SINGING UNDER OATH
Nov. 28th, 2009 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogA little slice of metal history for you: Rob Halford of Judas Priest – on trial for using subliminal messages to convince fans to kill themselves – testifies by singing a lyric from the song "Better By You, Better Than Me".
The subsequent questioning (from his own lawyer) gives you an idea of just how bizarre the entire idea of the trial was – so much so that you wonder how it ever got to the trial phase in the first place.
But hey, that was 1990, which is practically the Stone Age when we all believed that thunderstorms were angry gods. Here in 2009, no one would ever believe that famous people speak in a way that contains Satanic evil messages if you were to hear it backwards –
Oh snap.
Anyway, here’s the best write-up you’ll find on the trial, if you’ve got about 30 minutes to kill.
Breakin’ the law,
This is dF
The subsequent questioning (from his own lawyer) gives you an idea of just how bizarre the entire idea of the trial was – so much so that you wonder how it ever got to the trial phase in the first place.
But hey, that was 1990, which is practically the Stone Age when we all believed that thunderstorms were angry gods. Here in 2009, no one would ever believe that famous people speak in a way that contains Satanic evil messages if you were to hear it backwards –
Oh snap.
Anyway, here’s the best write-up you’ll find on the trial, if you’ve got about 30 minutes to kill.
Breakin’ the law,
This is dF
