Deep Purple’s Classic Smoke On The Water is based on Beethoven.

lol this is literally the first song i teach anyone who asks me for a lesson (if they're an absolute beginner) What a great lesson in creativity What many people don't know is that Bach (some consider the greatest composer who ever lived) did something very similar He would have to compose music weekly for his local church. That's what most of his music is. So what he'd do is compose one piece of music, and invert, rearrange it, invert the rearrangement ect and take one composition and make four so he'd have music for the whole month from roughly a single composition! Very cool right?

Ritchie is lying about who he stole it from. It's "Mario Moita" by Carlos Lyra

The lyrics however tell the true story of a fire that broke out during a 1971 Frank Zappa concert at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland.

Best riff ever. That said, this clip reminds me of another certain band we all know and love.

Everything's based on Beethoven. Or Mozart. Or Bach. 🤣🎶🤣🎶🤣🎶

Ritchie's explanation doesn't hold up, and he's too smart not to know better. He's pulling the interviewer's leg.

Space truckin' is a better song.

😱 now that's something i wasn't expecting!

Awesome

Blackmore's Night is one of my favorite duos. Introduced to them by my son well into their career as a duo. I had known and listened to Deep Purple but had fallen out of avid music listening after marriage and family.