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                         THE EFFECTS OF ROCK MUSIC 


A fifteen year old Tampa Bay boy filled his mouth with lighter fluid and 
blew it out of his mouth across a torch, like Gene Simmons of KISS, and 
the flame came back and burned over thirty-five percent of his upper 
body.  Rock music has been around for quite a while.  Everybody listens 
to it at least once in their life.  A lot of people don't see anything 
wrong with it, but rock music can and does affect the minds and lives of 
teenagers. 

The teenagers of today have a choice of whether they want to listen to 
rock music or not, but rock music is everywhere.  The average teenager 
listens to over six hours of rock music a day.  This means that when 
their friends see them, they are more than likely going to be listening 
to rock music.  There is even rock music in the schools.  It is true 
that a band hall is a place for music, but not rock music played 
throughout the lunch shifts. 

Admittedly, rock music is a very good business as far as money is 
concerned.  Rock musicians make millions of dollars every year, but what 
are they going to spend that much money on?  After they buy all the 
houses and cars that they want, most of them buy and use drugs.  The 
Rolling Stones, for instance, is into turning children onto heroin and 
cocaine.  Keith Richards, of The Rolling Stones, had a drug habit that 
ran up to ten-thousand dollars a day. 

Rock music can also hurt a teenager physically.  The volume of the music 
can hurt the ears of anyone who listens to it at a loud volume.  Ted 
Nugent is deaf in one ear because of the volume of the music he has been 
playing.  The Concord SSC has been prohibited from taking off and 
landing in many cities because it takes off and lands at one-hundred and 
forty db's of sound.  The Rolling Stones have been recorded as the 
world's loudest concert at one-hundred and seventy six db's of sound. 

Most of the rock and roll superstars do use drugs.  A person could walk 
into a concert and literally gag on the smoke that is in the air from 
all the marijuana that is being smoked.  Grace Slick, formerly of 
Jefferson Starship, used alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and LSD when she 
played her music.  She named her son God and tried to get into the White 
House to spike the tea with LSD. Linda Ronstadt has had her nose 
cauterized twice for snorting cocaine.  This is a great shock to her 
fans because she is thought of as "sweet and innocent." Johnny Barnnetti 
shoveled fake cocaine to the crowd while singing about it. These are 
just a few examples, but there are thousands more that use and abuse 
drugs. 

Some rock musicians even glorify drugs in their songs as the Beatles did 
in their song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."  They are disguising it 
pretty well but it is plain to see that they are glorifying the drug 
LSD. 

A lot of rock musicians put evil things into their lyrics.  Some 
musicians are in the occult and worship Satan himself.  The Bible tells 
people to turn away from that which is evil and to have nothing to do 
with it. 

Some of the colleges and universities actually have classes about 
witchcraft.  The Bible also says that those who use witchcraft or a 
person who is a witch will be driven away from the people by the Lord.  
A spokesman from a popular record label says that witchcraft is very 
popular and it makes the albums sell.  Some acid rock artists even go to 
their occult priests and tell them to make one demon spirit go onto 
every record that comes off of the master record.  Then, every time the 
needle touches the record, the demon will be released. 

A lot of the groups are evil themselves.  Bob Ezrin, the producer of 
KISS, describes the group as "symbols of unfettered evil and 
sensuality."  Gene Simmons, the lead singer of the group, has stated 
that he has always wanted to be God.  KISS has a comic book out that is 
the best selling comic book ever. They had blood samples taken and put 
the blood on the printing plates so they could say the comic book was 
printed in the blood of KISS.  Gene Simmons has often wondered what 
human flesh tastes like. 

Jimmy Page, from the group Led Zeppelin, is fascinated with black magic. 
Led Zeppelin's logo on their albums looks like Lucifer falling from 
heaven. 

Stevie Nicks, of Fleetwood Mac, is into the occult and she believes in 
spirits.  She believes in reincarnation, she wants to talk to a ghost, 
and she wants to build her own pyramid and live in a witch house.  She 
usually wears witches clothes when she is on stage. 

The rock group Queen is mostly made up of bisexuals, which their name 
suggests.  In one of their more popular songs they sing the blasphemous 
chorus, "All going down to see the Lord Jesus!"  This further proves the 
satanic world of this group.  Also, lead singer Freddie Murcury says, 
"On stage, I am a devil." 

The group Styx does not really appear to be satanic, but their name 
refers to the first river the shadow of the dead come to in the 
underworld in Greek Mythology. 

The lyrics are what really affect the minds of teenagers because most 
people don't know very much about the groups they listen to.  Here are 
some lyrics from one of KISS's songs called, "God of Thunder":  "I was 
raised by demons.  Trained to reign as Thor. God of Thunder, and rock 
and roll . . . The spell you're under will slowly rob you of your virgin 
soul."  To say they were raised by demons is enough, but they say they 
will rob you of your virgin soul. 

A song by Rick Derringer says, "Take me to the bottom.  Show me where to 
sell my soul.  A promise sealed in blood . . . It doesn't feel so wrong, 
that sweet, sweet evil."  The name of the song is "Sweet Evil" and 
proves that they are evil if they think it is sweet. 

Another group that shows they are evil is AC/DC.  One of their most 
popular songs is entitled, "Hell's Bells."  Some of the lyrics are, "If 
God is on the left, I'm on the right.  If you're into evil, you're a 
friend of mine." The words of the song speak for themselves. 

A group called Blue Oyster Cult has a song called, "Divine Wind," which 
is a chant of ingredients for a potion which means they are into 
witchcraft.  Some of the words are, "Blood of bat; Tail of newt; Wing of 
metal; Bone of steel; Vial of health; Flask of pain; Staff of life of 
poison rain; If he really thinks we're evil, then let's send him to 
Hell." 

Sex is more predominant than anything else in the lyrics and the groups 
themselves.  Gene Simmons says that KISS is concerned with sex and very 
little else.  Wendy O. Williams, lead singer of the Plasmatics, usually 
appears topless at some point in her concerts.  Before she uses her 
trusty sledgehammer to destroy speakers and amplifiers, she uses it to 
masterbate in public and has been arrested in two major cities for doing 
so.  She also has orgasms when she sings her songs, especially during 
one of her songs called, "Butcher Baby." 

David Lee Roth, lead singer for Van Halen, says he lives out one-hundred 
percent of his fantasies with pretty women that he meets on the road.  
Elton John says he can have sex with either male or female and thinks 
that people should be free with it. Alice Cooper makes love with a boa 
constrictor and a mannequin during some of his concerts. 

Daryl Hall, of Hall and Oates, says the idea of having sex with another 
man doesn't turn him off.  The manager of Village People is trying to 
write songs that will make the gay people more acceptable.  Rod Stewart 
has always wanted to be attractive to men because that's half the people 
that buy his records.  Rob Halford has been known to "drop his leather 
drawers mid-concert." The reason for all the sex on stage is because it 
makes the records sell a lot better. 

Today's rock musicians put sex into their songs mainly to put sex into 
the minds of the teenager who listen to it.  Just the titles of some of 
AC/DC's songs are bad enough, like "Big Balls, Love at First Feel, and 
Let me put my Love into You."  Another song by AC/DC is, "Given the Dog 
a Bone," which goes like this: ". . . Goin' down to her knees, down, 
down to ninety degrees . . . I'm just givin' the dog a bone."  This is 
obviously talking about a man having oral sex with a woman. 

Ted Nugent's song called, "Wango Tango," says "When I need some 
lubrication, baby, prop down, get a butt propped up.  Now you're in the right 
position, baby."  He talks about sadomasochism in his song, "Violent Love." 
Ted Nugent is not satisfied with that.  He opened a concert with, "Wang Dang
Sweetpoontang," which says, "Oh Madine, you're a teenage queen, so d-----
clean, especially down in between."

Pink Floyd says he needs a dirty woman and a dirty girl to make him feel 
like a man.  The Cars say they want to melt inside of you.  Dr. Hook 
gets very vulgar when he says, "Sometimes I dream of chicks, sometimes I 
dream of animals, sometimes I dream of boys."  This is from a song 
called, "Get My Rocks Off."  And finally, Alice Cooper describes having 
sex with a dead person in his song, "Cold Ethyl." 

Some people have tried to stop rock music from getting too powerful, but 
they all have failed.  James Watt, formerly the Secretary of the 
Interior, tried to stop the Beach Boys from playing at the 1983 Fourth 
of July Celebration, but President and Mrs. Reagan told him that they 
were friends of theirs and that their kids grew up with them.  After 
this, Watt decided to change his mind.  Many more attempts have been 
made.  Some have come closer than others, but they still can't stop rock 
music from being heard.  Rock music can be heard everywhere.  It's 
hurting teenagers every time they listen to it, but rock music has 
settled down in the past years, and more and more Christian radio 
stations are being started.  Hopefully, this is a sign of what's to come 
in the future. 

Doug Reames, El Dorado, Arkansas