ROCK'N'ROLL OUTLAW JAPAN TOUR 2003 (UNPLUGGED VERSION)

"David Peel was one of the most militant and underground folk-singers in the age of the student riots. He was a modern minstrel of the white lumperproletariat, who terrorized the Lower East Side with live performances at street corners, accompanied by random street musicians. This political bum was obviously mimicking street preachers, except that his religion was the marijuana, his Bible was rock'n'roll, and his mission was to expose the hipochrisy of the bourgeoise. His semi-improvised albums (or, better, public "happenings") followed in the footsteps of the Fugs' grotesque agit-prop cabaret and of Frank Zappa's satirical operettas. Peel's hysterical, sarcastic and insolent tone, and his spartan/spastic combo of guitar, harmonica and tambourine (which mainly contributed rhythm), and the naive enthusiasm of everybody involved (responsible for some of the most hair-rising backing vocals in the history of music), created a new kind of folk music."