ures
Backward music
unmasks meaning
Music” LP) the normal way
and when played backwards,
, the song clearly said “The
You can hypnotize people music is reversible, but time is
with music and when you get not; turn back, turn back, turn
people at the weakest point you back.”
can preach into the sub- Landis played other such
conscious what we want to backward messages, most of
Say - -Jimi Hendrix not nearly so clear-cut as
, Fire on High.” Other songs
Joel Landis, speaking before demonstrated were “Stairway
a capacity crowd in the Gallery to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin
Lounge on Wed., Feb. 2, used and “Revolution #9” by the
this quote to emphasize what he Beatles. One part of “Stairway
felt was one of the evils of to Heaven,” when played
modern popular recorded backwards, supposedly states
music—“ Backward Masking.” “There’s no escaping it, my
Backward masking involves sweet Satan.”
recorded messages in music Landis also showed slides of
that can be heard by playing a various album covers, pointing
record backwards. According to out the various death imagery
Landis, a minister at Har- that many rock groups use to
nsburg’s Word Fellowship, sell their records. Death im
groups such as the Beatles, agery and occult symbolism
Electric Light Orchestra, Led were pointed out on such album
Zeppelin, and the Blue Oyster covers as Molly Hatchet’s debut
Cult employ backward masking LP, Ozzy Osbourne’s “Diary of
on their albums. a Madman,” The Eagle’s
Using a reel-to-reel tape “Hotel California,” and Judas
player, Landis played an Elec- Priest’s “Sad Wings of
trie Light Orchestra song “Fire Destiny.”
on High” (from the “Face the The most frequently used oc-
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