wisewolfmedia.substack.com By The Wise Wolf
Growing up in the middle of nowhere USA, my parents would crack open a few beers and light up a joint when the mood struck. That’s when the Led Zeppelin records came out. Five-year-old me sat on the carpet, impressed by the wild guitar riffs but agitated by the blues-soaked wailing. Sesame Street was more my thing at that age.
Years later, stuck in a small town perpetually frozen thirty years in the past, I heard Zeppelin a dozen times a day on local radio. You can’t escape “Kashmir” and “Stairway to Heaven” when you’re surrounded by people who think 1975 was last week. Eventually something strange happened. Stockholm syndrome by FM radio. I started to like it.
What I didn’t know then, what none of us knew, was that Jimmy Page wasn’t just playing music. According to some researchers and longtime fans, he was performing rituals. On stage. In the studio. At his home on the shores of Loch Ness where Aleister Crowley once tried to summon demons.
And then people started dying.
When Musicians Sell Their Souls
The idea of trading your soul for musical genius is old. Really old. It goes back at least to the 1500s, to a German scholar named Johann Georg Faust who supposedly made a deal with the devil for infinite knowledge. The legend says Faust lived large for years, indulging every desire, until the bill came due. He died in what witnesses described as a laboratory explosion. Others claimed the devil came personally to collect…
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