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BasicGreatGuy
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byeSPOIffVE]YouTube - Roundabout by Yes[/ame]
AllieBaba
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I always thought the whole "smoke on the water" concept was cool:
"On the eve of the recording session a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre. During the gig, a fire broke out. In the middle of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire. Somebody in the audience had fired a flare gun into the ceiling, at which point the rattan covering started to burn, as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line. [2][3] The resulting fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers' equipment. The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song (credited to bass guitarist Roger Glover, who related how the title occurred to him when he suddenly woke from a dream a few days later) referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino as the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel across the lake. The "Funky Claude" running in and out is referring to Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival who helped some of the audience escape the fire."
Smoke on the Water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The story I heard about the concept was actually somewhat different, but it's still a cool story.
"On the eve of the recording session a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre. During the gig, a fire broke out. In the middle of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire. Somebody in the audience had fired a flare gun into the ceiling, at which point the rattan covering started to burn, as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line. [2][3] The resulting fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers' equipment. The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song (credited to bass guitarist Roger Glover, who related how the title occurred to him when he suddenly woke from a dream a few days later) referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino as the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel across the lake. The "Funky Claude" running in and out is referring to Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival who helped some of the audience escape the fire."
Smoke on the Water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The story I heard about the concept was actually somewhat different, but it's still a cool story.
BasicGreatGuy
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Dude,
Check out the positive waves this bass player is sending out.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy3V2Tl4g3s&feature=related]YouTube - Amazing Bass Guitar Player![/ame]
Check out the positive waves this bass player is sending out.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy3V2Tl4g3s&feature=related]YouTube - Amazing Bass Guitar Player![/ame]
Oddball
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Pretty schweet! 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH4Ij2uhe-o&feature=related]YouTube - Rainbow - Since You Been Gone (Stereo)[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH4Ij2uhe-o&feature=related]YouTube - Rainbow - Since You Been Gone (Stereo)[/ame]
AllieBaba
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I always loved this song. My best friend and I, our boyfriends were always best friends. We never switched boyfriends, but we always thought about it.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swunpZMkZAk&feature=related]YouTube - The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swunpZMkZAk&feature=related]YouTube - The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl[/ame]
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Cheryl rocks!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpYL1ZTSnSA&feature=PlayList&p=D4C32758EB4C48E7]YouTube - Eric Clapton and Sheryl Crow - My Favorite Mistake[/ame]
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I have to say...I was introduced to Cheryl Crow and this song when a very dear friend of mine found out that her boyfriend of many years was cheating on her. She found out when we were doing Halloween at a local bar, dressed as a witch and a devil (both very sexy) and my sister in law, who was a waitress at another bar, who thought my friend and her bf were broken up came up to us and said, "Oh my god, did you know that Brad's girlfriend holed up in the bathroom of Cimmiyotti's and he sat there for hours waiting for her to come out?"
She became a fan of Cheryl and through her I did. the next year, he died in a hideous accident. He was riding 4-wheelers with his 13 y.o. son during the winter, and they had wrecked, and he was on the edge of a precipice and bent down to pick up his helmet and slipped and fell 350 feet. His son spent the night with his dead body at the bottom until the recovery team could haul his body out.
Anyway, that's how I came to appreciate Cheryl, and Jewel, as far as that goes. My friend dumped me when she got a new boyfriend, as she did whenever she and Brad would break up, too many memories I guess, but I'm still a big fan of Cheryl..and Jewel.
She became a fan of Cheryl and through her I did. the next year, he died in a hideous accident. He was riding 4-wheelers with his 13 y.o. son during the winter, and they had wrecked, and he was on the edge of a precipice and bent down to pick up his helmet and slipped and fell 350 feet. His son spent the night with his dead body at the bottom until the recovery team could haul his body out.
Anyway, that's how I came to appreciate Cheryl, and Jewel, as far as that goes. My friend dumped me when she got a new boyfriend, as she did whenever she and Brad would break up, too many memories I guess, but I'm still a big fan of Cheryl..and Jewel.
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