I had so much fun writing my last music related dream post that I thought I would share this recent music dream I had over the weekend.
Unlike the last dream about Bono that was quite funny, this is a much more serious dream about Johnny Cash
I dreamed that I discovered a lost Johnny Cash album. One that he had never been released. It was on reel to reel tape and recorded back in the late 60’s. The album featured a series of dark haunting songs with minimal band arrangements. All the songs had Cash singing very dark and cryptic lyrics. Each song was strung together by strange musical and sound montages as each song faded out or ended these strange trippy sound montages would fade in and lead into the next song before fading out again.
The best way to describe these interinking montages would be to think of the Revolution # 9 from the Beatles White album.
The montages where a mixture of music, sound effects and Cash reading cryptic verse ala’ Jim Morrison. At the end of one of these montages Cash yelled out the words:
“MY SPIRIT” !
There was a huge reverb on this voice and the sound was so loud that it made the reel to reel player and the house shake.
Then I woke up.
Got any music related dreams that you would like to share with me?
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June 5, 2009 at 4:29 pm
The Therapist
Interpretation: TJR, YOU represent the spirit of rock and roll to so many of us. You, like Cash, carry the weight of the world at times and rights and the wrongs of the music world. So much so that the spirit does cry out to be heard. Well – you ARE being heard! Often the spirits of those that have crossed over will find a kindred spirit to connect with and communicate through. Consider your good fortune in having the big JC connect with you! Sending you positive energy. The Therapist
p.s. You gunna start wearin black?
June 22, 2009 at 3:53 am
musicworthbuying
The big JC trying to connect with me through a dream?……I never thought of it that way. Maybe that’s why he said the words “MY SPIRIT”!
I feel very honored now.
June 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Frank Ramirez
Hi Tim: This reminds me of Eddie and the Cruisers. In the movie there’s a lost Cruisers album, as you may remember, by this Jersey group in the 60’s that turns out to be cutting edge twenty-five years later. Oddly, in the book the tapes are found but Eddie had erased them before he died, so there’s nothing there. I liked the movie better. I don’t do dream analysis, but I think when it comes to an artist we respect we always wonder if there isn’t one more item out there that really tells us something! Are the Dylan bootlegs with the Band all that imporant when compared to Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde? Maybe not, but they’re a lot of fun. At that time no one knew that Dylan was fun. — Frank Ramirez