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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zO6lWfvM0g

Fun Fact: Smoke on the Water was based on an actual event. Deep Purple were in Montreux, Switzerland, "on the Lake Geneva shoreline", "to make records with a mobile" recording studio rented from the Rolling Stones and referred to in the song as the "Rolling truck Stones thing". They were planning on recording their album at the Montreux Casino ("the gambling house"), but during a concert by "Frank Zappa and the Mothers" of Invention, "some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground." "Funky Claude" Nobs, director of the Montreux Jazz Festival "was running in and out" helping rescue some of the audience. The members of Deep Purple watched the fire from across the lake as the smoke spread across the water. Having lost their place to record and with time running out, they "had to find another place". They "ended up at the Grand Hotel" de Territet, which was mostly "empty, cold and bare"

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