numerology in Rock:

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I dont practice numerology myself but I used to have sex on a farily regular basis with a chick who did and she taught me the basics. Numerology is largely based on problems and answers. In order to get an answer you have to go through the steps of the problem. In otherwords all of the quotients and probabilities have to add up. Over the years since I learned about numerology I sorta kept an eye out for, just for shits and giggles, and I've noticed quite a few interesting examples of it playing a part in Rock music. The White Stripes for instant say that all of their music is based on the magical power of the number 3. But the best known example is probablly John Lennon's fascination with numerology and how it supposedly played a part in his murder.

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[QUOTE]The Catcher in the Rye was, of course, Mark David Chapman’s bible, and the “missing chapter,” 27, was the chapter he wanted to write, as I said in Nowhere Man, in John Lennon’s blood. But Lennon, too, had a bible: Cheiro’s Book of Numbers. After Lennon discovered this book, which explained in simple language the occult “science” of numerology, he couldn’t so much as dial a phone number without first consulting Cheiro, and he couldn’t walk out of the house without finding mystical significance in every license plate, address, and street sign.

Lennon, who was born on October 9, had always been aware of the strong presence of the number 9 in his life. He considered it his lucky number. His son Sean was also born on October 9; he’d written songs titled Revolution 9, One After 909, and No. 9 Dream; Brian Epstein first saw the Beatles at The Cavern on November 9; and he met Yoko on November 9.

But it was only after reading Cheiro that Lennon came to understand that the multiples of 9, particularly 18 and 27, were as important as 9 itself. As Cheiro explained, the single numbers 1 to 9 represent “the physical or material side of things” and compound numbers from 10 on represent the “occult or spiritual side of life.”[/QUOTE]
[url]http://robertrosen.blogspot.com/2006/02/john-lennons-bible-and-occult.html[/url]

― PEW (PEW), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, I didnt do that quote thing-a-ma jobie right...
Anyway, my question is: What other examples of numerology in Rock can you see?

― PEW (PEW), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Edward Wageman is "one" massive cunt.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Lock thread.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

I used to have sex on a farily regular basis

― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

LJ vs PEW FITE.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

sandbox is like bizarro world

― obi strip (sanskrit), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

passantino is suddenly really funny

― obi strip (sanskrit), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

I had the skills all along man, I just needed someone to believe in me.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

wouldn't it be zingalicious if optins was being sarcastic there

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

Louis Jagger has touched "zero" vaginas.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Thursday, 14 December 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

one, actually, almost 20 years ago

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Thursday, 14 December 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

she taught me the basics

― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Thursday, 14 December 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

thread better before the gratuitous LJ-bashing

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 14 December 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

The White Stripes for instant say that all of their music is based on the magical power of the number 3

does this have anyone else scratching their head a bit?

― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Thursday, 14 December 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i saw jack white talk about that on charlie rose...he means he tries to limit the number of musical elements in a song to three (vocals, drums, vox or piano, drums, vox, etc)....

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 14 December 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh ok that makes more sense

― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Thursday, 14 December 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Magic.

― jim (jim), Thursday, 14 December 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

One is the loneliest number that PEW'll ever do

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Thursday, 14 December 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

one, actually, almost 20 years ago

(ian riese-moraine joke)

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 14 December 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

this doesn't seem so much trolling as something that nobody except for pew would want to think about.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 14 December 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

I knew this would be a PEW thread, but to take the question seriously, there are plenty of bands that do this. Boards of Canada and the KLF are among these bands. I didn't know that about John Lennon.

― wogan lenin (doglatin), Thursday, 14 December 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

Shimura Curves were all about number theory . . .

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

"One" too many gigs?

― that is just a Gerry named Onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 14 December 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

One Two Many Mornings.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

that's right about Jack White, but it goes beyond that, he is very much into numerical symbolism...also there is Dela Soul of course who informed us that '3' was the magic number, while Jack Black has said 9 is a magic number...

― PEW (PEW), Thursday, 14 December 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

i can't stand this troll and his boring threads.

can't someone dream up a dismissive catchphrase for him?

― Chad Bouche (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm working on it

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

I keep misreading his login as PWEI and end up singing Beaver Patrol to myself for hours.

BAN PWEI!

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

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