Message To Harry Manback

Thoughts_Arrive
Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited March 2011 in Other Music
Anyone here know what the story is with this interlude on Aenima?
Is it a hate prank to a band members phone?
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    G39. Is "Message to Harry Manback" an actual phone message?

    Yep, someone left someone a threat. Yes, they actually meant it as a threat. So no, it wasn't concocted by the band. (Though the piano part was obviously added in to make it sound more like a love poem).

    G40. OK, so who was that message for? Who is Harry Manback?

    Danny had this to say about it in some interview:

    "Message to Harry Manback is a recording of the words of an uninvited Italian guest who came to Maynard's house one day. A so-called friend of a friend of a friend of Harry's .... Before we finally managed to figure out that nobody really knew him, he had already emptied the fridge and run up a huge phone bill. He got kicked out of the house."

    Harry Manback is a pseudonym for the real recipient of the message, presumably a past roommate of Maynard's: Hotsy Menshot of Green Jello.

    courtesy of

    http://toolshed.down.net/faq/faq.html
  • capthowdy1027
    capthowdy1027 Posts: 3,270
    From what I've read what we actually hear on the album is a reenactment of the message though, not the real message that was left.
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