Rare Live: Lars Ulrich, Ian Gillan, David Wolf (Lead Guitar) - Smoke On The Water

Thanks for following @RideWithTheWolf Rare live performance of Smoke on the Water with Lars Ulrich, Ian Gillan Band, and David Wolf on lead guitar - performed at The Sting in San Francisco. 🎸 Latest release: Foxhole - https://music.apple.com/us/album/foxhole-single/1818731223 🎧 Follow David Wolf on Apple Music → https://music.apple.com/us/artist/david-wolf/1755232350 🎵 Listen on Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/artist/0uDF7tvuA8QYpNW0iNeaxM?si=W1DtTvQHTF-shkl6QIN0Bw Ian Gillan - Vocals, Lars Ulrich - Drums, Michael Lee Jackson - Guitar, David Wolf Gizzarelli - Lead Guitar, Dean Howard - Guitar, Joe Mennona - Keys and Sax, Rodney Appleby - Bass, and Randy Cooke - Drums. 🎸 Love this performance? Watch more rare live music here → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0821ABB7FA7C51DC 🔥 Support the artist + grab merch → https://gizzarelli.org In 2006, I won a guitar contest on 107.7 The Bone in the Bay Area. I submitted my guitar track mixed in with the Smoke on the Water backing track. Then, I got the call. They said my submission was one of the better ones. Though the band was kinda crabby, I got to meet everyone backstage and perform the lead guitar part in the song. Credit for the video goes to a fella from a band called Freight Train Rocks who gave me the video. 🎥 Other Popular Videos: • Make You Love Me → https://youtu.be/kxdS2kchISI • Brazilian Modern Dance → https://youtu.be/XD6y1WoT-ZM • Marilyn Monroe Cottage → https://youtu.be/bhsW1lZDiLA 🌐 Learn more about me and my brand → https://gizzarelli.org "The lyrics of the song tell a true story: on December 4, 1971, Deep Purple had set up camp in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones and known as the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio - referred to as the "Rolling truck Stones thing" and "the mobile" in the song lyrics) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino (referred to as "the gambling house" in the song lyric). 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"[1][2], as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line. 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 ... "

Added 6 Apr 2026