Everything about David Peel totally explained
David Peel is a
New York-based musician who first recorded in the late 1960s, with Harold Black, Billy Jo White and Larry Adams performing as The Lower East Side Band. Though his raw, acoustic "street rock" with lyrics about
marijuana and "bad cops" appealed mostly to
hippies at first, the sound and
DIY ethic make him an important, if little-credited, early performer of punk rock. He has performed with artists ranging from
B. B. King to the
Plastic Ono Band.
The band was one of the first to regularly perform on cable TV in
Manhattan on the public access channel of Manhattan Cable Television, as well as at the first Smoke-In Concerts sponsored by the
Yippies in New York City in Central Park.
John Lennon mentioned Peel in the song "New York City". Lennon and his wife
Yoko Ono subsequently produced Peel's third album, The Pope Smokes Dope.
Concerned about major label censorship, Peel founded Orange Records to release his own recordings and also those of other independent artists such as: GG Allin & The Jabbers and Mozarts People. As of 2006 Peel is still actively recording and performing his music, planning the release of a CD-ROM-based book of photographs and enjoying a new audience through online services such as iTunes.
Peel has appeared in various films as himself, including Please Stand By (1974) and Rude Awakening (1989) and High Times Potluck (2004).
Partial Discography
- Have a Marijuana
- The American Revolution
- The Pope Smokes Dope
- Santa Claus - Rooftop Junkie
- An Evening With David Peel
- Bring Back the Beatles
- King of Punk
- Death to Disco
- John Lennon for President
- 1984
- Search to Destroy
- John Lennon Forever
- Anarchy in New York City
- The Battle for New York
- War and Anarchy
- Legalize Marijuana
- Long Live the Grateful Dead
- Rock 'N' Roll Outlaw
- World War III
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