"SIDESTREETS" Illustrated Lyrics

"SIDESTREETS" Illustrated Lyrics
Words + Music + Illustrations by Neal Warner

 

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"I GET SHY" - Illustrated Lyrics

I GET SHY

Words + Music by Tim Piper

Illustrations by Corey Harris

(Written back when Tim Piper was a "Paul McCartney" Tribute Artist and brother Greg Piper was "George" playing Lead Guitar)

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"SEXIST" - Illustrated Lyrics from the Rock N Roll Rehab LIVE Show

Words + Music + Illustrations by Neal Warner

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Snakes On The Astral Plane

 A lot of the books I read on the metaphysical talk about the worship of snakes in cultures from all over the world and at all periods of time. Some of these books ask "why snakes?" In our society snakes are loathsome creatures that are surely not worthy of veneration so why do so many other cultures worship them as gods? Of course, I have my ideas.

1. As an artist I would suggest that snakes are just easy to draw and sculpt so when coming up for a logo for a new cult a snake would make a cool design element. Snakes are the most rudimentary of creatures; a head and a tail. No arms or hands or fingers or legs or feet or toes or claws or hooves. Simple, elegant, easy to bend into shapes and very often with beautiful design patterns on their skin.

2. Snakes are one of the most deadly animals to humans. The can gain access to human living quarters other animals can't and all it takes is one bite from even a tiny snake to kill a person. You have to go all the way up to the size of a mountain lion or leopard to find the next largest animal capable of killing a man.

3. In the ancient cultures mentioned in these books snakes might represent dragons which in turn represent the memory in the collective unconscious of the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs ruled the Earth at one time and are certainly worthy of puny human worship.

4. In all the books I've read about native shamanism and psychedelic drug trips snakes appear as spirits to the shaman or in hallucinations of the tripper. Perhaps if there is such a thing as Alternative Realities where spirits exist they actually do look like snakes so a culture's worship of a snake deity is in reaction to actually experiencing spirits, either in drug induced shamanic rituals or in dreams, in snake-like forms.

A God of Rock and his snake "familiar".

Music & Mind Control

This is from the website Why Don't You Try This?

Most music worldwide has been tuned to 440 hertz since the International Standards Organization (ISO) endorsed it in 1953. The recent rediscoveries of the vibratory / oscillatory nature of the universe indicate that this contemporary international concert pitch standard may generate an unhealthy effect or anti-social behavior in the consciousness of human beings.

A=432 Hz, known as Verdi’s ‘A’ is an alternative tuning that is mathematically consistent with the universe. Music based on 432 Hz transmits beneficial healing energy, because it is a pure tone of math fundamental to nature.

There is a theory that the change from 432 Hz to 440 Hz was dictated by Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. He used it to make people think and feel a certain manner, and to make them a prisoner of a certain consciousness. Then around 1940 the United States introduced 440 Hz worldwide, and finally in 1953 it became the ISO 16-standard.

I read a whole book about the harmonics of the universe and how sound effects EVERYTHING, I even have a theory about how band rehearsals always cure my colds. But it disturbs me when people use the power of sound to say music, certain kinds of music, is being used as mind control or for some other nefarious reason.

In a nutshell, Heavy Metal, Punk and some Hard Rock is BAD, Classical Music, Classic Rock and Folk is GOOD. Do you really need to compare and contrast sound frequencies and pitches to prove that you don't like a particular form of music? Punks aren't punks because they like Punk Rock, people who relate to the Punk lifestyle and have Punk sensibilities created Punk Rock as a music to accompany their attitudes. The music didn't create it. I doubt there are any Punks who only became punks because they liked the music. I like David Bowie but listening to his music didn't make me gay, or a space alien.

I think the real message of this website posting is that the kind of people who try to control music thinking it will somehow control the populace are commonly known as Nazis.