Some rock history tidbit

[DigitalBuddha]

The dude in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water," Claude Nobs, joined the dudely departed.

"Funky Claude was running in and out, Pulling kids out the ground."



Claude Nobs, who founded the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967 and built it into an international phenomenon far more famous than the small Swiss resort town where it was held - and far more musically inclusive than the term "jazz festival" would suggest, died on Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was 76.

His death was announced by the festival. Mr. Nobs had been seriously injured in a cross-country skiing accident on Dec. 24 and taken to a hospital in Lausanne, where he fell into a coma, from which he never emerged.

R.I.P., Claude - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/arts/music/claude-nobs-founder-of-montreux-jazz-festival-dies-at-76.html?_r=0

Jazz Festival - http://www.montreuxjazz.com/news/271



Also, the drawing of the bass player, back and to the left of Nobs, is Roger Clover from Deep Purple...