![]() ![]() It was my instrumental idea along with Jon Lord and that was basically our first song. ‘Mandrake Root’ was the very first song that Deep Purple put together. In those days I’d never heard of that kind of harmony and it’s interesting because about five years later that how I wrote the ‘Smoke On The Water’, which was in fourths, it’s the same type of thing. Now the melody of that was in fourths, which went like this (plays ‘Mandrake Root’ riff). If you have (Starts playing the guitar) B, 1, 2,3 4… then you’ve got your interval harmony (plays the guitar). “I first had that idea back in 68 with a friend of mine who wrote a lot of what he writes in fourths. (refro) C5 Ab5 Smoke on the water, G5 Fire in the sky C5 Ab5 Smoke on the water (riff da intro 2x) (estrofe 2) G5 They burned down the gambling house F5 G5 It died with an awful sound Funky & Claude was running in and out, F5 G5 Pulling kids out of the ground When it all was over, F5 G5 We had to find another place Swiss time was running out F5 G5 It seemed that we would lose the race. He could sing at that point.” “Smoke On The Water”/”Mandrake Root” Ian Gillan did an excellent job on vocals, screaming. The rest of it was just a straightfoward rock song. In fact, I think he was dead but nobody could tell him that, because it would upset him. Smoke on the water riff full#I knew him quite well, he wasn’t at all well when I knew him, he didn’t look like he was full of life. “We wrote that in Switzerland and the middle part was like arpeggios. There was a thing by Eric Clapton called…called… I don’t know what it is but it went like this (Blackmore shows on guitar the Riff of Cream’s ‘Steppin’ Out’)”. And there is a little bit of ‘Fire’, do you remember ‘Fire’ by Jimi Hendrix?” “‘Speed King’ was based on ‘Stone Free’ by Jimi Hendrix. He is saying ‘Summertime’ overt that (the riff), so it was not entirely original, I stole it.” That’s where I got the idea for the riff. That was a part of a song that I heard from Ricky Nelson who did it in 1962, I think as ‘Summertime’. ![]() 5 riffs that guitarist Ritchie Blackmore “stole” from other musicians: “Black Night” ![]()
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