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Episode #213: Revolving Door\xa0 (Song starts at 5:42)
\nI\u2019d completely forgotten about song #453, from 1999, Revolving Door. Well, it isn\u2019t 1999 now! The years have certainly whizzed by.
\nThe great thing about being a songwriter (or doing any creative activity) is, it gets you \u2018in the moment\u2019 - the moment where your sense of self is put a side somehow. You are so focussed on your art, you\u2019ve let go completely. In that moment you\u2019re inspired.
\nA song becomes a document of a series of moments like this, it\u2019s a magic, slightly altered state to be in, if you will.
\nThat sort of energy seems to come down through the years, listening back to a recording like the demo you\u2019ll hear on this episode, which I recorded in 2000.
\nIt\u2019s only piano vocal, but you\u2019ll feel the energy I was feeling at the time, I was hearing guitars, bass, drums, orchestra, the whole works.
\nThat\u2019s what often happens when I play the piano. An arrangement begins to take shape, right from the beginning of the writing process, for me.
\nSo what\u2019s 'Revolving Door' about ? My girlfriend at the time (now my lovely wife),\xa0 was a Gemini. The twins is the astrological star sign childlike and playful one minute, measured older, wiser view the next. A certain style of jewellery and clothing one day, the next a total different style. It\u2019s fun, it\u2019s \u2018up\u2019 and keeps things interesting.
\nSo this was my initial idea fro writing a song.
\nAnd then the lyrics move on to asking a question of the listener \u2026how many people speak through you? Explores the idea that we all change and grow and evolve constantly.
\nThe energy of the lyrics inspired me to cut loose on the piano. The result is a song that\u2019s written to be performed by a full band. It\u2019d would require a few different guitar parts to create the arrangement I hear in my head.
\nThe bridge monetarily becomes reflective but soon explode with a \u2019thunderstorm of anger' and then back into the song, which becomes \u2018a summer holiday\u2019.
\nIt\u2019s a happy thing to find an old demo like this. This one sounds like a real celebration of love, of life - and it is.
\nIt\u2019s fun to think back to what I was up at the time I wrote it\u2026.I was a pianoman, here in Melbourne. We\u2019d recently moved over from New Zealand. There were sacrifices to make. It was hard. It still is, at times. But it\u2019s also a joy.
\nAs a song writer, you\u2019ve got to keep moving on.
\nOn my podcast I encourage listeners to do something creative regularly - or carry on on this path if they\u2019re already underway.
\nI\u2019m keeping on moving on all these years later, painting and writing songs, blogging podcasting, gigging, doing markets (where I sell my art), working on sheet music and video courses behind the scenes - and 5 new albums.
\nSo plenty happening, I\u2019ve put a lot of my art and music online you can find it via my blog ( lots of links here on 200 odd posts, which you can browse through, it\u2019ll take you to al sorts of platforms to listen to musicians and view my art) www.petepascoe.wordpress.com
\nEnjoy.