David Peel
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David Peel is a New York
-based musician
who first recorded in the late 1960s with Harold Black, Billy Joe White, and Larry Adam performing as David Peel and The Lower East Side Band
. His raw, acoustic "street rock" with lyrics about marijuana and "bad cops" appealed mostly to hippie
s.
(1989), High Times' Potluck
(2004) and The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006).
Later, John Lennon and Yoko Ono produced and recorded David Peel's "America", the theme song for Jack Milton's film: "Please Stand By", in which David Peel portrays and stars as a media hippie revolutionary, who hijacks a network television van and jams the airwaves with unauthorized radical broadcasts to the nation.
A photograph of Peel identified as Lennon turned up in the John Lennon's FBI files.
New York
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-based musician
Musician
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who first recorded in the late 1960s with Harold Black, Billy Joe White, and Larry Adam performing as David Peel and The Lower East Side Band
The Lower East Side Band
The Lower East Side Band is an American rock band from Manhattan, New York.-History:In the late 1960s the band recorded on Elektra Records and was a popular local Manhattan band. Formed originally as a backup band for David Peel, the band originally consisted of Harold C. Black and Billy Joe White...
. His raw, acoustic "street rock" with lyrics about marijuana and "bad cops" appealed mostly to hippie
Hippie
The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...
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Biography
Peel has appeared as himself in various films, including Please Stand By (1974), Rude AwakeningRude Awakening (1989 film)
Rude Awakening is a 1989 comedy film directed by David Greenwalt and Aaron Russo.-Plot:In 1969 New York City, two hippies, Fred Wook and Jesus Monteya, flee the US to avoid arrest by the FBI and hide out in the jungles of Central America...
(1989), High Times' Potluck
High Times' Potluck
High Times' Potluck is a 2002 comedy film by High Times that revolves around a mobster in Manhattan who discovers the magic of marijuana.This aptly named comedy follows a suitcase of high-grade marijuana from the farm where it was grown, to its eventual distribution in New York...
(2004) and The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006).
Later, John Lennon and Yoko Ono produced and recorded David Peel's "America", the theme song for Jack Milton's film: "Please Stand By", in which David Peel portrays and stars as a media hippie revolutionary, who hijacks a network television van and jams the airwaves with unauthorized radical broadcasts to the nation.
A photograph of Peel identified as Lennon turned up in the John Lennon's FBI files.