Conference napalm::guitar

    
    I've dreamt music before, but could never remember it the next
    day - if it was original.
    
    Other than that I've had several dreams about Rush.  Like jamming
    with Rush (filling in on drums during a concert - ha! ;-), or
    just hearing new Rush tunes that don't really exist.
    
    It's rather annoying really.  Except for the time I filled in for
    Peart - that was kinda cool...;-)
    
    guy

    When I was in college, one night I dreamed I was playing Al Stewart's 
    "Year of the Cat" on piano, (I'd never played it before), and when I 
    woke up, I found a piano and played it.  Wasn't an original, but it was
    still interesting to me.
    
    Another night I dreamed I walked in to my manager's office at Dec and
    told him I was quitting because I was going on tour with Heart.  That
    one, alas, didn't play out in the daytime!  ;^>
    
    Sandy

    One night I dreamed that John Lennon invited me over to his house to
    jam.  I played acoustic and he played banjo(!).  
    
    Jim

    
    Speaking of Lennons....
    
    I also deamt that Julian Lennon helped me "make it big"....
    
    How ironic...
    
    guy

    Yeah, this kind of stuff has happened to me. I've dreamt up some
    really wonderful music. But when I wake up, its time to shower and get
    ready for work or some other mundane activity. I can't recall exactly 
    what it was, but I sorta know what it was like, that is it's texture
    (usually silky) time, and type (Rock, blues, jazz). Usually by the time
    I'm outta the shower, its lost into oblivion.  Sometimes the same thing
    happens to me with some comedic routine or story that seems hilarious
    in my dream.  But again, by the time I'm outta the shower, its gone.
    
    I seem to remember Paul saying "Yesterday" came into his mind while
    asleep. When he awoke, he went right to the guitar and worked it out.
    
    I think what happens is that during sleep, the creative side of the 
    mind is the most active and that what you hear is your imagination as
    it becomes vivid,  while the logical side of the mind goes into a pause
    mode.   I don't think it has anything to do with communication from
    those in the next dimension or any of that kind of crap.
    
    
    "sakman" 
      
    

    I've dreamt music and although I couldn't quite make it out when I woke
    up, I had a strong feeling that I had just heard something great. Very
    frustrating feeling.

    a side note about dreaming up material:
    
    Last season there was a Seinfeld (sp?) episode on tv that started out
    with him nodded out in front of the tv with an old sci-fi movie on. He
    groggily lifts up his head and squints at the tv for a moment then falls
    back off to sleep. Later that night he wakes up laughing and, on a pad
    next to his bed, writes down a phrase that he's dreamt. Next morning he
    looks at it and can't make any sense out of it, so as a running gag
    throughout the show, he goes crazy over trying to figure out what it
    that was he was dreaming that was so funny. Pretty funny, huh?

    
    
    
    re: .5 - The story about Paul doesn't seem likely; when he showed John
    his new melody it started out "scrambled eggs".
    
    but this dream thread is interesting...if you can dream it, you have
    the ability to create it.
    

    re: .7
    
    Yeah, but that was just the "placeholder" lyrics he used to show his
    melody.  It was probably the melody he dreamed...
    
    Greg

re .3, Jamming With John Lennon.

	So, how was ole John on the Banjo anyway? I don't ever recall
	him doing any banjo music in the real world.

;^) Rick

    "Ladies and gentlemen is there a guitarist in the house? Steve Morse
    has broken both his hands and needs someone to fill in for him!"
    
    						Brian

    
    Isn't that dave blickstein leaping from the balcony - what! he broke
    a leg you say?

    ...and he's willing to play through it!

    re: .7
    
    "...if you can dream it, you have the ability to create it", ok, but
    how?  I can't think of many things that would be more fulfilling to me
    than to be able to re-create music I hear in dreams.  Surely technical
    ability alone won't cut it (of which I have very little at this
    point).
    
    Alan

    re: .9, Jamming with lennon
    
>	So, how was ole John on the Banjo anyway? I don't ever recall
>	him doing any banjo music in the real world.
    
    I remember reading somewhere that John learned to play banjo before
    taking up guitar.  I don't think he ever recorded with one, however.
    Then again, maybe I dreamed that too...
    
    Jim
    

    
>    "...if you can dream it, you have the ability to create it", ok, but
>    how?  I can't think of many things that would be more fulfilling to me
>    than to be able to re-create music I hear in dreams.  Surely technical
>    ability alone won't cut it (of which I have very little at this
>    point).
    
    If you dreamed it up, you created it.  Getting your fingers to move the
    strings is the mechanical part.  Lock in your memory using whatever
    tools you have available: pencil/paper, microcassette recorder - then
    sit down with your guitar (or whatever) and work it out, note by note. 
    
    You'll teach yourself technique if you pursue this course, but it won't
    be nearly as fast as signing up with a good instructor.  
    

    If that happened to Steve Morse I wouldn't have time to play - I'd be
    holding a vigil outside the hospital.

    
    re: .16 - which is why i aborted my John Wilkes Blickstein approach -
    so out of character, it was useless to try and get humor from it! ;-)

    
    
    My recurring one goes...
    
    
    Jason Flowers meet Dave Gilmour,
    
    Hi Dave, Its a real pleasure to meet you
    
    I've heard a lot of your stuff J and I really like it, fancy getting
    together in the studio?
    
    
    ....then there's my other dream where I am sat somewhere with Gilmour
    and he's helping me change my strings.....wierd huh?
    
    J

    My dream is I wake up one morning with Rinnie Le Tekro's chops,
    then Freddie Mercury calls to say Brian May has left the band, and
    would I like the gig?

    
    Re: Buck
    
    Is your PN from an extract from that o-so-famnous Queen ballad ?
    
    My dream sez I wake up and know how the !@�$& I get a sound I'm totally
    happy with.
    
    -Tony (whos dreams never come true)

    I had this one dream where I'm opening up for Phil Keaggy in front of
    thousands of people at an outdoor concert here (which spells evening
    for desert rats).  I start off with Eric Johnson's "Righteous" and
    somehow Phil ends up asking me to play on his new album.
    
    Then there's another one where my band gets signed, our album is
    selling well, and we go off on an international tour opening up for
    Petra.
    
    Mike

    RE: Tony The Tart
    ;)
    
    >Is your PN from an extract from that o-so-famnous Queen ballad ?
    
    You know it!  One of my bands is learning this baby right now, and
    it's awesome to play!!  Those vocal harmonies rool.
    
    
    Buck, who had a dream he went to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada last night 
    and rode the mega-awesome MINDBENDER coaster.

    
    
    Buck, 
    
    I've been into Queen for ages. I'm not exactly a real fanatic but I do 
    like their stuff (Night at the Opera is my fav).
    
    -Tony (One of the first solos I learned was B.Rapsody)

To get back to what .0 was talking about......

Yes, I often come up with musical and lyrical ideas when I'm not thinking
about it - when I'm dreaming, or daydreaming, or even just thinking about
something else, and an idea will just pop into my head!

I keep one of those little micro-cassette recorders in my car, and another 
one beside my bed, just for those occassions, and I use them all the time.

alan

    I dreamt once that Lita Ford was giving me a b job!
    
    "sakman"

    Keep dreaming.

    I've dreamed I was playing with Guns n' Roses once. This probably
    doesn't count, but I also dreamed I was playing soccer with AC/DC
    in my backyard. 8^}
    
    re -2:Still waitin' for the Lita dream! 8^)
    
    trickey