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This Week’s PurplePuter 3000™ Random Song Pick:
- Song: Loosen My Strings
- Album: Purpendicular
- Year: 1996
- Lineup: Mark 6
- Originally Covered on Episode #200 – Deep Purple – Purpendicular (Part 1).
- Written on the fourth day in the studio (January 19th).
- Recorded on June 16th.
- From Roger Glover’s Journal: “So to work and yet another magic day happened. I was tuning up and started doodling on the bass, Steve joined in and made it sound really good. Everyone joined in and it wasn’t long before the semblance of a structure emerged. Within an hour it had turned into a very promising song. I was amazed by the ability of Steve to enhance what he heard. The atmosphere around the writing sessions is perfect; relaxed, calm, exciting, happy. The music is flowing from all of us like it hasn’t done since Machine head, though to me is more reminiscent of Hanwell in ’69. Steve is always deferential and modest, but it really feels like he is totally assimilated into the band. We ended the day feeling exhilarated.”
- Reference to Hanwell Community Center in 1969: http://www.deep-purple.net/archive/a-z/hanwell.htm
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Lyrics:
Loosen My Strings
(Gillan/Glover/Morse/Lord/Paice)
Wake up in the morning
Get into bed
closing my eyes
I rest my head
There is no arrangement
No time no place
It’s gone in the wind
and left no trace
Who can say,
maybe or whatever.
It’s up to you
You know you can trust me
I’ll make it up to you
You move with the action
You loosen my strings
Your fingers can smooth out my jangles
and all those things
Grease on the handle
and the tangles in my hair
They always seem to go together
I don’t care
Ian Gillan’s Wordography:
https://www.gillan.com/wordography-dex.html
Not available at Ian Gillan’s Wordography page.
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