TEN COVERS OF ‘SMOKE ON THE WATER’ (in no particular order)

Eden Bradfield
Jul 24, 2017 · 1 min read

Pat Boone plays a funky fun-tastic full-on FANTASTICAL cover of rock hit Smoke on the Water

KEYTAR VERSION

The clearly superior version, by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys (racy).

I quote, and I am not making this up — “Defense minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg’s military farewell from office with full military honors by Germany’s military brass band and Berlins guard battalion. Guttenberg chose the song ‘Smoke on the Water’ by Deep Purple as the theme for his formal send-off and the band had only two days to practice it.”

Eläkeläiset are a very famous humpa band from Finland, because of course. ‘Humpa’ isapparently played two beats to a bar and is similar to foxtrot.

Finally, the catalyst for this list, from Yannick.

Ok? Got it? Now everyone can stop playing Smoke on the Water. The above have clearly surpassed every other cover band in every measurable way: their genius knows no bounds and Pat Boone laughs at you, from Jacksonville, Florida, where it is warmer than here.

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