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Minister questionsinthe Church of Satan purchaseda hotel in the Californiadesert.Continuing examples of reverse masking, he cited the well-known Beatles song, “Revolution No. 9”, saying it contained a veiled reference to a rumor that once circulated that Paul McCartney was dead. “Turn me on dead man,” it says when played backwards.Martin said “Eldorado by the Electric Light Orchestra contains the message, He’s the nasty one - Christ the infernal” played backwards; Led Zeppelin’s most popular song, “Stairway to Heaven,” has the backward lyric - “my sweet Satan”; and the well-known song by Queen called “Another One Bites the Dust” is It’s fun to smoke marijuana.’* ; Ji r V .“It could be planned, it could be accidental, he said,“I don’t know ... but it scares 11me.While Martin admitted that most of the examples wereAlice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Styx, KISS, and Led Zep-plin, were just some of the groups included in the program using over one hundred slides that pictured album covers and rock singers.The 28-year-old minister and former Mt. Carmel resident said 90 to 95 percent of his claims were “documented” in magazine clippings attributing quotes to the performers themselves.Much of his research came from two Minnesota ministers and the Zion Life Christian School who have presented similar concerts that led some kids to give up their rock records.come.The downward trend has continued, Martin said, and much of today’s rock music can be divided into four categories - occult and satanism, sex, drugs, or violence and rebellion.In some cases, he said, Their (album) covers and lyrics are so bad, that it would be condemned in literature, but we allow them to bedisplayed at departmentstores.”More than once he pointedout occult signs appearing on covers of some rock albums and in one case pointed to a dim figure in an album by the Eagles called “Hotel California” and said photographic enlargements revealed a figure that appeared to be Anton I^aVey, the “high priest” of the Church of Satan inCalifornia.Martin claimed that thesong, “Hotel California”, contains the subliminal message, “Yes, Satan, he organized his own religion” - and more. Ominously, he said, in 1969For the first time in his seminar presented twice in Princeton and once in Fairfield, Rev. Martin called for youth to throw away some albums at the conclusion ofthe service.While the response was not great, he said afterward that several youth have voluntarily given him their records ortapes.Although Rev. Martin emphasized more than once that he did not condemn all rock groups, most of the three-hour presentation mirrored his personal opinion about rock music, claiming that many performers are preoccupied with sex, drugs or the occult.Rock singers from “Jan and Dean to Ozzy Osbourne were discussed as Martin traced the history of rock and roll, predicting worse things toby Larry ReynoldsReligion EditorAn Indiana minister presented his fourth rock concert” in Mt. Carmel Sunday, but it was unlike any concert you’ve ever heard.In a three-hour seminar that included numerous examples of pre-recorded rock music, Rev. Mark Martin pointed out what he said were secret messages that could only be understood when records are played backwards.Some of the messages, he fears, are invitations to worship Satan.The minister of youth at Bethel Memorial Church in Princeton, Ind., said he is not exactly sure what, if any, effect backward messages have on youth, but he said, “It frightens me.”During the presentation at First Church of God in Mt. Carmel, he played nine examples of what he called backward or reverse masking or subliminal messages.“Does reverse masking affect us?” he asked. “I don’t know. I’m not an expert inpsychology.”“But why go to all the trouble to put it there,” he said.He charged, “The occult is present in rock music today and we don’t even know its influence.”One group, he said, sendseach recording to a voodoo doctor to be blessed.“As you listen to their music,” he said, “you realize it must come right out of the bits of hell.”hard to distinguish by some of the nearly 300 people packed into the Church of God auditorium, one clear example was a clip from “Fire on High” by the Electric LightOrchestra.A guitar solo from the song is used to introduce “Wide World of Sports” on television,he said.Later in the song and foundonly in their album, Martin said a voice, played backwards, says, “Music is reversible, but time — turn back, turn back, turn back.” Martin said he is not sure if backward messages are assimilated by the brain.However, he discussed several examples ofsubliminal messages, including an east-coast department store that attempted to reduce shoplifting by playing music with the hidden message, “You are a good person. Good people do notShoplifting decreased by 80 percent, Martin said.However, although hidden sublimially in the music, the message was not recordedbackwards.Another experiment was eventually banned by congress, he continued - a visual picture flashed on the screen too fast to discern with the naked eye.“For one-eighth of a second they would flash the picture of a coke,” he said, “and people would get thirsty and go to the concession stand and orderDiscusses viewsRev. Mark Martin, minister of youth at Bethel Memorial Church in Princeton, discusses his views on rock music with several Mt. Carmel youth after presenting a three-hour seminar at First Church of God, 1532 College Dr., Sunday.
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