Pantera hasn’t been shy about utilizing the Accomplice flag of their merch, on stage, within the structure to 1996’s The Nice Southern Trendkill, and even on their devices all through the years. Although throughout a present in Sofia, Bulgaria on Could 26, frontman Phil Anselmo publicly disavowed the usage of the flag.
Earlier than taking part in “Cowboys From Hell” because the nearer to the present, Anselmo addressed somebody holding up an unknown signal within the crowd by saying “Sofia, I gotta say this: unbelievable viewers. Yet another factor: there’s an individual over right here holding up this signal making an attempt to destroy the fuckin’ present. I disavow, I disavow the fuckin’ flag. I am sorry. It is ridiculous, man. Hold politics out of shit. It is boring.”
Blabbermouth additionally introduced up an fascinating 2016 interview from Rolling Stone, the place each Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown addressed the utilization of the flag on The Nice Southern Trendkill.
“If we’re actually going to get into commentary right here, sure, I see the projected Accomplice flags,” stated Anselmo. “Nicely, for one, I’ve at all times stated, ‘Flags do not imply a rattling factor to me.’ Two, through the use of the Accomplice flag, regardless of what anybody says – and I do not give a shit, as a result of it doesn’t matter what I say, I am damned if I do, damned if I do not – however the reality of all of it is, it was about as harmless as harmless may very well be.
“We weren’t confessing to any clandestine energy of construction or nonetheless you assholes wanna put it today. I believe we used the Accomplice flag merely due to Lynyrd Skynyrd. We had realized from folks earlier than us. And it was by no means about something aside from that.
“The Accomplice flag is on the again cowl of [1996’s] The Nice Southern Trendkill. That was the ‘Southern’ a part of it,” added Brown. “There have been nonetheless states that had that on their state flags. These days it is forbidden to make use of it. It is not so politically right. Nevertheless it had nothing to do with racism. None of us had been like that. It was only a tie-in to the art work on the again cowl.
“Even again then, I stated, ‘This isn’t the best way to go.’ Lynyrd Skynyrd used one for years and nonetheless do. Now folks confuse it with racism and hatred. That is not what this band is about in any respect; fairly the other. Nevertheless it’s the one factor I’d say within the P.C. days that I’ve any regrets about.”
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