![]() The band never really believed in the song and never thought it would be a hit. ![]() The water is Lake Geneva, close to the casino. Roger Glover, the bass player of Deep Purple, came up with the title Smoke on the Water, because of a dream he had a few nights after the fire.It must not have been Frank Zappa's best period: a couple of days after losing all his equipment, he broke his leg on a concert in England when someone pulled him into the crowd.Eventually Deep Purple recorded their album in the Rolling Stones' mobile studio. The roof caught fire and the whole place burned down, destroying all the equipment of Zappa's band. ![]() During that concert some idiot fired a flare gun towards the roof. The night before the recording there was a live concert of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. In 1971 the band was in Montreux (Switzerland) to record their album Machine Head in the casino of Montreux. ![]()
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