Whats the significance or meaning of “801” in the True Wheel or as a band name?
This probably takes the First Prize for “most frequently asked question on the newsgroup”. Eno is quoted on the subject in More Dark Than Shark: This track started from a dream. I was staying in the Drake Hotel in New York with a girl called Randi N–. I had a dream about her and a group of other girls (Randi and the Pyramids [who sing the chorus on the recorded track]) and guys singing the song…they were sort of astronauts, but with all the psychological aspects of sailors.” Whilst you’re puzzling over sailors’ psychological aspects, mathew has further quotes from Eno: “The other strange thing about this song is its inadvertent links with the Cabala. I found out, long after I’d written the song, that the number 801 means ‘Alpha and Omega’ or ‘The first and the last’ in the Cabala and that this entity is a circular concept (i.e. the beginning and the ending being identical). It also means ‘The Dove’, which I like. The number 801 (which, with all the rest of the chorus refrain, was pl
