Ian Gillan - Smoke On The Water (Black Sabbath)

[TwistedMindCroatia]

A god is walking AND screaming among us! \m/

[Gillanfan89]

Fabulous picture you have there man !

One of those rare ones where Ian's playing guitar and singing along, i have also two of those from 1979

[vesnaplavec21]

omg crowd sound is amazing ;))

[downvan77]

sounds good man!



[jamirosmajicrocks]

thanx for the upload !

[LetsGoMetsGo33]

Wow, listen to the Sabbath crowd sing along evey word to this classic from another band... awesome! Wonder if a DP audience could do as well with Iron Man or Paranoid?

[Purplesnake41]

@LetsGoMetsGo33 Iron Man and Paranoid are way to famous not to be known. I'm pretty sure that 90% of those who listen to Deep Purple know the lyrics.

[LetsGoMetsGo33]

@Purplesnake41 Well they certainly are to us fans, but Sabbath (even though they were perennial platinum sellers) were less mainstream. In the US, "smoke on the water", "hush", "highway star", etc, were all over rock radio. Hearing Sabbath on classic rock radio (even "paranoid") was very rare in the 80's, at least here in NYC (92.3 K-rock, 102.7 WNEW). They were larger than a cult band, but still LIKE a cult band, only really covered in the undergroung metal press. So, I dunno...hope ur right!

[LetsGoMetsGo33]

@Purplesnake41 Just an update on my response: If the concert happened today instead of the 80's, I'm sure your prediction would be correct. I was listening to the only remaining classic rock station in NYC over the New Years holiday (104.3; the other 2 are long gone), and they were playing the "top 104 songs of all time" as voted by listeners. Iron Man, Crazy Train, and War Pigs all played during the hours I was listening, the latter placed even higher than Smoke on the Water.

[LetsGoMetsGo33]

In fact, the whole classic rock genre has gotten harder/heavier, in this market anyway. I heard about 1/2 of that countdown. There was a Metallica song. There was multiple songs by the likes of Rush, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, and of course Zeppelin. Apart from the Beatles, the majority of songs were hard rock. There were no songs by Phil Collins, Simon & Garfunkel, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, or Steve Miller, which was typical stuff that played here while Gillan was in Sabbath.

[Purplesnake41]

@LetsGoMetsGo33 Well, there is a strong connection between Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. They ''created'' the genre called today hard rock. That's why I think that most of the people who listen to rock music know every word from songs like Iron Man, Highway star or Black Dog.