Today, May 26th 1973 “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple made it’s way to the billboard charts.
“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"