Smoke On The Water

Ian Melrose plays an Avalon L325C fingerstyle guitar and uses DR Strings Please check out Ian’s YouTube channel: This version as an mp3 is available from Acoustic Music Records Sometimes it’s fun to do something people don’t expect, to revel in something a bit “over the top” and simply enjoy J. One day I was idly playing around on the guitar and found myself doing the iconic opening riff of “Smoke on the Water”, and a friend thought it was somehow cool, so – surprised - I continued and weeks later this version was ready. Add to that playing around in the studio with my good friend and sound wizard/engineer Jörg Surrey () to get a hugely satisfying BIG yet acoustic sound, I then thought: yes, maybe it’s okay to send yet another cover of this piece out into the world! Incidentally, the first LP I ever bought with my own pocket money was “Deep Purple in Rock” – so it’s n