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It’s a simple song
Classic Rock magazine rehashes the story we’ve heard a million times by now — how Smoke came to being. This includes an undated quote from Blackmore (that was at some point subjected to a rather poor OCR, and had to be corrected by us):
I was jamming with Ian Paice at a soundcheck, because we often used to get to the shows early. I said to Ian, ‘Give me a time or a measure that we haven’t played lately’, and he put down that particular beat, and I just went straight into that riff. It’s related to a medieval way of playing, because in those days they played a lot in parallel fourths. That riff wouldn’t sound the way it does if it wasn’t played in parallel fourths. But Paicey and I just went through it and it sounded like a backing track. I feel that we did things in Purple which were a lot better than that, that didn’t go anywhere.
Read more in Classic Rock.
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