Lead for Revolution #9 clues

[TotalInformation]

There's an article in the latest issue of Paranoia about Charles Manson and his preachings about the Beatles.

Anyway, it mentions that a book Big Secrets by William Poundstone has a break down of every track Lennon used to make Revolution #9. That would certainly be interesting to look at in the light of present knowledge of McCartney's death.

[AlexTheLrg]

I've always wondered why The Beatles (except John) have never said anything about this particular "song" in interviews.

[AlexTheLrg]

www.pootle.demon.co.uk/beatles/rn9.htm

Here's a link to a page that has the stuff that's being said under all the noise in Rev 9

[TotalInformation]

Found an excerpt from the book online. Not very enlightening, really. I was hoping for a much more methodical breakdown -- www.crispen.org/rants/secrets.html

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FINDINGS: Distinction between lyrics and any hidden message blurs on "Revolution 9". The eight-minute cut is a montage of sounds collected by John Lennon and Yoko Ono (and not by credited cowriter Paul McCartney, per White Album usage). It includes discordant music, radio broadcasts, sirens, applause, gunfights, sports cheers, the crackling of a fire, screams, a baby gurgling, a choir singing, and much that cannot be identified. For this investigation, "Revolution 9" was transcribed four times, twice on each stereo channel. One copy of each of the tracks was reversed. The four resulting versions were compared against each other and against the original two-channel version. "Revolution 9" contains a lot of talking. Played in stereo, forward, the longest stretch of understandable speech is probably an announcer saying, "...every one of them knew that as time went by they'd get a little bit older and a little bit slower..."

One believable instance of reversed speech occurs: someone saying "Let me out! Let me out!" (once held to represent McCartney in his totaled Aston-Martin). Two iffy reversals: "She used to be an assistant" and "There were two men..." Neither is clear enough or long enough to be convincing. Some of the music sounds more natural in reverse. "Turn me on dead man" is a typical phonetic reversal. The forward "number nine" (repeated throughout) is clear; the reversal is slurred--something like "turn me on dedmun." It was been claimed that "number nine" must be pronounced with a British accent in order to reverse to "turn me on dead man". [deletia explaining that they tested this and found it to be false.]

Much of "Revolution 9" is on one stereo track only: near the end a voice says "A fine natural imbalance...the Watusi...the twist...Eldorado... Eldorado." "A fine natural imbalance" is on the right, the rest is stereo. One of the longer bits of speech--"Who could tell what he was saying? His voice was low and his [unintelligible] was high and his eyes were low"--is clear on the left track, a bare whisper on the right.

There is a stereophonically concealed "secret message" on "Revolution 9": the words are on the right track. They begin about 4:58 into the cut and run for 22 seconds. They aren't likely to be noticed in stereo because the left track is louder. [deletia describing the deafening noises on left track. Author hazards a guess that the concealment was accidental. To recover it, he suggests switching the left track off. The right track will then have a stopwatch ticking behind these words:]

So the wife called, and we better go to see a surgeon...... So any and all, we went to see the dentist instead, who gave him a pair of teeth, which wasn't any good at all. So instead of that he joined the bloody navy and went to sea.

[Forum Manager]

very interesting. "there were two men..." who got kidnapped.

[lyceum]

There is also a line in there that says, "He hit a pole."

[Purplexion]

it's embarassing to read this stuff sometimes.