David Peel & The Lower East Side - The American Revolution Vinyl LP Mint Minus
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David Peel & The Lower East Side - The American Revolution LP Mint Minus. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
Play graded mint minus. Has original inner sleeve. First pressing!!
David — who was born David Michael Rosario — loved telling the story of how the F.B.I. mistook him for John Lennon after a benefit in Ann Arbor for White Panther leader John Sinclair. A handbill with a picture of David under a cartoon balloon saying, “The Pope smokes dope,” was circulated to the cops as a photo of Lennon, despite F.B.I. headquarters warning that they didn’t know what the Beatle looked like. David said it was “rock’s greatest flattery” to confuse him with Lennon, whom he idolized.
It was through Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin that John Lennon and David Peel began their collaboration. They met in Washington Square Park, where David would hang out playing to raptured fans, street people and tourists. Peel was railing against people spending their money on “rock celebrities” as John and Yoko hung at the edge of the crowd. Lennon later said, “I thought he was talking about me.”
Later, David signed to Lennon’s Apple Records label and appeared on an album with the Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band.
Songs like “I want to get High,” and “Hey, Mr. Draft Board” are three-chord ballads of individual liberty and humanism. Armed with his guitar, Peel was a veteran, both of the U.S. Army and the people’s army and his experience taught him to hate war and love humanity.
David was a regular at Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park, leading musicians in a nonstop drum circle during the two-month occupation. When asked by a New York Times reporter how long he planned to keep singing, David said, characteristically, “until the day I drop dead and go to rock ’n’ roll heaven.”
If there is a rock-and-roll heaven, David is undoubtedly strumming along.
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