grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Hey DM, thanks !@Grim , glad to see you back on the board.
I agree with that. I certainly used to. A combination of the Beatles, Pink Floyd, the improvisations of Indian music and jazz {especially those early jazz~rock artists like the Fourth Way, Lifetime, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather report} blew my preconceptions of songwriting out of the stratosphere. When I first landed on the board back in 2009, I used to argue with Dinty Moore in particular about the different kinds of music and how I felt he narrowed down much of what he was saying to just a pop/rock aesthetic when there was a rich world of music out there to draw ideas and opinions and influences from. The more different kinds of songs one listens to, the wider one's songwriting pallette can be.I would say the first problem with song writing is you have a preconceived notion of what that is