NOTE: Michael Fairchild originally agreed to do an e-mail interview with EAR CANDY…until he actually saw the questions, that is. Maybe they were a tad too honest and straightforward? I surely didn't want to sugarcoat anything - so I can't understand what Mr. Fairchild has to hide? Anyway…although Michael Fairchild reneged on his original agreement for an interview, we now present, in its place, a debate between Mr. Fairchild and Wallyrus. Wallyrus graciously gave us permission to reprint the original article and you can see some additional responses from Mr. Fairchild at Wallyrus' Hendrix website (linked at the end of this article).

It is good to believe, I believe, but it is incumbent upon us to temper our beliefs with common sense and the evidence of our senses.

The following are a series of questions and observations concerning Michael Fairchild's 'Rock Prophecy'. I make these comments with a dual purpose in mind: One, to open a dialog with Mr. Fairchild in a 'civil', public forum (this is to Michael's benefit as it helps to generate interest in his theories) and two, to comment and question those things which I feel are insupportable by fact or reason. By doing this, I am giving Mr. Fairchild the opportunity to 'answer the tough question'. This is not something Michael should find threatening as he seems to have a real conviction in the truth of his theories and the eloquence to express them in a convincing manner. In that spirit:

Michael Fairchild: A timely prophecy remains hidden within the words of Jimi Hendrix.

Wallyrus: The above is a rhetorical device, or the prophecy 'remains hidden'?

Michael Fairchild: I've written a text - the testament of his vision, a connection between history and religions, linking the future with the past. The story is called Rock Prophecy, the central event of the Hendrix millennium - a revelation that defines the faith. Several million people are familiar with my writings published by MCA, Polydor, and Warner Bros. I'm seeking partners who'll help get Rock Prophecy to my readers and preserve a message that everyone needs. Become a publisher and witness this miracle. With a little help, we can influence history and establish insights to transform our world. The day of awakening is up to us. Contact me if you can help produce this unusual book...

Wallyrus: Not to condone or condone; I merely state as fact that the above is an appeal for money to 'publish' your book; nothing wrong with that, on the surface.

Michael Fairchild: Rock Prophecy defines the faith of a new religion, the original asteroid prediction of Jimi Hendrix which triggered an avalanche of asteroid stories in recent media.

Wallyrus: Question: Where in the scriptures (Jimi's writings) is this 'prediction' in fact found? Or do we have to pledge financial backing to be directed to the particular passage?

Michael Fairchild: The manuscript interprets history in ways that dominators are most concerned to obstruct and crush. Rock Prophecy, a book about the Hendrix/ asteroid/Microsoft connection. The story reports Microsoft's connection with the end of civilization. Help us spread the word about this vision. Help us preserve and protect the Newest Testament.

Wallyrus: A facetious comment: Microsoft cannot seem to wipe out Netscape, let alone civilization!

Michael Fairchild: We do not worship Jimi. The Hendrix story teaches us how destructive "worship" can be.

Wallyrus: Question: In what way did 'worship' lead to Jimi's demise?

Michael Fairchild: This book is dedicated to the seers and thinkers. We are the forerunners of the future. We are not "rejected" by the unfree elitist media. Reject = defect, an equation used to devalue us. We are not rejected, we are obstructed. "Obstruct" conveys the unrighteousness of those who oppose us.

Wallyrus: God save us from the (un)righteous! You then include the following quote:

"Satan...[acts] for the specific purpose of blocking or obstructing human activity. The root stn means "one who opposes, obstructs, or acts as adversary." (The Greek term diabolos, later translated "devil," literally means "one who throws something across one's path.") -Elaine Pagels

Question: What evidence exists to establish 'Satan' as a real entity?

Michael Fairchild: "Success" for Rock Prophecy is defined not in terms of numbers of books sold. Success is measured by the Prophecy's survival.

Wallyrus: We will come back to the above... Then you quote Jimi:

"The point is: who is wrong and who is right, that's what the point is - not how many people." - Jimi

Could you give us the context of Jimi's remarks, please?: I'm not sure of the source or the question Jimi was responding to.

Michael Fairchild: Rock Prophecy is not a "Hendrix book." It is the Newest Testament which defines the faith of Creation's Way: religion of the freeks. Rock Prophecy carries the concepts that dominators are most concerned to obstruct and crush. The unjust monied among us - the so-called "rich" - will seek out and destroy every copy of this book that they can confiscate.

Wallyrus: Ignoring, for the moment, the paranoia evidenced by the above statement (I calls 'em like I sees 'em), I ask this rhetorical question: What group of people in the entire history of our planet have been more 'dominating' than religious leaders and movements? Corporations like Microsoft are in business to make money and dominate the marketplace: religions, by taking away the power of individual thought and free will (only WE know what God is thinking) are the number one 'dominators'; the dominators of thought.

This is the kind of person you are or want to become?

Then you quote scriptures (Jimi!) again:

"There's nothing we can explain to them. Most of it is from bitterness, there's no color part now, there's no black and white, it's very small ...They have to relax and wait to go by the psychological feeling. If you start thinking negative, it switches to bitterness, aggression, hatred, whatever." - Jimi

"If you start thinking negative..." Hmmmm.

Michael Fairchild: All of the above text was published on this web page in February 1998. On March 11, 1998 the world's media reported that an asteroid is headed towards Earth.

Wallyrus: OK. You seem to imply that the whole 'an asteroid could hit the Earth' idea is something new, when in fact we, as a species, have been aware of the possibility since at least the turn of the century. The destructive power evidenced by the object that fell on Siberia gave an indication of just how powerful such an impact can be.

Michael Fairchild: The Timeline in Rock Prophecy from April 1995 through August 1997 was copyrighted on August 15, 1997. The Timeline from September 1997 through February 1998 was copyrighted on March 3, 1998. Eight days later, on March 11, 1998, scientists reported that a mile wide asteroid will come within 30,000 miles of Earth on October 26, 2028. Just a few hours before all media reported this story on March 11, 1998, I composed and mailed the following letter to five people:

Wallyrus: Documentation? (It needs to be good documentation as a postmark will only show day, not time.)

Michael Fairchild: The complete hardcopy manuscript of Rock Prophecy - the Hendrix/asteroid/Microsoft connection - was recently printed out.

A timely prophecy remains hidden within the writings of Jimi Hendrix.In 1993, while working for Harper Collins on the book Cherokee Mist - the Lost Writings of Jimi Hendrix, I grasped the vision that this shaman seer was racing to communicate at the time of his death in 1970. In the spring of 1995 I sent a hardcopy draft of the story to the Library of Congress for copyright. The manuscript is titled Rock Prophecy, it is the original asteroid prediction which triggered an avalanche of asteroid stories in recent media.

Wallyrus: ?!?

Um, you're guessing here, right? What proof do you have that your text 'triggered' the 'avalanche'? (Circumstantial will not do, in this case. Cause and effect need to be shown along with concrete evidence.)

Michael Fairchild: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the third wealthiest American, was seeking to acquire rights to the Hendrix legacy for his $60 million Hendrix Museum in Seattle. In 1993 Mr. Allen loaned the Hendrix family $5 million to finance a lawsuit which resulted in the closing of the Hendrix production company in Hollywood. For seven years I had been employed by Jimi's production company as their writer and consultant. My unusual stories, which are included as 28-page booklets in many official Hendrix CDs published by MCA, Warner Bros., and Polydor, are well known to an international audience of several million people. I am the author of many other non-Hendrix publications, including Atlantic Record's 1994 Woodstock Diary CD booklet and a dozen cover stories in national magazines.

Wallyrus: I am one of those who really enjoyed those Woodstock liner notes and would like to publicly thank you for them. I found their originality and energy conveyed a certain tone that actually enhanced, for me, my enjoyment of the CD. (I do, however, have some problems with the mixing and dubbing on the CD, but that's another story.)

Michael Fairchild: I was responsible for initiating and developing projects and products which became some of the most celebrated successes of the Hendrix legacy, and I was in line to become the next Creative Director of the Hendrix production company in Hollywood. My position allowed me to orchestrate, for Paul Allen's Hendrix museum in Seattle, the purchase, from my contacts, of several of the world's most excellent collections of Hendrix items. Nearly a half million dollars was paid for this material by Mr. Allen's museum. The collections now comprise the core data base about Jimi that resides at Mr. Allen's "Hendrix museum" in Seattle.

Wallyrus: So you helped the rich microguy to hoard Hendrix 'relics' for his temple, huh? Why? The finders fee you never received or the belief that Mr. Allen was sincere in his desire to preserve Jimi's 'legacy'?

Michael Fairchild: But then the lawsuit from the Hendrix family against officials at their Hollywood production company, a lawsuit financed by Mr. Allen, resulted in closing the Hollywood company. My job was gone, and my opportunity to be Creative Director of Jimi's estate was toppled. I was left unemployed, no severence pay. And Paul Allen's Seattle museum refused to compensate me for my efforts which connected his museum up with a world class Hendrix collection.

Wallyrus: To quote Jimi:

"If you start thinking negative, it switches to bitterness, aggression, hatred, whatever." - Jimi

I understand your bitterness toward being used by the rich and pushy. I understand why you feel aggressive towards those who have wronged you. I even understand your hatred of them. It's the 'whatever' that I find disturbing.

Michael Fairchild: I had done only unusual good for all of these people, yet from their actions my seven year career of incredible successes was destroyed. And all the while I was the only one who understood the Prophecy.

Wallyrus: The aforementioned 'whatever'.

Michael Fairchild: At the height of the highly publicized lawsuit proceedings in 1995 I wrote the story of Jimi's prediction of an asteroid on course to impact Earth.

Wallyrus: Published where?

Michael Fairchild: At the same time one of my articles was published and it describes why my unpublished writings, registered and stored at the Library of Congress, are being monitored by interested parties.

Right: Michael Fairchild

Wallyrus: Unless you have some evidence for this accusation it only feeds the suspicion that paranoia is is involved somewhere. Response?

Michael Fairchild: Did representatives of Paul Allen's Hendrix museum see Rock Prophecy at the LOC in the spring of 1995? Within five months of my manuscript's copyright the media began churning out dramatic asteroid stories. An escalating frenzy of reports, in all major media throughout 1996, climaxed in 1997 with several feature films, documentaries, and an NBC-TV mini-series. In July 1996 NBC teamed up with Paul Allen's Microsoft to launch MSNBC. Subsequently NBC became particularly "hot" on the topic of rocks from space, as if mogul orders had decreed, "Do up the asteroid story - Big Time!"

Wallyrus: Why?

Michael Fairchild: The Microsoft connection is, however, but a sliver within Rock Prophecy. And the full story cannot be described as a "Hendrix book." Analysis of Jimi's prediction is but a third of the manuscript. Hendrix is presented as an authentic Afro American Cherokee seer, a shaman who glimpsed the trajectory of extraterrestrial events already in place during his lifetime. He was racing to communicate his vision in a screenplay he composed titled Moondust.

Wallyrus: Hmmmm. I've read 'Moondust'. In fact, it is reprinted on my website. What gives you the idea that it is anything more than the rough outline for a movie? What 'predictions' were made in it? Or 'Rainbow Bridge'?

Michael Fairchild: Rock Prophecy is the story of how the dominators have silenced the seers throughout the ages and "retarded history" by impeding humanity's advance towards anti-asteroid technology.

Wallyrus: The real crux of the matter is here, IMO. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT THE WORLD TO BE DESTROYED TO THE POINT OF SURPRESSING TECHNOLOGY THAT COULD MEAN THE SALVATION OF ALL MANKIND? What possible motivation could there be for such an insane desire? ALL LIFE on the planet was wiped out the last time we were impacted, right? Who would want that to happen again? Motive, please.

Michael Fairchild: We are today at a technological state which should have been realized several millennia ago. The slim window (in geologic time) which exists between major impacts is due to close.

Wallyrus: Oh? Upon what scientific observations and principles is this statement based? Probability Theory? The law of averages? Entropy? Explain, please.

Michael Fairchild: Rock Prophecy will remain as the explanation of what happened. And like the suppressed gnostic gospels, this book will surface during a future civilization on the other side of the coming dark ages of the Hendrix Millennium, to be dug out from under the rubble of an (avoidably) smashed planet, like the new Nag Hammadi library.

Wallyrus: If you have any evidence at all to support this wild supposition, I'd like to hear it. Or was this part of your 'vision'? (Will you tell me that evidence is unimportant and vision is key?)

Michael Fairchild: Rock Prophecy explains the biological base of our human tragedy, the struggle of one sex to dominate the other, a conflict which thwarted the collective effort necessary for our civilization's survival. The Prophecy centers on sexual tensions behind world religions, a collision of myths for which Hendrix is figurehead. The origins and function of homosexuality are finally revealed - nature's "avert-a-birth herd thinners.

Wallyrus: Sexual preference has nothing to do with taste or individual desire? (Do Dominators wear tight leather or Tupperware tights?) Forgive my derision, please. I can't help it: this is a statement I find difficult to accept with a straight face, man! Sorry.

Michael Fairchild: Rock Prophecy proclaims the start of the first century of the Uncommon Era as the moment when, simultaneously, the Ultra Secret Enigma code of the Nazis was broken at the moment Jimi was born. The tide of war turned in favor of the Allies.

Wallyrus: This is patently false: Jimi was born on Nov. 27th, 1942. The 'Enigma' code machine employed by the Nazis was first broken in the spring of 1940, two full years before Jimi's birth! In fact, the Nazis added a 'fourth rotor' on the machine in February of 1942 making the Ultra intelligence unreadable until December of that year, meaning that at the time of Jimi's birth those codes had again become unbreakable.

Anyway, even if Enigma had been broken on the hour of Jimi's birth, what would that mean? Your point?

Michael Fairchild: Dominator culture shriveled in the presence of Hendrix and then reasserted itself in the circumstances of his death.

Wallyrus: What you call 'dominator culture' most would term 'The Establishment' or 'The Military/Industrial Complex' or 'the powers that be' or 'City Hall'. For the sake of discussion, let's use your term: The period of time you refer to, from the end of WW2 to 1970 was the HIGHPOINT of 'dominator culture, not years of decline in ANY sense! It was only after the fall of Tricky Dick (dominator prime himself!) that these anti-Communist crusaders began to loose there monolithic influence. During Jimi's lifetime the 'dominators' were at the peak of their power! Explain, please.

Michael Fairchild: Thirty years later it is up to me to leave behind the persecuted manuscript, like a reenactment of the writings of Paul three decades after the Crucifixion.

Wallyrus: How was Damascus, anyway?

Michael Fairchild: There are two crucial differences: 1) dozens of my unique stories are familiar to millions of people who own the MCA, Warner Bros. and Polydor publications, and 2) the Internet.

Wallyrus: I fail to see the importance of #1 and the idea that the Internet will somehow survive global destruction is questionable in the extreme! There are not many works of man more fragile than the electronic medium of the Internet. Mankind's salvation? NOW I'm worried!

Michael Fairchild: It is critical to Paul Allen that Microsoft controls the Internet. Rock Prophecy draws parallels between the Seattle billionaire and the Emperor Constantine. Like the Roman dominator, Mr. Allen seeks to co-opt and rewrite a theology, complete with gaudy cathedrals in the prophet's hometown. Whereas the ancient gnostics buried their texts in the desert, I have dug out a website to eject Rock Prophecy into cyberspace for preservation.

Wallyrus: Build a pyramid, Michael! They last LOTS longer!

Michael Fairchild: The struggle between good and evil today comes down to whether or not the Justice Department can prevent Microsoft dominators from controlling the Internet and obstructing the circulation of Rock Prophecy.

Wallyrus: So, the future of civilization rests on the trinity of Rock Prophecy, the Internet, and the U.S. Justice Department?

NOW I'm scared!

Like I said, I am a skeptic, but I firmly believe that your beliefs and viewpoints are utterly valid AS BELIEFS. I have the same problems with such things as Virgin Births (Joseph was a chump!) and omnipotence (If God is omnipotent, can he create a rock so big that he cannot lift it?), also. When you choose to tell the world, in effect, "This is the truth", you ask for the kind of critique I humbly present here.

-Wally