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David Peel & the Lower East Side ~ 1972 ~ The Pope Smokes Dope
genre: acid folk
state: us
quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, cover, size: 398 mb)
time: 56'05"
wikipedia:
Formed to support David Peel in 1967, the Lower East Side Band originally consisted of Harold C. Black and Billy Joe White. They soon became popular enough in New York City's then thriving downtown counterculture that they were 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 Lower East Side Band recorded their second album, The American Revolution. 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. Harold 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 Lower East Side 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 Lower East Side 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. Sterling Manhattan Cable was later to become part of HBO in the Times-Warner group.
The Lower East Side band was part of the Plastic Ono Band that appeared on the David Frost Show with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. They also performed at the first Manhattan New York City smoke-in hosted by the Yippies, as well as the first Washington DC smoke-in, which was broadcast on both television and radio.
Side one 1. "I'm a Runaway" 3:39
2. "Everybody's Smoking Marijuana" 4:06
3. "F Is Not a Dirty Word" 3:12
4. "The Hippie from New York City" 3:01
5. "McDonald's Farm" 3:13
6. "The Ballad of New York City/John Lennon • Yoko Ono" 3:19
Side two 1. "The Ballad of Bob Dylan" 4:12
2. "The Chicago Conspiracy" 3:47
3. "The Hip Generation" 1:50
4. "I'm Gonna Start Another Riot" 2:37
5. "The Birth Control Blues" 4:48
6. "The Pope Smokes Dope" 2:15
Bonus tracks: "Amerika" (Edit) – 4:15 with Yoko Ono
"How Did You Meet David Peel?" – 2:07 interview with John Lennon
"Everybody's Smokin'" (Remix) – 7:41
All songs written and composed by David Peel.
Bagtwo – design
Roy Cicala – engineering
Jack Douglas – engineering
Bill Ferrara – photography
Robert L. Heimall – art direction
John Lennon – production
Yoko Ono – production
David Peel – vocals, guitar
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