ALIENS INFLUENCE ROCK MUSICIANS: Names & Record Titles
"I was reading some UFO magazine a few years ago about this Peruvian guy who had some big UFO organisation down in South America, and he refers to the UFOs, the ships, as manta rays. And I've written two songs using manta rays as an image for UFOs, and I'd never read that before. Then I was reading one of those goofball books about Area 51, the airforce base in Nevada where they supposedly have the alien bodies and ships on ice. I read in this book that it's known in UFO circles as The Ranch, and I've got this song called 'The Happening' where the opening line goes "They got a ranch they call number 51," and I'd never heard this place referred to as The Ranch. I know they're stoopid coincidences that don't really amount to a lot, but a grin can't help but crawl across your face. It's kind of fun to think 'Well, gee! They're f---in' with my mind, man!' I know! Down deep, subconsciously, I know!" Black Francis of The Pixies, quoted in NME article, 5.10.1991.
The research that I have done over the last few years under the title Globe In Transit has revealed a considerable amount of evidence to show that Pop/Rock singers and musicians have in the past been and are still being influenced by alien life-forms. The above quote from Black Francis (now Frank Black) can be seen to be an acknowledgement 'from the horse's mouth' of the existence of this latent process.
Black Francis refers in this interview extract and song lyrics to Area 51, the place in Nevada, USA where there are many documented accounts of strange lights in the sky (and other various activities), which have been considered by William Cooper and other investigators to be test-flights of secret advanced-technology aircraft.
One of the best-selling singles of recent years is a song called "Ride On Time" by a group called Black Box. The black box is a recurring object in alien-contact literature - at least three documented alien encounters have involved a black box in connection with the aliens. Reference to a black box can also be found in Tim Good's best-selling book "Alien Liaison." The reader may be justified in assuming that the fact that a successful pop group happened to also call themselves 'Black Box' is merely a coincidence. But this same group's first LP release included a cover-version of a song called "Fantasy" featuring the lyrics "Take a ride in the sky on a ship fantasise..." And... the title of the LP is "Dreamland"!!
Music connections with Area 51/Dreamland don't end there. There is a Pink Floyd bootleg with a track titled "Come in Number 51 Your Time is Up." Again, here also, the reader might assume that the same number being used is just coincidental... But the LP is called "Another Side of the Moon" and other track titles on it include "Astronomy Domine" and "Interstellar Overdrive."
This year an LP has been released by Aztec Camera called "Dreamland." As with the previous case of an LP with this title dealt with earlier, the name of the group could also be significant. A remarkable book called 'UFO Crash At Aztec' by William Steinman & Wendelle Stevens (UPA, 1986) presents evidence that an alien spacecraft crashed onto a rocky plateau 12 miles northeast of Aztec, New Mexico on 25th March 1948. The book includes the account of a man - Baron Nicholas Von Poppen, who was a photographic expert assigned to take - under conditions of great secrecy - many photographs of the crashed spacecraft (Von Poppen confided this deeply significant information to a man called George C.Tyler). So, perhaps this is the ultimate significance of the name of the group Aztec Camera - it relates to the Aztec UFO crash.
Another possible reference within pop music to this particular UFO crash landing is a top 10 hit single from the early '70s by Suzi Quatro - "48 Crash." Perhaps whoever wrote the lyrics of this song had information about the Aztec crash implanted in their mind by aliens? Or, if not, then what the hell was this song about??
To end this article, I'd like to deal with the group known as House Of Love, who had a top 20 hit a couple of years back with "Shine On." The september/october 1988 issue of the American magazine 'UFO' includes a 2-page article by Val Petzak about the experiences she has had with entities during her life who she feels have assisted her with her "..spiritual growth." What will follow is an extract from towards the end of her article. Anyone familiar with "Shine On" by House Of Love will notice the connections between the lyrics of this song and what Val Petzak maintains in her article.
"Not too long ago I had a dream that I had to pass an audition by singing one of my songs. I did what I thought was a wimpy job, but it was good enough to pass the audition. I was led by a little man along some winding roads up to a narrow, almost impassable stairway, which I struggled to mount. At the top was a grand old house. The small entity led me through the door and inside I could see a beautiful garden.
I was told this is where Jesus was, but that he was just out of my sight around the corner. I asked a gentleman there with me in the waiting room how he had come to make his way into the 'House Of Love,' which is what the place was called. He commented about something that had happened between himself and his girlfriend. Then he asked me how I got there and I said, 'Oh, I had to go through the UFO people.' I felt sorrow and sadness that I would have had to undergo such a terrible thing. End of dream.
Sometimes when I am being 'abducted,' I make up these impromptu songs of love to the aliens or entities as I am being carried up, even though I am afraid. I forgot to mention that as I was being led to the House of Love in this dream, I had to sing a little key song about going home. I think that when I can go through all this without fear, I will be cleansed and permitted into the Garden of the House of Love. This is what I now believe these experiences are all about. Love is the key. It is in all my songs. The entities keep telling me there is only ONE door and only ONE key."
--Daniel Transit--
