#james vance

[rabid-dog-steve-horn]

On July 16, 1990, the trial against Judas Priest began, for the event that occurred on December 23, 1985, when the young Raymond Belknap, 18, and James Vance, 20, starred in one of the bloodiest stories of the time.

Both friends spent six hours drinking, smoking weed and listening to Judas Priest's Stained Class record. After that, the young men took a shotgun and decided to commit suicide. Belknap died instantly, while Vance survived, though losing much of his face before passing in 1988. The defense of families soon found a culprit: Judas Priest and his subliminal messages that incited violence.

Victims' relatives sued CBS Records for $6.2 million in damages. Five years later, in August 1990, the trial's sentence sowed high global expectation as it would create jurisprudence, affecting other bands whose lyrics were targeted for their aggression. “It’s a very, very interesting subject, belonging to psychology. But I had no idea. I was just a fucking lead singer of a heavy metal band. We were baffled by some of the things that came out of that courtroom,” Halford added.

In their favor, the band had the result of other trials where musicians were shielded by enforcing the First Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees free speech in the United States. Despite that, years earlier, Judge Jerry Whitched had signed a sentence in 1988 explaining that the First Amendment did not protect them from their messages.

Halford recalls all that month that they had to move to America. “We were in court from 9:00 to 17:00 hours, every day for a month. We're staying outside Reno to get away from the press. (... ) There we were wondering why are we here? We are British metal musicians and we are going to have to defend our music and our fans about the absurd, ridiculous accusations that we put those kinds of messages in our music to kill them,” the artist reported. Nearly 30 days later, on August 24, 1990 Judas Priest was acquitted of office.

In a 100-page sentence and with more than 40 witnesses consulted, Judge Whitched ruled that families could not prove the hidden subliminal messages. Today, the musician reveals: "I really wanted to go to the mothers and give them a hug, tell them 'I'm sorry for the loss of their children.' "Let's have coffee and talk about this," but he avoided doing it because there was a whole network of people behind them, "a kind of infiltration of extreme Christian groups urging them to proceed with the case."

About the trial itself, Halford claimed he and his teammates felt relieved, albeit disappointed. "(The judge) didn't say resoundingly 'what the prosecution was suggesting didn't happen', but basically said: "Look, this is still a foggy area, this band didn't put these words in the song and those words didn't create this tragedy." (... ) The whole thing of subliminal messages was left in limbo. It would be awful to think that this could happen again, but we just have to wait,” he concluded.

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[rumforall]

James Vance (1919 - 2007)

Decatur Street, New Orleans

[jlaclassified]

Why didn’t you guys tell me that Neil Gaiman’s Mr. Hero was good?  Mr. Hero fuckin rules.

[bobbole]

The Crow – Flesh and Blood

James O'Barr, Alexander Maleev, James Vance

[cryptocollectibles]

Neil Gaiman's Mr Hero The Newmatic Man #1 (March 1995) by Tekno Comix

Writtenb y James Vance, drawn by Ted Slampyak, Bob McLeod, and Bryan Talbot.

[smashedpages]

Remembering the late James Vance on his birthday, who sadly passed away in 2017.

[riotinyellow]

James hamel and JD Vance are the same person !?!??!?

[reignmaefall]

Dorcas: lying face down in Barty's bed complaining about Marlene

Pandora: lying face down on Evans bed complaining about Emmeline

Regulus: lying face down on his bed whining about James

Evan: *sitting on Barty's lap* gay people amiright

Barty: totally, anyway, mio bello*-

*my beautiful

[vlouette]

Sirius 'I party like a rockstar

look like a movie star

play like an all star

fuck like a pornstar

baby, I'm a superstar' Black

[shipspainfulships]

"fem Wolfstar" "fem jegulus" "fem rosekiller" HOW ABOUT WE MAKE MORE CONTENT ABOUT THE ACTUAL WLW PAIRINGS. there are not enough sapphic fanarts and fics in this world.

[nyxiolls]

james : you don't scare me, reg

regulus : then why is your heart beating so fast, potter I can hear it from here.

james : cus you're kinda cute

reg : ...

james : :)

[enbysiriusblack]

sirius is such a nicknamer. never calls anyone by their actual name. so,, his nicknames for people:

james: prongs (in private, it's a secret marauder nickname), jamie, cap (once quidditch captain)

remus: moony (in private, it's a secret marauder nickname), rey, prefect (once prefect)

peter: wormtail/wormy (in private, it's a secret marauder nickname), petey, frampton

lily: nark (before they become friends), red

marlene: marls, partner (once both beaters for the gryffindor quidditch team)

mary: magdalene (before they became friends), mac

regulus: reggie, idiot, couillon

emmeline: emmy

dorcas: dork, cassie

severus: snivellus (obviously)

andromeda: andy, vieille dame (/aff)

narcissa: prissy cissa/priss

bellatrix: trixie, la follasse

[myriadparacosm]

Regulus: Did you know my mother never breastfed me? Which I don't really care for but now I think I can feel the effect of it. The trauma.

Evan: Tragic. Does this concern James Potter passing by us shirtless?

Pandora: James Potter's breasts might be the solution.

Dorcas: Kudos.

Emmeline: If you were never breastfeed and Sirius neither... Do you think he asked Remus to help him with that?

Regulus: Well, he told me I need to nurse my mental health and that's how he got better.

Evan:

Barty: I just remembered I was never breastfed either.

Evan: I have a bad feeling.

[rizzmuslupinz]

the marauders’ old camera

[rudamaruda520]

Barty: Do you even know my full name?

James: Bartholomew?

Marlene: Bart?

Peter: Baryton?

Remus: Bardolph?

Sirius: Bastard?

Emmeline: Barton?

Lily: Barthold?

Barty: ...

Barty: Fuck you, guys.

[auntiejohn]

marauders era incest map!!

inspired by heartbreak high

made by me😜