Innocent
Episode #124:\xa0 Innocent\xa0 \xa0 (Song starts at 4:17 & 28:14)\nWhere did Innocent, song #465, come from? It came from a dream.\xa0\nThe finished lyrics were pretty much what I wrote down as I recalled a dream which I had, just before I woke up. I recommend trying this...often what comes though is more than you bargained for. Sometimes you end up remembering more than you thought would about the dream.\nI've had fully formed songs come to me in dreams - music and lyrics.\xa0\nIn this case though, after casting my mind back to the dream, the images and feeling remained with me (no music).\nSo. Feeling: that's the key. In my book, a song must start with feeling. At least that's the way I roll.\nSometimes faces, entities, if you like, come to me in my dreams. It feels like a real connection, a \u2018step on\u2019 from just a regular dream. I find it all fascinating. Music is a great place to put this sort of thing for me.\nThe music came to me very quickly - at least I thought I'd finished writing it at the time.\xa0\nBut I'm very open to writing and rewriting my songs, open to editing & seeing where feelings take me further down the track.\nOn this episode, there are 2 versions of Innocent. The first is a piano/vocal a version I sang during the recording of this episode.\nThe second version at the end, is the track which my Melbourne band, Pete Pascoe and the Patient Hum, recorded for the album 'This World Offers You' (which you can hear at www.petepascoe.bandcamp.com).\xa0\nThe band (Ants Reed, Neil Sims and Dan Dew and I) convened last night for a band practice... It was really great. You can hear it in my voice on this episode... Perhaps it was a little bit too good..anyhow..\nThe music and lyrics of 'Innocent' evolved along the way. I play keyboard bass in the band (as well as piano) and that puts me in a position where I can really drive things along and change the music by changing bass notes.\xa0\nIt's like letting the paint lead the way when I'm painting a picture (by the way, I visited my seascape exhibition tonight with my family, you can check out some paintings on recent posts on my blog www.petepascoe.wordpress.com.)\nEventually I'll have seascape painting, cartoon drawing, songwriting\xa0& piano instruction video courses available online.\xa0\nWhere will you hear about this?\xa0\xa0Insta, my blog, here, youtube, etc. You can sign up to my email list - I'd love that. Email me at info@petepascoe.com You won\u2019t miss a thing that way.\nA new album will be dropping very soon - folk rock, with Paul Dredge (NZ), whom I mention a lot on this podcast.\xa0 We wrote and recorded the album in two countries (I'm in Melbourne, Australia)\xa0\xa0\nThat's determination for you\u2026in fact, that's another key factor in songwriting: I think you\u2019ve got to be committed and let nothing get in the way of the inspiration when it comes through.\xa0\nIt's lead to around 800 songs for me.\xa0\nThere's also a new video up for the first single from the upcoming album (Paul and I) The video includes the lyrics and stick figure cartoons I keep coming up with ...there's about 1000 of these around too..\xa0\nYou can view the video here:\xa0 YouTube Pete Pascoe Art and Music. You\u2019re Going To Be OK (Do Do Do).\nYes, I\u2019m busy &\xa0 yes, I'm committed. I\u2019m loving every minute of this creative path & I\u2019m particularly enjoying recording these podcast episodes. \nJoin me now for another one.. Here we go\u2026Innocent -\xa0 let's see where the song takes us..