Dying To Self

Here’s another shocker to all my friends, my acquaintances and myself. I’m saying goodbye to Rock Music. Yes, Rock Music, including The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

It’s a very hard decision for me, especially to renounce The Beach Boys. These two bands are part of my memory, was forever engraved in my heart and soul. As these words are being typed, I can hear the echoes of their songs being played in the back of my mind.

Sadly, I must renounce them. Due to their musical background and influences, plus their own confessions and actions, I had no choice but to renounce them.

Here are few quotes from them itself:

“We probably seem to be anti-religious… none of us believes in God.” (Hit Parader, Jan 1970, p.15) -Paul McCartney

“Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that. I’m right and will be proved right… .We’re more popular than Jesus now.” (San Francisco Chronicle, April 13, 1966, p.26) -John Lennon

“Jesus El Pifico, a garlic-eating, stinking little yellow, greasy fascist b****** Catholic Spaniard.” (A Spaniard in the Works, p.14). -John Lennon

Now here’s an excerpt from an interview with Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys.

Did drugs and particularly psychedelic drugs in particular help you search your soul? A little bit. I realized I was deaf in my right ear, which made me search my left ear, and then when I started searching my soul I found out all kinds of things about myself that were really interesting. Like that I had more strength than I thought I had, and I was stronger than I thought I really was. I can take anything, I’m strong enough inside. I can take any kind of bad vibe or anything.

Did drugs help your music or hurt it?

It helped it. Drugs helped it a lot—they made me concentrate more, psychedelic drugs.

“Cabin Essence,” “Wind Chimes” and “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow” off of the reworked Smile record are about as psychedelic as anything the Beatles ever recorded. What role did your drug use play in creating these tunes when you first wrote them in the 1960s?

We smoked pot and hash when originally creating those songs [in the late 1960s]. It helped us get into the songs. I wouldn’t do it now.

So you no longer use drugs as part of the creative process?

Ah…nah. Nah. It was just that one time in my life and that’s all.

Is there any one track off of Smile that is the most important track on the record to you?

For me, I would have to say “Surf’s Up” would have to be the most important one. It’s a very special song that Leonard Bernstein liked and the lyrics [in collaboration with lyricist Van Dyke Parks] are poetic and ingenious, it’s really one heck of a great song. We wrote the song in sections, three different sections. One day we wrote the verses, another day we wrote the bridges and then finished it on a third day. I know what you mean; it’s a timeless, ageless song.

You once said during the Pet Sounds era and also into your first attempt at the Smile album in the 1960s that you were trying to do “witchcraft music,” that you were trying to do witchcraft.

No, that’s not true. I was not trying to do witchcraft or witchcraft music; I was just trying to do something different and innovative.

http://www.offbeat.com/2005/05/01/brian-wilson/

“We were doing witchcraft, trying to make witchcraft music.” —Brian Wilson quoted in Nick Kent’s The Dark Stuff (pg.27.)

Asked about his belief in God, here’s what he has to say….

Are you thinking about God these days?

I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

http://www.offbeat.com/2005/05/01/brian-wilson/

It grieves me to find out that The Beach Boys are also Satanic in nature. Using drugs to write songs? What difference are they then to The Beatles? Plus, using drugs is commonly used by people to have demonic inspiration and influence.

It’s scary how Satan used music to deadly effect. I’m not the only one caught in this bondage. Whether it’s ‘old school’ 60s Rock n Roll or modern Punk or Heavy Metal, Rock itself is bad because of it’s origins and message encouraging rebellion and drug use.

I may be hated after this article is posted, even by some of my friends. But I don’t care anymore. What matters the most for me now is that I gain Christ, even if it means I loose everything here on Earth.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. -Romans 12:2

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. -James 4:4

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, -Philippians 3:8