In Chapter 8, “A Dangerous Pastime,” I talked about the song “Stairway to Heaven” and how Carl Palmer and Sting used its lyrics to stalk me.
There was a reason why they used that song. Carl Palmer knew that I had met and had connections to Robert Plant. I told Palmer in 1972 that I had met Robert and knew his good friends. Then I wrote to Palmer in 1992 and reminded him of it. He knew Robert was the only notable musician I could contact for information. So that’s why Palmer and Sting frightened me away from Robert by using “Stairway” to haunt me—just one of their many horrid games.
I can say now that I know Robert Plant was angry and hurt that they used his song lyrics to abuse me, a friend of his longtime friends. The song “Carry Fire” from his 2017 album Carry Fire gave a very inspirational and helpful message.
“I was a stranger there inside your promised land That turned me inside out And turned me upside down”
Sting’s “Fields of the Gold” was part of Palmer’s phony promised land of love, but Robert wasn’t a part of it and was only a stranger there, and what they did to me turned him inside out and upside down.
The title of the first song on Robert Plant’s Carry Fire album is “The May Queen,” and those are lyrics from “Stairway to Heaven.” It was a message of hope, making me notice the rest of the album.
And then the lyrics from his “Season’s Song,” “Who stole my pretty songbird…No longer for me sing”. That refers to the lyrics “In a tree by the brook; there’s a songbird who sings” from “Stairway to Heaven.” Who stole Robert’s songbird? Was it Sting? At the beginning of Sting’s “Fields of Gold” video, he looks out his window at a tree as though he’s the songbird.
Carl Palmer used the following “Stairway” lyrics to stalk me. “If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now”. It was weird to see Palmer jogging down a street in the ELP Welcome Back video, passing a hedgerow, and looking at a house while they played “C’est La Vie.” It was like he was stalking me at my residence and looking at my home. I have a long hedgerow next to my driveway. And I’m shown in the same video as that scene. He used me in the video and stalked me with it. That’s just one of many bizarre things he did to me.
After hearing the ELP “Affairs of the Heart” phony love song, I wrote him and used my return address. ELP delayed releasing the Welcome Back video for months. Perhaps they needed to add newly acquired stalking material.
Robert Plant performed at the Fox Theatre in Detroit in November 1993 on his Fate of Nations tour. That was the same theatre where ELP played several months earlier, and Palmer refused to talk to me. If I had spoken to Robert then, I could have asked him if he knew what was happening. But I was in a horribly deep depression that year.
Palmer’s creepy plan to scare me away from Robert Plant worked. I also avoided the ’95 Page and Plant concerts. But they didn’t play “Stairway to Heaven,” and I was happy to think they were on my side. I knew they had nothing to do with the distress I was dealing with.
Robert Plant is an essential part of my writing and finishing my story. And I’m thankful for that. His messages show that my account is accurate and that he didn’t play any role in the horrid abuse.
Also, on the album Carry Fire, the lyrics from the song “Dance with You Tonight,” “I offer up the secret places, reveal the magic of the land.” With those words, he tells how he offered up helpful clues in an older 2005 song, “The Enchanter.” In that song, he describes the cover of the original Pink Floyd PULSE album. The Pink Floyd album PULSE has my best proof: my voice singing on “Breathe.”
In “The Enchanter,” the first lines, “She moves through the mountains and down to the sea,” and later, “Oh, that my tides dance the ebb and sway” and “she’s studying the planets, and she’s searching for signs… she’s trading information in a world without fear”.
From Wikipedia: “The original Pulse CD cover features an “eye-like” machine that has clock pieces inside, there is a planet in its center, and on the outside it shows evolution as it moves backward. It starts in the sea, moves to the bacteria which evolve into fishes, then into egg type creatures, then into eggs that hatch birds, and birds follow the trail of an aeroplane”.
Recently, Robert Plant performed with Alison Krauss in the Detroit area on June 6, 2022. I met him and Led Zeppelin in Detroit on June 6, 1972. It had been exactly 50 years. But, like the other musicians who helped me, he can only talk to me once the story gets out.
I stumbled upon some old photos of Robert on the Internet. He’s smiling and holding a key, and he’s giving a clue. That’s when I was sure the ELP Manticore lion was a key to the enigma riddle because I also remembered how his fans called him The Lion.
It may seem that I’m talking too freely about legendary rock stars, but they’re people I met and hung out with. They helped me, and added to my story, so readers believe me.
Sadly, it was an awful scary detour that I took on my music journey, but the good musicians got me back on the right road. A big Thank you to them.
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In 2015, when I read about the new David Gilmour album, the title Rattle that Lock made me think. Rattling a lock on a cage was similar to what I needed to do. I should write the story, make some noise about it, and free myself.
At the beginning of the instrumental song “Five A.M.”, the first song on the album, you hear what sounds like a cage opening. On the album cover, there is an image of an opened cage on a gold field, and birds that had flown out. The bright gold-colored field reminded me of the field on the cover of The Division Bell album, which represents the Sting song “Fields of Gold”. It encouraged me to start to write the story.
Keeping it all to myself was a huge burden. For so long, it was difficult to put the story, and clues together, because I still hadn’t figured it all out. In one of my older letters to Gilmour, I wrote that at 5 am I would wake up with a sense of creativity, then I’d go back to sleep.
Another reason that I finally decided to write the story, was due to the song titled “Dancing Right In Front of Me”, lyrics by David Gilmour. The title immediately reminded me of the Pink Floyd concert in ‘94, when I was directly in front of him. If you’ve been reading so far, you can easily interpret his lyrics:
In 2017, I finally took a chance. I started this website, and I still take one day at a time writing. Everything I knew has always been inside me. It hasn’t been easy to carry around all these years, but I’m to tell it, so that I can have a brighter path. Gilmour wants to watch me fly too, and finally be free. His lyrics tell how he’s stuck waiting, and being watched, which explains how he can’t say anything about it all yet. But he’s waiting for the stars to align, which tells how rock “stars” giving clues with music, will help me to be believed, and get the story out.
Regarding that song, Gilmour commented to Mojo Magazine: “It’s a hard thing to try to write something that means something to you. Reflecting an idea of what you want and hope, for your kids, and to try to not become mawkish or hectoring.”
I was stunned hearing the song. It was a bold move by him. He can’t say anything about me, but he spoke through the song. He was very direct, and told many details. I wish he had shown me a clearer plainer truth though, the puzzle pieces were even difficult for me to find. I’m not at all surprised that he said the song was for his kids. The song gives a message of hope, and guidance to everyone.
On the Rattle that Lock tour on July 25, 2016, during the concert in Wrocław Poland, “Dancing Right In Front of Me” was played live for the first time. That was very significant to me because of my polish ancestry.
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