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From: Lippard@his-phoenix-multics.arpa (James J. Lippard)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: hidden/backwards messages
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 10:36:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 10:36:46 1985
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In "Revolution #9", the voice saying "number nine" is saying it
something like this:

     num ber neye un uh

so that, when played backwards, you hear:

     uh nu eyen reb mun

This happens to be sufficiently close to "turn me on, dead man" that the
power of suggestion will make you hear that.  After playing around with
this on a reel-to-reel, I decided it really sounds more like "onion
rebmun" (with the accent on the second syllable of the first word).  I
also tried to reproduce it by saying "number nine" myself--it took
several tries to enunciate correctly so that I could hear "turn me on,
dead man".
   Creating things like this would probably be no more difficult
than creating palindromes (which is pretty hard, the farthest
I've ever gotten is "tear gas is a great").  I'm inclined to believe
that most of this stuff is unintentional, though, and that people are
just imposing their own meaning on it.

On the subject of "secret messages", could someone who has Jimi
Hendrix's "Third Stone from the Sun" (on the album Are You Experienced?)
and a turntable that can play at 78 rpm transcribe the dialogue between
"Starship" and "Star Command"?