{"id":109438,"date":"2017-12-09T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:52:24","slug":"montreux-casino-fire-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/montreux-casino-fire-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreux Casino fire, 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/SxgyPSWMi3I\/AAAAAAAABmQ\/gLmNE1baj3Q\/s1600-h\/montreuxfire.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"189\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/montreuxfire-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109439\" \/><\/a>The  Montreux Casino opened in November 1881 to provide entertainment for  visitors to the Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva. The casino  developed a reputation as a music venue, attracting Stravinsky and  Ravel. In the late 1960s, it also started hosting concerts by jazz,  blues and rock artists, becoming the venue for the Montreux Jazz  Festival in 1967, under the direction of Claude Nobs.<\/p>\n<p>On 3rd  December 1971, Frank Zappa and the Mothers were playing a concert in the  casino&#8217;s ballroom when one of the audience fired a flare gun at the  ceiling. The flare ignited the rattan covering of the ceiling and the  fire soon spread, destroying the entire casino complex. Claude Nobs  rescued several young people who had been sheltering in the casino.  Fortunately, the fire caused only a few injuries and no fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>The  incident inspired Deep Purple to write &#8220;Smoke on the Water&#8221;. They were  in Montreux at the time, intending to record their new album in the  casino using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio as the tourist season  ended. The band eventually managed to record their album, <i>Machine Head<\/i>,  which included &#8220;Smoke on the Water&#8221; at the Montreux Grand Hotel. The  rebuilt Montreux Casino reopened in 1975 with its place in rock history  assured.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreux Casino opened in November 1881 to provide entertainment for visitors to the Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva. The casino developed a reputation as a music venue, attracting Stravinsky and Ravel. In the late 1960s, it also started hosting concerts by jazz, blues and rock artists, becoming the venue for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}