Bigger Is Not Always Better

More than 1,680 guitar players turned out, tuned up and took part in what organizers say was a world record rendition of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" , a song that was the first many of them ever learned.

Some came from as far away as California and Germany on Sunday to take part in a Kansas City radio station's effort to break a Guinness world record for the most people playing the same song simultaneously.

"I thought it was going to be kind of cheesy," said Christi Kelly, of Prairie Village, who came clad in an elf costume. "but then, after a while I was like, this is really cheesy."