We were fools, we called her liar.
All I hear is "Burn!"

I didn't believe she was devil's sperm.
She said, "Curse you all, you'll never learn!
When I leave there's no return."
The people laughed till she said, "Burn!"
Warning came, no one cared.
Earth was shakin', we stood and stared.
When it came no one was spared.
Still I hear "Burn!"

You know we had no time,
we could not even try.
You know we had no time.

You know we had no time,
we could not even try.
You know we had no time.

The sky is red, I don't understand,
past midnight I still see the land.
People are sayin' the woman is damned,
she makes you burn with a wave of her hand.
Warning came, no one cared.
Earth was shakin, we stood and stared.
When it came no one was spared.
Still I hear "Burn!"


Artwork By - Nesbit, Phipps and Froome
Bass Guitar, Vocals - Glenn Hughes
Drums - Ian Paice
Engineer - Martin Birch
Guitar [Lead] - Ritchie Blackmore
Keyboards - Jon Lord
Mixed By - Matthew Tait (tracks: 9 to 13)
Producer - Tony Edwards
Remastered By - Peter Mew
Technician [Assistant Engineer] - Tapani Tapanainen
Vocals - David Coverdale
Written-By - Coverdale* (tracks: 1 to 7, 10 to 13) , Hughes* (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 10 to 13) , Paice* (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8 to 10, 12, 13) , Lord* (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8 to 10, 12, 13) , Blackmore*
Notes
Tracks 1 to 8 originally released in 1974.

If you're leaving close the door.
I'm not expecting people anymore.
Hear me grieving, I'm lying on the floor.
Whether I'm drunk or dead I really ain't too sure.

I'm a blind man, I'm a blind man and my world is pale.
When a blind man cries, Lord, you know there ain't no sadder tale.

Had a friend once in a room,
had a good time but it ended much too soon.
In a cold month in that room
we found a reason for the things we had to do.

I'm a blind man, I'm a blind man, now my room is cold.
When a blind man cries, Lord, you know he feels it from his soul.



Original Recording

Hiring the Rolling Stones Mobile One equipment and studios, the band recorded the entirety of the tracks in a Montreux hotel facility, with no overdubs. The "Smoke on the Water" lyrics' citation "Frank Zappa and the Mothers" refers to Zappa's show at a nearby casino. The casino burned down a few days before the start of scheduled Machine Head recording sessions.

A song entitled "When a Blind Man Cries" was recorded during these sessions, but not included on the album. Instead, it was used as a the B-side on the "Never Before" single. The song appears as a bonus track on the album's 25th anniversary edition.

The supporting tour for Machine Head included a trip to Japan that would later become the double-live Made in Japan album.

"Smoke on the Water"
Single by Deep Purple
from the album Machine Head
B-side "Smoke on the Water" (live)
(From Made in Japan)
Released 1972, single in May 1973
Format 7"
Recorded December 1971
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal[1], Psychedelic Rock[2]
Length 5:42 (album version)
3:54 (single version)
Label EMI (UK)
Warner. Bros (U.S.)
Writer(s) Ritchie Blackmore
Ian Gillan
Roger Glover
Jon Lord
Ian Paice
Producer Deep Purple
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"Smoke on the Water" is a song by the British hard rock band Deep Purple. It was first released on their 1972 album Machine Head.
Contents
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* 1 Composition
* 2 History
* 3 Impact
* 4 Alternative versions
o 4.1 Cover versions
* 5 Trivia
* 6 Personnel
* 7 Sales accomplishments
* 8 References
* 9 Notes

[edit] Composition
The Smoke on the Water riff

"Smoke on the Water" is known for and recognisable by its central theme, a four-note "blues scale" melody harmonised in parallel fourths. The riff, played on a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar by Ritchie Blackmore, is later joined by hi-hat and distorted organ, then drums, then electric bass parts before the start of Ian Gillan's vocal.
“ We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline

To make records with a mobile, we didn't have much time
”

Jon Lord doubles the guitar part on a Hammond C3 organ played through a distorted Marshall amp, creating a tone very similar to that of the guitar. Blackmore uses two fingers to pluck[3] so the pairs of notes can be played exactly simultaneously, to match the organ's timing more closely.

The song order is intro(riff)-verse-chorus-riff-verse-chorus-riff-solo-riff-verse-chorus-riff-solo. The first solo is performed on guitar by Ritchie Blackmore, and the second and final solo is performed on an organ by Jon Lord until the song fades out.

During a live show, audience members shouted at the band to perform "Smoke on the Water", which they did. During Blackmore's solo, he played one note over and over again in protest.
[edit] History

The lyrics of the song tell a true story: on 4 December 1971 Deep Purple had set up camp in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones and known as the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio - referred to as the "Rolling truck Stones thing" and "the mobile" in the song lyrics) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino (referred to as "the gambling house" in the song lyric). On the eve of the recording session a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre. In the middle of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire when somebody in the audience fired a flare gun into the rattan covered ceiling, as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line.[4][5] The resulting fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers' equipment. The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song (credited to bass guitarist Roger Glover, who related how the title occurred to him when he suddenly woke from a dream a few days later) referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino as the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel across the lake. The "Funky Claude" running in and out is referring to Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival who helped some of the audience escape the fire.
Claude Nobs (2006), the "Funky Claude" mentioned in the song

Left with an expensive mobile recording unit and no place to record, the band was forced to scout the town for another place to set up. One promising venue (found by Nobs) was a local theatre called The Pavilion, but soon after the band had loaded in and started working/recording, the nearby neighbours took offence at the noise, and the band was only able to lay down backing tracks for one song (based on Blackmore's riff and temporarily named Title nº1), before the local police shut them down.

Finally, after about a week of searching, the band rented out the nearly-empty Montreux Grand Hotel and converted its hallways and stairwells into a makeshift recording studio, where they laid down most of the tracks for what would become their most commercially successful album, Machine Head.

Like other Deep Purple's songs (such as Child in Time, Black Night or Burn), the main riff is similar to an existing tune. In the case of "Smoke on the Water", the riff is based on Carlos Lyra's song titled "Maria Moite" performed by Astrud Gilberto (on the album Look at the Rainbow - 1965).[6]

Ironically, the only song from Machine Head not recorded in the Grand Hotel was "Smoke on the Water" itself, which had been recorded during the abortive Pavilion session. The lyrics of "Smoke on the Water" were composed later, and the vocals were recorded in the Grand Hotel.
[edit] Impact

"Smoke on the Water" was included on Machine Head, which was released in early 1972, but was not released as a single until a year later, in May 1973. The band members have said that they did not expect the song to be a hit, but the single reached number 4 on the Billboard pop singles chart in the United States during the summer of 1973, number 2 on the Canadian RPM charts, and it propelled the album to the top 10. Live performance of the tune, featuring extended interplay between Blackmore's guitar and Jon Lord's Hammond organ would become a centerpiece of "Deep Purple's" live shows, and a version of the song from the live album Made in Japan became a minor hit on its own later on in 1973.

The principal song-writers included the song within their subsequent solo ventures after Deep Purple had split up. Ian Gillan in particular performed a jazz-influenced version in early solo concerts. The band Gillan adopted a feedback-soaked approach, courtesy of Gillan guitarist Bernie Torme. This song was also featured live by Ritchie Blackmore's post-"Deep Purple" band Rainbow during their tours 1981-83, and again after the Rainbow was resurrected briefly in the mid 1990's.

During Ian Gillan's stint with Black Sabbath in 1983, they performed "Smoke on the Water" as a regular repertoire number on encores during their only tour together. It remains one of the few cover songs that Black Sabbath has ever played live.

The song is popular among beginner guitarists, but Blackmore himself has demonstrated that most who attempt to play it do so improperly.[7] Actually played using "all fourths" as specified by Blackmore (or double stops), a power chord-driven variation on the main recognizable riff is not difficult, and consequently it is constantly played by learners.
[edit] Alternative versions

* The remixed CD re-issue of Machine Head features a version of the song with an alternate Blackmore guitar solo recorded at the time.
* The version that appears on Deep Purple in Concert includes Ian Gillan uttering the phrase "Break a leg, Frank". This is a reference to injuries that Frank Zappa had sustained as a result of being attacked onstage by an audience member at a concert in London, six days after the Montreux fire. A broken leg was among those injuries. The phrase can also be heard on the Roger Glover Remix of the song included on the Anniversary Edition reissue of Machine Head.

[edit] Cover versions

There is a remake of this song featuring Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Brian May, David Gilmour, Bruce Dickinson, Tony Iommi, Keith Emerson, Chris Squire, Roger Taylor, Paul Rodgers, Bryan Adams and Alex Lifeson, done for the Rock Aid Armenia charity.

The song has been covered by many bands including the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, heavy metal band Soulfly, power metal band Metalium, Korean thrash metal band Crash, Brazilian progressive power metal Angra, and many others, and was recorded by Rock Aid Armenia. It was performed by rock act G3 and featured on the release G3: Live in Tokyo.

R&B/swing singer Pat Boone covered the song in his 1997 album In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy, with Blackmore doing a guest appearance as lead guitarist. German DJ/techno veteran Uwe Schmidt covered the song in Latino lounge style under the alias of Senor Coconut on the 2003 album Fiesta Songs.
[edit] Trivia

"Smoke on the Water" has received the following rankings:

* #426 on Rolling Stone Magazine's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004)
* #37 in VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs [8]
* #12 in Q magazine's 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks (March 2005)
* #11 in VH1's "100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs" (January 2009)[9]
* #4 in the BBC's "Top 20 Greatest Guitar Riffs Ever"[10]

The song is honoured in Montreux by a sculpture along the lake shore (right next to the statue of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury) with the band's name, the song title, and the riff in musical notes.

In the 1970s, the song was used in advertisements for the Woodford Glen Speedway, situated just one mile southeast of Kaiapoi, not far from the Waimakariri River, in the South Island of New Zealand, to inform the Canterbury public about their upcoming races and demolition derbies, which are still carried out over the summer months to this day.

In 1994, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1,322 guitarists gathered to play the world-famous riff all at the same time for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. On Sunday June 3, 2007, in Kansas City this record was topped with 1,721 guitarists[11]. The record was again topped on Friday May 3, 2009, in Wrocław, Poland, when 6,346 guitar players, joined by current Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse , performed the song during the Thanks Jimi Festival, they also played "Hey Joe" which was made famous by Jimi Hendrix.[12][13]

The iconic nature of the song has led to its inclusion in several music-related video games. A cover version of "Smoke on the Water" is one of the playable songs for the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero, and the same cover version is a downloadable track in Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360. It is also featured in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits as a master track. It is a playable song in the PlayStation 2 game SingStar Rocks! and in the Japan-only Nintendo DS rhythm game Daigasso! Band Brothers. It is also available on Wii's Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 as a minigame, without Verse 3. The song also appears in Konami Guitar Freaks 4th Mix. The song is playable in the online game Stick Dudes Gone Wild: Rock Band.
[edit] Personnel

* Ian Gillan – Lead Vocals
* Ritchie Blackmore – Guitars
* Roger Glover – Bass Guitar
* Jon Lord – Keyboard
* Ian Paice – Drums.

[edit] Sales accomplishments

RIAA certification[14] (United States)
Date Designation Total Sales
August 28, 1973 Gold 500,000

[edit] References

* Christe, Ian (2003). Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. HarperCollins. ISBN 0380811278

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Christe (2003), pg. 13, " Though Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" was a bona fide metal anthem and the first basic riff of a longhairded guitarist's repertoire, the band did not consider itself heavy metal."
2. ^ http://deeppurple68-76.blogspot.com
3. ^ Classic Albums - Machine Head. BBC. http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v117567315egWJsXZ. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
4. ^ "The Real Frank Zappa Book" by Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso, pg. 112, ISBN 0-671-63870-X
5. ^ "Bang Your Head" by David Konow, page 26, ISBN 0-609-80732-3
6. ^ Nick Soveiko (2009-10-10). "Creative minds work in mysterious ways". http://www.thehighwaystar.com/thsblog/2009/10/10/creative-minds-work-in-mysterious-ways/. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
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8. ^ "VH1 40 Greatest Metal Songs", 1–4 May 2006, VH1 Channel, reported by VH1.com; last accessed September 10, 2006.
9. ^ "spreadit.org music". http://music.spreadit.org/vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/. Retrieved February 7, 2009.
10. ^ BBC News, 2004-05-02, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3677965.stm, retrieved 2010-01-04
11. ^ Spread Firefox, Crazy Records
12. ^ "Official Steve Morse Blog". http://www.stevemorse.com/tour_blog.html. Retrieved 4 May 2009.
13. ^ ""Thanks Jimi Festival" 2009 and Guitar Guinness Record". http://www.cichonski.art.pl/eng/record.htm. Retrieved 4 May 2009.
14. ^ "RIAA Gold & Platinum database". http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=&artist=deep%20purple&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2009&sort=Artist&perPage=25. Retrieved February 20, 2009.

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Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_on_the_Water"
Categories: Deep Purple songs | 1972 songs | 1973 singles | Heavy metal songs | Psychedelic songs | Songs written by Jon Lord

(South)

I got a certan little girl she's on my mind
No doubt about it she looks so fine
She's the best girl that I ever had
Sometimes she's gonna make me feel so bad

Hush, hush
I thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
She broke my heart but I love her just the same now
Hush, hush
Thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
I need her loving and I'm not to blame now

(Love, love)
They got it early in the morning
(Love, love)
They got it late in the evening
(Love, love)
Well, I want that, need it
(Love, love)
Oh, I gotta gotta have it

She's got loving like quicksand
Only took one touch of her hand
To blow my mind and I'm in so deep
That I can't eat and I can't sleep

Listen
Hush, hush
Thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
She broke my heart but I love her just the same now
Hush, hush
Thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
I need her loving and I'm not to blame now

(Love, love)
They got it early in the morning
(Love, love)
They got it late in the evening
(Love, love)
Well, I want that, need it
(Love, love)
Oh, I gotta gotta have it


Deep Purple version

The song is better known for the version by British hard rock band Deep Purple, recorded on May 11, 1968, for their debut album Shades of Deep Purple. The song was chosen as the album's accommodating single by their American label, Tetragrammaton. It was their first hit, peaking at number 4 in the United States and number 2 in Canada, although it remained pretty overlooked in the UK.

The band re-recorded the song in 1988 to celebrate their 20-year anniversary, then with a different singer, (Ian Gillan), than the original recording had, (Rod Evans). The newer version can be found on the album Nobody's Perfect. The 1988 version reached number 62 on the UK singles chart and number 44 on the Album Rock Tracks chart in the US.

On CD re-issues of Shades of Deep Purple from 2000, a live U.S. televised version was included as a bonus track. This version was recorded when the band played in California at the Playboy Mansion. Other live versions can be found on the live albums Inglewood - Live in California, the only Deep Purple live album with Rod Evans and Nick Simper, and Concerto for Group and Orchestra, with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover.

"Hush" is one of four songs that the band has performed with Ian Gillan on vocals, when they originally recorded it with another vocalist. This has also been done with "Kentucky Woman", originally from the album "The Book of Taliesyn" from 1968, "Mandrake Root" from the same album as "Hush" originally was featured on, and "Bird Has Flown" from the album Deep Purple, or Deep Purple III, released in 1969. Coincidently, all these four songs were originally sung by Rod Evans.

Strange Kind of Woman ist ein Song, der gleichzeitig mit Deep Purples Studioalbum Fireball im Jahre 1971 auf Single veröffentlicht wurde. Das Lied verbindet Deep Purples „klassische“ Hardrockwurzeln mit einem frischen „Boogie-Blues-Feeling“. Die Single erschien im Februar 1971 und kam bis auf Platz 8 der britischen Singlecharts.
Entstehungsgeschichte und Erfolg

Strange Kind of Woman wurde im Laufe eines zweiwöchigen Aufenthaltes Anfang des Jahres 1971 an der Nordküste von Cornwall eingespielt. Der ursprüngliche Titel des an das Riff von Black Night anmutende Strange Kind of Woman lautete The Prostitute. Erst nach der Fertigstellung des Textes erhielt es von Ian Gillan seinen endgültigen Titel.[1] Die Single war von Anfang an nicht für das Album Fireball vorgesehen gewesen.

Als B-Seite für Strange Kind of Woman wurde das auf dem Riff des älteren Deep-Purple-Instrumentalstücks Grabsplatter beruhende I’m Alone gewählt, das Roger Glovers Erinnerung zufolge „spätnachts in einer Stunde oder so zusammengeschmissen und aufgenommen und um fünf Uhr morgens gemischt” wurde.[2]
Konzertaufführungen [Bearbeiten]

Nach seiner Veröffentlichung wurde Strange Kind of Woman als Hitsingle in Deep Purples Liveprogramm übernommen,[3] wo es bis zum Ende der Mark-II-Besetzung im Jahre 1973 als fester Bestandteil verankert blieb. Live kündigte Sänger Ian Gillan den Song wie folgend an:

“It was about a friend of ours who got mixed up with a very evil woman and it was a sad story. They got married in the end. And a few days after they got married, the lady died.[4]”

– Ian Gillan

Bei Konzerten diente der Mittelteil des Stücks mittels Ritchie Blackmores Gitarrenspiel und Gillans „schreienden, hohen Gesang“ als Improvisionsmuster für musikalische Zwiesprache innerhalb der Band. Auch das Album Made in Japan beinhaltet diese eigenwillige instrumental/gesangliche Zwiesprache. Zu seiner Wiedereinführung in Deep Purples Konzertprogramm gelangte Strange Kind of Woman bei der Reunion im Jahr 1984, wo das Lied bis zum Jahr 1993 fest verankert blieb. Nach Ritchie Blackmores endgültigem Ausstieg wurde es nur noch sporadisch live gespielt, so wie im Jahr 2006 beim Konzert Live in Montreux 2006.
Coverversionen

* Im Jahre 1973 produzierte die irische Rockband Thin Lizzy unter dem Namen Funky Junction ein Album, das Coverversionen von Deep-Purple-Songs, darunter auch Strange Kind of Woman, beinhaltete.[5]
* Während Yngwie Malmsteens Song You Don’t Remember, I’ll Never Forget" führte dieser gemeinsam mit Joe Lynn Turner die klassische Gitarren/Gesang-Zwiesprache von Gillan und Blackmore live auf.
* Die serbische Rockband Cactus Jack coverte Strange Kind of Woman für ihr 2003-er Album Deep Purple Tribute.

The Mule, ein Song der britischen Hardrockband Deep Purple, wurde auf deren fünften Studioalbum Fireball im Juli 1971 erstveröffentlicht. Text und Musik haben Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord und Ian Paice verfasst.
Entstehungsgeschichte

Die ersten musikalischen Skizzen für The Mule entstanden am Ende des Jahres 1970 im Laufe eines zweiwöchigen Aufenthaltes der Band in Welcombe, einem Ort an der Nordküste von Cornwall.[1] Als im Jahr 1971 Deep Purples Konzerttournee wieder startet, findet sich in einer Spielpause im Laufe des Januar 1971 etwas freie Zeit, um das Album Fireball zu vollenden. Ein Experiment von Ian Paice, der The Mule mit einem psychedelischem Flanger-Effekt versehen wollte, misslang, als er das Band umdrehte und es rückwärts laufend bespielte. Durch ein Missgeschick wurde die Hälfte seiner Schlagzeugspur gelöscht. Da aber Paices Schlagzeug schon zum nächsten Spielort in Europa transportiert worden war, spielte er die gelöschte Spur mit einem ausgeliehenen Schlagzeug nach, um sie per Overdubs zu reparieren. Eine leichte Unregelmäßigkeit lässt sich aber heraushören.[2]
Musikalischer Stil

The Mule startet mit dem Geräusch eines Tamburins, um danach mit einer gewaltigen „Akkord-Lawine“ das Stück zu eröffnen. Die ersten eineinhalb Minuten des Songs bieten dem Sänger Ian Gillan Freiraum für dessen typischen aggressiven Gesangsstil. Danach gleitet der Song in eine „orientalisch anmutende Melodienführung“, einem psychedelisch-funkig anmutenden Mittelteil, der bei den Livedarbietungen Spielraum für Ian Paices sechsminütiges Schlagzeugsolo bietet. Am Ende der Studiofassung entfacht das Stück eine hämmernde und flirrende Instrumentalistik. Das einleitende Gitarrenriff beschließt den Song.
Nutzung
The Mule wurde nach seiner Veröffentlichung in Deep Purples Liveprogramm eingeführt. Er wurde, nach einem kurzen gesanglichen Eröffnungsteil Ian Gillans, so auch im Livealbum Made in Japan nachzuhören, als Freiraum für Ian Paices Schlagzeugsolo verwendet.

Nach der Auflösung der Mark-II-Besetzung im Jahr 1973 wurde The Mule aus Deep Purples Liveprogramm entfernt. In den Jahren 1974 und 1975 spielte Ritchie Blackmore das Gitarrenriff von The Mule nach Paices Schlagzeugsolo im Song You Fool No One an. [3] Kurze Ausschnitte des Songs wurden auch im Jahre 1993 auf einer Europatournee gespielt.[4]