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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:
In Smash Hits
magazine, Bon Jovi says: ". . . I'd kill my mother for rock and
roll. I WOULD SELL MY SOUL."
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”
(Davin Seay, Stairway to Heaven, p. 249).
“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 of BLACK
SABBATH, cited in Black Sabbath An Oral History, p. 7).
“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, Circus, April 14, 1971).
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”
(Hit Parader, July 1985, p. 60).
“We receive our songs by
inspiration, like at a séance” (Keith Richards of the ROLLING STONES,
Rolling Stone, May 5, 1977, p. 55).
“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, cited by Charles White, The Life and
Times of Little Richard, p. 206).
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” (sound track from film Jimi Hendrix, interview with Fayne
Pridgon, side 4, cited by Heartbeat of the Dragon, p. 50).
“You
can’t describe it [playing rock music] except to say it’s like a
mysterious energy that comes from the metaphysical plane and into my
body. It’s almost like being a medium....” (Marc Storace, vocalist
with heavy-metal band KROKUS, Circus, January 31, 1984, p. 70).
“They
[The Beatles] were like mediums. They weren’t conscious of all they
were saying, but it was coming through them” (YOKO ONO, The Playboy
Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Berkeley, 1982, p. 106.).
“[Of his
music JOHN LENNON said] “It’s like being possessed: like a psychic
or a medium” (The Playboy Interviews, p. 203).
“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, Hit Parader, February 1978, p. 24).
Jimmy
Hendrix once said, "I can explain everything better through
music. YOU HYPNOTIZE PEOPLE... And when you get people at their
weakest point you can preach into the subconscious what we want to
say. That's why the name "electric church' flashes in and out."
Led
Zeppelin (From the song Houses of the Holy): "Let the music
be your master, won't you heed the masters call? OhSatan"
“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, “The Beatles Come Together,” Reader’s
Digest, March 2001).
“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, People, Aug. 22, 1988, p. 70).
“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, interview on Larry King Live, CNN, June 12, 2001).
“It
happens subliminally. It’s the music that compels me to do it. You
don’t think about it, it just happens. I’m slave to the rhythm’
(Michael Jackson, explaining the reason for some of the filthy
sexual gestures during his concerts, during a 1993 Oprah Winfrey
interview, The Evening Star, Feb. 11, 1993, p. A10).
“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, cited by Jerry
Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman, No One Here Gets Out Alive, pp.
158-60).
“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, Rolling Stone,
February 12, 1976, p. 83).
“In the end you have to look at a
song and not know exactly where it came from” (BRUCE SPRINGSTEIN,
Dateline, Dec. 14, 1998).
Flea (from the Red Hot Chili
Peppers): "Music is really great, it can, it can, it can move, you
know a large group of people, it can inspire and move a large group of
people--then revolution can happen"
“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, guitarist for
KING CRIMSON, Down Beat, June 1985, p. 61).
“I
believe inspiration comes through me and that I channel it” (Jim
Kerr, SIMPLE MINDS, cited by Steve Turner, Hungry for Heaven, p.
147).
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”
(The Rock Report, p. 58).
Glen Tipton of JUDAS PRIEST says,
“I just go crazy when I go onstage … it’s like someone else takes over
my body” (Hit Parader, Fall 1984, p. 6).
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’” (Why Knock Rock? p. 112, citing Time magazine, Dec. 16,
1974, p. 39).
“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, Rolling Stone, Feb. 17, 1983).
“When I
hit the stage it’s all of a sudden a ‘magic’ from somewhere that
comes and the spirit just hits you, and you just lose control of
yourself” (Michael Jackson, Teen Beat: A Tribute to Michael Jackson,
Summer 1984, p. 27).
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”
(Bob Larson, Rock and the Church, p. 66).
JOE
COCKER, who contorts grotesquely during his performances, claims that
something “seizes” him when he songs rock & roll (Time magazine, cited by Bob
Larson, Rock and the Church, p. 66).
Lead
singer Perry Farrell of JANE’S ADDICTION performs in a “frenzied
trance-state” like that of a shaman.
“When
I’m singing and in touch with the energy I’m generating, I sometimes
literally have no awareness of where I am. The ego disappears, and
me and my surroundings with it. … that’s the reason I’m in music--to
achieve that feeling” (Daryl Oates of HALL AND OATES, interview
with Timothy White, 1987, Rock Lives, p. 592).
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” (Heartbeat of the Dragon, p. 40).
Crosby
of Crosby, Stills
& Nash made that
plain enough when he bragged, "I figured that the only thing to do
was steal their kids. I still think it's the only thing to do...I'm
not talking about kidnapping...but about changing young people's
value system."
The sexuality of music is usually referred to in
terms of rhythm, it is the beat that commands a directly physical
response. Music with the heavy, hard beat got the name "Rock and
Roll" when a disc jockey coined the term from sex in the back seat of a
car. The rock beat is Satan's sound of lawlessness. The rock beat is
musical perversion. Every knowledgeable musician knows that the term
"rock" really means a shameful act of lust. But that is not the
only problem! The beat of rock is nothing new. Pagan, animistic
tribes had the "rock beat" long before it came to America. They use
the driving beat to get "high" and bring them into an altered state
of consciousness. Traditional drumming and dancing techniques are
designed to achieve the Shamanic State of Consciousness. You see,
the beat is a vehicle for demon infestation.
? Parent's should be at fault here for not teaching their kids to not be idiots when buying a 40 page manual on how get "digitally high".
