Strangest Songwriting Inspiration that you've had

bassist4life2004 · Post by **bassist4life2004** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

Ok, heres a thread that seemed like an interesting idea.

Whats the weirdest inspiration that you've ever had to write a song...See a cool line carved into a bathroom wall? Share your story.

The reason i started this is because I got a very strange inspiration the other day. I was eating at the china wok buffet down in the new plaza in Richland yesterday, and when i cracked open my fortune cookie, it had a really cool saying in it that sparked my creative side. I actually wrote the entire song while sitting there...on a napkin.

SpellboundByMetal · Post by **SpellboundByMetal** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

good thread man. i can find inspiration from really anywhere. ive always got music or words going through my head. one thing that provides constant inspiration....is a "night of the living dead" poster. its a promo for the original movie. for some reason, it inspires me...which is why its in the band room.

Mackovyak · Post by **Mackovyak** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

I write a lot about personal life experiences. One day, I'm trying to relate to something being difficult.....

One of my roommates in college left some thumb tacks spilled on the floor. Walking on those was rough.

So, I wrote about it......sorta...

Good topic

Possessed · Post by **Possessed** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

Talk about strange inspiration.
Back in '91 when I was with the Death Metal band Gehenna the lead guitarist would find inspiration in the strangest things.
We came up with the inspiration for the song "Facemeat" while his girlfriend was eating a meatball hoagie from Shitz. I'll let you draw your own conclusions to that one.

Also the song "Projectile Vomiting" didn't come from the movie "The Exorcist" It came from a dream in which his cat was running around the room projectile vomiting all over the place.

Needless to say the lyrics fit the style of music we were playing at the time.

I usually write from life experience now. Nothing that strange has come my way recently.
Talk to the guys from Killjingle I'm sure they have some stories. I just got to read some of their lyrics and they couldn't have been inspired by anything ordinary or normal.
BTW I think the Killjingle lyrics are great. LMAO.

Post by **Ron** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

I used to always write songs about dreams I had.

In one dream I woke up in an unknown, silent white room and felt absolutely horrible. I looked into a full size mirror and saw that I looked like I was 120 years old. I then proceeded to grab on to my lower jaw and pulled it right off. I still remember the sickening sounds of sinew and bone snapping, and how my jaw looked in my withered old hand. I can even remember the fine details of the gold trim around the mirror.

In another dream I was alone at my parent's house and heard on the radio that a nuclear war had begun. I didn't know where my family was and I couldn't contact anyone. I looked at the western horizon and saw a mushroom cloud rise up over the mountain where Altoona was. I curled up in the basement and screamed, but the sounds of the bombs drowned them out.

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

Ron wrote:I used to always write songs about dreams I had.

In one dream I woke up in an unknown, silent white room and felt absolutely horrible. I looked into a full size mirror and saw that I looked like I was 120 years old. I then proceeded to grab on to my lower jaw and pulled it right off. I still remember the sickening sounds of sinew and bone snapping, and how my jaw looked in my withered old hand. I can even remember the fine details of the gold trim around the mirror.

In another dream I was alone at my parent's house and heard on the radio that a nuclear war had begun. I didn't know where my family was and I couldn't contact anyone. I looked at the western horizon and saw a mushroom cloud rise up over the mountain where Altoona was. I curled up in the basement and screamed, but the sounds of the bombs drowned them out.

Wow, those are some VIVID, far-out
dreams...I've never done Acid or tried 'shrooms OR Peyote Buttons...

MOONDOGGY · Post by **MOONDOGGY** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

You guys are lucky! From the very moment I wake up, I haven't a clue as to what I was dreaming about. Somethimes I think I don't even dream at all. My mind is like a black hole of thoughts or a barren desert without a cloud in the sky. (There's some song inspiration for ya!) Maybe the 3 dream catchers hanging over my bed are actually working........working TOO well!

bosskland · Post by **bosskland** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

A drunk friend of mine was puking out of my back car window one night.. and when she finished asked for her bottle of yellow

ie gatorade

I now have a song written with my landlord called yellow

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

MOONDOGGY wrote:You guys are lucky! From the very moment I wake up, I haven't a clue as to what I was dreaming about. Somethimes I think I don't even dream at all. My mind is like a black hole of thoughts or a barren desert without a cloud in the sky. (There's some song inspiration for ya!) Maybe the 3 dream catchers hanging over my bed are actually working........working TOO well!

THREE Dream Catchers? Yeah, they "might" be working too well!

I sometimes Dream in color and the worst Dream I ever had was that my child had died...it was a metaphor for something else, I realized later...and I've had VERY vivid Premonition Dreams, but I just CAN'T get those Lottery Numbers!
I've written many Poems since I was 16 or so, about everything under the Sun...the most recent was my son's 21st Birthday and after a certain night out and the fun I had in June of this year, I just had to write about it. The majority are about the usual subjects of Love and lost Love, the marriage of a friend, death of loved ones, even about Pets and one is about my Love of "The Woods". I find it's a great emotional outlet for me.

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

A trick to help remember dreams from Carlos Casteneda (from his Separate Reality books) is to tryto lookiat your hands when you are dreaming. If you can look at your hands in a dream, you can work towards a partial consciousness in your dream. If this works, it can eventually lead to astral traveling while in dream state. At least Carlos Casteneda did.

Go get the Carlos Casteneda books..A Separate Reality, A Yaquii Way of Life....

Oh, by the way.. Peyote buttons help.

ZappasXWife · Post by **ZappasXWife** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

Oh, by the way.. Peyote buttons help.

And where do you get those? Maybe I'll look at a sewing shop, or maybe a bait shop.

Post by **Ron** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

I used to practice lucid dreaming and got pretty good at it. It's awesome when you realize that you're dreaming and can do anything you want. Flying is the best, especially doing superman-style take offs, and running fast enough to pass cars is pretty cool too. The lucid dreams usually don't last very long, and I usually wake up right after them feeling like I had slept for 24 hours.

Submersion tanks really help, no peyote needed. I used to do a submersion tank once a week for a half-hour and could reach a really good in-between state where I was aware of where I was, but was so completely relaxed from floating that I could dream.

Post by **Jim Price** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

I've had a few of those flying dreams, too. They're cool - but never last long enough.

I always have recurring dreams of tornadoes, even though I've never been in one. Maybe if I wasn't chasing bands around, I'd be a tornado chaser...?

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

I've Dreamed of Flying many times and of Jumping, higher and higher.
Also, "funny how your feet in Dreams never touch the Earth"...
LOVE that tune by Heart! I've had many Dreams of Tornadoes, even of being with people I don't know, in houses I don't know, during them...
and was way too close once, to one in TX. It was only a few miles away and the winds just about knocked the mobile home I was living in off it's foundation. There was NOWHERE to go.

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Thursday Oct 27, 2005

ZappasXWife wrote:
Oh, by the way.. Peyote buttons help.
And where do you get those? Maybe I'll look at a sewing shop, or maybe a bait shop.

Bring some to the bait shop and we'll all dream in technicolor.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Friday Oct 28, 2005

This thread.

bassist4life2004 · Post by **bassist4life2004** » Saturday Oct 29, 2005

Never been married to one, but, ive written plenty of songs about the ones (one in particular) that i was with.