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    Posted: June 28 2006 at 15:05
 
PETER: Around the time we started work on The Lamb I had this call from Hollywood by William Friedkin who'd seen the story I'd written on the back of the live album and he thought it indicated a weird, visual mind. He was trying to put together a sci-fi film and he wanted to get a writer who'd never been involved with Hollywood before. We were working at Headley Grange which I felt was partly haunted by Jimmy Page's black magic experiments, and was full of rock and roll legend. I would go bicycle to the phone box down the hill and dial Friedkin in California with pockets stuffed full of 10p pieces.
 
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Led Zeppelin recorded at Headley Grange. Jimmy Page was heavily into the works of Alistair Crowley who was a white witch or something like that. There were stories that Led Zep were "cursed" by this, hence the death of Robert Plant's son and of John Bonham. Whether Page ever actually "experimented" in black magic, I don't know.

There's also all the magic references you get if you play Stairway backwards.LOL
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Points: 7659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2006 at 17:14
Read the biography Hammer Of The Gods about Led Zeppelin, very revealing Thumbs Up , the Rolling Stones look like fairies if you read their R&R way of life Evil Smile ...
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Points: 20031 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2006 at 17:17
Yeah, especiallly the bit about the Red Snapper.
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I have to say John Bohnam sh*tting in a fan's shoe is one of the most heartwarming stories I've ever heard.

 
Besides purchasing the mansion in which Crowley lived, Page is also the largest collector of his writings and diaries in the world. All harmless good fun I'm sure; Page doesn't strike me as a demon summoner.


Edited by Equality 7-2521 - June 29 2006 at 01:37
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Ofcourse he sold his soul to the devil all great guitar players have.. Wink
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Robert Johnson apparently sold his soul to the devil when he met him at the crossroads.
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Page is now living in Brazil doing a lot of charity work for the street children in Rio. Maybe his soul will be saved!
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Originally posted by RycheMan RycheMan wrote:

Page is now living in Brazil doing a lot of charity work for the street children in Rio. Maybe his soul will be saved!

Don't they practice voodoo in Brazil?
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^^^^
Ah!
Now the truth is revealed!<img
Maybe the charity work is just a front!


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In the past he also cared for children, he even had a relationship with a minor aged girl ...Evil Smile !
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Points: 234 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 29 2006 at 16:44
Jimmy Page was originally to score "Lucifer Rising" by Kenneth Anger, but Anger, ironically, was not amused by waiting three years for 23 minutes of guitar-droning through an ARP, so they became unfriendly. At any rate; Page and Anger's common abominator is that they are both heavily into occult studies. There's nothing wrong with a little daimon-summoning, BTW.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Led Zeppelin recorded at Headley Grange. Jimmy Page was heavily into the works of Alistair Crowley who was a white witch or something like that. There were stories that Led Zep were "cursed" by this, hence the death of Robert Plant's son and of John Bonham. Whether Page ever actually "experimented" in black magic, I don't know.There's also all the magic references you get if you play Stairway backwards.

    

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Mr Crowley was anything but white - he was a at one time part of Ordo Templi Orientalis and was the 'wickedest man alive'- Boleskine House on the shore of Loch Ness was where he carried out his blackest conjurations - Jimmy Page bought Boleskine House years later.




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Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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The "wickedest man alive"-thing was a result of British Press, though.

Still, any man who has Aiwaz as his guardian angel ain't nuttin' to f**k with, as they say.
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I think it was Crowley himself who, if he didn't actually coin the phrase, certainly encouraged its use & was proud to be known as the "wickedest man alive"........although he was really quite a pathetic amateur dabbler.....
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Elaborate; I thought Crowley was to a certain extent "The Sh*t".
    
    

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Points: 20031 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2006 at 09:21
Originally posted by horza horza wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Led Zeppelin recorded at Headley Grange. Jimmy Page was heavily into the works of Alistair Crowley who was a white witch or something like that. There were stories that Led Zep were "cursed" by this, hence the death of Robert Plant's son and of John Bonham. Whether Page ever actually "experimented" in black magic, I don't know.There's also all the magic references you get if you play Stairway backwards.

    

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Mr Crowley was anything but white - he was a at one time part of Ordo Templi Orientalis and was the 'wickedest man alive'- Boleskine House on the shore of Loch Ness was where he carried out his blackest conjurations - Jimmy Page bought Boleskine House years later.




Thanks mate. I did say "white witch or something like that". Obviously the "something like that" was meant to include the complete opposite! LOL
What's a conjuration btw?
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Points: 848 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2006 at 09:56
Originally posted by Zweck Zweck wrote:



Elaborate; I thought Crowley was to a certain extent "The Sh*t".
    
    
With the greatest of respect (and this applies to lots of peeps who demand info from others), there is google............Smile
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Points: 234 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2006 at 10:01
In my generation, being lazy is seen as a symbol of Greatness, or something.
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Originally posted by Zweck Zweck wrote:

In my generation, being lazy is seen as a symbol of Greatness, or something.
Then I bow down before you......Star........but you still have to do your own research........LOL
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