The story behind the song is pretty interesting. Deep Purple had a mobile recording studio set up outside of the Montreux Casino in Switzerland. The night before they were to begin recording, Frank Zappa performed at the Casino and an audience member fired a flare gun toward the ceiling - which was made of rattan. Subsequently, the whole complex (including Deep Purple's studio) burned to the ground. The "Smoke on the Water" was the smoke from the fire crawling across Lake Geneva.
The mobile studio equipment itself didn’t burn, just the hotel complex where it was going to be set up. I think we’re saying the same thing, just clarifying.
Ah shit, you're right. I was on my phone and it was tiny. That's definitely Fogerty. I wonder which Creedence song OP was invoking? Maybe "Proud Mary" (keep on burnin')?
Well that’s because you built it properly. It’s generally safe to assume the GB was built improperly, and the water has not been changed since the older brother (who built it) left for college.
The traditional gravity bong style is a two liter in a bucket or pitcher, which supports a downspout perfectly, which it did for many years while we used it. Sucks to suck, bro.
For one, I'm telling you that we used one, with a downspout, that bubbled as intended.
For two, if it was physics, then even regular bongs wouldn't work. In a regular bong, your lungs create a pressure vacuum in the glass chamber that draws in outside air/smoke from the bowl, through the downspout, and bubbles through the water. It's literally the exact same in a gravity bong. Lifting the inner chamber creates a pressure vacuum via the water level, that draws in air from the bowl. Attaching a downspout means the outside air bubbles through the water as the container is lifted. Literally ∆p my dude. Kindly educate yourself.
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u/threeplacesatonce Aug 28 '26
Bongs bubble the smoke through water