“Possibly the simplest thing Ritchie Blackmore ever did is the most popular thing he ever did…. He wasted all this time playing wild guitar solos only to have 500,000 kids play that riff in their garage.It’s the ultimate rock riff:big dumb, stupid-looking and totally beautiful.” Buzz “King Buzzo” Osborne of the Melvins.

Ritchie Blackmore said it was an inversion of the iconic motif of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. That may be a joke.
"Smoke on the Water"

Ted Mann

Ted Mann is a widely acclaimed multi- instrumentalist and award winning composer from New Hampshire. He has been on the music faculty at Keene State College in New Hampshire for many years. As an instrumentalist he performs on the classical, electric, baroque and romantic guitars as well as the lute. As a composer he works in many genres and is commissioned regularly for chamber and electro-acoustic music. See more at www.tedmann.net and www.facebook.com/TedMannNH.