Johnny Rebel

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 1 Feb 2008 2:20 pm

I'd still like to make the point that no-one has ever confirmed who played on the sides, there's just an assumption from the old Johnny Rebel recording at a certain studio and that band (which included Pee Wee) happened to be the house band.

If there's one thing we should have learned from the internet by now, is that people connect the dots a little too readily.

Jim Phelps · Post by **Jim Phelps** » 1 Feb 2008 11:39 pm

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Edward Meisse · Post by **Edward Meisse** » 2 Feb 2008 11:13 pm

You know, these guys were products of their culture and time. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and founded a country in which women couldn't vote. I don't remember but I think their ownership of property was limited as well. None of us would consider for a minute that those things diminished their accomplishments. Because we take everything they did in the proper perspective. I think that before we pass judgement on the musicians who took part in this, it's probably a good idea to consider the context in which it occurred and look at it in the broader perspective of what else they might have done in their lives.
I have to agree though that it is alot harder to be understanding about someone who would associate him/herself with that sort of thing these days. I just can't help but think that everybody should know much better than that by now. Not everybody is successful enough to have the luxury, as Ray Charles did, to turn down decent paying work. But still......

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 3 Feb 2008 12:27 pm

I agree with Ed. The older guys from the South were products of their time and place. That Johnny Reb stuff is reprehensible for any time period, but just being a side man for that does not diminish someones other musical accomplishments. Wagner was anti-semitic, but his music was great and has been played in Israel. The guys still doing that stuff today? That's another story.

Charles Curtis · Post by **Charles Curtis** » 17 May 2015 4:11 pm

In 1972 I was appointed the first, Equal Opportunity NCO of the 98th MASq, the home of Air Force One. And I occasionally server on AF one as a Flight Steward, working my butt off. At the first seminar that was held on the base by some lady, she asked, "does anyone have any ideas"? My hand went up and it was the only one in the audience, I said, "why not listen to a man whether he has a problem or not". She wrote that down and it was the only salient suggestion. In the first EEOC training film, there was a black army Lt/Col and he said "listen to a man whether he has a problem or not". I almost fell out of my chair. As I look back today I wonder if I should have volunteered that because I think that it has interfered with military discipline; and I'm from Texas, IMO, the best state in the union.