This new series of posts deals with how the prodigal band members’ women, whether wives or lovers, influenced the band members to consider repenting of their sinful and debauched lifestyles, giving up “toeing the line of the masters of the music industry,” and ultimately, turning to Christ and the forces of Good, renouncing the forces of evil. This Part One post features prodigal band drummer Tom and his lover and future wife, Princess Tina, a member of a royal family within the fictitious principality of Leandro, set within Italy.
At a secret meeting between Princess Tina, who was forced to marry the evil Duke of Effingchester, but who loves band drummer Tom, Tina informs Tom that her husband and others are meeting with band guitarist and recording producer Mick, who also heads the band’s indie record label, Foray. They wanted to get Mick and the band to sell the record label to one of them. Tom believes that if the label is sold to one of them and controlled by the conglomerate he owns, the band would then be a ‘slave’ to the owner of the conglomerate and would have to produce music the owner demands instead of producing what they choose to produce. The meeting takes place at a London park in the summer of 1999. From Chapter Seven of The Prophesied Band, copyright © 1998 Deborah Lagarde). The snippet is below:
(The conversation begins with these words)
“Does he know you’re here, babe?” the drummer asked.
(The drummer refers to her husband, the Duke of Effingchester)
“He thinks I’m shopping.” She laughed and her blonde curls shook. “Like he always thinks when I’m with you. In fact, he’s at a secret meeting with X and Y and Mick.”
“To get ol’ Skinny to sell out Foray, no doubt. Naturally, Mick didn’t tell any of the rest of us. He never does, eh? X and Y have been bugging him for about four or five years now. And I think they’ll keep at it until we knuckle under.”
“Will you, Tom?”
“I can only speak for meself, babe.” He put his arm around her. “No, I won’t. Won’t give your sweet husband the satisfaction of ruining our music and making us slaves of the corporate elite.”
They then discuss whether or not the band should sell the record label and what would happen if they did, or did not sell it. But clearly, Tom does not want to be ‘owned’ by an evil head of an entertainment conglomerate and sees ‘no way out’ if the band is ‘owned.’ But Tina, who has spent her entire life among ‘the elites,’ being from an ‘elite’ family who controls a fictitious principality set within Italy called Leandro, has a possible solution and suggestion that would influence Tom later, as told below:
“But there is a way out even if they do own you.”
“Not really, babe.”
Firmly and deliberately, she berated him. “Tom, you’ve been living in the clouds too long.” She stood up and faced him down. “You have no idea of the possibilities for you to use the corporate elite to expose them. Go with them on the surface like I do. You can beat them and join them! Just knowing there is a movement of millions of people—”
“That anti-new-order crap? Christian weirdos?”
“They’re not weirdos. You only believe the way the elitists want you to. All those ‘Christian weirdos’ want to do is defeat the occultist orders of the elites. Since you used to play this kind of game, you know these orders exist. There’s a new Aquarian Age leader the elitists are following since Swami’s death. I don’t know his name but his religion is Mother Nature. I believe he will be revealed as the anti-Christ all those preachers of tribulation warn us about. And unless Sound Unltd infiltrates the elite in the name of joining the elite, you’ll never be able to stop him.”
He looked long and hard at Tina. My God, girl, I’ve taken most of what you’ve told me about Effingchester and the Novordo Club to heart. Their new order designs to control the planet. But what the hell does this all have to do with me, with my band? Why do you tell me all this? Just how the hell we supposed to stop this evil you’re talking about? “Okay, Tina, you’re saying for us to make the deal, make them think we support what they’re doing, and then expose their plots?”
“Exactly.”
“How? How we gonna do that without blowing our success? Maybe our lives?”
“Tom,” Tina said softly, “that’s what I’ve been doing since I found out what Effingchester and Torquay were up to. Plus, love, you’ll get close to this religious leader that way. He is the one you must absolutely, positively expose.”
Tom stood and took her hands. “Tina love, where you getting this information from?”
“From my confidants. I can’t tell you who they are except they are organized.”
“Why can’t you tell me?”
“Because I want to make sure I know what side you are on.” Again she admonished him. “There is something else. If you want to know about the anti-Christ, try picking up a Bible sometime.”
And her influence worked. A few years later, Tom and Tina (having secretly married) meet with young people also from evil ‘elite’ families to try to convince these folks to accept Christ, which was Tom’s given ‘mission of God.’ That is, ‘her confidants.’ From Chapter Seventeen of The Prodigal Band (copyright © 2018 Deborah Lagarde):
Tom’s mission at Princess Tina’s Leandro estate, September, 2003
“And I thought trying to convince Prissy’s friends would be hard!”
The drummer had, a couple of days previously, met with his old friend, singer Prissy Wyatt at her fancy London townhouse, along with Mushroom Paul and other rock notables, including Keith’s cousin, Riley. Riley told Tom he would consider accepting Christ after hearing about how Mark Besst could not impale Erik due to Holy Spirit intervention. It worked for Mick and it worked for me at Prissy’s. Could it work again?
Tom had shown up at Princess Tina’s Leandro estate by private jet shortly before he walked in on a similar grouping of young elitists, both entertainment and aristocratic, among Tina’s life-long associates within the ‘royalty’ set of Europe.
Upon hearing her new husband—they had secretly married months before—decry the fact that he would have to try even harder with her group, the still-Princess laughed as she greeted him. “Well that’s what happens when you accept a ‘mission of God.’ But I don’t know what you’re complaining about. No one here tonight is really New Age. No one here is a Satanist although some of their parents are. ‘Black Nobility’ is what some call their parents. But, as with so many that have no clue about the so-called elites because they have no contact with the elites and believe every bloody conspiracy theory about the ‘Illuminati’ right? They have no idea that folks like me even exist. They have no idea that some in the elites want nothing to do with evil. And you know this is true, Tom.”
“Well, other than you and Joe Phillips, I don’t know anyone else in your elite circle that is resisting evil.” And, oh yeh, the baron. But he hadn’t told Tina about Torquay’s conversion yet.
“Because the group here is all underground, as you might say.”
In other words, even their parents had no idea that the folks Tina invited stood against what their parents were trying to accomplish—world-wide satanic rule, under the guise of sustainability and peace.
Just then a teenaged man dressed in jeans and a plain t-shirt, upon seeing Tom, walked out of Tina’s parlor wanting to greet him. “Very glad to meet you, Tom Cornsby!” Held out his hand. “I am Prince Giovanni.” Of another Principality set inside the Italian Peninsula. “I am in a similar situation as Tina was before she married you. The commoner—and, as with you, she really is no commoner.”
“Yeh!” Tom suddenly recognized the young prince. “That actress—whatshername? You two have developed into quite a tabloid item!” Two men shook hands.
“Well, Tom, now that the whole ‘princess and rock star’ side-show has been used up!” Laugh. “Now Prince Gio and Luzette are making headway.” Luzette being a popular French actress, but not with Hollywood.
“And is Luzette here? Did you bring her?” Tina asked the prince.
Just then the twenty-year-old brunette and petit actress also in jeans and t-shirt ran out to greet one of her ‘heroes.’ “Hi, I’m Luzette.” She had a last name, but as with so many young entertainers at this time, she went by a single name. “And I know you and your fellows hear this all the time, but I am a huge Sound Unltd fan—for years! And now that you guys are Christian? I love it!” Then she revealed, “Gio and I both are. But we really don’t know why other than we are rebelling against our parents, who hate Jesus for some reason. They blame Christ for all the bad things in the Catholic Church or any other church.”
Giovanni concurred. “Yes. So many of our parents and others we know blame Christ for all the troubles in the Middle East and everywhere else. They blame Christ for the terrible hypocrisy of so many so-called Christians.”
Tom laughed. “Now that sounds familiar! I don’t know a member of my band, or about a hundred other rockers, who didn’t used to or doesn’t still think the same way.”
Put his arm around Luzette. “Which is why me and the rest—and our mates back home—have our own church if you know what I mean. We don’t meet in a so-called ‘church.’ We meet in each other’s houses or even the local. Pub, eh? ‘Cos that’s the way the very early church like in 50 AD or something—in all those Epistles of Paul—that’s how they all met. Like not in some big old building. And mostly we do Bible Studies and pray.”
“With Erik blurting a hymn every now and then!” Tina quipped.
Laughs.
“So like our church is not like any other church I know of. We gonna do it the way we figure it was meant to be done.”
“Who leads the Bible Studies? Who’s the preacher?”
“We don’t really have a minister if you know what I mean. Jack leads the Bible Studies. That’s the mission God gave him.”
And then Tom explained that one, and the other five missions.
“My mission is to talk to folks like everyone here, and New Agers. And I think God gave me that mission because I really was into New Age in the nineties.”
“Weren’t you in Swami Negran’s church?” Luzette asked.
“Cult. Yeh, we all were until we figured out it was an evil cult.”
And on and on, including about the red crystals.
“And because we wore those crystals which we think captured souls of our fans for evil purposes—because we aided and abetted evil, we have to lead the resistance to it. Spiritually and otherwise, but especially spiritually.”
Gio then responded. “Well, some of us here are already there, but not all of us. We have a lot of doubters. Which is why we wanted you to come, Tom. What you said about your mission is what Tina told us.”
And when Tom with the others walked into Tina’s parlor which held over fifty of her associates, waiting to hear why they should resist evil by accepting Christ as Savior, they all clapped and yelled ‘bravo!’
He stood before them as a preacher. He told them about the jet burn and the other nefarious events afterwards, and then the Hellyon meeting, and how Mark Besst could not sacrifice Erik.
“And I’m not making that up! Besst was only a couple of inches—”
“I know what you say is true, Tom,” called out another young aristocrat from Eastern Europe, whose family had been replaced as rulers when East Europe went Communist in the late 1940s. “About eighty years ago, something like that happened with the head valet of my great-grandfather, a count. The valet was a Christian and the count wanted to sacrifice him because he hated Christianity. He belonged to a secret society similar to the Hellyons, but in my country. When the count learned about his valet being a Christian was when he ordered the sacrifice. But when the count was about to impale him, the whole room shined and, scared, the count could not impale him as the valet ran out of the room and disappeared. The count never found him. And I will say this—my family has been looking for this valet ever since. I do not know if they will complete the sacrifice if they find him. I don’t think they ever will. But I do know my parents are in this satanic group and would have no problem sacrificing me if they found out I was a Christian. And, I say this now in front of everyone—I am now accepting Jesus Christ as my Savior. And I no longer care if my parents sacrifice me or not! If I have to be a martyr, then so be it. I will not partake in the evil they expect me to!”
And then several others with similar or otherwise stories also accepted Christ that night.
Thus, drummer Tom’s woman, Tina, paved the way for Tom to turn to Christ and to begin accomplishing his given ‘mission of God.’ Hopefully, Part Two of this new series of posts will be posted in mid-February.
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