‘Smoke On the Water’ was a big hit for Deep Purple in 1973.
I was finishing my high school junior year when this air guitar-inspiring, head bopping power rock of the finest vintage. That it was based on a true story and had interesting references in the lyrics was an added bonus. Crank this song up and the walls would throb while the windows rattled. Peers, though, would share my grin. Guys loved it; girls tolerated it. We couldn’t hear anything else, but what the hell did it matter?
It was a good song for lighting up a doobie, which sometimes happened back then.
Michael Seidel, writer 
Still remember it daily. 93 listened to a bit
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lighting up only happened “sometimes” back then? 😉
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This was my brother’s very first favorite song, he tells me. He figured out how to turn on and operate the record player so he could listen to “Smoke on the Water” while falling asleep, because he found this song soothing. (He was a toddler at the time. I wasn’t there, so I can neither confirm nor deny this story, but I’ve heard it repeatedly during the last twenty-plus years.)
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Yes, I found it soothing, too. I often became very mellow as I listened to it. Sometimes, it made me hungry.
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Lazy and Space Truckin were my faves
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Both excellent songs. Love ’em, as well.
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Never before not bad either
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