# conservative rock bands? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-rock-bands/147680 "2003-01-10T04:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-rock-bands/147680/81 "2003-01-14T23:44:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\*Gut-totin’ is very radical in my opinion. I don’t know where a guy who believes everyone should have one is considered conservative. \*\* Huh? What rock have you been living under where you don’t think that American conservatives are _very much_ for ownership of any kind of firearm? FTR, Skynyrd’s song was for getting rid of all handguns: [lyrics](http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?sid=%17%C6%CE%B9g%F3%0C%10). ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-rock-bands/147680/82 "2003-01-15T01:38:37Z")
Fingolfin, some comments on your long post. 1. I believe it was Paul Davis who did “Having my baby.” Not Paul Anka. Maybe Anka wrote it, but he did not perform the hit version. 2. On the Album version on “Revolution,” from the “White” album, after the words “Don’t you know you can count me out,” John Lennin sings “in.” Go figure On 29, I believe Lynard Skynard had satire in mind. I think the band was more into fishing and cold beer than politics. Just because a band decides to play at a political fundraiser, does not necessarily mean that all, or any of the band members support that party or cause. I have heard that John MacVie, of Fleetwood Mac, is republican. I know I read it somewhere, but I have no cite. I do present a conservative, in the Trent Lott tradition, musician, Johnny Rebel. [http://www.officialjohnnyrebel.com/](http://www.officialjohnnyrebel.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-rock-bands/147680/83 "2003-01-15T07:05:48Z")
Lynyrd Skynyrd was extremely political. For instance, these are some of the lyrics to “Things Goin’ On”: > [@](#): > > Have you ever lived down in the ghetto? > Have you ever felt the cold wind blow? > If you don’t know what I mean, > Won’t you stand up and scream? > ‘Cause there’s things goin’ on that you don’t know. > > Too many lives they’ve spent across the ocean. > Too much money been spent upon the moon. > Well, until they make it right > I hope they never sleep at night > They better make some changes > And do it soon. > > They’re goin ruin the air we breathe > Lord have mercy. > They’re gonna ruin us all, by and by. > I’m telling you all beware > I don’t think they really care > I think they just sit up there > And just get high. Doesn’t sound very conservative to me. Skynyrd’s politics were pretty much 60’s hippie radical, except with southern tilt. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-rock-bands/147680/84 "2003-01-15T09:16:33Z")
Sonny Bono. Mick Jagger, in a circa 1982 interview with PENTHOUSE, claimed that every major Black musician he knew of had voted for Reagan and that so had he (I didn’t know he was even a US citizen). My guess is that they were all single-issue voters on taxation. The Van Halen member who was so Pro-Life was the guy from Extreme (Pornograffiti 2, “More Than Words”) who briefly signed on as Sammy Hagar’s replacement in the early 90s. And what was ELO’s “It’s a Living Thing” if not a pro-life anthem? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-rock-bands/147680/85 "2003-01-16T00:11:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gonzalo de cordoba \* > \*\*You just can’t be as apocalyptic as he can be, quoting Isaiah and Revelations every other song, and not have a conservative mentality. \*\* I don’t think it’s that simple. The most apocalyptic hit song of all was “Eve of Destruction,” but note that it was the conservatives who got royally pissed off over it and they even tried to ban it from the radio. However, the most literally apocalyptic song I know of is **“Supper’s Ready”** by **Genesis** , which directly uses Christian imagery from the Book of Revelation. And yet… its lyrics include satire such as _There’s Winston Churchill dressed in drag He used to be a British flag Plastic bag What a drag_ which was highly disrespectful, to say the least, towards such venerable Conservative icons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-rock-bands/147680.md?page=4)