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Humble Pie - BBC Peel's Sunday Show 1970

2019-06-24T15:05:22Z

Humble Pie - BBC Peel's Sunday Show 1970


01. Four Day Creep
02. I'm Ready
03. Live With Me
04. Stone Cold Fever
05. Hallelujah (I Love Her So)
06. Walk On Gilded Splinters
07. The Sad Bag Of Shakey Jake
08. One Eyed Trouser Snake Rumba
09. Big Black Dog

Steve Marriott - guitar, vocals, harmonica
Jerry Shirly - drums, keyboards
Greg Redley - bass, vocals
Peter Frampton - guitar, vocals, keyboard

BBC John Peel's Sunday Show
London, England
1970.09.09

Steve Marriott formed Humble Pie in 1968 with Greg Ridley, Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley. Their debut single "Natural Born Boogie" became a hit in the UK Singles Chart and was followed by the album As Safe As Yesterday Is, which rose to number sixteen in the UK album charts. Their second album, Town and Country was released in the UK during 1969 while the band was away on its first tour of USA. This album featured a more acoustic sound and songs written by all four members.

During 1970 Humble Pie switched to A&M Records who released the album Humble Pie, later that year which alternated between progressive rock and hard rock. In 1971 A&M released Rock On, and a simultaneous release of a Humble Pie concert recorded at the Fillmore East New York, entitled Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore. Rock On and Performance both went gold and the loud and epic "I Don't Need No Doctor" was an FM radio hit in the USA, propelling the album up the charts.

Frampton left after Rockin' the Fillmore was recorded and was replaced by Dave "Clem" Clempson. Humble Pie moved towards a harder sound emphasizing Marriott's blues and soul roots. They recorded the album Smokin', along with two singles "Hot 'n' Nasty" and "30 Days in the Hole". It was the band's most commercially successful record and reached #6 on the US charts, helped by a busy touring schedule. A&M then realeased Lost and Found which combined two previous albums as one. Looking for a more authentic R&B sound, Marriott hired three female backing singers, The Blackberries and the more focused Thunderbox was released in 1974 and Street Rats a year later. In 1975, joined by keyboardist Tim Hinkley, Humble Pie played a Goodbye Pie Tour before disbanding.

During 1979 Steve Marriott revived Humble Pie with Jerry Shirley, adding Bobby Tench vocalist and guitarist from The Jeff Beck Group and American bassist Anthony "Sooty" Jones. Fool for a pretty face proved good enough for them to secure a recording contract with Atlantic Records. They recorded the album On to Victory which was released in 1980 . Humble Pie toured USA as part of the Rock 'N' Roll Marathon bill and recorded the album Go for the Throat. At the beginning of this tour Marriott crushed his hand, delaying earlier scheduled appearances by the band, and he later developed a duodenal ulcer forcing the cancellation of all further tour dates. Soon afterwards this line up disbanded.

Drummer Jerry Shirley obtained the rights to the name Humble Pie in 1989 and reformed the group with different musicians. This project was called Humble Pie Featuring Jerry Shirley, Shirley was the only original performing member. The band began performing concerts and was based in Cleveland, Ohio USA. This time the line up included vocalist Charlie Huhn, who also played lead and rhythm guitar. While Huhn and Shirley were the only permanent members of the group several other musicians appeared from time to time including Wally Stocker formerly of Rod Stewart's band and Cleveland guitarist Alan Greene. They developed a strong reputation as a live act in USA but never released any official studio recordings. They appeared in the line-up at the Woodstock Festival's 20th Anniversary Celebration, which was broadcast live on national television in the United States and other countries.

During 1991 when it had appeared that a reunion featuring Frampton and Marriott would happen, Shirley put Humble Pie Featuring Jerry Shirley on hold. After Marriott's death Shirley revived his band which dissolved in 1999. He re-formed Humble Pie again in 2001 with a line up including the original bass player Greg Ridley, former Humble Pie vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench and a new rhythm guitarist Dave Colwell. They recorded Humble Pie's thirteenth studio album Back on Track, which comprised new songs and was released by Sanctuary in 2002. A brief tour of UK and Germany with Company of Snakes followed.

Humble Pie appeared at the Steve Marriott Tribute Concert held at the London Astoria during 2001. The concert featured a one of re-union line up of Peter Frampton, Clem Clempson, Greg Ridley and Jerry Shirley.

Shirley's 2001 version of the band dissolved in 2002 when Greg Ridley fell ill. ---discogs.com

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Humble Pie - Rock On (1971)

2019-07-10T14:48:35Z

Humble Pie - Rock On (1971)


A1 	Shine On 	3:00
A2 	Sour Grain 	2:40
A3 	79th And Sunset 	2:59
A4 	Stone Cold Fever 	4:08
A5 	Rolling Stone 	5:57
B1 	A Song For Jenny 	2:34
B2 	The Light 	3:16
B3 	Big George 	4:07
B4 	Strange Days 	6:33
B5 	Red Neck Jump 	3:05

Bass, Guitar, Vocals – Greg Ridley
Drums, Keyboards – Jerry Shirley
Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals – Peter
Pedal Steel Guitar – B. J. Cole
Saxophone – Bobby Keys
Vocals – Alexis Korner
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica [Harp] – Steve

On this, their second album for A&M, Humble Pie proved that they were not the "minor league Rolling Stones" as people often described them. Led by the soulful Steve Marriot, the Pie was a great band in every sense of the word. Although Peter Frampton elevated himself to superstar status in just a few years, this album proves what an excellent lead guitarist he was. The record has an undeniable live feel to it, due in part to Glyn Johns' humble yet precise recording, framing the group as if they were a boogie version of the Band. When all of these elements come together on songs such as "Sour Grain" and "Stone Cold Fever," it's an unbeatable combination. ---Matthew Greenwald, AllMusic Review

Humble Pie I suspect were probably more incendiary as a live proposition, than their recorded output conveyed. There form of blues rock went down better in America, than the UK, where they were in competition in 71 with the likes of The Stones, Zeppelin, Yes, The Who, Tull's Aqualung, Bowie, T Rex and the ascendancy of prog and glam. Also they didn't dress in outlandish garb to get noticed. I for one knew of them at that time but knew little about them. Playing it now, I must admit it took more than a few plays for the enjoyment meter to rise. Initially it just sounded a bit bread and butter, uneven, with its blues, soul, rock and bar room slants, but with a number of plays, I now enjoy it for what it is, but they lacked the idiosyncrasies of the former which was the draw at the time.

Several tracks jar, for example the atmospheric rock song Strange Days with a funky feel, my personal highlight is sandwiched between two forgettable barroom songs. Of course we have Frampton songs and Marriot songs while stylistically different are not unharmonious. Lyrically interesting is "79th and Sunset," "She's got nut crushin' boobs and jam tart lips, " but the highlights are Stone Cold Fever and for blues afficiendos Rollin' Stone which in rock terms are the hardest on the album where one feels Steve Marriot could give himself an aneurysm. Overall, an album with it's moments but just not classic, an album I can enjoy but not one where I can garner any emotional attachment. Those who caught them live will no doubt have a contrasting view. ---oldrock, rateyourmusic.com

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Humble Pie - Smokin' (1972)

2019-07-04T15:00:21Z

Humble Pie - Smokin' (1972)


A1 	Hot 'N' Nasty 	3:22
A2 	The Fixer 	5:00
A3 	You're So Good To Me 	3:53
A4 	C'mon Everybody 	5:11
A5 	Old Time Feelin' 	5:05
B1 	30 Days In The Hole 	3:58
B2.1 	Road Runner 	
B2.2 	Road Runners 'G' Jam 	3:42
B3 	I Wonder 	8:53
B4 	Sweet Peace And Time 	5:49

- Steve Marriott - vocals, rhythm guitar, harp, keyboards, producer
- Greg Ridley - bass, vocals
- Jerry Shirley - drums, keyboards
- Clem Clemson (David Clemson) - lead guitar, keyboards, vocals
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- Alexis Korner - vocals, mandolin-type Martin Tipple guitar (A5)
- Stephen Stills - organ, backing vocals (A1)
- Doris Troy, Madeleine Bell - backing vocals (A3)

After a couple of years of relentless touring, Humble Pie capitalized on their loyal U.S. following to capture the market with this, their fifth studio album. Although lead guitarist Peter Frampton was replaced by Clem Clemson -- an excellent player -- the band remained essentially the same. Led by singer/guitarist Steve Marriott's soulful wail, the group enjoyed a huge hit from this record, "30 Days in the Hole" -- the track which defined the Pie's not-so-subtle appeal. The rest of the record is equally funky and intriguing. Stephen Stills guests on "Road Runner 'G' Jam," playing some nasty Hammond organ fills. In the end, though, the group defined themselves as the undisputed leaders of the boogie movement in the early 1970s, as a band. ---Matthew Greenwald, AllMusic Review

Humble Pie was one of those 70s bands that struggled to capture their magic in the studio before scoring big with a live album. But following the success of the essential Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore they were then faced with the challenge of coming up with a satisfactory studio follow up. An even more daunting prospect given that the supergroup was now rendered considerably less “super” following the departure of founding member Peter Frampton.

Frampton felt that the audience had decided the heavy blues rock direction that The Pie had to go in and that meant the pastoral acoustic diversity that he contributed to previous albums was no longer required. The accepted narrative is that the band’s first post-Frampton outing, 1972’s Smokin’, is a harder rocking affair but that’s only partly true. The whole album is more consistently rooted in soulful, bluesy rock but there’s still plenty of mellow diversity. So for every hard-riffing track like Fixer you get an Exile On Main Street-style rootsy outing like Old Time Feelin’.

But the standout moments of Smokin’ are undoubtedly the louder tracks. The smouldering boogie of Hot N’ Nasty, a fat riffing cover of C’Mon Everybody and the superbly greasy rocker 30 Days In The Hole are all brilliant showcases for the peerless vocal power of Steve Marriott and the guitar chemistry he forged with new recruit Clem Clempson. The mellow tracks aren’t as exciting or memorable but tracks like the Zep-blues of I Wonder impress and add crucial depth and variety.

Smokin’ lives up to its name. It’s a rockin’, feel-good time with a loose and natural production and delivery that successfully captures the band’s live prowess. A gradual, coke-fuelled decline in quality on subsequent albums makes this Humble Pie’s studio peak and ensured that the band would remain overlooked and under-rated, especially in their native UK. But fans of rootsy rockers like The Stones, The Faces and Cream (as well as more modern acolytes like The Black Crowes) should definitely check out The Pie and Smokin’ is the perfect place to start: a great band and legendary frontman at the top of their game, proving that they could rock in the studio just as well as they could in the Fillmore. ---heavymetaloverload.com

Czy ktoś pamięta Steve’a Marriotta? Naprawdę warto zaznajomić się z twórczością tego pana. Znakomity muzyk –żywiołowy i szczery do bólu artysta, utalentowany gitarzysta. Rewelacyjny, charyzmatyczny wokalista to podstawa tej skądinąd super grupy Humble Pie. Smokin’ to w dorobku zespołu najbardziej dojrzały i jednocześnie przekonywujący studyjny album grupy. Ukazuje zespół w okresie apogeum twórczym. Co ważne, daje się odczuć szczery entuzjazm w relacjach między muzykami podczas pracy nad materiałem (fajne te naturalne śmiechy między utworami). Mamy tu wszystko: od kipiącego energią „30 Days in the Hole”, powalające riffy w „The Fixer” aż po rewelacyjny kawałek w postaci „I Wonder”, który należy postawić w jednym szeregu z takimi dokonaniami Led Zeppelin jak epicki „Since I've Been Loving You”.

Ktoś powie, że ale to już było, może i tak, ale z takim uczuciem, mocą i zaangażowaniem robiło to niewielu muzyków. Dość wspomnieć, że sam lider kapeli zasłabł (nie tyko przez wszechobecne w tamtej epoce używki) w czasie sesji z wyczerpania, gdyż bez reszty zaangażował się w budowę tego dzieła.

Twórczość grupy dwie dekady później inspirowała w sposób dobitny takich artystów jak The Black Crowes. Ktoś może powiedzieć, że Stonesi i The Faces z Rodem Stewartem podobni, bardziej pożądani, brzmieniowo przystępni, a może lepiej lansowani i poprzez to bardziej znani szerokiej publiczności. Muzycy - Steve Marriott, Clem Clempson dający swoją grą na gitarze niezłego kopa tej płycie, Greg Ridley, Jerry Shirley oraz gościnnie, ojciec brytyjskiego bluesa Alexis Korner i Stephen Stills, a także dziewczyny w chórkach plus wspaniale dobrane kompozycje, składają się na to bezkompromisowe dzieło. Dzieło jak dla mnie najlepsze w dorobku zespołu. I co warte zaznaczenia całkowicie samodzielnie wyprodukowane przez Marriotta. Dające grupie szczególną popularność w Stanach Zjednoczonych. ---totylkostaregranie.blogspot.com

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