The song “smoke on the water” is about Frank Zappa? 🤔

No:

Ian Gillan wrote the lyrics after the band witnessed a fire during a Frank Zappa concert at the Casino at Montreux, Switzerland. The smoke on the water was the smoke over Lake Geneva

They had the best place in town

Not exactly.

Zappa was putting on a concert at a casino that caught fire

Ummm...do a search.

Are you asking or telling?

No, but I'll stand down and let one of the many young SW 'Google, copy & paste' plagiarists explain it to us.

Yup

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