PETER TOSH SIGNED EQUAL RIGHTS LP REGGAE SKA AUTOGRAPH CERTIFICATE INCLUDED

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SIGNATURE IS CRISP AND CLEAR WITH NO SMEARS OR SMUDGES. RECORD COVER IS IN GOOD CONDITION WHICH DOES HAVE SOME CLEAR TAPE ON THE LEFT SIDE OVER THE SPINE, WITH A COLUMBIA RECORDS RECORD APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN PLAYED A FEW TIMES. RECORD HAS A RED COLUMBIA LABEL PC34670. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY IS INCLUDED. SONGS ON THIS ALBUM ARE 01 . Get Up, Stand Up 02 . Downpressor Man 03 . I Am That I Am 04 . Stepping Razor 05 . Equal Rights 06 . African 07 . Jah Guide 08 . Apartheid 09 . Pick Myself Up - (live) 10 . African - (live) Personnel: Peter Tosh (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Al Anderson, Abdul Wali, Karl Pitterson (guitar); Dirty Harry (tenor saxophone); Bobby Ellis (trumpet); Harold Butler (Clavinet); Earl Lindo, Tyrone Downie (keyboards); Robbie Shakespeare (bass); Sly Dunbar, Carlie Barrett (drums); Skully (percussion); Bunny Wailer (background vocals) Producer: Peter Tosh. Peter Tosh served as a counterpoint to the worldwide success of his former partner Bob Marley. The analogy worked loosely at best, as both musicians simply followed different muses after the 1974 break-up of the original Wailers. Tosh's recorded output had as much cross-over appeal as Marley's more commercial work, culminating in a duet with Mick Jagger on the song "Walk And Don't Look Back." But Tosh always had the more militant stance which resulted in many beatings and arrests leading up to his murder in 1987. Tosh's 1977 album, EQUAL RIGHTS, is a peak in his career. It begins with a new version of "Get Up, Stand Up," one of Marley's signature songs (co-written by Tosh). Tosh's version is more sinewy than Marley's, with biting guitar lines snaking throughout. Likewise, "Stepping Razor" struts with a dangerous swagger, "African" plays like a mirror to Marley's pan-Africanism, and "Apartheid" shows that Tosh is not afraid to indict any enemy, no matter how large. But the most chilling song is the title track, w Tosh sings, "Everyone is crying out for peace/None is crying out for justice," a self-assured call-to-arms as pertinent today as it was eighteen years ago. EQUAL RIGHTS represents Tosh to a tee--no-nonsense, gritty, political reggae with some of the most fully realized and best produced tracks this side of Tuff Gong.