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David Peel is a NYC based musician who has stayed
amazingly true to his unique personal vision since
the late 1960s and in the early 21st century still
shows no sign of slowing down.  Though his raw,
acoustic "street" music with lyrics about
marijuana and "pigs" appealed mostly to hippies at
first, the sound and DIY ethic|DIY aesthetic make
him an important if little-credited father of punk
rock, and he has performed with artists ranging
from B. B. King to GG Allin.

Originally recorded with back up from Harold Black
and Billy Jo White, the backup band performed
under the name the Lower East Side/Band that after
1972 and the dropping out of Harold and Billy jo,
included Moses, Eddie, Andi "Punk" Anderson (they
were some of the first to perform regularly on
cable TV in Manhattan that was broadcast on the
public access channel of the Manhattan Cable TV
Co.), and the first Smoke-in Concerts sponsered by
the Yippies in New York City.

Andi "Punk" has continued to work as an
independent musician and artist (who after he took
a guitar lesson from Ross the Boss (Ross Boss
Friedman) The Dictators went on to work with Doug
Holland of the bands Cromags and Kraut
(band)|Kraut, Richard Sohl of the Patti Smith
Group, and read poetry at "the St. Mark's Church
on the Bowery, New Year's Eve Poetry Reading" with
Allen Ginsberg, and Patti Smith, Gregory Corso,
Peter Orlovsky, Lou Reed, and John Cale. 

John Lennon mentioned Peel in the song New York
City:

:Standing on the corner
:Just me and yoko ono
:We was waiting for jerry to land
:Up come a man with the guitar
:in his hand
:Singing "have a marijuana if you
can"
:His name was David Peel
:And we found that he was real
:He sang "The pope smokes dope
everyday"
:Up come a police man shoved us up the
street
:Singin, "power to the people
today!"

...and Lennon and Yoko Ono produced Peel's third
album, The Pope Smokes Dope.

Concerned about censorship of music|major label
censorship, Peel founded Orange Records to release
his recordings, and also those of other artists
such as GG Allin and John Draper ("Captain Crunch"
of phone phreaking phame).  As of 2004 he is still
actively recording and performing his music and
planning to release a 20 CD box set in Summer
2005.

Peel has appeared in various films as himself,
including http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098230/
Rude Awakening (1989) and
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264683/ High Times
Potluck (2004)

==External links==
*http://gemm.com/gemm_http/mall/peel/peelhome.html
The "Official online shrine"
*http://peelnyc.tripod.com David's homepage
*http://www.pieman.org/acidtaste/real/peel1989.ram
Video clip of Peel performing in 1989 (RealPlayer
required)