Episode #275 – Deep Purple – = 1 (Part 1)

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John McCoy Answers Questions About Live in Edinburgh 1980

During our last episode I reached out to John to ask why he had a single sneaker tied to him during the concert. He responded back to explain what happened:
John McCoy says:
- Good afternoon, well! That’s a long time and a lot of gigs ago…..but I do remember coming off stage somewhere missing a shoe…..went back for encores and there was a girl in the crush at the front waving my shoe! She’d obviously untied it while I was standing at the front during last song.I tied the other one on my flight suit for the next few shows in case she turned up with her weird souvenir. Bet it was smelly.
- Cheers for now,John

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The title was Ian Gillan’s idea. He says in Classic Rock UK: “I found myself online, trying to fill in some blurry matrix of traffic lights or motorcycles, trying to prove to a robot that I’m a human. I thought: ‘This has got to stop.’ We live in a society of compliance. You have to comply if you want to get anything done. You have to jump through hoops. It drives me nuts.” He says he started drawing in his notebook and: “I wrote this ridiculous equation, with the answer ‘=1.’ All that crap on the left hand side, that’s what you want to get rid of. That’s the whole point.”
Roger Glover says, “=1 is such a strong symbol. I think of it now as being the history of the band. We’ve been through multiplications, divisions, extractions, brackets, algebra . . . all that, and yet we’re still one band.”

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A Bit On The Side
Sharp Shooter
Portable Door
Old-Fangled Thing
- Gillan says in Classic Rock UK that this song was inspired by the history of the pencil. Gillan: “For 2000 years, people were wandering around scratching their heads as to why their erasers had such long handles. Until they discovered the graphite inside it and civilisation was born.”
If I Were You
Pictures Of You
I’m Saying Nothin’
Lazy Sod
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Now You’re Talkin’
No Money To Burn
I’ll Catch You
Bleeding Obvious

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