SMOKE ON THE WATER
SMOKE ON THE WATER
Song Information
Artist: ♪♪♪♪♪
Composition/Lyrics: Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Load, Paice
Arrangement/Guitars/Bass/Keyboards & Drum Programming: Mutsuhiko Izumi
Vocals: Brad Holmes
Recording Engineer: Masami Kenmoku(Qtec), Miho Toyoda
Original Artist: Deep Purple
Album: Machine Head (1972)
BPM: 115
Length: 1:36
Genre: HARD ROCK
Movie: Unknown
First Music Game Appearance: GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
We all came out to Montreux On the Lake Geneva shoreline To make records with a mobile We didn't have much time Frank Zappa and the Mothers Were at the best place around But some stupid with a flare gun Burned the place to the ground Smoke on the water A fire in the sky Smoke on the water
Song Connections / Remixes
- A loose, licensed cover of Smoke on the Water, titled Smoke, appears in DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX.
- A cover of another song by Deep Purple, HIGHWAY STAR, also appears in GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX.
- Smoke on the Water also appears in Guitar Hero. Like the GuitarFreaks version, it is a cover.
Trivia
- Smoke on the Water was later released as a single in 1973, with the B-side being the live version of this song from their album Made in Japan.
- Machine Head is Deep Purple's sixth studio album.
- SMOKE ON THE WATER is the only license in GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX not arranged by Qtec.
Song Production Information
None.
Video Production Information
None.
Difficulty & Notecounts
Difficulty for early GF/DM games rated from 1 to 10 stars. GF/DM difficulty for GF5/dm4 and beyond rated from 1 to 99. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
Game | Drums | Guitar | Bass | Open | ||||||||
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Basic | Advanced | Extreme | Basic | Advanced | Extreme | Basic | Advanced | Extreme | Basic | Advanced | Extreme | |
Notecounts | - | - | - | 174 | 174 | - | 230 | 230 | - | - | - | - |
GF3→GF4 | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | - | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | - |
GF3/dm2 CS | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | - | N/A | N/A | - | - | - | - |