The hard sciences have a soft spot. The great scientists, Newton, Da Vinci, Einstein, and those today who study mathematics, geometry, astronomy, physics, neuroscience, etc. are often amazed by the beauty of it all. There is an aesthetic component to the way that nature seems to add up. There are countless articles about Pi, the golden ratio, the 528 Hz frequency, and other baffling phenomena that cause us to stop in our tracks and ask, "What does it all mean?"
That is too big a question to explore on a Sunday afternoon, but Iamaphoney fans must know that these esoteric thoughts about how the universe seems to magically add up is alluded to again and again in the videos.
How many times has Iamaphoney told us that "A lie adds up" in his videos?
The theological question that emerges from these divine mathematics is "Is this evidence of the existence of God or is it man's attempt to elevate himself to the level of God?" This is the classic struggle between Lucifer and God that is played out in much of the literature throughout history. You can find allusions to it in the Bible, but not as much as you think. SirLarryMildew stated that "According to the Bible, Satan, before he was cast out of Heaven, was the Angel of Music. So this whole "Love" code thing could be a bad thing."
The notion that Satan was the "Angel of Music" is much easier to find in one of those pamphlets distributed by people who want you to burn your CDs than in the Bible itself. Being Sunday and all, I made the attempt, and it seems to require some creative Biblical interpretation to make this linkage between Satan (or Lucifer) and music. I think this interpretation is based on two passages, Ezekiel 28:11-19 and Isaiah 14:9-14. The first passage deals with the King of Tyre and the other deals with the King of Babylon, but it is safe to say that both are referring to Satan as the personification of evil. However, it is a significant stretch to suggest that either tags the devil as the "Angel of Music." In fact there are tons of examples of music as expression of praise to God throughout the Bible.
Having said all that, you don't have to be a rabid fundamentalist to consider that there is a sinister side to popular music. Historically, the Beatles have been considered the good boys with "All You Need Is Love" as compared with the Rolling Stones with "Sympathy For the Devil." But at the time, the Beatles were often lumped on the Devil's side of music, especially after John's "More popular than Jesus" statement and the release of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" the following year.
Whether the motive was to reach God or be God, the Beatles certainly seemed to be influenced by these esoteric mathematical concepts.
Ringo emerged from a pyramid for the concert segment of his 1978 television special.
George Harrison frequently used the Om (or Aum) symbol.
John and Yoko would choose their session men based on numerology and astrology.
In the case of Paul, the examples are not as obvious, but volumes have been written in discussion groups about his various linkages with the occult.
The forum that has developed in the comments section of this blog produced some speculation about Iamaphoney's "Love Code" being related to the alleged power of the 528 Hz frequency. Much of what has been written about this "Love Vibration" (a term used in the McCartney song "Peace In the Neighborhood") comes from Dr. Len Horowitz. This magical tone is part of a special music scale based on the tree of life that we have seen in several of the Rotten Apple videos.
The Solfeggio Scale and note names;
1. UT...396 Hz (Center Pillar of the Tree)
2. RE...417 Hz (Left Pillar of the Tree)
3. MI...528 Hz (Right Pillar of the Tree)
4. FA...639 Hz (Center Pillar of the Tree)
5. SOL..741 Hz (Left Pillar of the Tree)
6. LA...852 Hz (Right Pillar of the Tree)
There has been quite a bit of speculation about this tree as well.
The 528.com web site explains the premise of the Love frequency theory, which will be the basis of a major concert event occurring at multiple venues on June 19-21, 2009. Yoko Ono appears to be involved. Some people are not at all enamored with Dr. Horowitz and his theories, but maybe they are just anti-dentites.
This is only one of several possible destinations to which Iamaphoney and/or Paul McCartney may be heading. Strange as it may seem, the John Lennon beam of light in Iceland, Ringo's Peace and Love day, and Paul's one off concerts in turbulent places of the world could be interpreted as end times events and messianic movements. Time will tell if it all adds up.
93 comments:
Taf,
By stating
".....Satan, before he was cast out of Heaven, was the Angel of Music. So this whole "Love" code thing could be a bad thing."
I was in no way trying to convey that I believe all music is evil in origin. That is not so. If one believes God is the creator of all, God would naturally be the creator of music. Music is much like everything else in life, it can be used for either good or evil.
-SirLarryMildew
SirLarryMildew wrote:
I was in no way trying to convey that I believe all music is evil in origin.
Right. I agree. The thing that I was responding to was the implication that the Bible clearly refers to Satan as the "Angel of Music." I believe that is an interpretation and not a Biblical statement. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Taf,
One more thing I would like to clarify, I am not one of those "pamphlet pushers", and the only reason I could see the whole "Love" code/concert idea being a bad thing would be if the message were, "We don't need God, we can take care of all this ourselves, we have his key". That would be contradictory to my beliefs. God is love. Therefore, love is all you need.
-SirLarryMildew
Taf,
"The thing that I was responding to was the implication that the Bible clearly refers to Satan as the "Angel of Music." I believe that is an interpretation and not a Biblical statement. Please correct me if I'm wrong."
You are correct. I should have thought that out more clearly. Bad choice of words on my part. The below passage is considered by some to be a hint that while in Heaven, Lucifer had something to so with the side of worship.
Ezek 28:13
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone was your covering:
The sardius, topaz, and diamond,
Beryl, onyx, and jasper,
Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
NKJV
-SirLarryMildew
Nice post as always! I do believe, though, that "A LIE ADDS UP" is simply an anagram for Paul is Dead, not a clue about the universe adding up according to sacred geometry or what have you.
SirLarry,
I would never expect you to be one of those "pamphlet pushers." Thanks for the contributions.
In any event, Larry, the biblical character known as "Lucifer" is merely the Latin translation of "Day Star" or "Son of the Morning," which Isiah called a fallen Babylonian King, most likely Nebuchadnezzar, for his vain attempts at being like God. Isaiah was not referring to a supernatural figure. That figure is called both "satan" and "the satan."
The lie won't die.
Taf,
I just wanted to clarify things a bit. I felt that some might read what was posted and twist it. I have no qualms with you whatsoever. I appreciate all the hard work you put into this blog. It just keeps getting better and better.
-SirLarryMildew
A friend of the world is an enemy of God.
Miles, can't decode without the ring settings, stecker pairs and such. Can't see them on your site anymore. eMDo 28-64
It's a very good cipher, I think. But I May Be wrong. There are actually two, and then the third. Very fun to make it. I hope that if anyone does solve it, they have as much fun as I have.
A little help;
19 = E - for the numerical.
Careful, boys and gals...
Miles is an attention whore.
Yeah, we know. But he spent the time with the E-nigma and all.
"timbrels and pipes"
Pipes are as the place where a gemstone is set into a ring. Does this help you to understand what his 'workmanship' was?
"you where in Eden, the Garden of God"
By this, it is not only allegory. The text may be to that king, but it is written as if the king were in fact 'Ha Satan.'
John 13:27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. (Judas)
"In any event, Larry, the biblical character known as "Lucifer" is merely the Latin translation of "Day Star" or "Son of the Morning," which Isiah called a fallen Babylonian King, most likely Nebuchadnezzar, for his vain attempts at being like God. Isaiah was not referring to a supernatural figure. That figure is called both "satan" and "the satan."
Actually the most likey King would be Belshazzar. In Latin, Lucifer is a combination of lucis (light—genitive of lux) and ferre (to bear), meaning light-bearer or shining one. Satan is also called by a Hebrew word I can't remember that translates as "shining one", so it wouldn't be incorrect to refer to Satan as Lucifer. Of course, this is one of those things that really isn't worth arguing about. It isn't going to be a key factor in salvation.
-SLM
The whole thing was made up.
Heylel
SLM
That's it. Thanks Miles.
Yeah, you don't want to go there with Heylel.
Peace in the neighborhood.
So everyone knows, this is really me. I just signed up.
Not to argue, but it isn't correct to call Satan Lucifer because Satan was "also" known as "helel." Helel refers to the same king in the same passage in Isaiah where he called helel ben-shachar, or Bright Son of the Morning, which Jerome translated as "Lucifer" (literally "Light Bearer" but not really Son of the Morning, except metaphorically with Venus). In the NT, Jesus is called the Light Bearer in Greek, which in Latin is Lucifer. I didn't believe this myself until I researched it for some time.
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Satan, Lucifer, Abaddon, The Devil, all semantics. When these names are spoken, most people aren't confused as who to whom the conversation is about. A lot of The Bible is left to individual interpretation. Most forget that the important message is salvation.
Sorry, that was me.
"Satan, Lucifer, Abaddon, The Devil, all semantics. When these names are spoken, most people aren't confused as who to whom the conversation is about. A lot of The Bible is left to individual interpretation. Most forget that the important message is salvation."
This was posted and deleted at "September 7, 2008 10:30 PM" by Sir Larry Mildew
Reposted by Anonymous 3 minutes later, verbatim
Sorry, that was him.
300 Here we go!!!
Correct. I made an error in my post and reposted it. The error is still there, and I accidentally posted as anonymous. If you would look below that post, you will see where I said, "Sorry, that was me."
See, I did it again.
iamaphoney's LOVE = CODE;
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/b07bbc4233.jpg
my own idea of LOVE = CODE;
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/17be8fbddb.jpg
Hence;
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/327bfef575.jpg
Can you see?
I didn't have an account before, and I have posted so much today, that I have trained myself to hit the anon icon.
"Strange as it may seem, the John Lennon beam of light in Iceland, Ringo's Peace and Love day, and Paul's one off concerts in turbulent places of the world could be interpreted as end times events and messianic movements."
But of course!
Just next in line
you made me go thru hell to bring you here
no one asked you!
HELP! HELP! I've gone too far!
Well we are here and we are glad that we are in fact here. :) Can you add anymore? We will be thankful for it.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
PLEASE HELP ME!
Thank you
you saved a life tonight
you are an Angel
Well I hope I helped in some way and I hope that all is better now..
you did!
Thank you!
Well you are welcome. Anytime! Just let me know
i am the least among you Anonymous
and your thought and kindness helped, thank you!
I hope people were saved last night! Was that a real conversation?
Back to topic? .....Access all keys!
Miles said:
"iamaphoney's LOVE = CODE;
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/b07bbc4233.jpg
my own idea of LOVE = CODE;
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/17be8fbddb.jpg
Hence;
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/327bfef575.jpg
Can you see?"
If my memory doesn't fail, you said that the answer is in his head (maybe i'm wrong)
Then i see in his head three possibilities, because of the position of the letter "E":
1) A Crown
or
2) Devil Horns
3) none of them
Which one is, Miles?
He means the "Key of E," as in "Tuned to a natural E," although the love frequency doesn't really fall into E with ordinary tuning, as far as I know.
Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation
Part I
May 8, 2008
"There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear"
Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago – a time when America last had uniformed ground troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to impose, uhmm, ‘democracy’ on a sovereign nation.
It is the first week of August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently dubbed the ‘Tonkin Gulf Incident,’ will result in the immediate passing by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which will, in turn, quickly lead to America’s deep immersion into the bloody Vietnam quagmire. Before it is over, well over fifty thousand American bodies – along with literally millions of Southeast Asian bodies – will litter the battlefields of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
For the record, the Tonkin Gulf Incident appears to differ somewhat from other alleged provocations that have driven this country to war. This was not, as we have seen so many times before, a ‘false flag’ operation (which is to say, an operation that involves Uncle Sam attacking himself and then pointing an accusatory finger at someone else). It was also not, as we have also seen on more than one occasion, an attack that was quite deliberately provoked. No, what the Tonkin Gulf incident actually was, as it turns out, is an ‘attack’ that never took place at all. The entire incident, as has been all but officially acknowledged, was spun from whole cloth. (It is quite possible, however, that the intent was to provoke a defensive response, which could then be cast as an unprovoked attack on U.S ships. The ships in question were on an intelligence mission and were operating in a decidedly provocative manner. It is quite possible that when Vietnamese forces failed to respond as anticipated, Uncle Sam decided to just pretend as though they had.)
Nevertheless, by early February 1965, the U.S. will – without a declaration of war and with no valid reason to wage one – begin indiscriminately bombing North Vietnam. By March of that same year, the infamous “Operation Rolling Thunder” will have commenced. Over the course of the next three-and-a-half years, millions of tons of bombs, missiles, rockets, incendiary devices and chemical warfare agents will be dumped on the people of Vietnam in what can only be described as one of the worst crimes against humanity ever perpetrated on this planet.
Also in March of 1965, the first uniformed U.S. soldier will officially set foot on Vietnamese soil (although Special Forces units masquerading as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’ had been there for at least four years, and likely much longer). By April 1965, fully 25,000 uniformed American kids, most still teenagers barely out of high school, will be slogging through the rice paddies of Vietnam. By the end of the year, U.S. troop strength will have surged to 200,000.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world in those early months of 1965, a new ‘scene’ is just beginning to take shape in the city of Los Angeles. In a geographically and socially isolated community known as Laurel Canyon – a heavily wooded, rustic, serene, yet vaguely ominous slice of LA nestled in the hills that separate the Los Angeles basin from the San Fernando Valley – musicians, singers and songwriters suddenly begin to gather as though summoned there by some unseen Pied Piper. Within months, the ‘hippie/flower child’ movement will be given birth there, along with the new style of music that will provide the soundtrack for the tumultuous second half of the 1960s.
An uncanny number of rock music superstars will emerge from Laurel Canyon beginning in the mid-1960s and carrying through the decade of the 1970s. The first to drop an album will be The Byrds, whose biggest star will prove to be David Crosby. The band’s debut effort, “Mr. Tambourine Man,” will be released on the Summer Solstice of 1965. It will quickly be followed by releases from the John Phillips-led Mamas and the Papas (“If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears,” January 1966), Love with Arthur Lee (“Love,” May 1966), Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (“Freak Out,” June 1966), Buffalo Springfield, featuring Stephen Stills and Neil Young (“Buffalo Springfield,” October 1966), and The Doors (“The Doors,” January 1967).
One of the earliest on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene is Jim Morrison, the enigmatic lead singer of The Doors. Jim will quickly become one of the most iconic, controversial, critically acclaimed, and influential figures to take up residence in Laurel Canyon. Curiously enough though, the self-proclaimed “Lizard King” has another claim to fame as well, albeit one that none of his numerous chroniclers will feel is of much relevance to his career and possible untimely death: he is the son, as it turns out, of the aforementioned Admiral George Stephen Morrison.
And so it is that, even while the father is actively conspiring to fabricate an incident that will be used to massively accelerate an illegal war, the son is positioning himself to become an icon of the ‘hippie’/anti-war crowd. Nothing unusual about that, I suppose. It is, you know, a small world and all that. And it is not as if Jim Morrison’s story is in any way unique.
During the early years of its heyday, Laurel Canyon’s father figure is the rather eccentric personality known as Frank Zappa. Though he and his various Mothers of Invention line-ups will never attain the commercial success of the band headed by the admiral’s son, Frank will be a hugely influential figure among his contemporaries. Ensconced in an abode dubbed the ‘Log Cabin’ – which sat right in the heart of Laurel Canyon, at the crossroads of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue – Zappa will play host to virtually every musician who passes through the canyon in the mid- to late-1960s. He will also discover and sign numerous acts to his various Laurel Canyon-based record labels. Many of these acts will be rather bizarre and somewhat obscure characters (think Captain Beefheart and Larry “Wild Man” Fischer), but some of them, such as psychedelic rocker cum shock-rocker Alice Cooper, will go on to superstardom.
Zappa, along with certain members of his sizable entourage (the ‘Log Cabin’ was run as an early commune, with numerous hangers-on occupying various rooms in the main house and the guest house, as well as in the peculiar caves and tunnels lacing the grounds of the home; far from the quaint homestead the name seems to imply, by the way, the ‘Log Cabin’ was a cavernous five-level home that featured a 2,000+ square-foot living room with three massive chandeliers and an enormous floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace), will also be instrumental in introducing the look and attitude that will define the ‘hippie’ counterculture (although the Zappa crew preferred the label ‘Freak’). Nevertheless, Zappa (born, curiously enough, on the Winter Solstice of 1940) never really made a secret of the fact that he had nothing but contempt for the ‘hippie’ culture that he helped create and that he surrounded himself with.
Given that Zappa was, by numerous accounts, a rigidly authoritarian control-freak and a supporter of U.S. military actions in Southeast Asia, it is perhaps not surprising that he would not feel a kinship with the youth movement that he helped nurture. And it is probably safe to say that Frank’s dad also had little regard for the youth culture of the 1960s, given that Francis Zappa was, in case you were wondering, a chemical warfare specialist assigned to – where else? – the Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood is, of course, the longtime home of America’s chemical warfare program, as well as a facility frequently cited as being deeply enmeshed in MK-ULTRA operations. Curiously enough, Frank Zappa literally grew up at the Edgewood Arsenal, having lived the first seven years of his life in military housing on the grounds of the facility. The family later moved to Lancaster, California, near Edwards Air Force Base, where Francis Zappa continued to busy himself with doing classified work for the military/intelligence complex. His son, meanwhile, prepped himself to become an icon of the peace & love crowd. Again, nothing unusual about that, I suppose.
Zappa’s manager, by the way, is a shadowy character by the name of Herb Cohen, who had come out to L.A. from the Bronx with his brother Mutt just before the music and club scene began heating up. Cohen, a former U.S. Marine, had spent a few years traveling the world before his arrival on the Laurel Canyon scene. Those travels, curiously, had taken him to the Congo in 1961, at the very time that leftist Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was being tortured and killed by our very own CIA. Not to worry though; according to one of Zappa’s biographers, Cohen wasn’t in the Congo on some kind of nefarious intelligence mission. No, he was there, believe it or not, to supply arms to Lumumba “in defiance of the CIA.” Because, you know, that is the kind of thing that globetrotting ex-Marines did in those days (as we’ll see soon enough when we take a look at another Laurel Canyon luminary).
Making up the other half of Laurel Canyon’s First Family is Frank’s wife, Gail Zappa, known formerly as Adelaide Sloatman. Gail hails from a long line of career Naval officers, including her father, who spent his life working on classified nuclear weapons research for the U.S. Navy. Gail herself had once worked as a secretary for the Office of Naval Research and Development (she also once told an interviewer that she had “heard voices all [her] life”). Many years before their nearly simultaneous arrival in Laurel Canyon, Gail had attended a Naval kindergarten with “Mr. Mojo Risin’” himself, Jim Morrison (it is claimed that, as children, Gail once hit Jim over the head with a hammer). The very same Jim Morrison had later attended the same Alexandria, Virginia high school as two other future Laurel Canyon luminaries – John Phillips and Cass Elliott.
“Papa” John Phillips, more so than probably any of the other illustrious residents of Laurel Canyon, will play a major role in spreading the emerging youth ‘counterculture’ across America. His contribution will be twofold: first, he will co-organize (along with Manson associate Terry Melcher) the famed Monterrey Pop Festival, which, through unprecedented media exposure, will give mainstream America its first real look at the music and fashions of the nascent ‘hippie’ movement. Second, Phillips will pen an insipid song known as “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” which will quickly rise to the top of the charts. Along with the Monterrey Pop Festival, the song will be instrumental in luring the disenfranchised (a preponderance of whom are underage runaways) to San Francisco to create the Haight-Asbury phenomenon and the famed 1967 “Summer of Love.”
Before arriving in Laurel Canyon and opening the doors of his home to the soon-to-be famous, the already famous, and the infamous (such as the aforementioned Charlie Manson, whose ‘Family’ also spent time at the Log Cabin and at the Laurel Canyon home of “Mama” Cass Elliot, which, in case you didn’t know, sat right across the street from the Laurel Canyon home of Abigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves here), John Edmund Andrew Phillips was, shockingly enough, yet another child of the military/intelligence complex. The son of U.S. Marine Corp Captain Claude Andrew Phillips and a mother who claimed to have psychic and telekinetic powers, John attended a series of elite military prep schools in the Washington, D.C. area, culminating in an appointment to the prestigious U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis
After leaving Annapolis, John married Susie Adams, a direct descendant of ‘Founding Father’ John Adams. Susie’s father, James Adams, Jr., had been involved in what Susie described as “cloak-and-dagger stuff with the Air Force in Vienna,” or what we like to call covert intelligence operations. Susie herself would later find employment at the Pentagon, alongside John Phillip’s older sister, Rosie, who dutifully reported to work at the complex for nearly thirty years. John’s mother, ‘Dene’ Phillips, also worked for most of her life for the federal government in some unspecified capacity. And John’s older brother, Tommy, was a battle-scarred former U.S. Marine who found work as a cop on the Alexandria police force, albeit one with a disciplinary record for exhibiting a violent streak when dealing with people of color.
John Phillips, of course – though surrounded throughout his life by military/intelligence personnel – did not involve himself in such matters. Or so we are to believe. Before succeeding in his musical career, however, John did seem to find himself, quite innocently of course, in some rather unusual places. One such place was Havana, Cuba, where Phillips arrived at the very height of the Cuban Revolution. For the record, Phillips has claimed that he went to Havana as nothing more than a concerned private citizen, with the intention of – you’re going to love this one – “fighting for Castro.” Because, as I mentioned earlier, a lot of folks in those days traveled abroad to thwart CIA operations before taking up residence in Laurel Canyon and joining the ‘hippie’ generation. During the two weeks or so that the Cuban Missile Crisis played out, a few years after Castro took power, Phillips found himself cooling his heels in Jacksonville, Florida – alongside, coincidentally I’m sure, the Mayport Naval Station.
Anyway, let’s move on to yet another of Laurel Canyon’s earliest and brightest stars, Mr. Stephen Stills. Stills will have the distinction of being a founding member of two of Laurel Canyon’s most acclaimed and beloved bands: Buffalo Springfield, and, needless to say, Crosby, Stills & Nash. In addition, Stills will pen perhaps the first, and certainly one of the most enduring anthems of the 60s generation, “For What It’s Worth,” the opening lines of which appear at the top of this post (Stills’ follow-up single will be entitled “Bluebird,” which, coincidentally or not, happens to be the original codename assigned to the MK-ULTRA program).
Before his arrival in Laurel Canyon, Stephen Stills was (*yawn*) the product of yet another career military family. Raised partly in Texas, young Stephen spent large swaths of his childhood in El Salvador, Costa Rica, the Panama Canal Zone, and various other parts of Central America – alongside his father, who was, we can be fairly certain, helping to spread ‘democracy’ to the unwashed masses in that endearingly American way. As with the rest of our cast of characters, Stills was educated primarily at schools on military bases and at elite military academies. Among his contemporaries in Laurel Canyon, he was widely viewed as having an abrasive, authoritarian personality. Nothing unusual about any of that, of course, as we have already seen with the rest of our cast of characters.
There is, however, an even more curious aspect to the Stephen Stills story: Stephen will later tell anyone who will sit and listen that he had served time for Uncle Sam in the jungles of Vietnam. These tales will be universally dismissed by chroniclers of the era as nothing more than drug-induced delusions. Such a thing couldn’t possibly be true, it will be claimed, since Stills arrived on the Laurel Canyon scene at the very time that the first uniformed troops began shipping out and he remained in the public eye thereafter. And it will of course be quite true that Stephen Stills could not have served with uniformed ground troops in Vietnam, but what will be ignored is the undeniable fact that the U.S. had thousands of ‘advisers’ – which is to say, CIA/Special Forces operatives – operating in the country for a good many years before the arrival of the first official ground troops. What will also be ignored is that, given his background, his age, and the timeline of events, Stephen Stills not only could indeed have seen action in Vietnam, he would seem to have been a prime candidate for such an assignment. After which, of course, he could rather quickly become – stop me if you’ve heard this one before – an icon of the peace generation.
Another of those icons, and one of Laurel Canyon’s most flamboyant residents, is a young man by the name of David Crosby, founding member of the seminal Laurel Canyon band the Byrds, as well as, of course, Crosby, Stills & Nash. Crosby is, not surprisingly, the son of an Annapolis graduate and WWII military intelligence officer, Major Floyd Delafield Crosby. Like others in this story, Floyd Crosby spent much of his post-service time traveling the world. Those travels landed him in places like Haiti, where he paid a visit in 1927, when the country just happened to be, coincidentally of course, under military occupation by the U.S. Marines. One of the Marines doing that occupying was a guy that we met earlier by the name of Captain Claude Andrew Phillips.
But David Crosby is much more than just the son of Major Floyd Delafield Crosby. David Van Cortlandt Crosby, as it turns out, is a scion of the closely intertwined Van Cortlandt, Van Schuyler and Van Rensselaer families. And while you’re probably thinking, “the Van Who families?,” I can assure you that if you plug those names in over at Wikipedia, you can spend a pretty fair amount of time reading up on the power wielded by this clan for the last, oh, two-and-a-quarter centuries or so. Suffice it to say that the Crosby family tree includes a truly dizzying array of US senators and congressmen, state senators and assemblymen, governors, mayors, judges, Supreme Court justices, Revolutionary and Civil War generals, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and members of the Continental Congress. It also includes, I should hasten to add – for those of you with a taste for such things – more than a few high-ranking Masons. Stephen Van Rensselaer III, for example, reportedly served as Grand Master of Masons for New York. And if all that isn’t impressive enough, according to the New England Genealogical Society, David Van Cortlandt Crosby is also a direct descendant of ‘Founding Fathers’ and Federalist Papers’ authors Alexander Hamilton and John Jay.
If there is, as many believe, a network of elite families that has shaped national and world events for a very long time, then it is probably safe to say that David Crosby is a bloodline member of that clan (which may explain, come to think of it, why his semen seems to be in such demand in certain circles – because, if we’re being honest here, it certainly can’t be due to his looks or talent.) If America had royalty, then David Crosby would probably be a Duke, or a Prince, or something similar (I’m not really sure how that shit works). But other than that, he is just a normal, run-of-the-mill kind of guy who just happened to shine as one of Laurel Canyon’s brightest stars. And who, I guess I should add, has a real fondness for guns, especially handguns, which he has maintained a sizable collection of for his entire life. According to those closest to him, it is a rare occasion when Mr. Crosby is not packing heat (John Phillips also owned and sometimes carried handguns). And according to Crosby himself, he has, on at least one occasion, discharged a firearm in anger at another human being. All of which made him, of course, an obvious choice for the Flower Children to rally around.
Another shining star on the Laurel Canyon scene, just a few years later, will be singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, who is – are you getting as bored with this as I am? – the product of a career military family. Browne’s father was assigned to post-war ‘reconstruction’ work in Germany, which very likely means that he was in the employ of the OSS, precursor to the CIA. As readers of my “Understanding the F-Word” may recall, U.S. involvement in post-war reconstruction in Germany largely consisted of maintaining as much of the Nazi infrastructure as possible while shielding war criminals from capture and prosecution. Against that backdrop, Jackson Browne was born in a military hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. Some two decades later, he emerged as … oh, never mind.
Let’s talk instead about three other Laurel Canyon vocalists who will rise to dizzying heights of fame and fortune: Gerry Beckley, Dan Peek and Dewey Bunnell. Individually, these three names are probably unknown to virtually all readers; but collectively, as the band America, the three will score huge hits in the early ‘70s with such songs as “Ventura Highway,” “A Horse With No Name,” and the Wizard of Oz-themed “The Tin Man.” I guess I probably don’t need to add here that all three of these lads were products of the military/intelligence community. Beckley’s dad was the commander of the now-defunct West Ruislip USAF base near London, England, a facility deeply immersed in intelligence operations. Bunnell’s and Peek’s fathers were both career Air Force officers serving under Beckley’s dad at West Ruislip, which is where the three boys first met.
We could also, I suppose, discuss Mike Nesmith of the Monkees and Cory Wells of Three Dog Night (two more hugely successful Laurel Canyon bands), who both arrived in LA not long after serving time with the U.S. Air Force. Nesmith also inherited a family fortune estimated at $25 million. Gram Parsons, who would briefly replace David Crosby in The Byrds before fronting The Flying Burrito Brothers, was the son of Major Cecil Ingram “Coon Dog” Connor II, a decorated military officer and bomber pilot who reportedly flew over 50 combat missions. Parsons was also an heir, on his mother’s side, to the formidable Snively family fortune. Said to be the wealthiest family in the exclusive enclave of Winter Haven, Florida, the Snively family was the proud owner of Snively Groves, Inc., which reportedly owned as much as 1/3 of all the citrus groves in the state of Florida.
And so it goes as one scrolls through the roster of Laurel Canyon superstars. What one finds, far more often than not, are the sons and daughters of the military/intelligence complex and the sons and daughters of extreme wealth and privilege – and oftentimes, you’ll find both rolled into one convenient package. Every once in a while, you will also stumble across a former child actor, like the aforementioned Brandon DeWilde, or Monkee Mickey Dolenz, or eccentric prodigy Van Dyke Parks. You might also encounter some former mental patients, such as James Taylor, who spent time in two different mental institutions in Massachusetts before hitting the Laurel Canyon scene, or Larry “Wild Man” Fischer, who was institutionalized repeatedly during his teen years, once for attacking his mother with a knife (an act that was gleefully mocked by Zappa on the cover of Fischer’s first album). Finally, you might find the offspring of an organized crime figure, like Warren Zevon, the son of William “Stumpy” Zevon, a lieutenant for infamous LA crimelord Mickey Cohen.
All these folks gathered nearly simultaneously along the narrow, winding roads of Laurel Canyon. They came from across the country – although the Washington, DC area was noticeably over-represented – as well as from Canada and England. They came even though, at the time, there wasn't much of a pop music industry in Los Angeles. They came even though, at the time, there was no live pop music scene to speak of. They came even though, in retrospect, there was no discernable reason for them to do so.
It would, of course, make sense these days for an aspiring musician to venture out to Los Angeles. But in those days, the centers of the music universe were Nashville, Detroit and New York. It wasn’t the industry that drew the Laurel Canyon crowd, you see, but rather the Laurel Canyon crowd that transformed Los Angeles into the epicenter of the music industry. To what then do we attribute this unprecedented gathering of future musical superstars in the hills above Los Angeles? What was it that inspired them all to head out west? Perhaps Neil Young said it best when he told an interviewer that he couldn’t really say why he headed out to LA circa 1966; he and others “were just going like Lemmings.”
To Be Continued …
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Before signing off, I need to make a couple of quick announcements for those of you who find yourselves thinking, “You know, I really need a little more Dave in my life. Reading the posts and the books is fine, I suppose, but I wish I could have a little something more.” If you fall into that category (and can’t afford professional counseling), then I have great news for you: mere days from now, on May 20, the DVD release of “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” will be available at a video store near you. And better yet, I have been awarded a regular monthly spot on the Meria Heller (www.meria.net) radio program, the first installment of which aired on April 20 (she picked the date, by the way, though it did seem perversely appropriate). Stay tuned to Meria’s website for upcoming show schedules.
And that, fearless readers, is what they call in Hollywood a “wrap.”
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THERES 9 PARTS TO THIS SO FAR.I THINK ITS EXCELLENT READING FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN THIS TOPIC FOR OBVIOUS REASONS
BY THE WAY WHEN U LOOK UP MAL'S HOUSE ON GOOGLE EARTH, THERES A GUY WITH HIS BACK TURNED TO THE CAM. WITH A BREIFCASE LOL
Mikey, you've gotta be kidding me. That was longer than the Declaration of Independence.
T.
that's not me
i ONLY say things under MIKENL and MIKEYNL1038 (youtube)
im a new guy. just tryin to share info.
later parts of that laurel canyon get really into the familys haunts.
it adds more dots as well as connects a lot.
http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr102.html
In the meantime, is the IAAP image of the Enigma machine a clue that we should decrypt something encrypted in the series or perhaps the letters or video numbers? Or, is this a clue to Miles Deo's code, which is also a shift cipher like Enigma? Or is it a spoof?
mike said...
im a new guy. just tryin to share info.
Hi Mike. Welcome. Yes, I have seen that site. I haven't processed and filtered it yet, but there appears to be some interesting material in there.
interesting, a new Mike!
seems like i have a double too! :P
I thought some of that sounded familiar. That site has lots of good and interesting stuff. It has said that the next two parts are coming soon but it has said that for a while now...
I don't know if anyone noticed it or not, but that Liveh20 thing is having a "LOVE CODE" seminar.
http://web.mac.com/ len15/iWeb/ LOVE%20CODE%20Seminar/ An%20Invitation%20to%20Optimal%20Creativity%20 for%20Maximum%20Prosperity.html
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z92/marc_duva/heather-mills.jpg
I just found a glitch in my cipher.
;)
19 = E . 19 = K . 57 = E
If you can see through the glitch, you must be very smart!
Any road, it's not really fair to have a cipher with such a glitch; so I'm going to correct it. :)
new mike
http://www.youtube.com/user/IHI666
http://www.myspace.com/knowledgeprotects
same
iamawhich?
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/4346/snapzproxscreensnapz005ti0.jpg
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Tafultong, I confess I don't understand your interpretation of the Phoney series. You're statement makes it sound as though you believe the videos point toward some elegant mathematical unifying Theory of Everything, when most of what I see is hints and allegations involving the darker side of human nature, what with the "loyalty oaths" and Mal Evan's death etc. The series is very grounded in scandal and rumour, not cosmic unity or phi ratios. That said, I enjoy the soap opera slant and the frustrating obliqueness of Phoney, and have no expectation of any profound revelation anymore. I think Phoney knows that expectations have lowered considerably, and is just taking us on a ride from here on in.
"I think Phoney knows that expectations have lowered considerably, and is just taking us on a ride from here on in."
I agree
http://www.myspace.com/knowledgeprotects
uh yeah that was kinda the point of putting the link there.
wow! we know who iamwhich is now!
Anonymous wrote:
Tafultong, I confess I don't understand your interpretation of the Phoney series. You're statement makes it sound as though you believe the videos point toward some elegant mathematical unifying Theory of Everything...I think Phoney knows that expectations have lowered considerably, and is just taking us on a ride from here on in.
Thanks for the comment. The "Heaven on a Sunday" post was in response to some discussion that emerged in the comments section of my previous post. Lots of information was flying, and people were asking questions. I felt the need to filter the information a little bit and suggest a link with either Paul or Iamaphoney or both.
I didn't intentionally make the suggestion that the videos were leading to a unifying elegant theory, but I did say something very close to that a long time ago when the videos suddenly became more sophisticated and encompassed issues far beyond the "Paul is Dead" rumor.
I don't think that I have really provided a firm interpretation of the Rotten Apple series. The lack of concreteness and vague connections between esoteric concepts make it difficult to pin down a specific meaning. I could say the same thing about McCartney songs.
But this series have provided great mystery and some outstanding music. For those reasons alone, I gleefully am willing to be strung along. And I confess, there is a part of me that thinks this is heading somewhere as opposed to nowhere. That has been my personal level of expectations throughout this process and it hasn't changed much since Rotten Apple 41.
We hear you, Tafultong! Yeah, of late you really do have to filter out the incessant buzzing in your newly crowded house. As for the "meaning" of IAAP, I don't ever think there was one--it's just found video objects and mash-ups and forward and backward and flash and pop. The sort of thing video editors and musicians like to do. Hey, it's better and easier than attempting a solution!
Vince knows the score . . .he'd say "Art triumphs Answers"!
T.
I believe it was Ian MacDonald in "Revolution in the Head" who said something to the effect that once the Beatles turned serious and started providing deep answers ("Let it Be" for example), they had painted their art into a corner, with nowhere else to go. Where does one go from "Hey Jude?" Same thing happened to Mickey Mouse-- once he became a world ambassador, he could no longer play the rascal, that was left to Donald Duck. I suppose what I'm saying is that the series could never provide any suitable shocker short of Paul being dead or John alive, so it might be best that it not head anywhere after all.
T.
As I have said before, I always seem to be a day late and a dollar short, so if you have seen this before, don't chastise me too badly. This is an article by Bruce Spizer published in Goldmine Magazine, on all days, April 1, 2004, titled "Paul McCartney Admits Beatles Planned Death Hoax". A couple things stand out in the article, at least for me. Firstly, Alan parsons, who allegedly helped with some of the album clues, states that they were all sworn to secrecy. That reminds me of "at Saville Row they/we swore" from the videos. Secondly, as the story goes, in 1969 a few college kids discovered the album clues and called WKNR. In the article, Paul says that he purposely sent Mal Evans to Detroit to clue some college kids in. "Mal broke the oath" immediately comes to mind.
http://www.beatle.net/articles/paulhoax.html
I have also been thinking heavily about Magritte's "This is not a pipe" painting, and it seems to fit well with the RA series. The videos are only images of what is being portrayed. The same can be said for the audio. When you hear and see Paul, it is not Paul, nor is it his voice. Therefore, when IAAP shows the pictures of Paul with the caption "I Am A Phoney", it is absolutely true. Like a character in a play, "He is only pretending".
Thank you Sir Mildew. What you've outlined seems to be the idea behind several of the early YKMN videos, and I find it to be the most compelling stance on everything so far. The suitcase episode still sticks out like a sore thumb to me tonally, but I think all the rest of the IAAP output could fall under the Magritte banner rather nicely.
Yeah, the YKMN vids definitely play off the "It's not what You think" line, with a focus on Paul's silence (the rose in Paul's mouth). "This is not a Pipe" is clearly the "slogan" of YKMN, but maybe it's because YKMN was not YKMN but John chalres. What is interesting is that his face comparison video (apparently a PIA offering) is backed by a version of And I Love Her sung by an impersonator!
The Bruce Spizer article was an intentional April Fool's joke. However, Spizer's face has been shown in several Rotten Apple videos and he is close with Ken Mansfield.
The pipe observation makes a lot of sense.
Hey Gang, anyone else get pestered with friend requests from "grandfatheraleister" lately? Struck me as odd...
Hey Zakk,
Good to hear from you. grandfatheraleister is my requested friend and I'm proud of him.
Thanks for the help Taful, yeah I've haven't been playing this as much since the second briefcase stuff. It was odd that he just picked my youtube page randomly... as far as I know I haven't commented or favorite any of his videos. ~_~
Waddya thing? Maybe Bruce and Ken are the ones sponsoring IAAP? That would explain access to EMI and many other things. . .
What do you think, rather.
There is a possibility that the Bruce Spizer article is the truth. Give the public the real reason behind "Paul is Dead", but do it on April Fool's Day so that it can put off as a joke. April Fool's day - "Fool on the Hill". It would be the perfect opportunity. The article states that Brian Epstein felt the public wanted to hear love songs. That could be the premise for Sir Paul's tendency to write "Silly Love Songs".
"wow! we know who iamwhich is now!"
Well, who is he/she?
I realize that those who believe PID without a shadow of a doubt will dismiss what I have to say, but I think it should be considered. Assuming Brian Spizer's article is the truth, then the RA series is merely a continuation of the hoax, most likely perpetrated by MACCA's publicists, designed to not only boost sales of The Beatles' material, but his and the others solo material as well. In one of the videos, and again, I am not sure which, a piece of paper is shown with an article and references to "internet", McCarteny's "go ahead", and I believe "publicity", etc. One clue could be the "staged" conversation on 922008Suitcase's YouTube channel which depicts a publicist "breaking away from the script". Maybe the whole idea has backfired, and sales have dropped because of all the negative connotations toward Sir Paul and The Beatles from the videos. The rekindling of PID through the RA series and subsequent videos have successfully ushered in a new group of young MACCA and Beatle haters. Not all, but many of those that believe PID, have great disrespect for Sir Paul. Maybe 922008Suitcase is trying to suggest a better approach would be to market the previously un-released material, such as what would be found in Mal Evans briefcase. Could the Acid Arms video be his way of saying "this whole thing is a wash"? The new RA video suggests "they don't need the money", but it is not merely about money, but reputation and legacy.
Sorry guys, the above is me.
The IAAP camp may also be using the videos to promote upcoming events, such as the LoveH2O Concert next year, and maybe a few others that haven't been deciphered.
Sir Larry, the one thing that crosses my mind at times that may make what you say plausible is that the general public sees Sir Paul as good for one thing: Entertaining a crowd with a three hour jukebox of (mostly) Beatle hits.
A resurrection of the PID mystery may be a way of saying hey I do have something to make you think twice about being so dismissive.. And don't forget Pepper, all that work and you all still don't get it.
you would you know if we get it or not?
Imaphoney is great entertainment, i love the whole PID/Faul business. I would think it is Macca behind it because he loves all the macabre bits and would do anything for the edge his music sometimes lacks, tho he's brilliant. What proves Macca is not behind imaphoney and what finally spoils imaphoney's work the shitty original music.
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