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The desk of useless facts in our trainspotting department reports that at some point in time the stretch of the central street in Monteux called Grand Rue was renamed Avenue Claude-Nobs. Such that the building known as Le Petit Palais, that was the venue of the first Machine Head session — y’know, the one that produced backing track for Smoke and was unceremoniously terminated by the police on noise complaints — now has street address of Av. Claude-Nobs 1, 1820 Montreux, Switzerland. While the very posh Montreux Palace Hotel across the street, the home of Funky Claude’s Bar is at #2.

This concludes our public service announcements for today.

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Posted by Nick on Friday, April 24th, 2026, filed under Blog. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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