Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest

10/27/2019

***Scapegoating a metal band for the misguided suicide pact of 2 delinquents who abused alcohol & drugs*** “Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest” (1992) is a one hour documentary of the infamous Reno, Nevada, trial that took 5.5 weeks in the middle of summer 1990. Just before Christmas in 1985 two youths in a suburb of Reno shoot themselves under the chin in a curious suicide pact. The 18 year-old dies immediately while the 20 year-old survives, albeit with a horribly disfigured face. Almost five years later the parents take Judas Priest to court, suggesting that the band was responsible for the tragedy due to a subliminal message of "do it" in the song "Better by You, Better than Me," a Spooky Tooth cover from their 1978 album STAINED CLASS. While that w