ARTIFACTS

Do any other musicians out there have ideas in their heads that appear right as they’re doing something that prohibits them from being able to record them? Sometimes this happens to me when I’m doing something else that takes precedence or when I’m unable to muster the ability to divorce myself from my surroundings and capture that idea so I can work on it later or even right then for hours on end. Where do those ideas come from and where do they go afterward? Do they reappear someday in the future and make me think hey I feel like I’ve heard this before? Or are they gone forever, a promising notion that simply evaporates back into my psyche? I prefer to believe the former, since the idea emanated from my brain in the first place – if it surfaces again, it will only be from a different version of me, somewhere down the road, hopefully, wiser.