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#Who wrote smoke on the water series
One is not the other played backwards or reversed or even that similar at all.Īs I mentioned - although I give a reference now - in the classic albums series about Machine Head, Blackmore claimed that friends of the band were not fans of the classic "Smoke on the Water" riff, because they thought it was too simplistic. No I don't - as many have commented, what he says about the Smoke on the water and Beethoven's fifth is simply not true. I go to sleep with it at night, thinking, I'm so happy I wrote Ba Ba Ba. It's a riff that we should all have in our heads. In the interview Blackmore answers the question about whether he gets tired of playing it by saying, Yet, reading the Wikipedia page for Blackmore, we see:ĭuring the 1987–1988 tour, Blackmore was repeatedly reluctant to play "Smoke on the Water." He says he never gets sick and tired of playing it. If you look at the context with Blackmore's answers to questions which follow shortly after his explanation about Beethoven's 5th, it does seem more like he's probably joking. Someone alluded to Andy Kaufman too, which would fit perfectly with the idea that it's all a prank joke. Elsewhere in this thread some have suggested that it's all a joke in the dry British style of humor. When I posted this, I didn't consider that maybe Blackmore said he wrote the riff based on Beethoven's 5th as a joke.
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