On Dec. 4, 1971, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention were playing a concert at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland. While they were on stage, a member of the audience thought it would be cool to do something stupid. He fired a flare gun towards the ceiling.
You have heard this event sang about by Deep Purple (they were in town at the time) in their song from 1972 called "Smoke On The Water".
''some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground..'. 43 years ago today.
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