This song was written only weeks before recording of Anatomically Incorrect commenced.  That made it the newest song we had at the time of the recording.  I first came up with the idea of the lyrics at Ron's.  Ron, Jari and I were sitting back drinking beers (maybe Ron and Jari were into the Scotch that night), talking about things.  It was pretty standard fare, but a few points in the conversation inspired me to write some lyrics.  The following day I had the lyrics written.  At our next practice, I brought the lyrics with me and showed them to the guys.  Jari thought they were great and took them home, and began work on the music immediately.  A couple of days later, we were playing the song.  Recording of the song began not too long after.  I can't deny that the song is written about a certain individual who also happened to be a friend of mine.  When we first recorded the song, I changed the title to "Orange" because I thought that the title "Purple" would make it too obvious who the song was about.  I ended up playing that version of the song to her, and she loved it.  She even told me to change the title back to "Purple", so the vocals were re-recorded to the version you find on the CD.  This became one of the more popular songs on the CD, and later, in our live set.  Oh yeah, the original "ORANGE" recording is pretty rare, but there might be a couple of copies on cassette somewhere.  I think I have a copy.  The original vocal track for that was erased from the master.  I've also got the original "Jari Vocal" demo, but that's another thing...heh heh heh.  The campfire version of the song was something Jari and I decided to do for fun.  We didn't tell the other guys about it until it was time to record the vocals.  I think it worked well.  Now you can take an acoustic guitar camping with you and have a Purple sing-a-long.  What fun!

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