Ep21: Pantera’s Cowboys From Hell and Vulgar Display of Power

The first of FOUR Pantera episodes! Robert and I picked up our instruments during the height of Pantera's relevance and they are maybe our biggest influence. So we have VERY strong and detailed opinions about almost every song in their catalog. 

 

00:00 Intro

01:14 Anti-trans bills in texas, russian invasion of Ukraine, and assortment of people we want to F*&! off

46:54 Cowboys From Hell

2:05:26 Vulgar Display of Power

2:31:54 Phil’s racist lyrics and speeches

3:02:30 back to what we love about Vulgar

recorded 2/25/2022

 

This episode was recorded as Putin was beginning his invasion of Ukraine and Abbott was laying out his latest trans bill. We discuss this and more of our left wing politics in a particularly inspired preamble. If you want to know what our politics are then this is a good place to hear it. 

 

To get things started with each album we did "three essential tracks and one to trash" 

 

We also unpack the racist things that Phil has said on stage. I have so much love for Phil and his body of work, it was and still is a profound influence on me as an artist, lyricist, vocalist, and as a frontman back in the day, so please know that I did not want to talk about the racist speech he puts out there. But we are discussing his legacy and when he decided time and time again to stop a Pantera show to rant about racial issues and when he sieg heiled and screamed "white power" from the stage at dimebash I have to talk about it. I didn’t make this a part of his legacy, he did. 

The book I referenced in the preamble

The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder

https://www.timothysnyder.org/books/the-road-to-unfreedom-tr/the-road-to-unfreedom-hc

 

The video I referenced when talking about Rogan
For Harriet - Joe Rogan is Uncancellable

https://youtu.be/N_3ftvxceO8