Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water - ft. Ken Tamplin

@DeepPurpleOfficial @iangillan Ritchie Blackmore Channel In this video, I take on an awesome Deep Purple song, SMOKE ON THE WATER! Talk about a CLASSIC! It’s one of those like Stairway To Heaven, where they’ll throw you out of the guitar store if you start playing it! Rock with me on this one! Let’s go! Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water - ft. Ken Tamplin Growing up, this song was basically “required learning“ for anyone wanting to play rock guitar. And the extremely distinct vocals of Ian Gillan were almost considered sacred. It’s kind of funny, I have heard modern day classical composers refer to Beethoven’s Fifth in the same way. Most modern classical composers said that they would not take on Beethoven’s Fifth until about 30 years into their professional career because of how the industry would grade them on how well they did. Maybe the same could be said for Smoke On The Water. So I thought about it, and in