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Post by auntym on Mar 21, 2011 11:04:31 GMT -6
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110321/en_nm/us_sammyhagar_aliens Rocker Sammy Hagar says Abducted by Aliens
Mon Mar 21, 7:31 am ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – No doubt Sammy Hagar, a former lead singer for Van Halen, has enjoyed a lot of far out experiences in life, but on Monday, the rocker told perhaps his farthest out tale to MTV. He was abducted by aliens. Or, at least, his brain was. In an interview for his new book, "Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock" at mtvhive.com, Hagar lets go of what even he admits might make him "sound like a crazy person" to some readers. He and the reporter are talking about dreams he claims to have had about UFOs, and when asked whether he believed he had been abducted, Hagar answers: "I think I have." The reporter seemed surprised. "What? Really? I was kidding. You seriously believe that?" he asks. Hagar laughs and goes on to explain that a passage in the book described as a dream in which he is contacted by aliens from outer space in California was, in fact, reality. The tale describes how the beings tapped into his mind through a wireless connection. "It was real," Hagar told the reporter, according to the story on MTV's Hive website. "They were plugged into me. It was a download situation ... Or, they uploaded something from my brain, like an experiment." TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by paulette on Mar 21, 2011 11:10:09 GMT -6
Invite him over. This isn't a weird story here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2011 18:58:34 GMT -6
Rock band..rock singer...recreational pharmaceuticals.
You're right Paulette..it wouldn't be odd here. I remember an episode of Star Trek when they stole Spock's brain...creepy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2011 21:15:17 GMT -6
Invite him over. This isn't a weird story here. If this was facebook, I would click "Like" on your comment paulette. ;D
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Post by Steve on Mar 22, 2011 19:23:49 GMT -6
Mick Jagger, John Lennon (two accounts we know of), Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Rick Wakeman, Dave Davies, Nina Hagen, and Sammy Hagar to name but a few. Michael Jackson wanted to build an spaceport for aliens in the Nevada desert. Alien abduction seems to be becoming a new status symbol among these folks. Like many things that began with him, Elvis Presley had a number of UFO sightings and was obsessed with the subject too. Are these individuals just very obsessed with the subject and make flippant remarks, or were they really abducted? I know absolutely nil about the rock world - (well - I just know maybe the difference between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones) , but the rumors, unsubstituted / unsupported so and so said. I feel the truth might out of reach in such cases expecially. Maybe that is why they are abducted? For a UFO investigator, having a big rock star as a witness would be my worst nightmare - a worst case scenario. I would feel like Kevin Costner (a nice thought) trying to make sense of Whitney Houston's excessive material world in 'The bodyguard'. I shudder at the notion of any effort in knowing heads or tails in establishing anything solid to go on. In such a scenerio, I would have to rely for witness credibility on something more basic, simple, and primal - how really scared are they? I have had a few cases were it sometimes simply came down to that in whether to pursue a case further or not. Aliens could be abducting these folks among many others. And for credibility sake, (or lack of), most of the world would just say it was the crystal meth talking again. If aliens simply needed an example of a 'stressed' body to experiment on, what perfect subject than a famous rock star? And who would believe them? A perfect alien cover. A rock star's influence on society in a frightening way can be profound. A crazed influence much in the way 'Adolf Hitler' was the first rock star. Ever been to a Grateful Dead concert were the band and the audience send out 'energy' inviting a UFO to appear or land on stage? I have had just a few scary witnesses, enough to know not to interview alone. Most UFO witnesses are normal everyday nice people. But a famous Rock Star? Met a number of film stars, even had dinner with one or two. Sure there must be a few nice ones among the rock music scene too? (sorry lorelei) Steve Look up: 'Alien Rock: The Rock and Roll Extra-terrestrial Connection' by author Michael Luckman. This article first appeared in the February 2006 issue of “FATE Magazine.” 'Alien Rock' Feature By Sean Casteel Among the many stories that Michael Luckman likes to tell about the connection between rock music and the alien occupants of the UFOs deals with the birth of Elvis Presley.
“Elvis to me was totally wild,” Luckman said. “To have one guy, namely the guy who popularized rock and roll, be so closely involved with UFOs—he had contact when he was a kid with cosmic beings of light that communicated with him and showed him what his life would be like in the future, onstage as a performer. Elvis would have a lot of sightings throughout his lifetime. He was told, and actually believed, that he was from a blue star planet in the Orion Constellation.
“To me, this is quite amazing,” Luckman continued. “And, of course, there’s the story about the blue light. The moment Elvis was born, there was apparently a blue light over his family’s small, two-room shack in Tupelo, Mississippi.”
One immediately thinks of the Star of Bethlehem that preceded the birth of Jesus Christ, and wonders whether Elvis might be more on an even footing with Him than most of us mere mortals. Which begs the question, does Luckman feel rock and roll came from outer space?
“It’s a legitimate question,” Luckman replied, “particularly based on Elvis and the blue light story, but I still don’t think that rock and roll came from outer space, no. But I think that it’s been INFLUENCED (italics) by forces or beings or intelligences from outer space.”
Luckman’s personal interest in the subject of UFOs and the aliens inside them began when he was a child himself, in the 1950s, and first saw the sci-fi classic “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” with Michael Rennie as the benevolent alien sent to scare a little peace into us. By 1971, Luckman was teaching a college level course about rock and roll, the first in the country, at the New School For Social Research in New York. Around that same time, he also published an alternative newspaper called “The New York Daily Planet,” intended to compete with “The Village Voice.” Luckman’s newspaper featured a department about UFOs, which helped him make connections with some of the major UFO organizations at the time.
“There was a lot of very interesting material in evidence,” Luckman said, “and I was especially struck by the existence of so many photos, even back then, that pointed to the reality of subject.”
The parallel tracks his career was taking led him to realize that for a long time many rock musicians had written songs about UFOs and aliens as well as having had sightings and other experiences of their own.
“But I never imagined,” he said, “that the subject cuts as deep as it does and involves so many musicians. I never imagined, for example, that there were a great many rock stars, not just a couple, but at least eight with recognizable names, who have had classic UFO abduction and missing time experiences.”
The many years of research have resulted in a new book called “Alien Rock, The Rock ‘n’ Roll Extraterrestrial Connection” (VH-1 Books/Pocket Books, 2005), which offers many, many anecdotes about rock stars and their fascination with, and even participation in, the UFO phenomenon. Luckman’s research involved everything from combing through CDs and older record albums to voraciously reading books and magazines, as well as many hours spent searching the Internet.
“It couldn’t have been accomplished without the Internet,” Luckman said. “There’s just stuff out there that there would be no other way to know about, and certainly not within the period of time that I was able to do this book. I also had contact with a lot of rock stars, their management people, associates, friends and wives in some cases. Antonio Huneeus was my right hand man on this project. He was my research assistant, and I couldn’t have done this without him.”
There are, as Luckman rightly claims, a surprisingly generous number of rock star encounters with the UFO phenomenon in the book.
“I particularly like the one about David Bowie,” Luckman said, “in the earlier part of his career, when he was touring the United States doing concert appearances. He bought a telescope and had it mounted on the rooftop of his limousine, and he would go out looking for aliens between stops on the tour. This was almost like an all-consuming passion on his part. But I would have to say that David Bowie has in recent times played down the reality factor on UFOs. He’ll say on the one hand that he believes in extraterrestrial life, but on the other hand he’ll say that his use of aliens and UFOs in his songs were ‘just imagery,’ and weren’t meant to suggest hardware. But the fact was that in the 70s he was very heavily involved with it. He had a thousand UFO and related books, had a telescope, had his own sightings, and when he was a teenager, he edited a flying saucer magazine in England. He had sightings both when he was younger and also during the filming of ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth.’ So to me, Bowie’s one of the most interesting stories in the book.”
The late John Lennon also had his share of alien encounters.
“There are two accounts about John Lennon,” Luckman said. “The first is one that a few people know about, which is when he saw a UFO from the rooftop of a penthouse he was living in with his then girlfriend May Pang. They were both naked, as it happens, and John saw this thing outside. He went out on the roof naked, and he sees a large flying saucer that he said had lights around its rim and a red light on top. He said it was capable of holding two human-sized passengers. It was just hundreds of feet away. And it really got his juices flowing. He had subscribed to ‘The Flying Saucer Review’ in England for many years, and here he was seeing it face to face, and he was very excited. He said he yelled, ‘Stop! Take me with you!’ Because he was all prepared to go.”
The world-renowned psychic Uri Geller related another Lennon anecdote to Luckman.
“Shortly before his assassination,” Luckman went on, “there was another UFO encounter that involved some beings—now this is according to Uri quoting John—that were presumably grays that came into the Dakota, where John lived at the time. John saw a strange light coming through the door and the small beings came into his apartment. They had some kind of telepathic communication, then they left him with a small egg-shaped, smooth object that John passed along to Uri. And Uri still has it. It’s never been analyzed, and if it’s real, that is, if it’s extraterrestrial in origin, then presumably there would be something in the makeup of the metal that would not be on the periodic chart of elements when they do an analysis on it. But Uri has kept it and hasn’t chosen to have it analyzed, although I’m pressing him to do that because it could really be the ultimate evidence of UFO visitation.”
Writer, editor and publisher Timothy Green Beckley has also written a book on alien contact with celebrities called “UFOs Among The Stars” (Global Communications, 1992) in which he relates similar stories about major show business personalities who have been touched by the Great Unknown. As with Luckman, UFOs and rock music went hand-in-hand from the days of Beckley’s youth.
“I’ve always been interested in UFOs,” Beckley said, “having had personal experiences and publishing literature on the subject even as a teenager. And of course I grew up with rock and roll. When I was a little tyke, about the same time I was having my out-of-body-experiences and things, I was also pestering my mother to buy me rock and roll records. In those days, it was Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Fats Domino, and then Elvis Presley came along. So I grew up with both things.”
As an adult, Beckley promoted numerous rock concerts in the Manhattan area and was a familiar figure backstage in the late 60s and early 70s. He became a close friend of a woman named Wally Elmlark, a columnist for a rock and roll fanzine called “Circus,” and coauthored a book with her called “Rock Raps of the Seventies,” now long out of print. Elmlark also dabbled in the occult, billing herself as the White Witch of New York.
“She introduced me to David Bowie,” Beckley said, “and the Chambers Brothers and Edgar Winter. So I got to meet some of these people socially, and found out a lot of them were interested in UFOs.”
Beckley also met the late, great Jimi Hendrix backstage at a show on New York’s Randall’s Island.
“He was standing there, tuning his guitar,” Beckley said, “and getting ready to go on. I just kind of walked by him and he made some comment about being—I don’t know whether he asked me if I was from Mars or whether he made some comment about him being from Mars himself, but we both kind of chuckled at that. I told him I was interested in UFOs, and he just kind of nodded and went onstage.”
Beckley later made the acquaintance of Curtis Knight, who had played bass in one of Hendrix’s early bands called The Squires.
“We became fairly close friends,” Beckley said, “and Curtis revealed to me quite a few of Jimi’s UFO experiences.”
Knight told Beckley a remarkable story about Hendrix, an event that happened a few years before Hendrix became the legendary and much beloved guitar hero.
“It was during the wintertime,” Beckley said, “and they were playing a small gig in upstate New York, near Woodstock. This was before the Woodstock Festival, so it has nothing to do with that, except as a point of location. It was not very far from Pinebush, where there’s been a lot of UFO activity in the last few decades.
“Anyway, as I understand it from Curtis,” Beckley continued, “there was a very snowy blizzard and the boys in the band were trying to get back to Manhattan. They got snowed in. It was so cold outside that they couldn’t even open a window. The windows had frozen. They had the engine still running, and the carbon monoxide filled the car. A couple of the other guys passed out in the backseat, but Jimi was still able to breathe apparently, and he claimed that a cone-shaped object landed on the road not far from their vehicle. A door opened on the side of the craft and a being came out. He described it as kind of like a cross between a feathered creature, maybe like Mothman, and an angel.
“This thing drew its wings out and walked around the vehicle, and where it walked, the snow melted. So they were able to get out of the blizzard and get back to New York. Jimi always told Curtis that if it wasn’t for this being coming from the ship, he was sure that they would have all died in that car that night.”
Before Curtis Knight’s death in Holland a few years ago, he wrote a book dealing with Hendrix’s many otherworldly experiences called “Jimi Hendrix, Starchild,” which Beckley published in 1992.
We’re all very likely fascinated at this point, but what’s in it for the aliens? Luckman offered some interesting speculation.
“I think that extraterrestrials,” Luckman said, “are looking to influence popular culture through the rock stars. Exactly toward what end is very, very hard to figure out. This is something that is still to play out in the near future.”
Luckman would like to be a part of just how that alien contact plays out. He is working behind-the-scenes to organize concerts to be held around the world, in New York, Tokyo, Berlin and even West Africa.
“The rock concerts are based on the concept of beaming live music into space,” he said, “to make contact with extraterrestrials. While researching my book, I found that UFOs have been seen at various rock concerts. Not frequently, but they have shown up at some key rock concerts, including the Isle of Wight concert in England, and the filming for the Jimi Hendrix Rainbow Bridge Concert. Also at Woodstock, Altamont and a number of others.”
Luckman said that top-flight artist management firms as well as major corporate sponsors are already showing an interest in his idea.
“These concerts, each one of them, is supposed to be large enough for let’s say three to five hundred thousand people,” Luckman explained. “We’re currently having discussions in West Africa about the possibility of doing a free concert for a million to two and a half million people. These are very expensive undertakings, in the very high millions of dollars. So we’ll see what actually is feasible, but we’ve gotten a very strong response to trying to raise the kind of money that’s needed.”
Suppose that Luckman succeeds in making alien contact through the music—what kind of response is he seeking from the UFOs?
First, Luckman shares the widely held belief that the end is near.
“I didn’t need New Orleans,” he said, “or the tsunami to prove this to me. I’ve felt for a very long time that we’re living in the ‘end times,’ or whatever you want to call it. We have relatively limited time left, and perhaps musicians are going to play some kind of a vital role. It’s hard to say just how and what and where, but I would think that if ever there was an opportunity to gather momentum and involve musicians in a movement, this is the time.
“Therefore, I think that with the remaining time that we may have left, that we should try to do what we can to make contact. Because, to me, it’s the ultimate quest. The aliens could tell us so much about the universe and perhaps help us in some ways to overcome some of our problems, although frankly I feel some of the damage is irreversible. But perhaps, if we are successful in making contact, we can get some emergency help from extraterrestrials. We’re heading toward increasing manmade catastrophes, as well as natural catastrophes, and we have a lot of knowledge to gain from contact.”
Luckman has founded an organization called The Cosmic Majority, which seeks “to advance the views of the majority of people living on planet Earth who believe in UFOs, life on Mars and other planets throughout the universe, the paranormal, the New Age and the sanctity of the environment.”
Can Luckman bring this off? Can he use his book “Alien Rock” as the starting point for an entirely new kind of social and cultural movement?
Rock music has nearly always had a social vigor that goes well beyond its role as a simple musical form, and has in fact been the catalyst for a great deal of cultural change for well over fifty years. Whether it can actually be harnessed to bring the UFOs down from the skies to deliver us from our seemingly insoluble problems remains an open question however. One can only hope, should Luckman ever bring to fruition the UFO/rock music alliance he envisions, that ET does more than think it’s got a good beat and is easy to dance to.
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Post by paulette on Mar 22, 2011 23:03:23 GMT -6
Well....musicians have "open channels" in that they listen to the language of music and also (at least some of them) are aware of the effect certain keys have on their audiences. They can suggest outrageous things in lyrics which hint, much like Nostradamus's writings do, of sweeping upcoming events.
The song that comes to my mind these days is The Watchtower as sung by Jimi Hendrix. "No reason to get excited" the thief he kindly spoke. "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that and this is not our fate. So let us not talk falsely now The hour is getting late."
I believe Bob and Jimi were singing about the end times. Maybe the beginning of the end times. The end of things as we thought they were and would always be. Do you wonder what was being watched for? The army below or the sky above???
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2011 9:59:43 GMT -6
Like poets, a lot of musicians have that moody, broody outlook. Kind of like the Beatniks era. Faced with the atomic bomb and it's nasty results on humanity..and the fact that they were basically children..it's not any wonder that they 'tuned out' and blamed the 'establishment'. Reminds me too of Peter Pan..'I don't want to grown up'. Live with death over your head and a bit of hope in song is a good thing. In order to be a good country western song..it has to have certain elements. Love (lost love is best) trains, mama an a good ole dog. To me..it also stands to reason that the broody musicians are 'sensitive' and probably not just sensitive emotionally but quite likely on a more 'psychic' band than most..I think that may be what attracts 'aliens' to people...what makes them stand out and interest them. Elvis was definitely on a different wave length than most, add drugs..shake or stir lightly. Hendrix, Joplin and the Beatles..well one man's noise is another's symphony
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2011 19:16:23 GMT -6
Not sure I know what you mean by that Steve...
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Post by auntym on Sept 22, 2021 17:18:32 GMT -6
Sammy Hagar Abducted & the 9th Dimension
Dec 25, 2020
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Kesha chats with Sammy Hagar about his experiences with aliens, ghosts, and the 9th dimension. Sammy tells his stories including an alien abduction experience which opened his mind and set him on a journey of creative exploration for the rest of his life.
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Post by auntym on Sept 24, 2021 2:33:35 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/09/sammy-hagar-claims-he-was-abducted-by-aliens-and-later-met-more-ets/ Sammy Hagar Claims He Was Abducted by Aliens and Later Met More ETs
by Paul Seaburn / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/paulseaburn/September 24, 2021 You may know him as The Red Rocker, or the lead singer of Montrose, or David Lee Roth’s replacement in Van Halen, or from the video for “I Can’t Drive 55”, or from drinking his Cabo Wabo tequila. Do aliens know him for any of those reasons or was it something else that prompted them to abduct him in the mid 1960s – at least that’s what he told an interviewer in Las Vegas this week before a rooftop concert. Did ET want a song about no being able to drive Warp 55? “100% happened. Four o’clock in the morning, pitch black, dead sleep. I felt like I was being programmed like someone’s tapping into me like it was a string from my head to 13 miles up on a mountain place called Lau Creek. And I know right where it was, these little foothills. There was an object there. There was two people in it, two creatures in it. And it was 19, I want to say it was 64, 65.” Hagar has told the story before, including in his autobiography, but JC Fernandez, a host of Las Vegas Now on KLAS-TV, seems to have elicited more details about the encounter (reprinted by Mystery Wire) , which Hagar admits happened while he was asleep. He believes the ETs communicated with him telepathically. “And they went, “Oh, he’s waking up,” augmented telepathy, you know, they just did the communication when my head is waking up. They yelled out a numerical code, not of our numerical system, (speaks the alien sounds he heard). And it went, and I can almost feel the plug, like an electrical charge leaving, zapped into their ship, put a light on in this ship where I see shadows of these creatures.” In previous interviews, Hagar explains how he woke up to a loud ‘BAM’ and a white light and became convinced this abduction happened for a reason – he was programmed by aliens to become a rock star. Now, even The Red Rocker knows that’s pretty far out and he doesn’t mention it in the latest interview. However, this time he reveals that this was not his only encounter with aliens. “These little gray creatures that were hanging out in Lake Placid. I had a house out in the wilderness and I had just no electricity, log cabin back in the early 80s, 81 82 and these little guys are in that cabin one night and you know even slamming doors just I’m not saying Yeah, they were physical guys. I don’t know if they were robots or what but it was freaky. It scared me to death.” Hagar says the first encounter convinced him there are many kinds of aliens in different dimensions and they merely nabbed him as a kind of lab rat. He doesn’t think the aliens enlightened him (wonder what it did to them!!) nor did he get any implants or programming. He likened it to taking LSD where the enlightenment came from his realization of the experience. However, it did inspire him to put at least one space or alien-related song on many of his solo albums. “Yeah, Space Station Number Five first Montrose song. Second Montrose was out in 1975 was Space Age Sacrifice. My first solo album, Hot Rocks, which changed into another song. But Silver Lights is about the return of the aliens coming back to see check out their planet that they populated somehow you know propagated with you know planted seeds. The next album Red had Someone Out There. Next Turn Up the Music had A Crack in the World on that record as far as I can remember. Then I stopped doing it every album. But every now and then I got one on there.” How about This Planet’s on Fire on Street Machine? And don’t forget the album and song Marching to Mars. And anyone who pens a song titled Cosmic Universal Fashion must have had some kind of otherworldly inspiration, right? Forget Tom DeLonge. It sounds like Sammy Hagar is the right rock ambassador to greet ETs visiting Earth. Maybe, if he’s lucky, they’ll take him for a ride faster than 55. mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/09/sammy-hagar-claims-he-was-abducted-by-aliens-and-later-met-more-ets/
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Post by paulette on Sept 24, 2021 11:59:39 GMT -6
Silver Lights.
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