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addlepated
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 		Publius Enigma
For anyone who followed this Pink Floyd mystery back in the day, there are rumblings that it might be showing... er, Signs of Life. (sorry, I had to do it)

Apparently, in the recent release of the director's cut DVD of Live at Pompeii, you can hear someone whisper the words, "Publius Enigma" at the beginning.

Oddly enough, I was browsing a discussion board about the subject when I came across this post:
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For something of an introduction first: I live in Espoo, Finland, where I study physics at Helsinki University of Technology...
Weird!

Anyway, interesting conversation at http://pub79.ezboard.com/bpinkfloydpubliusenigma . They also mention hidden messages on Tool's Lateralus. Anyone know what that's about?

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 		Hidden messages in Tool
addlepated wrote:
They also mention hidden messages on Tool's Lateralus. Anyone know what that's about?

I can't specifically write what (if anything) is hidden on Lateralus, but it really wouldn't surprise me if there was something. There is, of course, a 'hidden' track and whispers that are hard (but possible) to hear, but there is likely more than that. I can tell you from repeated headphone listening to Undertow that they used some neat tricks with the vocals on that album, and may have done so on Aenima and Lateralus too:

Maynard must have recorded some phrases of the vocal more than once and then superimposed the results in the mix with one version a lot quieter than the other. I can't recall a specific example, but it works something like this: He records "see through" and "see you", makes sure the timing is well synched up, and puts "see you" in very quietly, maybe on one channel only. When listening on headphones, you can almost hear it ... you get that sensation of thinking something is there, but not being able to tell quite what it is. After repeated headphone listening, I've been pretty sure I could hear something in particular ... but that feeling tends to fade with time Smile

Have a look at this Tool Newsletter, which addresses hidden messages on Lateralus with more than a little humor.

EDIT: Further occult-oriented fun on dannycarey.org, revolving around the Rennes-Le-Chateau mystery (apparently referenced in the Parabola video), tying into alchemy, the secrets of Solomon, and the Merovingians.
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 		Interview with Nick Mason - from http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/news/0504201.html -w
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Me: "What the heck was the Enigma?" At this he gave me a knowing look and said:

Nick: "That was a ploy done by EMI. They had a man working for them who adored puzzles. He used to work for the Reagan administration [laughter from the crowd, but he was being 100% serious!]. His job then would be to be in meetings with the president and when Reagan would say 'Let's bomb these people' he would say 'That's not a good idea sir!'. He was working for EMI and suggested that a puzzle be created that could be followed on the Web".

"The prize [I guess there was really one!] was never given out. To this day it remains unsolved. The prize was something like a crop of trees planted in a clear cut area of forest or something to that effect. It was not to be a prize of some tangible thing [such as a ride in the blimp or a front row seat at Earls Court] but rather a touchy-feely sort of gift that was more of a philanthropic thing than something you could hang on the wall. [I mentioned that the words were displayed on the lights at the Meadowlands gig] We, of course, could not see that from where we stood but clearly members of the crew were in on the riddle". He then confirmed that the three band members had NOTHING to do with it, but were aware of it and really didn't care about it, and that the whole this has been dead for years with nobody at EMI left to care about it. So anyone out there who thinks they solved it or is still trying to solve it, please forget it and give up and resume your life. It was not a joke but was never solved even in the face of Sandy's protests to the contrary. I have officially stopped caring about rumors or innuendo about it still being out there since now someone with official ties to the thing and who seemed to know info that I never heard before about it says it is long dead and unresolved.


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 		An interesting end for something i've been curious about for a long time. Nice to know!
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