<P> Left with an expensive mobile recording unit and no place to record, the band was forced to scout the town for another place to set up . One promising venue (found by Nobs) was a local theatre called The Pavilion, but soon after the band loaded in and started working / recording, neighbours took offence at the noise . The band was only able to lay down backing tracks for one song (based on Blackmore's riff and temporarily named "Title No. 1"), before local police shut them down . </P> <P> After about a week of searching, the band rented the nearly - empty Montreux Grand Hotel and converted its hallways and stairwells into a makeshift studio, where they laid down most of the tracks for what would become their most commercially successful album, Machine Head (which is dedicated to Claude Nobs). </P> <P> The only song from Machine Head not recorded entirely in the Grand Hotel was "Smoke on the Water" itself, which had been partly recorded during the abortive Pavilion session . Its lyrics were composed later, primarily by Gillan and based around Glover's title, and the vocals were recorded in the Grand Hotel . </P> <P> Because of the incident and the exposure Montreux received when "Smoke on the Water" became an international hit, Purple formed a lasting bond with the town . The song is honoured in Montreux by a sculpture along the lake shore (right next to the statue of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury) with the band's name, the song title, and the riff in musical notes . The new casino in Montreux displays notes from the riff as decoration on its balustrade facing the gambling hall . </P>

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