If the legend sounds too crazy to be true, just take a look at the lyrics for "Smoke on the Water": "Frank Zappa and the Mothers were at the best place around/But some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground/They burned down the gambling house/It died with an awful sound. The black smoke rising from the nearby Lake Geneva inspired the song's title, per NPR. Celebrate the 4th of July for three days straight with fireworks taking place every night on the Space Coast 'Smoke on the Water & Fire in the Sky' will.
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Smoke on the Water & Fire in the Sky 9:00 pm Port Canaveral. Yet the story of how this most famous of metal tracks came into being is shot-through with chance incidents, any one of which could have seen the recording stifled at birth, leaving music writers to scrabble about for another 'best riff of all time' contender. Smoke on the Water & Fire in the Sky Port Canaveral Glen Cheek Dr., Port Canaveral, FL 32920. Plants associated with the Mediterranean, such as pines, cypresses. Ive never seen anything as intense or as long. Each day the intensity is different as is the light. 80 minutes into the set, as Don Preston was firing up his synthesizer solo during "King Kong" that someone in the crowd fired a flare gun, which quickly spread across the wooden ceiling, according to Ultimate Classic Rock. These days Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' is such a ubiquitous rock anthem that it almost seems as if it's been out there forever. Because of the exceptionally mild climate Montreux is called the capital of the Vaud Riviera. We have had smoke from forest fires from British Columbia for the last week. 4, 1971 when Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were playing a show at the casino.
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Everyone in Kelowna and Alberta has been talking about the smoke but we haven't had any all summer. That's right: English rock band Deep Purple's classic "Smoke on the Water" was fully inspired by a casino fire that decimated the building - and almost cost concertgoers their lives. Smoke on the water, fire in the sky Well the smoke from the forest fires finally hit Vancouver.
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The lakeside casino in the Swiss town of Montreux has been cemented in rock history as a landmark of a concert miracle, as well as the inspiration for one of the most iconic guitar riffs in history.