Deep Purple - Through The Smoke: The Recording Of Smoke On The Water

Join the band as they recount their memories of the bizarre set of circumstances that lead to the creation of one of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time…

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Production Credits:

Directed by: Dan Gibling
Executive Producer: Matt Clark
Production Company: Skyfire 76
Cameras + Sound: Dan Gibling + Corin Schencks
Featured Photo Book: Didi Zill - 'Deep Purple: Photos 1970-2006’
Animated Clips taken from the 'Smoke On The Water' music video Produced by Chiba Film

[rexpayne]

I grew up listening to Deep Purple and have never looked back. 🇦🇺 👍

[barnabinks]

My favorite band ever thank you deep purple for being so good at music

[Stefan-]

Martin Birch was such a fantastic sound engineer and producer, he made lots of classic albums with Deep purple, Rainbow, Iron Maiden, Black sabbath and more. Rock In peace.

[jeffsilverman]

The literal soundtrack of my youth. I hitch-hiked over to Moby Disc in Van Nuys to buy Machine Head, over fifty years ago. An amazing half-century later, and I'm still above ground and still listening.

[technonarg]

I first heard Deep Purple as a first year student at Grammar School in 1974, and they've been Rockin' my world ever since. The Deep Purple family tree soon gave me a fantastic introduction to all the members'other bands and solo albums to collect and explore. My Rock library started to grow with branches following Gillan, Glover, Blackmore, Coverdale, Trapeze, Rainbow, Whitesnake and continues to branch out and gives me new band members to backtrack and research, and a prodigious amount of music, and musicians are still being added to my collection thanks to Deep Purple. :-)

[reinaldoalves]

ThANK YOU Mr. Gillan, Mr. Paice. Mr. Glover for the soundtrack of my life, no more to say, just a Big Thank You !

[arnostijlen]

And don't forget about Richie! Great Rock guitarist - certainly one of the greatest!

[chrissartain]

The Greatest Band of their Time, Led Zep & Deep Purple have been the very best of the 70's

[billjannusch]

Absolutely awesome interview. I could listen to these type of stories all day long. I love Deep Purple forever.

[AngelCatBaby]

One of my favorite songs by Deep Purple….I was in the military during this time and it was playing everywhere. Many of my friends were in Vietnam. Thank you Deep Purple for your contribution to music and helping us through those years of conflict. It helped relieve some of the pain for those we lost in the war. 👍❤️🎵🙏🏼👍

[SatWise]

I had the honor of managing DP's first online store and volunteer led fan website they adopted us as official back in 1996. I convinced them to release an MP3 from a new live CD to anyone who signed a petition for the Rock Hall of Fame on the website. US TV show Extra! did a segment on it as they were the first band to release an MP3 single.

Bravo to see what started still doing these GOATS justice. Thanks for all the memories boys! - Ed Janx, with much love to Svante, Dave, Wolf, Rasmus, Andreas, and all good people from The Highway Star original fan pages🧡

[XandoZupo]

Just 3 words.
"THANK YOU, GUYS!"

[bobs]

My first Rock Concert I went to was 1972 or 73 and it was summertime Billy Preston opened for the Amazing Deep Purple who blew us all away. The crowd outside The Great Allentown Fairgrounds in Allentown Pennsylvania where their concert was held was sold out and concert goers of a couple hundred who could not get in overwhelmed security and crashed the fence. I was only 12 or 13 at the time. I went to many Rock Concerts since, but this Deep Purple concert is the most memorable. I am a lifelong fan and never stop listening. Thank you, Deep Purple, for the greatest music and memories.

[TheDeepPurplePodcast]

Great video! Thanks for sharing the afterparty with us!

[jeremythornton]

I'm still loving and buying Deep Purple albums and I'm 68! Best band ever!

[deaconblue]

So good to hear the story straight from the band members. I wish Ritchie had joined in.

[PurpleRecords]

I can tell you this… I visited both the Grand Hotel and walked the corridor and onto Petit Palace back in 2008 and when back at my hotel that night, l lay on the bed headphones on and played Machine Head - my perception the album totally changed. Even now I still get that feeling of wow - what an experience the band went through to make this 100% classic album for us…

[ArthurMetalHead]

I discovered these guys a year ago at 11. I am happy to be one of the rare ones that love this old music and i love classic rock and hate nowadays music. I think kids should listen to classic music like this, my fav band!

[FcoBaimaFh]

The amazing. The star of everything. The one. The best of the bests. The originals. The uniques. They're Deep Purple. Foookkkkeerrrr

[audieconrad]

I was 16 years old lying in bed listening to the local a.m. station WLAM and at about 10:00 p.m. or so the dj breaks in and says, "I've got the new DEEP PURPLE album, and at 11:00, I'm going to play it in its entirety."

2-minute song a.m. radio is gonna do whaaaat??
I stayed awake and listened and could-not-believe what I was hearing. I went to the record shop the next day.
Mr. DeOrsey said I was the first one to buy DEEP PURPLE MACHINE HEAD...I still have that copy.
Rock on brothahs & sistahs!✌🏼