‘Peter and the Acid King’ looks at the life and legend of talented friend Peter Ivers whose murder has never been solved.
Filmmaker Penelope Spheeris is host of the new podcast “Peter and the Acid King,” the true story about singer-songwriter Peter Ivers, whose work showed great promise in the ’70s and early ’80s before he was murdered, in a case that has never been solved, in 1983. There’s the time in 1968 when blues legend Muddy Waters declared Ivers – who sat in and played with Waters while still a student at Harvard University – to be the greatest living harmonica player.
“I mean, all of us thought Peter Ivers was going to go to the top of the charts, and then everything flopped,” says, a friend of Ivers through the punk rock scene she chronicled in the 1981 documentary “The Decline of Western Civilization.”is the host of “Peter and the Acid King,” a new podcast about Ivers’s life and death from iHeartPodcasts and Imagine Audio.
Sachs told her that so-and-so, the person Spheeris had long thought might have killed Ivers, was dead. She did the interview, and that was that for a little while. “I bought a house in Laurel Canyon in 1974, which I still own, thank god,” Spheeris says. “So I know all the back roads here, and we used to have these lines of cars following each other, going to parties. So I would go to parties with him, and we’d see each other and got to know each other pretty well by hanging out.”
Part of that was the name – few self-respecting punks wanted to be called New Wave – and part of that was Ivers, who as host, wearing a sparkly pink jacket and rambling in a rapid-fire stream-of-consciousness patter about life, art and music made them cringe. “It was a train wreck, that’s a good way to put it,” Spheeris says. “The fact is there were no outlets for the music back then, visual outlets. The reason the DIY concept came about was because punk bands couldn’t get record deals. And punk bands certainly could not get TV broadcast time. There was no place to be seen other than that show.”“New Wave Theatre” ended with Ivers’ death. For Spheeris, the L.A. party scene ended for her that day too.
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