This is tape number WP4 in the Springs
of Living Water Tape Library.
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I mean, we could get some good music.
And now think of all the things you'd
see, the places you'd go, the people you'd
meet, man.
All the new scenes, man, all the new
celebrities in the country.
Why not rock?
All around the world, youth are making their
presence felt and their voice heard.
The voice of today's youth is the voice
of music.
Whatever they feel, whatever they experience, whatever they
want to say to their world, they will
say in music.
The radio, record and film industry outlets are
the pathways that link young people around the
world.
No generation of youth have ever been more
deeply involved in the grim realities of life
than this one.
Young people have picked up a taste for
in-depth experience in all levels of communication.
And nowhere is this more deeply felt than
in rock music.
One 17-year-old rock fan said, I
believe our music is the most truthful, realistic
music of this or any other generation.
Parents who live in the dream world of
Tommy Dorothy and Glenn Miller find it hard
to comprehend what rock music is all about.
Youth speaks to the world through its music.
Are we listening?
Society, they long for spontaneous, in-depth, personal
experience.
Ken Talbot, founder of The Electric Message and
narrator on the rock analysis tape, The Mindfenders,
points out these two major thought trends of
today's rock music.
The alienation of the generations and the now
ethic.
Youth are looking at their world with new
eyes.
All across the nation Of
The Generation Gap by
Bob Dylan and his worldwide hit, The Times
Are A-Changing.
The mothers and fathers throughout the land And
don't criticize This
alienation of the generations is not, however, just
a simple breakdown of communication between youth and
their parents.
Young people are on a search for personal
identity that the previous generation has failed to
give them.
With their hopes and their dreams, they roam
the nation, searching for a personal destiny.
I'm going to be born in America Adults
find it hard to understand, sometimes, just how
lonely it is to be young.
In an electronic world, it seems to have
forgotten how to dream.
Beautifully drawn by one of the two young
bus travelers, he says to his sleeping sweetheart,
Kathy, I'm lost, I'm aching and empty, and
I don't know why.
Telling your mother that is what she should
do.
Is trying to see when to her the
world seems out of focus.
In the following song, parents have failed to
give this girl a sense of reality.
Now she has taken the hippie as her
prophet, and her crusade for love she has
broken from her home restrictions.
The Generation Gap is complete in this song.
Mama cries, but she can't reach her.
Daddy gets so hot and wild, but she's
learned all they can teach her, and now
she's no one's child.
In a world thrown out of focus, she
is trying hard to see.
She's confused, she is seeking help.
The ardent church-going woman, to seduce her
daughter's boyfriend, she
pleads Mrs. Robinson.
Rock music is the now ethic.
Faith in the future has been destroyed by
the grim shadow of the mushroom cloud, as
described by Barry McGuire's agonized song, The Ease
of Destruction.
It could be summed up in, eat, drink,
and be merry, for tomorrow we shall fry.
One group, the Grassroots, whose name suggests marijuana
as one of today's answers, tells the young
person, we're never meant to worry the way
that people do, and I don't mean to
hurry as long as I'm with you.
We'll take it nice and easy, and use
my simple plan, and then suggest sex as
an answer to life's emptiness.
You'll be my loving woman, I'll be your
loving man.
We're never meant to worry the way that
people do, and I don't mean to hurry
as long as I'm with you.
We'll take it nice and easy, and use
my simple plan.
You'll be my loving woman, I'll be your
loving man.
We'll take the most from living, and pleasure
while we can.
Many people today have inherited the goddess thinking
of this age, and have been left without
a reason for living.
Rationalism has not solved the problem of who
we are, with our strange feelings of significance
and destiny.
Youth have been told they are nothing but
chemical accidents, blind products of matter, time, and
chance.
That man is only a machine.
This evolutionary thinking has robbed our generation of
the bible answer for our feelings of guilt
and loneliness.
The bible says we are not nothings but
real persons, because we are made in the
likeness of our infinite but personal creator.
That we are lost from his family by
selfishness, and need his forgiveness and love.
A godless modern man, who feels a sense
of beauty, love, or wonder, is in for
a difficult mental dilemma.
By his non-christian thinking, he should reject
his feelings as meaningless, as he is, after
all, only a machine.
Or he must try to live, like his
unchurched parents, in two worlds, thinking one way
and living another.
This is, however, only another form of the
same hypocrisy he says he despises in the
previous generation.
Today's only non-christian answer is a mindless
jump into meaning.
In a
world full of contradictory living and phoniness, few
modern young people want to think like atheists
or live like machines.
This dilemma has spawned a whole new way
of looking at life, as if fact and
meaning are not part of the same reality.
Today's young person sees nothing strange then in
disregarding facts, in his search for reality.
All he has known of facts without God,
have been hard and cruel, and have left
him without hope in a world of emptiness.
So he has divided facts from his life
experiences.
His search for meaning is thus simply a
search of personal happenings that need have no
connection with logic or fact.
He goes through life playing a role to
the stage of the world for meaning.
Goals for life have been exchanged for roles
in life.
This then is the philosophy lying behind the
non-rational search for meaning among youth, that
takes many forms in rock tunes, but most
commonly, experiential religions, sex, and drugs.
Before looking at some of the lyrics of
today's tunes that demonstrate this thinking, we must
consider key psychological effects of certain kinds of
rock music.
Music is
misleading.
It is a psychological fact that certain kinds
of music can have a direct effect on
the emotional and nervous system.
Music has power to reinforce existing emotions without
conscious control of the master brain.
The thugs, one of today's political rock groups,
recognize this when they paraphrase William Congreve's classic
line of the 1690s to read, Dr. Howard
Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music
in the University of Rochester commented, can
be soothing or invigorating, ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical
or orgiastic.
It has powers for evil as well as
for good.
It is important to recognize the dangerous powers
of certain rhythmic forms.
There are three basic elements in music that
can be highly destructive to the listener.
These three forms have no parallel in the
Christian experience and contribute to the destruction of
moral and spiritual values in the minds of
the listeners.
The first of these, and the least harmful,
creates the feeling of loneliness and despair.
It is a blue note or minor key.
Bring across to the listening audience the idea
of meaninglessness.
She said you don't understand what I said,
I said no, no, no.
Possibly the most dangerous form of all is
the second, the high energy body pulsed beat.
Pavlov's research showed that this could be used
as an indoctrination tool to bring lyrical suggestions
across to a point of compulsion.
Notice in the following example how the driving
bass and drums create an excitatory reflex tied
into the human pulse rate.
This neurosis sound is often used in songs
of anarchy and sex and is here done
by the Rolling Stones, who have sold over
40 million records on the sex theme alone.
According to Pavlov, the subconscious part of the
brain can obey impulses that produce feeling or
even bodily action without conscious control by the
master brain.
If subjected to excessive excitation by such a
pulsed beat sound, the mind loses temporary control
of its ability to judge or resist suggestion.
Under such a continuous conditioning pulse, belief can
be implanted in the mind.
This is what Jimi Hendrix means when he
uses the term electric church to describe the
power of music to hypnotize for action and
plant revolutionary suggestions in the subconscious.
This hard rock beat can be and is
often used as a subliminal hypnosis tool.
Besides this, these special low bass tones have
complex medical effects on almost all the vital
functions of the body, draining the system of
energy, burning out the calcium ion nerve relaxants
and psyching up the whole nervous system sexually,
emotionally and unavoidably.
In Pavlov's account of using this technique to
produce an artificially neurotic state in his animals,
he writes, Now as we produced the neurosis,
the dog became extremely excitable, experiencing a chaotic
condition of the nervous activity.
The animal was intolerant and uncontrollable.
Pressure build in the auditorium when he shouts,
Do you feel it?
Then pulses the lyrics also to intensify the
total effect.
To meet the devil through the use of
drugs.
Find control for Lucifer, angel of light to
attack.
Rock songwriters today combine this triple attack on
the senses and nervous system with well chosen
lyrics.
One analyst said, Ambiguity of various kinds has
always existed in rock and for the most
elemental reason.
To sell a pop song it had to
be meaningful, but to get on the radio
it had to get by disc jockeys who
had a more rigid sense of propriety than
the most blue-nosed censor.
Composers developed a profound awareness of slang and
its implications and learned to express the forbidden
in the context of the permissible.
Rock lyricists today try to invest their slang
with a depth of ambiguity that allows their
words to be heard equally well on all
levels right down to the underground.
What would you think if I sang out
of tune?
Would you stand up and walk out on
me?
With these
words from Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
The Beatles introduced a new era to their
listening audience.
They are asking young people to stay with
them if they tune out the establishment and
turn on to the drug scene.
This album revolutionized the recording industry by utilizing
studio rock, sound generated by special electronic techniques
and editing.
It was a milestone in LPs and contained
many veiled references to drugs.
Double meanings are often used in the titles
of songs to give a clue to the
content.
For instance, take the first letters of this
song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and
you will not have to be too brilliant
to figure out what kind of trip The
Beatles want you to go on with them.
In Norwegian Wood, The Beatles combined sex and
drugs in a set of ambiguous lyrics with
obvious connotations.
Using only the start of the sex scene.
What goes on?
He crawled off to sleep.
Please change sides for the second part of
Why?
Another major theme in the now ethic is
sex.
Recently, lyrics have undergone radical changes.
They are no longer subtle suggestions but and
further alienate the straight generation.
Consider these developments in the following Beatles tunes
written over the past few years.
At first, The Beatles want to do nothing
more than to hold your hand.
The beat goes on and gets deeper.
After a hard day's night, his girlfriend is
now giving him...
The Beatles' last sexual statement in song is
an open boast of things that should cause
shame.
Who, knowing the judgment of God, Romans says,
not only do the same but have pleasure
in them.
With some
groups, however, The Beatles' lyrics are mild.
The Doors, Steppenwolf and the MC5.
Horoscopes and soothsaying are the new sciences of
the turned-on civilization.
Across the world, a frightening rock revolution is
on.
And psychological
conditioning of hard and acid rock has made
thousands of young people the willing victims of
a subconsciously planted idea revolution to destroy all
existing forms of society.
With thousands of record station shrines, DJs and
pushers as priests and musicians as preachers, the
revolutionary religion of rock is sweeping the world.
The only ones unchurched youth will listen to
the youth of the Christian church have nothing
to say and are coming instead to the
searching rock musician for answers.
Where are the young people of God who
have something to say to the rock generation
in songs filled with the spirit of God?
In Season of the Witch, the vanilla fudge...
People you know like this are lonely and
lost and...
Do you care if they cry to a
God they cannot see in the lives of
church young people?
Do you care if they weep, God, hey?
You who say you love God, what about
you?
You who say you love Christ, what is
it that captures your dreams and heart most?
The thing your thoughts turn back constantly to.
The person or thing that you are most
excited about.
Because whatever that is, that is your God
and the world knows it.
It will do you no good to say
that Christ is your comforter.
When you get a problem and put on
a record instead of praying.
You will never fool your cynical friends into
believing you find satisfaction in Christ.
When you must also turn for satisfaction to
Hendricks or Steppenwolf.
Never have the young been so hungry for
the bread of life.
Can you offer only the stones?
They turn to the church for an answer
and what do they see?
Can affect the course of history now.
There is no longer room for the uncommitted
in this last generation.
You cannot afford to be half-hearted.
You are faced with a choice between two
revolutions.
The rock revolution of hell that is urging
our generation on to annihilation.
Or the supernatural revolution of love that is
founded on the rock of ages, Jesus Christ.
God is about to do something incredible for
those who will dare pay the price of
total commitment.
To his son as Savior and Lord.
The Holy Spirit is about to be poured
out in the most incredible period of all
times.
The preparation for the invasion of the Lord
Jesus into this planet.
To you I issue this challenge.
If you dare go with God no matter
what the cost.
First sever all connections to your old way
of life.
Destroy all the hotlines to hell you have
on your record player.
Then go before God and give him all
you have.
Make an honest unconditional surrender of your time,
your talents, your life, your all.
Then let him use you to begin a
revolution of love.
That will come out in a new sound
for a generation that has never heard the
song of the sons and daughters of God.
If I live well, praise where
am I going?
Am I
here?
Please God.