Season of the Witch : How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll (9780698143722)

by Peter Bebergal

  Crowther, Samuel Ajayi, 3–4

  cut-ups, 156–57, 158, 159, 160, 161

  Czukay, Holger, 189

  Dadists, 159

  “danced religions,” 12–14, 15, 28

  Dangerous Minds website, 156

  “Dante Sonata” (Liszt), 109

  Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd), 46, 100

  “Darling Nikki” (Prince), 121

  Dass, Ram (Richard Alpert), 38, 39

  David Bowie (Bowie), 141

  Davis, Miles, 172

  Davis, Stephen, 91–92

  Dawson, Jinx, 116

  Day the Earth Stood Still, The (Herrmann), 184

  Dean, Roger, xv, 191–92, 192–93, 200, 202, 203

  Debussy, Claude, xxx, 41, 129

  Decadent movement, 41–42

  Dee, John, 97, 220

  DeGrimston, Robert & Mary Ann, 85–86

  Deities and Demigods (D&D), 123

  DePalma, Brian, 152

  Deutsch, Herbert, 182, 183, 185

  devil, xxii

  devil rides out, 75–76, 77–124

  (you make me wanna) shout, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21

  See also occult influence on rock; Satanism

  Devil Dog: The Hound from Hell (movie), 146

  Devil Rides Out, The (movie), 79–80

  “Devil’s Grip” (Brown), 127–28

  “Devil’s Whorehouse” (Misfits), 120

  Dharma Bums (Kerouac), 25

  Diamond, King, 152

  Diamond Dogs (Bowie), xvii, 145, 153, 154

  Diary of a Madman (Osbourne), 106

  Didion, Joan, 67

  Dionysian spirit, xxxi–xxxiii, 74–75, 88, 98, 103–4, 115, 129, 219

  Disc and Music Echo, 142

  “dividing one’s attention,” 205

  Dixon, Charles, 97

  Doctor Who (TV show), 187

  Dodgem Logic, 221

  Dogon people, 175

  Donovan, 57, 69–71

  Doors, 172

  Doors of Perception (Huxley), 38

  “Dopesmoker” (Sleep), 225

  “Do what thou wilt,” xiv, 65, 87–88, 89, 91, 116, 214

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, 40

  Dr. Phibes Rises Again (movie), 108

  Dracula (Stoker), 169–70

  Dr Dee (pop opera), 220–22

  “dreamachine,” 160–61

  drums, 14, 16, 18, 20, 28, 32

  Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), xiv, 96, 111, 123–24

  Dylan, Bob, 28, 70

  E2-E4 (Göttsching), 190

  Eagles, 119

  Earth, 108

  Easter Island, 175

  Eastern mysticism

  relax and float downstream, xxx, 32–33, 34, 36, 37–40, 40–44, 47–48, 49, 50, 51–52, 53, 54, 55, 56–57, 64, 66, 72, 124, 140, 182, 201

  (you make me wanna) shout, 25, 28–29

  See also occult influence on rock

  EC Comics, 106

  Echols, Damien, 209–11

  Ed Sullivan Show (TV show), 10

  ego dissolution/transcendence, 37

  Egypt/Egyptians, xxvii, 118, 132, 175, 203, 228

  Electric Eden (Young), 33

  Electronic Meditation (Tangerine Dream), 190

  electronic music, xx, 180–91, 192, 200, 206, 207

  Electronic Music and Musique Concrète (Brend), 187

  “11” (Kingdom Come), 134

  Elizabeth I (Queen of England), 220

  Emeritus, Papa, 227

  Emerson, Keith, 197, 199

  Emerson, Lake and Palmer (ELP), 185, 192, 197–98, 199

  Eno, Brian, 206

  Enochian alphabet, 220

  Epstein, Brian, 52, 53

  Equinox (Crowley), 94

  Equinox Festival in England, 222–23

  “Equinox of the Gods,” Haight-Ashbury, 82

  Eshu, 1, 2, 4, 5, 28, 74

  “ESP” (Garson), 186

  Euripides, xxxii

  “Evil Seed” (Slayer), 120

  Exodus (movie), 200

  exorcism of Bowie’s home, 146

  Exorcist, The (movie), 206–7

  Ezekiel, 229

  Fama Fraternitatis, 129–30

  Famous Monsters of Filmland (Warren), 106

  Farren, Mick, 102, 109

  Fascism, 86, 140, 150, 156, 166, 168

  fear of occult, xxii, 5, 19–20, 22, 23, 209–11, 215

  Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 24

  fiddles, 14–15

  “Fight the Power” (Public Enemy), 213

  fin de siècle, 42, 74

  “Fire” (Brown), 125

  “Five Years” (Bowie), 145

  “Flaming” (Pink Floyd), 36

  Fleur du Mal (Flowers of Evil) (Baudelaire), 42

  Fludd, Robert, 27, 129

  folk music, xx, xxi, xxiv, 26–28

  Fon people, 4

  Fort, Charles Hoy, 143

  Fortean Times, 165

  Fortune, Dion, 134, 147–48

  France, 130, 183, 184

  Frazetta, Frank, 96

  Freemasons, 130, 131, 132, 136, 140, 212, 213, 214

  Frehley, Ace “Spaceman,” 137

  Freud, Sigmund, 25

  Fricke, Florian, 189–90

  Friedkin, William, 206–7

  Fripp, Robert, 195–96, 196–97, 203–4, 205–6

  Frost, Barrington, 203

  Fulani people, 3

  Furnier, Vincent (Alice Cooper), 136–37, 138, 151, 152

  future-cosmic deliverance, 174–76

  fu (twenty-fourth hexagram), 36, 37

  Gabriel, Peter, 156

  Gair, Christopher, 26

  Gandalf, 68

  Gardner, Gerald, 71–72, 116–17

  Garson, Mort, 186–87

  Geller, Larry, 11

  Germany/Germans, 129, 149, 188

  Ghost B.C., 226–27, 228

  Ghost in the Machine (Police), xxv

  “Ghoul, The” (Slayer), 120

  Gibb, Dwina Murphy, 167

  Gibb, Robin, 167

  Giger, H. R., 197–98

  Gilbert, Jerry, 173

  Giles, Giles, and Fripp, 195

  Giles, Michael, 195

  Gilmour, David, 45, 46

  Ginsberg, Allen, 24–25, 63, 66

  glam, xvi–xvii, xxiv, 150–52, 215

  Glass Top Coffin (Ramases), 203

  “Gnome, The” (Pink Floyd), 36

  Gnosis, 75

  Gnosticism, xxvii, 118, 133, 142, 145, 177, 189, 224

  Godflesh, 156

  Godley, Kevin, 203

  “god of hellfire,” xiv, 125, 126, 127

  See also Brown, Arthur

  “god who arrives,” xxxi

  See also Dionysian spirit

  Godwin, Morgan, 14

  golden dawn, the, 209–29

  Golden Dawn, The (Regardie), 147

  Golden Dawn (Hermetic Order of the), xxix, 90, 129, 130–32, 133–34, 147, 158, 162, 167, 195

  Golden Gate Park, 65

  Gore, Al and Tipper, 121

  gospel music, xxiii, 7, 19, 21

  Goth rock, xxiv, 105,
154, 166–70

  Göttsching, Manuel, 190

  Goya, Francisco, 117

  Graham, Cliff and Billy, 52

  Graham, Dan, xxi

  Grahame, Kenneth, 34–35

  Grateful Dead, 63, 65

  Graves, Robert, 68

  Great Depression of the 1930s, 51

  Greek myths, xxvii, 22, 101, 141, 197

  Greeley, Andrew, 73, 74

  Green Man, 104

  “Green Tambourine” (Lemon Pipers), 69

  Griff, Professor (Richard Griffin), 213–14

  grimoire, xvii, 99–100, 162

  gris-gris, 6

  Gross, Jason, 190

  Guardian, 111, 216

  Guitar Player, 204

  Guitar World, 92

  Gurdjieff, G. I., xxx, 204–5

  gurus, 28–29, 57

  Gypsy (musical), 146

  Gysin, Brion, 157, 158–60, 160–61

  Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (Broadway show), 67–68

  Haiti, 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 78

  Hall, Daryl, xxv

  Hammer horror films, 79, 81, 116

  Hammer of the Gods (Davis), 91–92

  Hanegraaff, Wouter J., 49

  Hanneman, Jeff, 120

  Hard Day’s Night (Beatles), 59–60

  Hardy, Robin, 80

  Hare Krishna devotees, xvi, 62, 67

  Harmon, Raymond Salvatore, 222

  Harrison, George, 47–48, 52, 53–54, 55, 56, 62, 140

  Harrison, M. John, 179

  Hawkwind, xiv, 171, 173–74, 176, 178, 179–80, 203, 219

  Heart, 118–19

  “heart and his hips,” 196

  Heavy Metal magazine, xiv

  heavy metal music, xxiv, 104–21, 122, 123, 124, 169, 210

  Heick, Bob, 166

  Heinlein, Robert, 154

  “Helter Skelter” (Beatles), 61

  Helter Skelter (movie), xv

  Hendrix, Jimi, 54, 55, 172, 174

  Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. See Golden Dawn

  Herrmann, Bernard, 184

  Hess, Rudolf, 149

  Hesse, Hermann, 25–26

  Hewitt, Ivan, 199

  High Magic’s Aid (Gardner), 72

  Hindu spirituality, 38, 49, 53–54, 57, 66, 201, 229

  Hinman, Gary, 83

  Hipgnosis, 100, 156

  hip-hop, 211–12, 214, 215

  hippie movement, 35, 36, 39, 44, 47, 55, 65, 66, 67, 72, 73, 82, 87, 114, 125, 173, 182, 194

  Hitler, Adolf, 150

  Hobbit, The (cartoon), 96

  Hoffman, Abbie, 66, 73

  Hollywood Babylon (Anger), 82

  Holy Grail, 150

  Holy Guardian Angel, 94, 160

  homunculus, 145

  hoodoo, 8–9

  “hoodwink” (blindfold), 132

  Hopkins, John “Hoppy,” 40

  Horn, Clayton W., 24

  Horned One, 104

  Horowitz, Mitch, 214–15

  horror craze, 106–8, 118, 146

  Horse Rotorvator (Coil), 164

  “Hotel California” (Eagles), 119

  Houdini, Harry, 40

  “Hound Dog” (Presley), 97

  Houses of the Holy (Led Zeppelin), xvi, 100–101

  House That Dripped Blood, The (movie), 108

  Howard, Robert E., 187

  Howlin’ Wolf, 97

  “Howl” obscenity trial, 24–25

  “How to Destroy Angels” (Coil), 165

  H. P. Lovecraft, 68

  Human Be-In “Gathering of Tribes,” 63–66, 67, 115

  Hunky Dory (Bowie), 142–43, 149

  “hush harbors,” 12–13, 15

  Huxley, Aldous, 38–39, 49

  Hyde Park concert in London, 194–95

  “Hymn of Pan, The” (Pink Floyd), 36

  “Hymn of Pan” (Shelley), 35

  hypnotism, 125, 134, 135–36

  ICA in London, 155

  Iceland, 166, 168

  I Ching, 33, 34, 36, 73, 164

  “I Ching” (Garson), 186

  Illuminati, 212–13, 214, 215

  “Immigrant Song” (Led Zeppelin), 88, 95

  “In Ancient Days” (Black Widow), 116

  “Incense and Peppermints” (Strawberry Alarm Clock), 69

  Independent, 176

  initiates, xiii–xviii

  inner ring of vinyl, hidden messages, xiv, 87–88, 89

  In Search of Space (Hawkwind), 174

  Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, 205

  instruction manuals of magic, 147–48

  International Academy for Continuous Education at Sherborne House, 204

  International Association of Chiefs of Police, Virginia, 123

  International Times (IT), 40, 44–45

  Internet and the golden dawn, 227–28

  In the Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson), 195

  “Into the Coven” (Mercyful Fate), 122

  Iommi, Tony, 109–10, 111

  “Iron Man” (Black Sabbath), 108

  Isherwood, Christopher, 49

  Ishtar, 218

  Isle of Wight Festival, 171–73

  Jagger, Mick, xxxiii, 77, 78, 79, 83, 84–85, 86, 87, 111, 141

  James, William, 40

  Jay Z, 211–12, 214–15

  jazz, xx, 176–77

  Jefferson Airplane, 65

  Jesus, 21, 23, 42–43, 51, 110, 150

  Jethro Tull, 77

  Jett, Joan, 69

  Joe, Yogi, 172

  Johnson, LeDell, 2

  Johnson, Robert, 2–3, 9–10, 97

  Johnson, Tommy, 2

  Jolivet, André, 183–84

  Jones, Brian, 80, 83, 159–60

  Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka), 8

  Joplin, Janis, 54

  “Journey to the Center of the Mind” (Amboy Dukes), 68

  Kabbalah, xxiii, 27, 118, 131, 145, 150, 154, 177, 216–18, 228

  Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross, xxx

  Karloff, Boris, 108, 111

  “Karn Evil 9” (ELP), 197

  Kelley, Edward, 220

  Kerouac, Jack, 25, 49

  Kerrang!, 153

  Kessler, Thomas, 190

  Key of Solomon the King (Mathers), 162

  Killing Joke, 166–68

  King, Francis, 131–32

  King, Paul, 210

  King Crimson, xxiv, 194–97, 201, 204

  Kingdom Come, 133, 134–35

  Kiss, 136, 137–38, 152

  Knights in Satan’s Service, 137

  Kobaïan (musical language), 203

  Korner, Alexis, 194

  krautrock, 188–91, 206

  Krishna Consciousness, 62

  KRLA Beat, 55

  “Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 35

  LaBianca, Leno & Rosemary, 60–61

  “Lachesis” (ELP), 197

  Lachman, Gary, 148–49

  Laing, David, 202

  La Jeune France, 183, 184

  Lake, Greg, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197, 198, 199

  “Lantern, The” (Rolling Stones), 84

  Larksâ€�
� Tongues in Aspic (King Crimson), 196, 204

  Last Crusade, The (movie), 150

  latihan, 64–65

  LaVey, Anton, 114–15, 119, 120, 152, 165

  Leary, Timothy, 38, 39, 63, 65, 91

  “Lecture on African Colonization, A” (Christy), 5

  Led Zeppelin, xiv, xvi, xxiv, 87, 88, 89, 91–92, 93, 95, 96–104, 111, 140

  Led Zeppelin III, xiv, 87, 88, 89, 95

  Led Zeppelin IV “Zoso,” 99, 100

  Lee, Christopher, 79–80

  Lee, Gypsy Rose, 146

  Legba, Papa, 1, 2, 4, 10, 78

  Leggio, James, 132–33

  Lemon Pipers, 69

  Lennon, John, 48, 50–51, 53, 60, 61–62, 77

  Le Pater (Mucha), 42–43

  “Let the Sunshine In,” 68

  Lewis, C. S., xxviii

  Liebling, Bobby, 120

  Life After Death (Echols), 209

  Life magazine, 24

  light and music, 125, 128, 132–33

  “like as to like” magical practice, 27

  Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (Lewis), xxviii

  Liszt, Franz, 109, 199

  “Little Queen” (Heart), 118–19

  Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman), 20–22

  Liturgy, 225

  Loch Ness in Scotland, 89, 93

  Loder, Kurt, 216

  Lofton, John, 25

  London Evening Standard, 50–51

  Lord of Light (Zelazny), 179

  Lord of the Rings, The (movie), 96

  Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 33

  Lords of Chaos (Moynihan), 110

  Los Angeles Times, 63, 70, 114–15, 128, 196

  Louder Than Hell (Wiederhorn and Turman), 112

  Love, Mike, 57

  “Love Is All You Need” (Beatles), 62

  Love’s Secret Domain (Coil), 164

  LSD, xvi, xxiii, 32, 33, 34, 37–40, 42, 44, 45, 49, 52, 56, 63–64, 74, 79, 128, 174, 182

  Lucifer, 90–91, 102, 111, 118, 122, 227

  Lucifer Rising (movie), 82, 83, 86, 102

  “Lucifer Sam” (Pink Floyd), 36

  Luna 9 (Russian spacecraft), 114

  Lydon, Michael, 55

  Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 41

  MacBeth (Shakespeare), 197

  Machen, Arthur, xxix

  Madcap Laughs (Barrett), 45–46

  Madonna, 215–16, 218–19

  magic, 18, 27, 33, 133–34

  See also tree of life

  Magick, 90, 91, 92, 95, 96, 102

  Magick Powerhouse of Oz, 82

  Magick Without Tears (Crowley), xxv

  Magma, 203

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 48, 50, 51, 53, 57, 62, 96