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48&2
11-27-2002, 10:45 PM
At one point during the song the lady starts going on about something then says press six......the person on the other end presses 6 three times '666'.....nothing that unusual but I thought I would mention it......Also I was wondering about maybe a secret message in this song with the pressing of the keys. Every time a key is pressed a different tone plays, if someone that has a phone similar to the one used on LAMC could match up the tones there could be some sought of hidden message in numbers or letters (like sms)....(im probably not making much sense) but if u get my drift and have a lot of spare time give it a go and tell me what you came up with....Spiral Out

Mark D
12-04-2002, 07:41 PM
i get what you're saying. hell, it could be a really important message, but I'm too lazy to try to figure it out.

zumzim13
12-04-2002, 10:09 PM
ive always been convinced he was pressing 666 too. i dont know about any secret messages especially tryin to figure them out because im pretty sure that the tones run vertically down the phone where 1, 4, and 7 make the same tone and so forth. i also like the use of "proposition 187" using the police code for murder. either just another funny number or meaning wanting to kill whoever made the system. who knows?

j00rab
12-05-2002, 09:39 AM
The fact is, that all phones make basically the same tones when buttons are pressed. And also, each button makes a different tone, (you can play a half assed song like mary had a little lamb by pressing the different numbers.) If the tones were different on different phones or the same on certain buttons, then you could not dial out a number very well. The computer looks for a certain tone when you press buttons. When it hears a certain tone, it registers the the tone and places it with it's corresponding number. It works very similarly to voice recognition software. Only much less complicated.

The 666 is most likely just a little joke tossed in by tool. Yes, they most likely created the song to mock the technology and idiocy of automated computer systems/people nowadays. I really also doubt that there's a "hidden message." It's not like MAJD a bunch of prophets, trying to get some important message accross. If they were trying to get an important message out, I'm sure they would tell us more straight forward.

-Live as Melchizedek.

doubleyewdee
12-07-2002, 03:48 AM
All phones make exactly the same tones in terms of pitch when different keys are pressed. This is why whenever you use an automated messaging system it will work from any touch-tone phone. I used to have the knack of being able to pick out tones from hearing them (don't ask why ;) but I'm really out of practice. I'm sure somebody could do this, however.

But.. here's the caveat. If you take any sequence of numbers you are bound to be able to find some hidden message if you try hard enough. This might be an interesting diversion to attempt just on the merits of being different and fun, but any meaning derived from this that isn't Straight From the Horse's Mouth(tm) should be viewed with *extreme* skepticism. If you give me an arbitrary sequence of numbers and a few days to play with them I can gaurantee I'll return a "secret message" that would blow your mind if you didn't know better.

UniDeaL
12-07-2002, 06:45 PM
Originally posted by doubleyewdee

But.. here's the caveat. If you take any sequence of numbers you are bound to be able to find some hidden message if you try hard enough. This might be an interesting diversion to attempt just on the merits of being different and fun, but any meaning derived from this that isn't Straight From the Horse's Mouth(tm) should be viewed with *extreme* skepticism. If you give me an arbitrary sequence of numbers and a few days to play with them I can gaurantee I'll return a "secret message" that would blow your mind if you didn't know better.

Absolutely agree....same thing here LOL

48&2
01-06-2003, 09:28 PM
Yep I know what you mean, I think I was looking a litle too far...

thelambslain
01-17-2003, 12:25 AM
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.

dork
04-17-2003, 08:09 PM
Originally posted by thelambslain
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Thats the dumbest thing you could say. no offense but those lyrics dont even mean that you shouldn't over think. Its illustrating the difference between thought and instinct. I am fed up with people using that to prove a point that doesnt even make sense. seriously though what is your point? Stop thinking everyone, its dangerous.

George Bush Sr.
04-17-2003, 08:16 PM
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.

This is a good thing, NOT A BAD THING.

SadSummerSea
04-17-2003, 09:24 PM
Originally posted by George Bush Sr.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.

This is a good thing, NOT A BAD THING.

AMEN
You're my hero, Mr. Bush.

seraph
04-17-2003, 09:33 PM
Originally posted by George Bush Sr.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.

This is a good thing, NOT A BAD THING.

i'd disagree...mind and body are one, no separation

thinking and analyzing use logic and rationale but overdoing it causes unnecessary thought and the mind tends to trail off by thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking....thinking...withering intuition because intuition has no place in logic. intuition belongs to the non-thinking and more 'feeling' side of human nature.

be silent and trust your intuition...go in the dark, close your eyes and welcome whatever may come...'cept bats

Nirvana
04-17-2003, 10:18 PM
ehm.. i dunno... but i am THINKING and ANALYSING with my mind... not with my body

Nirvana
04-17-2003, 10:20 PM
and something about the 6!

in the "Sober" video... you see around 4.14 you see the floor... in the floor are holes... the left holes make a 6... if you look very good... just try... see?

*edit*also.. if you stop the video ecaxtly at 4.29 you can see that there are 6 glasses in the machine (or whatever it is)

*edit*... also.. yes again.. around 1.20 to 1.26 in the song... you see that tiny box... and guess again... yes the rope is going 6 times over the box... Strange

Adrenalin
05-06-2003, 04:03 AM
hmmm strange indeed..

as for intuition...well guys,intuition is a form of thinking i am afraid..what you may thinks is a 6th sence is just a more advanced way of thinking..ill give you an example how the mind works:

lets say you want to think about something from

1 to 5 (numbers could be anything..like if you really like someone)

and in order to take a desision you have to take all the steps one by one for that particular thing (ex 1hight 2face 3attitude etc)

well your intuition (your gutt) summs things up going from 1 to 5 and inthe same time going back to referances from other 1 to 5's youve done in the past..so..to stick to our example..you might think that you really like that person but your guts referance to other ppl youve met might tell you otherwise

just trying to help out the whole thing fot yous guys

Blue Apocalypse
05-23-2003, 04:36 PM
Originally posted by seraph
i'd disagree...mind and body are one, no separation

thinking and analyzing use logic and rationale but overdoing it causes unnecessary thought and the mind tends to trail off by thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking....thinking...withering intuition because intuition has no place in logic. intuition belongs to the non-thinking and more 'feeling' side of human nature.

be silent and trust your intuition...go in the dark, close your eyes and welcome whatever may come...'cept bats

I think its really your own interpretation, and thats what the album is all about, think about its called Lateralus, Lateral thinking, using that big blob of grey matter in your head and think outside the box, think about what im saying and use my thoughts to trigger your own thoughts, thats what i think all the albums on the song are trying to say, they arent some dictating religion to live your life by and quote them every time a possible situation comes up. And i dont think that they make their music to be one specific way, thats why there can be many interpretations on it and you can all still be right, there is no right or wrong answer and in the end let your own judgement be the one that dictates your train of thought.

ive said my bit

conical johnson
07-14-2003, 11:00 AM
If anybody wants to just figure out all the keys pressed in the song, you can plug them into www.phonespelling.com and see what you get. Meaning you wouldn't have to sit around for days looking at a phone and trying to figure something out.

AllforUnity
10-11-2003, 12:43 AM
Well since you know about this...why don't you tell us the message you found? :)

This has my interest, l will return.

GregoryWohlwend
11-14-2003, 06:19 PM
overthinking and overanalyzing IS a bad thing. If i could, i'd live as a child, with no thought and pure bliss

ignorance is bliss

trust me, you'll get there eventually, the pursuit of knowledge is the same as the pursuit of drugs, sex anything. stinkfist applies to all pursuit.

g-bay-be
11-14-2003, 10:33 PM
overthinking and overanalyzing IS a bad thing. If i could, i'd live as a child, with no thought and pure bliss

ignorance is bliss

trust me, you'll get there eventually, the pursuit of knowledge is the same as the pursuit of drugs, sex anything. stinkfist applies to all pursuit.


I agree with you to an extent... alot of the time i find people hear over thinking over analyzing and all kinds of crazy stuff... but there is a need for thought sometimes..... these are thought proviking lyrics but alot of the times the message is so simple we see past it

987
11-30-2003, 02:48 AM
Salival has been in my cd player the last 6 (well what do you know...) days and LAMC caught my attention today. I started thinking maybe there is something more than just the obvious:
Yes, they most likely created the song to mock the technology and idiocy of automated computer systems/people nowadays.

Fuck... I pressed escape and everything I just wrote disapeared. Yeah go on phlame me. Fuck that sucks... anyways... basically what I was saying was that I counted the bashing sounds and found out that it starts with 1 bash, then goes on to 2 bashes, 3 bashes, 4 bashes, 5 bashes, etc. until it reaches 30 bashes. I was hoping that if you added the numbers you would get the number 666, but it was 465.

Keep posting though if anyone finds out anything. It would be really cool if we ended up finding a new joke akin to the one in the booklet of the european version of ænima.
I remember how everyone was talking about over-analyzing and how stupid it was to try to find out anything and that Maynard was just saying what he said to fuck with us etc. Well, what we found definately was real, and funny as hell.

AllforUnity
12-13-2003, 12:53 AM
That sucks.

Metamorphosis
12-22-2003, 07:40 PM
i'd disagree...mind and body are one, no separation

thinking and analyzing use logic and rationale but overdoing it causes unnecessary thought and the mind tends to trail off by thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking....thinking...withering intuition because intuition has no place in logic. intuition belongs to the non-thinking and more 'feeling' side of human nature.

be silent and trust your intuition...go in the dark, close your eyes and welcome whatever may come...'cept bats

i have to say you are wrong, the body and the mind are both seperate. seperate because the body is what we live in and exists in the "material" world, our minds are actaully a conceptual term for our conciousness, therefore our minds can stray from our body (from the material world) and into the spiritual world, what do you think happens when you're high on psychadelik drugs.

987
01-23-2004, 08:09 PM
After some months keeping this "song" in mind I don't think we'll ever find out what it means; simply because it doesn't mean shit exept from the obvious.

AllforUnity
02-19-2004, 01:08 PM
When do you think TOOL's next album will come out? Anyone have any ideas?

CCD
02-20-2004, 02:47 AM
ive always been convinced he was pressing 666 too. i dont know about any secret messages especially tryin to figure them out because im pretty sure that the tones run vertically down the phone where 1, 4, and 7 make the same tone and so forth. i also like the use of "proposition 187" using the police code for murder. either just another funny number or meaning wanting to kill whoever made the system. who knows?

Prop 187 was a California ballot proposition to restrict government benefits for illegal aliens. Perhaps this is what LAMC refers to?

P.S. As a side note, Los Angeles county no longer has a municipal court. All judicial functions are now handled by the superior court. So, the song is dated...

987
02-24-2004, 04:56 PM
When do you think TOOL's next album will come out? Anyone have any ideas?

Heard Manyard was going to work with Tool this summer, so it'll be out may 8 i think.

AllforUnity
03-04-2004, 12:31 PM
May 8th? That's pretty early...where is your source of information?

987
03-04-2004, 04:15 PM
Error: Please read message one more time.

AllforUnity
03-04-2004, 04:38 PM
l realize you said you think that's when it will be out, and that you hear that...that's why l asked where you heard it from.

987
03-04-2004, 07:57 PM
But you do realize that may 8th is before summer?


Ahh... I'll stop it's boring... No one knows when the next Tool album will be released. What we know is that Mr. Chancelor is working on bass lines and that the band will meet up this summer to work together.

AllforUnity
03-09-2004, 11:16 PM
l see the error your talking about now.




You got me?

987
03-10-2004, 12:55 PM
Guess I did ;)

AllforUnity
03-12-2004, 09:09 AM
Yep. l guess so.

CyberSlave
03-20-2004, 08:41 PM
I think the song was there just to annoy people. The 666 is probably a hidden joke just so some stupid people will think they are satanists or nazis like Die Eier Von Satan.

AllforUnity
03-25-2004, 06:05 PM
Vandersexxx.

crazypsycho6666
03-25-2004, 06:51 PM
well tool does love 666,
Maynards dick starts At 6:66 or 7:06
the gaping lotus experienve starts at track 6 about 6:06
so maybe they just have a weord facination with the number six

AllforUnity
04-09-2004, 03:40 PM
Why don't you ask Crowley?

Mesiah?
03-10-2005, 04:20 PM
i'd disagree...mind and body are one, no separation

thinking and analyzing use logic and rationale but overdoing it causes unnecessary thought and the mind tends to trail off by thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking....thinking...withering intuition because intuition has no place in logic. intuition belongs to the non-thinking and more 'feeling' side of human nature.

be silent and trust your intuition...go in the dark, close your eyes and welcome whatever may come...'cept bats

good call

[p.s. nice avatar]

5th Eye
03-10-2005, 06:07 PM
*rolls eyes at unnecessaliry revived thread*

Fractal
03-11-2005, 12:56 AM
interesting and illuminating

jonathan2994
03-11-2005, 09:03 AM
well tool does love 666,
Maynards dick starts At 6:66 or 7:06
the gaping lotus experienve starts at track 6 about 6:06
so maybe they just have a weord facination with the number six


they just like to poke fun at the fact that in the 90s they were considered satanic. i used to hear that shit all of the time. "cannibals, rapists, satanists..." They just like to fuck with the common american's (typical redneck's) head.

they've got the ability to, so they do. i would.

tomXwithXweather
03-11-2005, 02:03 PM
I heard a rumor that if you bend over, stick your head between your legs, and cough, all with no clothes on, satan rapes you.

ufopancakes
05-11-2005, 05:28 PM
I heard a rumor that if you bend over, stick your head between your legs, and cough, all with no clothes on, satan rapes you.


Thats so not true, I tried it. Turned out, I was raping myself.

tomatoms
05-16-2005, 07:22 PM
x/pi +- 666

ThIrdEyeCarrots46
10-07-2005, 05:10 PM
i hate LAMC
i always skip to maynards dick

i love maynards dick

5th Eye
10-07-2005, 05:45 PM
Sounds like a personal problem.

/V\agina
11-12-2005, 08:16 AM
Okay, I'm too lazy to read all the above, so I'll just plug my 2 cents in here.

I was always curious what phone number he was dialing in the first place, but I never really considered any hidden messages in the option's tones. However, if we find the phone number, it could be something funny like 1-800-EAT-SHIT or something


Also, The touch tone telephone works as follows:

Each button produces 2 tones at once. Down each column, the first tone is the same, but the second one is different. Across each row, the second tone is the same but the first tone is different.

Here's the grid:

1 - 687Hz, 1209Hz 2 - 770Hz, 1209Hz 3 - 852Hz, 1209Hz
4 - 687Hz, 1336Hz 5 - 770Hz, 1336Hz 6 - 852Hz, 1336Hz
7 - 687Hz, 1477Hz 8 - 770Hz, 1477Hz 9 - 852Hz, 1477Hz
* - 687Hz, 1633Hz 0 - 770Hz, 1633Hz # - 852Hz, 1633Hz

Both tones are produced in synchronous to produce an overtone.

There are also 4 more DTMF tones, labeled ABCD, that are listed at the end of each row,

1 2 3 A (A - 941Hz, 1209Hz)
4 5 6 B (B - 941Hz, 1336Hz)
7 8 9 C (C - 941Hz, 1477Hz)
* 0 # D (D - 941Hz, 1633Hz)

Each ABCD button has a special function, and are not used on standard home telephones or payphones.

I did this from memory, so it might be a little off, but I think that's how it goes.



Anyway, just FYI.

Dedicated_TOOLfan
02-17-2006, 07:32 PM
This song is illuminatingly hilarious!! I love it!!! In a way it reminds me of Die Eier Von Satan!!! I have no fucking clue why!

OGT from back in the day
06-13-2006, 10:52 AM
stop talking about over thinking and over analyzing, this is not a lateralus forum

smeefsmeef
06-14-2006, 04:22 PM
stop talking about over thinking and over analyzing, this is not a lateralus forum

The last post was 4 months ago, I think they stopped talking about it.,

OGT from back in the day
06-14-2006, 05:22 PM
lol....i dont read the dates, i just read what they say

smeefsmeef
06-14-2006, 06:46 PM
word

justify_denials
06-14-2006, 10:06 PM
stop talking about over thinking and over analyzing, this is not a lateralus forum
If you over think about something then you put more energy into thinking about it then actually doing it, thus you are seperating your body to do what your mind is thinking. You mind and body should be working in union, think to much about the goal, you don't experience the true greatness...the transportation or journey to that goal.

Arson
06-29-2006, 11:01 PM
Can I get a phone TAB for LAMC?
hehe

wearethestories
07-05-2006, 11:45 AM
AMEN
You're my hero, Mr. Bush.
lol.


say it again, I dare you.

wearethestories
07-05-2006, 11:47 AM
oh, and pretty sure the 666 is a jest...

even from the first listen, I got the impression that because the damn answering machine wouldn't respond accordingly, the dialer got pissed and just hammered 6-6-6 for fun...

maybe that doesn't make sense to anyone else, but I know I've done like-minded things out of exasperation...

crumbling|image
07-06-2006, 09:23 AM
I hate the fact that everyone assumes that every true rock band on the planet has some sort of hidden, satanic messages in their songs. There is definitely a 666 reference in this song, but I'm sure that TOOL is simply making fun of this assumption.

Theheroeshavedied
07-13-2006, 10:17 AM
OVERTHINKING OVERANALIZING SEPARATES THE BODY FROM THE MIND!
Thats the dumbest thing you could say. no offense but those lyrics dont even mean that you shouldn't over think. Its illustrating the difference between thought and instinct. I am fed up with people using that to prove a point that doesnt even make sense. seriously though what is your point? Stop thinking everyone, its dangerous.

Absolutely! I perfectly agree, and will add: to me these lines go a little further saying: don't think of how emotions would feel like when they might come, feel them when they come! in perfect attitude with the message the rest of the song transfers. i hope i expressed myself clearly enough!
just not using your head will lead you to your own destruction!!!!