I’ve ALWAYS loved Deep Purple’s “Smoke On The Water.” I reckon it’s arguably the best song off the best album in the history of balls-to-the-wall rock. Guitar, hih-hats, bass, LET THERE BE ROCK! 
So, for years I’ve had this bug bear. Because of SOTW’s school holiday music shop shred reputation. I’ve never got to play it, properly with a band. Nobody wants to do it justice and play it right because they’re afraid of everybody thinking “awful high school kid in a music shop.” Eff off! Played properly, it sounds NOTHING like that kid.
Well, at a social jam on Friday night, a bunch of old farts like me, including a guitarist veritably CHANNELLING Ritchie Blackmore at his peak, cracked it out old school. Tick that one off the bucket list, I can rest easy now, I’ve finally played in an awesome session with awesome musos and the coolest vocals by a great singer.
I think the lovely Linda recorded it, too, but we’ve got to clean up the hard disk before we can capture it off the camera.
