Smoke on the Water

2004-12-27T23:06:00.000-08:00

The song is immediately recognizable by its central theme, a crunching four-tone chromatic progression that is perhaps the single most famous riff in heavy metal music history. This riff, played on electric guitar by Ritchie Blackmore, is immediately joined by drums and contrapuntal electric bass and organ parts before the start of Ian Gillan's expressive vocal. Despite the heaviness of the guitar part, constant movement and interplay within the supporting parts keeps the feel of the song from becoming leaden.
The lyric of the song tells a true story: on December 7, 1971, Deep Purple had set up camp in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino (referred to as "the gambling house" in the song lyric). On the eve of the recording session a concert featuring Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention was held in the casino's theater; during the concert a fire broke out (said to be caused by a fan shooting a flare gun) that eventually destroyed the entire casino complex. The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino as the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel across the lake.
Left with an expensive mobile recording unit and no place to record, the band was forced to scout the town for another place to set up. One promising venue was a local theatre called The Pavilion, in an effort to capture a reverberative sound; but soon after the band had loaded in and started working/recording, the nearby neighbors took offense at the noise, and the band was able to lay down backing tracks for only one song before the local police shut them down.

The Smoking Gun

2004-12-27T23:02:00.000-08:00

The Smoking Gun is a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots on a daily basis. One section of the site is made up entirely of "riders" in the contracts of popular music acts, focusing on the artists' personal demands; most of the publicized demands are either highly self-indulgent or inherently humorous. Most of its content revolves around historical and current events, although it also features documents and photos relating to out-of-the-ordinary crimes and people.
The website was founded in 1997 by William Bastone and Daniel Green, former reporters for the Village Voice. Most of The Smoking Gun's content is obtained by Freedom of Information Act requests to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, and from public records such as court documents. The site has used those requests to assemble a collection of mugshots of current and historical celebrities.
The term "the smoking gun" is a reference to an object which serves as conclusive evidence or proof of a crime or similar act.
Court TV purchased The Smoking Gun in 2000.

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