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Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water: so who actually was the “stupid with a flare gun”? | Darren's music blog
The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge - 50 years of smoke.... "….We all came out to Montreux On the Lake Geneva shoreline To make records with a mobile We didn't have
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Montreux Casino To Celebrate 50 Years Since Tragedy Inspired DEEP PURPLE's " Smoke On The Water" This Saturday - BraveWords
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The Story Behind The Song: The disastrous fire in Deep Purple's 'Smoke On The Water' - Far Out Magazine
WKSR Radio - On this day in rock music.... December 3, 1971 A fire burns down the Montreux Casino in Switzerland during a Frank Zappa concert. Deep Purple witness the conflagration and
![1971 During a Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention concert at the Montreux Casino in Montreux, Switzerland, but some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground. Deep Purple immortalized 1971 During a Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention concert at the Montreux Casino in Montreux, Switzerland, but some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground. Deep Purple immortalized](https://i.redd.it/11vtrhf75cac1.jpeg)
1971 During a Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention concert at the Montreux Casino in Montreux, Switzerland, but some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground. Deep Purple immortalized
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4 December 1971] - The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert (the event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water"). The casino is rebuilt in 1975. : r/50yearsago
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Some stupid with a flare gun': Frank Zappa & the true story of Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' | Dangerous Minds
![Montreux Casino burned down during a concert by Frank Zappa. "Smoke on the Water" is about the incident. Montreux Casino burned down during a concert by Frank Zappa. "Smoke on the Water" is about the incident.](https://media2.nekropole.info/2014/12/Frenka-Zappas-koncerta-laika-tiek-nodedzinats-kazino.jpg)
Montreux Casino burned down during a concert by Frank Zappa. "Smoke on the Water" is about the incident.
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