Rock’s ‘satanical’ spell?
By Sean Meyers
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Ever shake your bootie to the Beatles?
Ever relish the music of Kiss. The Eagles,
Queen, Black Oak Arkansas, Led Zeppelin, Rush,
Fleetwood Mac, Meatloaf, The Rolling Stones.
Black Sabbath, STYX, Blue Oyster Cult. Earth.
Wind and Fire or Jom Mitchell?
If you have, then you may very well be on
AC-DC’s proverbial Highway to Hell, in the opin
ion of at least one man
Nick Pappis, an ex-rock'n'roll musician
producer who "realized one day I was tired of
being a puppet on Satan's strings," was at the
University this week to warn students about what
he sees as the evil ramifications of rock’n'roll.
Pappis is touring the country with his copyrighted
presentation
In a seminar sponsored by the Maranatha
religious group and delivered in the EMU Forum,
legends, dead or alive
Jim Morrison, of The Doors, sang as if
possessed' and was photographed on album
covers mocking Christ it is cuthstr it is
Satanically inspired, Pappis said
Rolling Stones songs such as "Dancing with
Mr D" and Sympathy wfth the Devil' are obvious
promoters of demonism. Pappis said During a
murder investigation at Stones guitarist Keith
Richards' house, police found that animals had
been ritualistically killed and hung from trees.
Pappis said
Jimmy Page, of Led Zeppelin, "admits he
gets inspiration at seances. ’ Pappis said Joni
Mitchell has a male spirit that inspires her." and
they go for long walks on her estate Ozzy Os
borne confessed he was compelled to see The
Exorcist 26 times," Pappis said
The Beatles, other than being generally
"rude, vulgar and profane," have promoted the
devil and sin in their work Pappis said Their sona
Pappis left no cultural
stones unturned As
he detailed his ar
gument against
rock’n’roll, he quoted
Noah Webster, Ivan
Pavlov,TIME maga
zine Henrv Dauiii Thnrc
‘Rock'n’roll destroys you,
throw away your albums. ’
an and at I a act a Hn;pn
timatA CnaniarH')"
Why Don t We Do it
in the Road ' is kinky
and perverted " And
wasn't it John Len
non that referred to
Jesus as a greasy,
garlic-eating illegi
legendary rock performers
Pappis, of Gainesville, Fla contended that
music can subconciousty control a listener's
mind. Pavlov used a metronome to induce ar
tificial neurosis tn dogs saliva would pour out
of their mouths." Pappis said
As Pappis painted his portrait of modern rock
bands, the drooling-saliva image made a good
analogy tor modern rock bands
A 1975 i^sue of TIME magazine confirmed
that music can Induce "orgasmic responses' in
the listener. PappilS'^said "A lot of people don't
realize that music affects u$ in syteffe ways ''
Much of Pappis' lecture was a evaluation of
the various stages of dementia to be found in rock
Pappis played several musical passages
backwards or at speeds slower than usual to
ferret out messages that he argued listeners
could decipher subconsciously
Led Zeppelin s Stairway to Heaven" sound
ed like a religious song when he first heard it.
But played backwards, a portion of the same
song comes out My sweet Satan, no other made
a path, for it makes me sad. whose power is
Satan ''
"If you like this, if you've been influenced by
this," Pappis said, referring to music of the bands
he had decried as evil, “then you need to be
freed You're literally involved in witchcraft,
sorcery and cults.”
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