Nobs explained to how this song arose out of the ashes: "Deep Purple were watching the whole fire from their hotel window, and they said, 'Oh my God, look what happened. He is the co-founder of the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. "Funky Claude," as in the lyrics "Funky Claude was running in and out pulling kids out the ground," is Claude Nobs, a man who helped rescue some people in the fire and found another hotel for the band to stay.
The B-side of the single was another version of the song, recorded live in Japan. It took off when they released it as a US single over a year after the album came out. The band did not think this would be a hit and rarely played it live. The water that provides a base for the smoke in this song is Lake Geneva, which the casino overlooked. He thought it was a great title, but was reluctant to use it because it sounded like a drug song. Roger Glover came up with the image of smoke on the water. This prompted Ian Gillan to say "Break a leg, Frank," into the microphone after recording this for a BBC special in 1972. He then broke his leg a few days later when a fan pulled him into the crowd at a show in England. See a photo of the fire in Song Images.įrank Zappa, who is mentioned in the lyrics, lost all his equipment in the fire. The band was relocated to another hotel and recorded the album in the Rolling Stones mobile studio. The band was going to record their Machine Head album there right after a Frank Zappa concert, but someone fired a flare gun at the ceiling during Zappa's show, which set the place on fire. " Smoke on the Water" is a song by Deep Purple which is about a fire in the Casino at Montreux, Switzerland.
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