Mystery of Q042 Death Tape Unspooled<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Death Tape was recorded over a reel-to-reel tape which already had music on it, music which was not entirely erased in the process of recording Q042. The two recordings \u2013 the original funk and R&B music and the tape of Jonestown’s final day \u2013 were also recorded at different speeds. This led to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":113131,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113189"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125098,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113189\/revisions\/125098"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>The three examples below illustrate this. The three songs are \u201cI\u2019m Sorry\u201d by the Delfonics; \u201cThe Pain Gets a Little Deeper\u201d by Darrow Fletcher; and \u201cNever Give You Up\u201d by Jerry Butler. The MP3s of the songs below comprise the excerpt of the Death Tape under which the song plays at half speed; followed by the song at its recorded speed and the words on the Death Tape at twice its speed, giving the words an incomprehensible “chipmunk” effect.<\/p>\n