It's not often that I revisit "everything" I've written.
But when I do — as with creating CAT LIVE (MUSIC) — it's always a technicolor, IMAX-3D trip down memory lane. When looking back involves listening to old recordings, the experience can be visceral.
If a song was written at a very emotional time, all that emotion surges back. The passage of time is irrelevant. There's no time in the unconscious, as they say.
Sometimes the trip down memory lane is cringe-worthy: What you wrote — musically and lyrically — as a 15, 16 year old looks so different four decades on! "I wrote THAT?!?!?"
On the uplifting side of things, you may re-discover music and lyrics you like. I've started a list of songs to resurrect and revisit.
The roller coaster ride of working on CAT LIVE (MUSIC) continues.
Onwards!
Warmest aloha,
Cat
