The uncontested facts surrounding The Rock Legend of Don Harrison are:<\/p>\n
Don Harrison was his real name. The legend unfolded in a music classroom at Oregon City High School during the 1979-80 school year. I was a sophomore and Don Harrison a junior and we were enrolled in a Beginning Guitar course taught by a young female teacher who favored Peter Paul and Mary and the folky \u201dBlackbird\u201d Beatles, not the \u201cGet Back\u201d rockers. There were approximately 12 other students in the course, all boys, and I have no recollection of any of them. Don is it. Don was rock. The legend involves Deep Purple’s 1973 rock classic \u201cSmoke on the Water,\u201d but not all of it. Only its famous riff, a riff so monumental, so colossal, holy, heavy duty, perhaps the greatest rock and roll riff of all time. <\/p>\n
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\nSmoke on the water \/ fire in the sky<\/p>\n
The Rock Legend of Don Harrison is: Don Harrison played the immortal riff from \u201cSmoke on the Water\u201d every class period of Beginning Guitar, he played it all period long, over and over, every day of the semester, and Don Harrison never missed a day of class. He played only that riff and nothing else. That was it. He didn’t know how to play anything else, or he wouldn’t play anything else.<\/p>\n
If that isn’t a rock legend, then rock legends don’t exist. <\/p>\n
Smoke on the water \/ fire in the sky<\/p>\n\n
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