Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 164

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(BLACK PANTHERS.) MUSIC. "No More" and (flip side) "Free Bobby Now." Part of "Seize the Time." 45 RPM record, near fine in the original plain sleeve. Apparently un-played. [San Francisco], 1971-72

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a very scarce recording by the panthers' funk band, the lumpen. Member Michael Torrance recalled the band for the Panthers website itsabouttimebpp.com: "In the winter of 1971, the Lumpen and comrade Emory (minister of culture) went on an East Coast tour of colleges and fundraisers in St. Paul/Minneapolis, New York City, Boston, New Haven and the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention in Washington DC. We promoted the Party's mass line through re-working popular songs by the Impressions (People Get Ready - Revolution's Come), the Temptations (There's Bullets in the Air for Freedom, Old Pig Nixon) as well as originals such as Revolution is the Only Solution, We Can't Wait Another Day, Set Sister Erika Free, and Killin' (If U Gon Be Free).