David Peel & the Lower East Side

Biography

David Peel & the Lower East Side was an American rock band from Manhattan, New York. The band formed in 1967 to support musician David Peel and originally consisted of Harold C. Black and Billy Joe White. The band signed to Elektra Records in 1968. With the addition of Larry Adam and George Cori to the line-up, the band recorded with David Peel on the Have a Marijuana album conceptualized by Danny Fields as a collection of drinking songs for pot smokers. In 1970 the band recorded their second...

David Peel & the Lower East Side was an American rock band from Manhattan, New York. The band formed in 1967 to support musician David Peel and originally consisted of Harold C. Black and Billy Joe White.

The band signed to Elektra Records in 1968. With the addition of Larry Adam and George Cori to the line-up, the band recorded with David Peel on the Have a Marijuana album conceptualized by Danny Fields as a collection of drinking songs for pot smokers.

In 1970 the band recorded their second album, The American Revolution, which was also released by Elektra Records (now part of Warner Music Group) on the Sire Records imprint. In 1971, after the record was released and the band toured in support of it, Harold C. Black and Billy Joe White left to form the glitter rock band Teenage Lust. Black went on run New York City's after-hours nightclub the 210 Club. They were replaced by Tommy Doyle, Frank Lanci and Billy Minelli. In the mid-seventies, the band was produced by its long-time friend and admirer John Lennon for Apple Records. Lennon then produced David Peel's The Pope Smokes Dope, which was banned in several countries outside the United States and Canada.

In the late 1970s, the band included Eddie and his brother Moses from the Bronx, as well as Andi Anderson (aka Andrew Stergiou). They regularly appeared with David Peel on Michael Luckman's Underground Tonight Show, an early cable TV program broadcast on Sterling Manhattan Cable TV public broadcast channels. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.