Formed to support David Peel in 1967, the Lower East Side Band originally consisted of Harold C. Black and Billy Joe White.
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 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 Peel's album, The Pope Smokes Dope, which was banned in several countries outside the United States and Canada.
[3] 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.