Who’s in the House?
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Topic: Who’s in the House?
Posted By: DallasBryan
Subject: Who’s in the House?
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 18:23
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In the following statements, rock musicians testify of
an outside power that has taken over them while writing and performing rock music. Some of them have actually identified this power as demonic: JIMI HENDRIX’ girlfriend, Fayne Pridgon, said: “He used to always talk about some devil or something was in him, you know. He didn’t know what made him act the way he acted and what made him say the things he said, and the songs and different things like that … just came out of him. It seems to me he was so tormented and just torn apart and like he really was obsessed, you know, with something really evil” Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of LED ZEPPELIN both claim that they don’t know who wrote their occultic song Stairway to Heaven. Plant testified: “Pagey had written the chords and played them for me. I was holding the paper and pencil, and for some reason, I was in a very bad mood. Then all of a sudden my hand was writing out words. … I just sat there and looked at the words and then I almost leaped out of my seat” “I’ve always considered that there was some way where we were able to channel energy, and that energy was able to be, from another source, if you like, like a higher power or something, that was actually doing the work. I’ve often thought of us just being actually just the earthly beings that played the music because it was uncanny. Some of this music came out extremely uncanny” (Bill Ward, Black Sabbath) “It’s amazing, ’cause sometimes when we’re on stage, I feel like somebody’s just moving the pieces. ... I’m just going, ‘God, we don’t have any control over this.’ And that’s magic” (Stevie Nicks of FLEETWOOD MAC) ANGUS YOUNG, lead guitarist for AC-DC, is called the “guitar demon”; and he admitted that something takes control of the band during their concerts: “...it’s like I’m on automatic pilot. By the time we’re halfway through the first number someone else is steering me. I’m just along for the ride. I become possessed when I get on stage” “We receive our songs by inspiration, like at a seance” (Keith Richards of the ROLLING STONES) “I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness ... that a lot of people don’t believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan” (LITTLE RICHARD) “They [The Beatles] were like mediums. They weren’t conscious of all they were saying, but it was coming through them” (YOKO ONO) “[Of his music JOHN LENNON said] “It’s like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium” “It’s amazing that it [the tune to ‘In My Life’] just came to me in a dream. That’s why I don’t profess to know anything. I think music is very mystical” (John Lennon) “I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another” (John Lennon) “The music to ‘Yesterday’ came in a dream. The tune just came complete. You have to believe in magic. I can’t read or write music” (PAUL MCCARTNEY) “I wake up from dreams and go ‘Wow, put this down on paper,’ the whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face. I feel that somewhere, someplace it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the world” (MICHAEL JACKSON) “When the Siberian shaman gets ready to go into his trance, all the villagers get together... and play whatever instruments they have to send him off [into trance and possession]. … It was the same way with The Doors when we played in concert... I think that our drug experience let us get into it... [the trance state] quicker.... It was like Jim [Morrison] was an electric shaman and we were the electric shaman’s band, pounding away behind him. Sometimes he wouldn’t feel like getting into the state, but the band would keep on pounding and pounding, and little by little it would take him over. God, I could send an electric shock through him with the organ. John could do it with his drumbeats” (DOORS keyboardist Ray Manzarek) “That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen--I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music … you can’t tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music” (Robert Fripp) John McLaughlin, leader of MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA, testified: “One night we were playing and suddenly the spirit entered into me, and I was playing, but it was no longer me playing” In 1974, JONI MITCHELL told the press of a male spirit who helps her write music. “Joni Mitchell credits her creative powers to a ‘male muse’ she identifies as Art. He has taken so much control of not only her music, but her life, that she feels married to him, and often roams naked with him on her 40-acre estate. His hold over her is so strong that she will excuse herself from parties and forsake lovers whenever he ‘calls’” GINGER BAKER, drummer for the popular ‘60s band CREAM, said: “It happens to us quite often--it feels as though I’m not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That’s what I mean when I say it’s frightening sometimes. Maybe we’ll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us” The original recording of “I Put a Spell on You” was done after the SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS and his band members got drunk and “some type of presence seemed to seize him.” He began “grunting, growling, screaming, gurgling in strange unknown tongues, and wildly dancing around the studio” “Rock has always been the devil’s music, you can’t convince me that it isn’t. I honestly believe everything I’ve said—I believe rock and roll is dangerous. … I feel that we’re only heralding something even darker than ourselves” (DAVID BOWIE) “I really wish I knew why I’ve done some of the things I’ve done over the years. I don’t know if I’m a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it’s not what I think it is—Satan” (OZZY OSBOURNE) |
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 18:39
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The key here DB is the oft mentioned "like". *it is "like" being" possessed. or "like" at a seance.* This is called metaphor-dont be frightened Bryan.
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: February 26 2005 at 20:09
I wish DB would be posessed by a demon of objectivity and reason.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: February 27 2005 at 09:08
we have taken control!!! 
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Posted By: JrKASperov
Date Posted: February 27 2005 at 09:59
Sadly, this answer is folly. The word like isn't MEANT by these people to be be said like RL here suggests. He is merely misusing this word to give it his explanation. ------------- Epic. |
Reed Lover wrote:Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: February 27 2005 at 10:01
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Spirit or Vodka
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: February 27 2005 at 18:16
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Just remember when you are reading Reeds posts
you may be reading automatic writings from Baalzebub, Ol' Sluefoot, the Horned Wonder,etc! |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: February 27 2005 at 18:26
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Least my devil can punctuate! What's your excuse?
BTW who is :Inga Rumpf  ????????????????????????? -------------
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 28 2005 at 07:42
Evidently a demon unable to play more than one string during a solo  ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 28 2005 at 07:56
Was the lead singer of Frumpy also taken over by Demons?
Interesting read Dallas!!! |