Nai Noswad
Senior Member
A remarkable song and anthem... and as always such a great piece of music was arrived at out of luck and circumstance..
Parallels with Exile On Main St. can be drawn.
If I remember rightly (nai's fact checker is often wrong!) the suits at Purple Label told the band that more profit could be made by recording abroad (tax payment was much less)
They took the now famous BMC Rolling Stones mobile studio truck and intended recording...but as history and it's dog knows the place was burned by a flare gun-the water from the nearby lake was constantly hosed on the truck and blistering occurred on one side, so they had to resort to laying down songs in a freezing hotel with cables travelling some distance to the mobile unit (as in Exile).
Most of the band had gotten hepatitis and a hiatus in activity gave Blackmore time to write the riff, but no words as yet,( as in exile)... the placing of Paice the drummer in a corridor and using the vaulted hall, Martin Birch achieved "that sound"... Glover instinctively knew the acoustics were spot on and just chugged in... The lyrics being inspired by that hero arsonist.
Parallels with Exile On Main St. can be drawn.
If I remember rightly (nai's fact checker is often wrong!) the suits at Purple Label told the band that more profit could be made by recording abroad (tax payment was much less)
They took the now famous BMC Rolling Stones mobile studio truck and intended recording...but as history and it's dog knows the place was burned by a flare gun-the water from the nearby lake was constantly hosed on the truck and blistering occurred on one side, so they had to resort to laying down songs in a freezing hotel with cables travelling some distance to the mobile unit (as in Exile).
Most of the band had gotten hepatitis and a hiatus in activity gave Blackmore time to write the riff, but no words as yet,( as in exile)... the placing of Paice the drummer in a corridor and using the vaulted hall, Martin Birch achieved "that sound"... Glover instinctively knew the acoustics were spot on and just chugged in... The lyrics being inspired by that hero arsonist.
