Bobby Sullivan

Forming Soulside in 1983, their first release under the name Lunch Meat was a split 7" with Dave Grohl's first band, Mission Impossible.

After Soulside's split, Sullivan formed 7 League Boots in Boston, a band which blended reggae and rock.

Mentored by Eric Weinberger, a Civil Rights activist who had been on the Freedom Rides, he worked with Food Not Bombs (soup kitchens for the homeless) for five years in DC and Boston.

He also helped form the DC chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross, a political prisoner support network, giving him close relationships with Ramona Africa from the MOVE Organization and various former Black Panthers and Weather Underground members.

Today Bobby still makes music with Soulside and recently put out a book called Revolutionary Threads: Rastafari, Social Justice and Cooperative Economics(2018).