What a great time to be a kid and grow up, I really believe that we were blessed to have experienced those days. I miss them now more than ever before 🤔.
I was 17 in the year of 1971 in London. Does it get any better and we saw most of the top groups at endless top London Venues like THe Rainbow,Roundhouse,Croydon Greyhound,Festival Hall,Fairfield Halls,Empire Pool,Royal Albert Hall,Hammersmith,Earls Court and on and on:)
@@bernardsalvatore1929 Yes, Bernard, and how about this. Pink Floyd debuting DSOM at Earls Court with 18,000 others in West London: £1 or $1.34/ Led Zeppelin at Wembley Arena in North West London for 75 PENCE or $1 ONE Dollar and BOTH Deep Purple and Creedence Clearwater Revival in successive weeks at The World Famous: Royal Albert Hall for 25 PENCE each so all 4 Concerts cost £2.25 or THREE Dollars. In context 3/4 of Led Zeppelin reformed 12 years ago and the tickets cost around $250 :)
@@bernardsalvatore1929 Same here dude. 14 and raised in morris county NJ. We had way too much fun. Freedom was abundant. Cops were mostly your friend and help you went you got in trouble, that is unless you were screwing with them. 😬
The story behind this song is the song. They were in Switzerland to record an album. The studio was located in a casino where Frank Zappa and the mothers of Inventions were playing a show. Someone in the crowd fired a flair gun causing a fire that destroyed the building. (luckily no one died) using borrowed equipment from the Rolling Stones they set up a studio in a hotel and finished the album. But they still needed one more song and this song was born. The smoke on the water refers to the smoke going over lake Geniva.
Actually, the first song, rock song, that I learned on the guitar was “Stairway to Heaven”. After learning that, I learned Smoke On the Water, which became very easy to learn.
Great story telling song. It's about when they were going to record at Montreux Casino (by Lake Geneva), but the night before that Frank Zappa played there and some idiot in the audience fired a flare gun and burned the place down. From their hotel, Deep Purple could watch the smoke from the fire drift over the lake, knowing their recording wasn't going to happen. :( They had a mobile recording studio but needed somewhere to set it up. After a week they rented a whole hotel to do it.
This song has the most iconic guitar riff in rock history! Never forget the first time I heard it at my best friend's house. We were 13. We kept picking up the needle from the record and putting it back so we could listen one more time.
Great reaction Britt! This was the music of my early 20s. I remember driving around in my VW Beetle with the stereo blaring this song. This was beaed upon a true event the band witnessed while on tour in Europe.
@@brittreacts hi Britt, I saw that you did a Nightwish reaction to Ghost Love Score , unfortunately that was not the famous version,it was with their 1st singer who left the band in 2005, the one thats blowing everyones mind is this one with the current singer Floor Jansen : NIGHTWISH - Ghost Love Score (OFFICIAL LIVE) : Wacken 2013 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JYjIlHWBAVo.html
The Organ is called a Hammond organ and is mostly used in gospel and blues music and they connected it to a guitar amplifier instead of the speaker it is normally used with to create that heavy sound and they gave the organ a name. It was called "The beast"
Some memories put me right back in highschool with this one . Many dances started with Smoke on the Water and ended with 11 minutes of Stairway to Heaven. Wow seems so long ago and just yesterday. Thanks for the reaction. Good generation for music!!
Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin were called the unholy trinity. They are considered the first Hard Rock/Heavy Metal bands. These bands inspired almost all heavy rock bands that came after.
AND Uriah Heep. Heep, Sabbath, Purple and Zeppelin are the "big four" of rock-music! Believe me, I personally discovered this four bands in 1970, when I was nine years old :)
@@williamcabell142 "Heavy metal thunder" is a very famous line in a very famous song of the band Steppenwolf. So, what exactly is your problem with heavy metal?
@@williamcabell142 Yeah, I agree 100%. Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple is NOT metal. There was nothing even called metal when these bands were around. That came way later when it all became a big business and companies wanted to make big bucks of kids music .This is true progressive hard rock. Period.
Smoke on the water fire in the sky. In the first verse it tells of a person in the audience shooting a flare gun causing the fire during the concert in Switzerland about of which this song was written.
Never mind the song, great as it is, Britt! You are spot on about the fashions and styles and clothes men wore during the last half of the 60's and through most of the 70's! And the music from that era! We were so lucky to be alive then and had no idea!!
Funky Claude was a fireman that was present when the fire started and he was leading kids out of the fire. He was awarded a medal I believe after his heroic actions. Those are clips from the hotel fire they are singing about. "Some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground". A guy in the Frank Zappa concert set off a flare gun and caught the hotel on fire.
You’re so correct about 70’s fashion…I was in my teens and young adult years during that decade. Bell bottoms/flared pants, wide lapel jackets, scarves…young guys looked at how Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Robert Plant dressed and tried to copy the swag…👍🏼😎
Love that song, great people raise from the ashes and always make something awesome, wonderful and beautiful, 70s was the funkin golden age of rock and roll, yes, during the 70s for the most part you could be yourself, you had more freedom to be you and for the most part all were equal, didn't matter if you were rich or poor, you were treat the same, but that wasn't everywhere, the hippie movement almost got people to believe in flowerism(treating all with respect and love) instead of what came after in the 80s materialism 🙏🙏🙏
I was 17 in the year of 1971 in London. Does it get any better and we saw most of the top groups at endless top London Venues like THe Rainbow, Roundhouse, Croydon Greyhound, Festival Hall, Fairfield Halls, Empire Pool, Royal Albert Hall, Hammersmith, Earls Court, and on and on:)
I agree about fashion in the 70s. It was different than the 60s...much less conformity. When I was in high school denim was the thing for sure. Much of the basic style is still worn today too.
I've never heard that before! He said, "Break your leg, Frank". It's an obvious reference to when Frank was rushed and attacked by an angry audience member in London. Frank suffered many injuries, including a fractured leg, which laid him up for almost a year.
Jon Lord on those Hammond organs is really something else. Ian was tapped to sing the part of Jesus in the original Broadway recording of Jesus Christ Superstar. He's an incredible singer. If you haven't done them yet, well this whole album Machine Head is good, other fan favorites from the album which show off their virtuosity and his singing and they are just bangers, are Highway Star, Lazy, and Space Trucking!
Deep Purple. Led Zepplin Black Sabbath AC/DC The Doors where do I stop Man I’m glad I grew up in the 70s Oh and sorry The Beatles and Rolling Stones🤣👍 but made live in Japan by deep purple is a masterpiece
I was in the Army and stationed in Germany in 1973 and 74. I saw Deep Purple at the Festhalle in Frankfurt during that time. I was sitting close to the front. Third or fourth row back. The music was fantastic but so loud I could feel my skull vibrate. I ended up with a headache but it was worth it.
That's the way we rolled in the 1970s. The only fashion of the 70s that I hated was the polyester leisure suits. That is one thing that I hope doesn't comes into fashion again.... ever!
Probably one of the most iconic riffs of all time. The song is about a fire in a Switzerland casino after a rock concert. I’m thinking that was footage or simulated footage of the fire.
I feel unreasonably vindicated when I’m watching a reaction of an “old” song but I then find out that it was even before I was born. This song you said was released in 72 and that’s 2 years before I was even a twinkle in my daddy’s eye
Britt great review. Just had to say the 70s was the time of happy shiny people. But like today there were haters saying are you a boy or a girl you hippy freak. But us with the long hair and cool clothes didn’t care. Long Haired Country Boy by Charlie Daniels expands it better than me
I realize a lot of your subscribers have already recommended "Child in Time" the live version. Though the song is a dark themed, you as a vocalist will appreciate the brilliance of Ian Gillan's vocal. The song is a bit shocking.
Your observations on 70s fashion and gender are quite true. Especially in Hard Rock you had very feminine looking and dressing young men - e.g. Robert Plant from Led Zep. And yet there music was loud and hard and they sang about sex and drugs and had groupies galore. There orientation was never much in doubt and also it did not matter. Happy times before wokeness stereotyped everybody and put labels on all of us.
Fyi the lead singer Ian Gillan played/sang the role of Jesus on the 1970 double album of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. P.S. if you.like DP andyou want to expose yourself to more great DP songs i recommend Highway Star , Burn, Hush, and My Woman from Tokyo. Use the live versions from the early 1970s. Additionally if you want to expose yourself to more iconic 1970s rock artists i recommend A. Led Zeppelin- more specifically Stairway to Heaven , Whole Lotta Love and Kashmir. Use the live versions. B. Peter Frampton- Something 's Happening and Lines on my Face and Do you feel Like We Do . Use the versions from the iconic Frampton Comes Alive. or other live albums. C. The Rolling Stones specifically Brown Sugar, Jumping Jack Flash , Gimme Shelter and Sympathy for the Devil. I recommend live versions from the 1989 steel wheels tour. P.S. iam a 63 year old retired attorney and a non- retired guitarist. I started paying serious attention to attention to rock music and other genres as a ten year old in 1970.i don't want to sound immodest but I would be more than happy to spill out my knowledge to you for free so that you would have enough knowledge to fill your channel with content for yours to come. Case in point.- one of my nephews-he's 21 years old - asked me to teach him about the history of rock and roll so i have been sending him RU-vid videos thst stretch all the way back to the 1920s. P.S . I noticed that you did a reaction to a Llnda Ronstadt song. I think you would also like Desperado, You're no Good Heatwave and That'll be the Day - a cover of a Buddy Holly song.
Funny thing about this song is that it was such a huge hit, you heard it all the time. And although it rocks it's probably my least favorite song on the LP. And it's only because I grew up in the 70's and I've heard it so many times. Sort of the "Stairway To Heaven" conundrum from Led Zeppelin. Great song but it's been played over and over for ever. But you know bands were great when such popular songs are not necessarily the best in their catalogue.
You need to react to "Highway Star" recorded live in Japan ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7zKAS7XOWaQ.html and "When A Blind Man Cries" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1ieqHL15yEw.html . Just be prepared Ian's vocals will simply knock you back and then pull you along in ways that are not possible to describe.
Always a great song. If you want more great songs check out Creedence Clearwater Revival. “Fortunate Son”, “Have You Ever Seen the Rain”, "Born on the Bayou" --- any would be good choices ---- that is if you have not reacted to CCR or any of the songs mentioned.
The 1970 TV performance gets a lot of reactions because it's a video but is disappointing for those who know what Purple is capable of on this song. Gillan is great in that video, but Blackmore's solo is not up to his usual high standards. Even more disappointing is the lack of a duel between the guitarist and Lord on the organ. Fans who know point to Child in Time (Live In Stockholm 1970) as the definitive live version. Link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GzWKB_dfoLA.html song begins at 1:28:29
@@CoolJerk-z5c I've always felt, and I thought that I read somewhere once that this song was a pretty significant factor in the reason why Ian Gillan left Deep Purple!! Something along the lines of Blackmore going against Gillan's wishes to not do the song so often when they were on tour! Reason being it was pretty stressful on Ian's vocal cords and doing it too often probably gave him distress!! Do you have any information on that??
This is probably there biggest hit iconic song. But in no way shows Ian's vocal skills he can hit high notes 🎶 that will give you chills. That's is my 92 yr old aunts favorite band. Her ring tone is " perfect strangers" today's her birthday 🎂 HaPpY Birthday auntie 🥳
Right before we adopted our son, my parents bought him a guitar. He eventually wanted lessons and one of the first things he learned was that opening rift and would play it constantly. Even though it drove us nuts, we were happy he was interested in learning to play an instrument.
Same here, bought my son a guitar for his 14th or 15th birthday. It was painful at first, but I knew I had raised him right when I came home from work one day and heard this coming from the basement.
My god.....if you have never heard this before.......then you ARE so young!!!! This is the first song everyone learns to play on guitar....and has been for the last 40 years........stay young Britt. ...stay young!!! Great reaction 👍
This is one of the few hard rock groups I enjoyed in the 60's-70's. My favorites are their covers of Joe South's "Hush" & Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman". Also like "Lazy", "Child In Time", "Woman From Tokyo", "Highway Star", "Fireball", "Speed King", "Space Truckin'", etc.
To see one of the greatest live performances by any rock group - see DEEP PURPLE in a TV Studio in early 70's in the UK singing "Child in Time". A must see. Note - the singer also was a Broadway singer / did the JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR soundtrack I beleive.
There's an interview with the band about this song. They tell the story of recording the "Machine Head" album, which this song is from, and what they went through to get it recorded. Memories of high school in the seventies here.
You noted that the singer "took us to church" on that one vocal ornament, so here's a bit of trivia for you, Britt. Ian Gillan, the vocalist for Deep Purple, is the voice of Jesus on the original recording of Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera concept album by Andrew LLoyd Webber and Tim Rice. If you are not familiar with that work, I highly recommend it. Gillan is spectacular, as are all the vocalists on that recording, now over 50 years old. And by the way, I still have the 45 RPM single for Smoke on the Water I bought when the song came out (also 50 years ago!)
