Smoke on the Water
On the 4th of December, 1971, the British rock band, Deep Purple, had set up camp in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino. On the eve of the recording session, a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held at the Casino's theater. In the middle of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire when somebody in the audience fired a flare gun ino the rattan covered ceiling. The resulting fire destroyed the entire Casino complex, along with all the Mother's equipment. The "smoke on the water" that later became the title of the song, referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva.
Inspired by Fauvism and based on the recent death of Claude Nobs (he was the general- director of the Montreux Jazz Festival), I used bright acrylic paints to paint the scene that happened more than 30 years ago with a view of Montreux.
Inspired by Fauvism and based on the recent death of Claude Nobs (he was the general- director of the Montreux Jazz Festival), I used bright acrylic paints to paint the scene that happened more than 30 years ago with a view of Montreux.