Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

"ATMOSPHERES ARE GOING TO COME THROUGHMUSIC, BECAUSE THE MUSIC IS A SPIRITUAL THING OFITS OWN. ... I can explain everything better through music.YOU HYPNOTIZE PEOPLE to where they go right back totheir natural state, which is pure positive-like childhood whenyou got natural highs. And when you get people at weakestpoint, you can preach into the subconscious what we want tosay. at’s why the name ‘electric church’ flashes in andout" (Hendrix, interview with Robin Richman “An Infinity ofJimis,” Life magazine, Oct. 3, 1969).“ONCE YOU HAVE SOME TYPE OF RHYTHM, LIKE ITCAN GET HYPNOTIC IF YOU KEEP REPEATING IT OVERAND OVER AGAIN. Most of the people will fall off by about aminute of repeating. You do that say for three or four or evenfive minutes if you can stand it, and then it releases a certainthing inside of a person’s head. IT RELEASES A CERTAINTHING IN THERE SO YOU CAN PUT ANYTHING YOUWANT RIGHT INSIDE THAT, YOU KNOW. So you do thatfor a minute and all of a sudden you can bring the rhythmdown a little bit and then you say what you want to say rightinto that little gap. It's somethin’ to ride with, you know. Youhave to ride with something. I ALWAYS LIKE TO TAKEP E O P L E O N T R I P S . T HAT ' S W H Y M U S I C I SMAGIC” (Hendrix, cited by Henderson, p. 356).ese are observations and warnings that should be takenseriously by Christians. ough Hendrix was a licentiousdrug user, he was also a brilliant and gied musician and heunderstood the nature of rock music as few men have. He wasusing music to “take people on trips.” What trip? We knowthat his trip is actually the devil’s trip. Hendrix had a“church,” but it was not the church of Jesus Christ. ose whothink that there is no spiritual danger in rock music aredeceiving themselves and are leading others down theprimrose path of delusion. Observe that Hendrix wasreferring to the power of the music itself without the words.Hendrix believed in religion and “spirituality,” but heunhesitatingly rejected Bible-believing Christianity and291