Understanding Smoke On The Water

Support 12tone on Patreon to help us keep making cool videos!   / 12tonevideos   Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/12tone-under... Rock is full of incredible riffs, but if you had to pick the most iconic, most instantly recognizable riff in the history of the genre... I mean, it's gotta be Smoke On The Water, right? That one four-note blues line established Deep Purple as rock legends, and even as pioneers in the developing world of metal, part of the "Unholy Trinity" with fellow hard rock acts Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. But how did it all happen? Merch: http://standard.tv/12tone Discord:   / discord   Facebook:   / 12tonevideos   Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@12tonevideos Email: [email protected] Script: https://tinyurl.com/yk5973cv Huge thanks to our Elephant Club members: Susan Jones Jill Jones Duck Howard Levine Warren Huart Len Lanphar Ken Arnold William (Bill) Boston Chris Prentice Jack Carlson Damien Fuller-Sutherland Christopher Lucas Andrew Beals Dov Zazkis Hendrik P Thomas Morley Kelly Christoffersen Jacob Helwig Donal Botkin Stephen Cook Davis Sprague b-rom Hendrik Stüwe Dan Bonelli Kevin Boyce Jon Hancock Darius Rudominer Luke Ian Seymour Dhruv Monga Ken Jones Neil Moore Obadiah Wright Carlos Rendon Kylie McInnes Michael Mol RAD Donato OrionWolfie Laurence T Maloney Reiji Kobayashi Oliver Marchand Catherine Berry Matt Ivaliotes Kai Chris Davis Luke Klima Fred Kroon HardScale Chris Piro Matt Robbins Ryan Evans Chris Burgess Leigh VanHandel Aaron Boodman Samuel Ollesh Mikko Koli Leo Bellantoni Jonathan Lonowski DrJRad David Krieger Staal And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Logan Jones, Oliver, Anna Work, Adam Neely, Dave Mayer, David Bartz, CodenaCrow, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Michael Alan Dorman, Blake Boyd, Charles Gaskell, Tom Evans, David Conrad, Ducky, Chris Connett, Kenneth Kousen, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Andrew Engel, Peter Brinkmann, naomio, Alex Mole, Betsy, Tonya Custis, Dave Shapiro, Walther, Jake Sand, Graeme Lewis, Jim Hayes, Scott Albertine, Evan Satinsky, Conor Stuart Roe, ZagOnEm, רועי סיני, Kottolett, Dragix PL, Brian Miller, Pamela O'Neill, Thomas Morgan, Mark James, Matty Crocker, Adam Ziegenhals, Mark, Amelia Lewis, William Merryman, Justin St John-Brooks, DialMForManning, JD White, Andrew Wyld, Joe Johnston, Taylor Malik, A Devoted Servant of the Holy Water Bottle, Claymore Alexander, vivi mouse emoji, gunnito, Graham Orndorff, Kayla Sparks, Douglas Anderson, Foreign Man in a Foreign Land, Paul Tanenholz, Tom, William Christie, Joyce Orndorff, Stephen Tolputt, Kyle Kinkaid, Mark Mitchell Gloster, Andy Maurer, William Spratley, Don Jennings, Cormag81, Derek Hiemforth, Bryan, Mikeyxote, Milan Durnell, Dan Whitmer, Thel 'Vadam, M3RK Chaos Official Patreon page, Ceri Williams, Marc Testart, Carlfish, Mike Wyer, Michael Morris, Bill Owens, Martin Romano, George Burgyan, N Zaph, Belinda Reid, Matthew Soddy, Flavor Dave, DraconicDon, John W Campbell, StellarDrift, Isaac Hampton, Jimmy2Guys, Megan Oberfield, morolin, An Oni Moose, Ken Birdwell, Blue 5alamander, Panda, Cliff Hudson, Olivia Herald, Macy Allen, doug lute, or dahan, Alin Nica, Ethan Savaglio, Robert Bailey, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, juneau, Sina Bahram, Ira Kroll, Patrick Minton, Justin Katz, Roahn Wynar, Chuck Dukhoff of The Stagger Lee Archives, Bob D'Errico, Robert Shaw, Shawn Beshears, David Shlapak, JD, Rennie Allen, Travis Briggs, Donald Murray, Cindy Klenk (Highlands Recording Arts LLC), Jonah C., Greyson Erickson, Matt Deeds, Claire Postlethwaite, Strife, Brian Covey, paganpuppy, Miles_Naismith, Jordan Nordstrom-Young, Jay Harris, Sean Murphy, JasperJackal, Tommy Transplant, Wolfgang Giersche, Autographedcat, ParzivaLore, Alexander Whisnant, and Amanda Jones! Your support helps make 12tone even better! Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold!