Lennon circa 1972
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marcus
Apr 29, 2010, 11:22:36 PM4/29/10
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Saw these on youtube recently:
John and Yoko with David Peel, his band, including Jerry Rubin on the
David Frost Show, circa 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9dyN7M1VU&feature=related
John and Yoko, with the Elephant's Memory band, from the Dick Cavett
Show, circa 1972.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc04BXfQVaU&NR=1
John and Yoko with David Peel, his band, including Jerry Rubin on the
David Frost Show, circa 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9dyN7M1VU&feature=related
John and Yoko, with the Elephant's Memory band, from the Dick Cavett
Show, circa 1972.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc04BXfQVaU&NR=1
Pearlie
Apr 30, 2010, 10:22:55 PM4/30/10
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This is amazing. I played guitar with David Peele at a party in the
Bronx around 4 years ago. Another guy Tommy Doyle (to the left of
David Peele with long hair playing another acoustic) was also at that
party. We were tlaking about John Lennon and I was grilling them
about the iexperience of having met and played with him. We were
playing Beatle, Dylan and sixties songs. I'm not good but know enough
chords to keep up on a few songs. It was so much fun. This was at a
reunion party for people who grew up in Castle Hill in the Bronx. I
didn't grew up there but was and am very close to another Tommy (Tommy
Acosta), whom I met and worked with at Blue Shield in Manhattan. We
used to smoke pot in the bathrooms of the company headquarters.
Eventually Tommy Acosta was fired for insubordination, but we stayed
friends. After he was fired he became friends with David Peele and all
his buddies. Tommy Acosta was later in a Punk band called the
Squirrels, who played at CBGBs. He was and remains quite a
character. He frew several massive marijuana plants in his Bronx
apartment. This is amazing that you found this. I just forwarded it
to him. He's gonna freak out seeing David with John Lennon. .
Bronx around 4 years ago. Another guy Tommy Doyle (to the left of
David Peele with long hair playing another acoustic) was also at that
party. We were tlaking about John Lennon and I was grilling them
about the iexperience of having met and played with him. We were
playing Beatle, Dylan and sixties songs. I'm not good but know enough
chords to keep up on a few songs. It was so much fun. This was at a
reunion party for people who grew up in Castle Hill in the Bronx. I
didn't grew up there but was and am very close to another Tommy (Tommy
Acosta), whom I met and worked with at Blue Shield in Manhattan. We
used to smoke pot in the bathrooms of the company headquarters.
Eventually Tommy Acosta was fired for insubordination, but we stayed
friends. After he was fired he became friends with David Peele and all
his buddies. Tommy Acosta was later in a Punk band called the
Squirrels, who played at CBGBs. He was and remains quite a
character. He frew several massive marijuana plants in his Bronx
apartment. This is amazing that you found this. I just forwarded it
to him. He's gonna freak out seeing David with John Lennon. .
Pearlie
May 5, 2010, 7:32:21 PM5/5/10
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I notice no one responded to ,my above bragging . You may think I
went crazy claiming to know these people, being I never mentioned it
before. I got excited when I saw that video with guys who were not
all too important, playing with John Lennon when he moved to NY in the
early 7O's. As a GIANT Beatle fan, I remember feeling annoyed at
Lennon for hanging out with "commoners" such as David Peele and Tommy
Doyle. (there was a stepping-stone sort of linked hierarchy...
average joes T. Doyle, D. Peele, below Jerry Rubin =wat bekiw Lennon
at the pulpit.).
Around that time, I thought John was spreading himself thin appearing
on Mike Douglas and Dick Cavette, the Today Show and others as well
deejaying on the radio with Scott Muni. There was too much John
Lennon. Who could have ever thought I'd think that thought. There
was never supposed to be too much John Lennon. Suddenly the rarest
brand of fine chocolate, behaved like a Hershey bar, easily found in
any corner candy store. It wasn't right for royalty to be so down to
earth, after so many of us schemed and planned ways to sneak into
hotels to merely touch him. You have to remember I idolized the
Beatles from day one. They were supposed to be hard to access, and
then he starts playing with a Peele who was dailly staple in
Washington Square Park in the Village during the seventies.
Eventually my friend Tommy (Acosta) began talkling about befriending
and hanging out with David Peele (who played all of 3 chords
repetitively in every single song he wrote). "have a have a have a
marijuana.."
In spite of all I'm saying, these guys are really great and nice
people, although these musicians were pedestrian compared to John
Lennon, it does give me, who am at the insect level in this model
hierarchy, great pride in having deallt with folks who dealt with
Beatle John 3 decades earlier.
Ah... but This isn't my only claim to fame however, In my would-be
groupie days, I actuallly touched (with my right hand) both John and
Paul more than once. (I never washed it again!) I was amongst a most
resourceful group of Beatle fans. My best friend, Janice, married an
extreme Beatle fan and moved to Springfiled, IL near the town where
George Harrison's sister, Louise, lived. I won't go into a long story
of how they met and how my friend and her husband were instrumental in
saving the house George stayed in before the Beatles came to America
from being bulldozed. I have a photo of myself with Louise whom I
met in NY as well. I also have photos I took of John and Paul in May
of '68 when they were here promoting Apple. And others of Paul after
he married Linda and on other occasions he's visited. Of course no
one will believe any of this until I purchase a scanner to upload my
proof. This will be accomplished eventually. the truth is, I have not
joined facebook because I don't know how to upload photos.
It may be hard to believe that while John lived in The Dakota, I never
went there to look for him. I knew he lived in the Upper West Side,
but neither Janice nor I ever investigated the exact location. We
were "beatled out" after the break-up. The sixties left us wounded.
I remember passing the building with the gargoyles and thinking to
myself "what an eerie foreboding looking place." I had not a clue it
was the Dakota. For all I know I passed the man I so idolized on the
street sometime in the seventies. It wasn't until Elton John gave his
famous concert in Central Park that walking around Central Park's
perimeter someone pointed ut that the place with the gargoyles was
where John and Yoko lived. Strange how I had that feeling of
eerieness way before the worst happened.
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went crazy claiming to know these people, being I never mentioned it
before. I got excited when I saw that video with guys who were not
all too important, playing with John Lennon when he moved to NY in the
early 7O's. As a GIANT Beatle fan, I remember feeling annoyed at
Lennon for hanging out with "commoners" such as David Peele and Tommy
Doyle. (there was a stepping-stone sort of linked hierarchy...
average joes T. Doyle, D. Peele, below Jerry Rubin =wat bekiw Lennon
at the pulpit.).
Around that time, I thought John was spreading himself thin appearing
on Mike Douglas and Dick Cavette, the Today Show and others as well
deejaying on the radio with Scott Muni. There was too much John
Lennon. Who could have ever thought I'd think that thought. There
was never supposed to be too much John Lennon. Suddenly the rarest
brand of fine chocolate, behaved like a Hershey bar, easily found in
any corner candy store. It wasn't right for royalty to be so down to
earth, after so many of us schemed and planned ways to sneak into
hotels to merely touch him. You have to remember I idolized the
Beatles from day one. They were supposed to be hard to access, and
then he starts playing with a Peele who was dailly staple in
Washington Square Park in the Village during the seventies.
Eventually my friend Tommy (Acosta) began talkling about befriending
and hanging out with David Peele (who played all of 3 chords
repetitively in every single song he wrote). "have a have a have a
marijuana.."
In spite of all I'm saying, these guys are really great and nice
people, although these musicians were pedestrian compared to John
Lennon, it does give me, who am at the insect level in this model
hierarchy, great pride in having deallt with folks who dealt with
Beatle John 3 decades earlier.
Ah... but This isn't my only claim to fame however, In my would-be
groupie days, I actuallly touched (with my right hand) both John and
Paul more than once. (I never washed it again!) I was amongst a most
resourceful group of Beatle fans. My best friend, Janice, married an
extreme Beatle fan and moved to Springfiled, IL near the town where
George Harrison's sister, Louise, lived. I won't go into a long story
of how they met and how my friend and her husband were instrumental in
saving the house George stayed in before the Beatles came to America
from being bulldozed. I have a photo of myself with Louise whom I
met in NY as well. I also have photos I took of John and Paul in May
of '68 when they were here promoting Apple. And others of Paul after
he married Linda and on other occasions he's visited. Of course no
one will believe any of this until I purchase a scanner to upload my
proof. This will be accomplished eventually. the truth is, I have not
joined facebook because I don't know how to upload photos.
It may be hard to believe that while John lived in The Dakota, I never
went there to look for him. I knew he lived in the Upper West Side,
but neither Janice nor I ever investigated the exact location. We
were "beatled out" after the break-up. The sixties left us wounded.
I remember passing the building with the gargoyles and thinking to
myself "what an eerie foreboding looking place." I had not a clue it
was the Dakota. For all I know I passed the man I so idolized on the
street sometime in the seventies. It wasn't until Elton John gave his
famous concert in Central Park that walking around Central Park's
perimeter someone pointed ut that the place with the gargoyles was
where John and Yoko lived. Strange how I had that feeling of
eerieness way before the worst happened.
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marcus
May 7, 2010, 10:57:20 PM5/7/10
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On May 5, 7:32 pm, Pearlie <bpnacaw...@aol.com> wrote:
> I notice no one responded to ,my above bragging . You may think I
> went crazy claiming to know these people, being I never mentioned it
> before. I got excited when I saw that video with guys who were not
> all too important, playing with John Lennon when he moved to NY in the
> early 7O's. As a GIANT Beatle fan, I remember feeling annoyed at
> Lennon for hanging out with "commoners" such as David Peele and Tommy
> Doyle. (there was a stepping-stone sort of linked hierarchy...
> average joes T. Doyle, D. Peele, below Jerry Rubin =wat bekiw Lennon
> at the pulpit.).
>
Hey Pearlie....wasn't ignoring you...I think it is very cool that you
knew David Peel.
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