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Jupiter065



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:41 pm    Post subject: Message in Egypt (the song) Reply with quote

In of Egypt(the chains are on),or my copy at least, there's a message Dio speaks in between the chorus near the end of the song. I'll run through it:

*Bitchin guitar solo*
When the world was milk and honey,
and the magic was strong and true
then the strange ones came, and the people knew,
yeah, that the chains were one
that the chains were on
that the chains were on
that the chains were on
oh my the chains were on
In the land of the lost horizon
where the chains are on
in the land of milk and honey
still the chains are on
(message)
When the queen... etc

Anyway, it's Dio saying... something. I can't make it out. Anyone have any ideas? It just bugs the hell out of me...
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EivindFP



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sounds like he is saying:
"Where the queen lies dark and lonely
still the chains are on"
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why do you perceive it to be a message Question

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Jupiter065



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:09 am    Post subject: Miscommunication Reply with quote

Ok, maybe a more direct example is necessary...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST5EOGuVDjU
At 5:38.

You may have to turn up your volume.

Anyone?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

heard the background voice this time... couldn't hear what it said though... probably just a repetition of something Dio said...
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always thought it said "oh they are"
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the last 2 words may be something about the Dark Queen.

Maybe its backwards, like at the end of Shame on the Night. Perhaps someone with a vinyl version could check.

Funny how we are all driven to know what this short 'message' is. It could be Ronnie's shopping list Very Happy I do enjoy the little things that end up on CDs though - dropped drumsticks (Alice Cooper's Be My Lover from the Killer album) or parts mistakenly recorded (the 'eggs' at the end of Ozzy's Crazy Train. Funny Very Happy
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blacksheep06A



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I honestly never noticed this before...

I did a little "research". Opened the wav file in Audacity (wave editor), set it to "spectrum", so it will display the frequency spectrum of the track. Set the span from 50 to 6000 Hz. Ronnie's voice has a very characteristic spectrum of overtones with a strong 3 kHz formant (usually there only in classically trained voices, but he's got it all right). Found the snippet, played it slow, played it backward, looked at it...

The only thing I can say for almost sure is that it's a voice, but it's not Ronnie's. It has a different frequency spectrum. Couldn't make out the words though, neither forward nor backward Confused

Short shopping list, The Coop! I wish mine were that short Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

blacksheep06A wrote:
I honestly never noticed this before...

I did a little "research". Opened the wav file in Audacity (wave editor), set it to "spectrum", so it will display the frequency spectrum of the track. Set the span from 50 to 6000 Hz. Ronnie's voice has a very characteristic spectrum of overtones with a strong 3 kHz formant (usually there only in classically trained voices, but he's got it all right). Found the snippet, played it slow, played it backward, looked at it...

The only thing I can say for almost sure is that it's a voice, but it's not Ronnie's. It has a different frequency spectrum. Couldn't make out the words though, neither forward nor backward Confused

Short shopping list, The Coop! I wish mine were that short Wink


Hey, great work!!!!

It's probaly something like "F*** Ozzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!)


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it honestly sounds to me like "oh Look Behind You"
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