Hey, bloggers!
So, today's song is (drum rooooooolls...) SMOKE ON THE WATER by Deep Purple.
I've posted this song because this english band is going to perform today in Lisbon! This particullar song was chosen because of it's iconic, magnificent, extraordinary, marvelous, crunching four-tone chromatic progression that is perhaps the single most famous riff in heavy metal music history!
Among all the Deep Purple songs, this one stands out, it's so genious! It's one of the biggest hits of one of the heavy metal pioneer bands (along with Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath)!
This is about a fire in the Casino at Montreux, Switzerland. The band was going to record Machine Head there right after a Frank Zappa concert, but someone fired a flare gun at the ceiling which set the place on fire. The band was relocated to another hotel and recorded the album in the Rolling Stones mobile studio.
I simply love this masterpiece!
xoxo, Lovely Rita