Johnny Talbot
  • Welcome
  • The Music
  • Funkreation
    • The Creator
    • Prologue
    • The Creation
    • The Fillmore Period
    • The Panther Era
    • The First Funk Band
    • To All the Girls
    • The Chitlin' Circuit
    • The Legend
    • Tribute
  • Welcome
  • The Music
  • Funkreation
    • The Creator
    • Prologue
    • The Creation
    • The Fillmore Period
    • The Panther Era
    • The First Funk Band
    • To All the Girls
    • The Chitlin' Circuit
    • The Legend
    • Tribute
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The Black Panther slogans filled the air!
"Off the Pigs!, Power to the People!, Today's Pig is Tomorrow's Bacon, Huey must be Free!"

DeFermery Park in Oakland, CA was full of people. Our music was funky and grooving. Bobby spoke, Stokely spoke, the community and revolutionary spirit was engrossing. The Berkeley High School auditorium was packed. The Panther lawyers waited for their wages. Jane Fonda's husband, Tom Hayden spoke as young Panthers with buckets walked through the building soliciting money. We played our best songs, The Panthers, the community, the music, the cause. We donated our talent. At the time, we all seemed to need each other, it felt so right... Thank you David for the opportunity to "Serve the People."

and then, the first funk band>
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