Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Darren's list: "Smoke on the Water", by Deep Purple

Is there anybody alive who doesn't know this song? Is there anybody whose body doesn't respond to its opening (and only) guitar riff with a wave of primal air-guitar action? Nobody in our house, anyway. Jules learnt the fife at school last year, and once he had figured out how to extract sound from that infernal instrument, you can guess what the first song he taught himself was. (It doesn't have quite the same grunt on the fife as it does when Deep Purple play it, but all the same it gets my (hypothetical) long hair flying.) (He moved on to "School's Out" and "Funky Town". Well, you would, wouldn't you.)