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HUMBLE PIE – ” Official Bootleg Box Set Volume 1 “

Posted: November 9, 2017 in MUSIC
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This new 4CD boxed set that lovingly documents the final musical years of a true legend, a great songwriter, musician, and formidable frontman – Steve Marriott. Steve was sadly taken from us prematurely at the age of 44 on the 30th April 1991. Vocalist and guitarist in such great bands as Small Faces and Humble Pie, Steve clearly had so much more to give, as is evidenced here, and this box set attempts to pay respect to the inspirational talent that is Steve Marriott by compiling four of his last ever live shows from his final year with us in 1991

Humble Pie: Official Bootleg Box Set Volume 1 collects four gigs from the English rockers on three CDs recorded between September 1972 and June 1974 with the line-up of Steve Marriott (guitar/vocals/harmonica/keyboard), Clem Clempson (guitar/vocals), Greg Ridley (bass/vocals) and Jerry Shirley (drums) supported by The Blackberries on background vocals.  This collection has been curated by founding member Shirley, who drew upon the band’s numerous bootleg recordings to select ones which he felt were of a high audio and performing standard.

The first show, on Disc One, hails from Chicago’s Arie Crown Theatre on September 22nd, 1972 and features band originals alongside blues-drenched covers of “Honky Tonk Women,” “Hallelujah (I Love Her So),” “I Don’t Need No Doctor,” and more.  This disc also begins a Tokyo show from May 1973 which is continued on Disc Two.  Shirley recalls in his liner notes that Jeff Beck (then playing Tokyo with Beck, Bogert and Appice) attended the concert, making Clempson (who had replaced Peter Frampton in Humble Pie in 1971) nervous as he played the guitar solo to Ray Charles’ “I Believe to My Soul.”  The show also features scorching takes on Holland/Dozier/Holland’s Motown classic “(I’m A) Road Runner” and Marriott’s “Steve’s Little Jam” and”30 Days in the Hole.”

Disc Three kicks off with the band’s May 18, 1974 concert at the Charlton Athletic Football Ground in which they shared a bill with The Who, Maggie Bell, and Bad Company (in one of their first major appearances).  Playing alongside fellow onetime Mods The Who, Marriott opened the show with The Small Faces’ “What’cha Gonna Do About It.”  This disc concludes with a short four-song performance at London’s Rainbow Theatre on June 6th, 1974, broadcast for U.S. television’s The Midnight Special.  The group tackled three band originals plus Eddie Cochran’s “C’mon Everybody,” a staple performed at all of the shows preserved here.

Jerry Shirley shares his memories in the full-color 16-page booklet included within the clamshell box.  Though sound is mostly listenable throughout, a disclaimer helpfully notes that these far-from-pristine recordings were originally made as audience bootlegs, and aren’t up to studio quality (or professionally-recorded live quality) standards, but are significant nonetheless for their historical importance in the band’s arc.

Humble Pie’s Official Bootleg Box Set Volume 1 are available now

CD 1

  1. Only One Woman – Marbles
  2. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
  3. Warm Ride
  4. Bad Girl – Rainbow
  5. Night Games
  6. O.S.
  7. Girl from Uptown – Michael Schenker Group
  8. Island in the Sun – Alcatrazz
  9. Hiroshima Mon Amour – Alcatrazz
  10. Since You Been Gone (Live) – Alcatrazz
  11. God Blessed Video – Alcatrazz
  12. Will You Be Home Tonight – Alcatrazz
  13. Skyfire – Alcatrazz
  14. Blue Boar – Alcatrazz
  15. Stand in Line – Impellitteri
  16. Tonight – Impellitteri
  17. Midnight Crossing (1989 Demo) (*)
  18. Hit and Run – Forcefield
  19. Let the Wild Run Free – Forcefield
  20. All Night Long (2015) – Graham Bonnet Band (*)

CD 2

  1. Look Don’t Touch
  2. Afterlife – Blackthorne
  3. We Won’t Be Forgotten – Blackthorne
  4. Don’t Kill the Thrill – Blackthorne
  5. Breakaway
  6. Killer
  7. Hunting Time – Anthem
  8. Hungry Soul – Anthem
  9. Love in Vain – Anthem
  10. Perfect Crime – Impellitteri
  11. Fighters Fist – Taz Taylor
  12. Radio Luxembourg – Taz Taylor
  13. You Are Your Money (Demo) – Elektric Zoo (*)
  14. Lost in Hollywood
  15. My Kingdom Come – Graham Bonnet Band (**)
  16. Mirror Lies – Graham Bonnet Band (**)

DVD

  1. It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
  2. Danny
  3. Only You Can Lift Me
  4. Warm Ride
  5. Can’t Complain
  6. I’m a Lover
  7. The Way That It Is
  8. Anthony Boy
  9. Night Games
  10. Island in the Sun – Alcatrazz
  11. Hiroshima Mon Amour – Alcatrazz
  12. God Blessed Video – Alcatrazz
  13. Stand in Line – Impellitteri
  14. Stand in Line (Alternate Version) – Impellitteri
  15. The Mirror Lies – Graham Bonnet Band

Powerstation Live in Tokyo 1988 – Impellitteri

  1. Stand in Line
  2. Tonight I Fly
  3. Leviathan
  4. All Night Long
  5. Secret Lover
  6. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  7. Goodnight and Goodbye
  8. Since You Been Gone

(*) previously unreleased

(**) previously unreleased on CD

Humble Pie, Official Bootleg Box Set Volume 1 (Hear No Evil/Cherry Red HNEBOX083, 2017) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

CD 1

Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago, September 22, 1972

  1. Introduction
  2. Up Our Sleeve
  3. C’mon Everybody
  4. Honky Tonk Women
  5. I Wonder
  6. Hallelujah (I Love Her So)
  7. I Don’t Need No Doctor
  8. Hot ‘n’ Nasty
  9. Four Day Creep

Shibuya Kokaido Tokyo, May 16, 1973

  1. Up Our Sleeve
  2. Tokyo Jam
  3. C’mon Everybody

CD 2

Shibuya Kokaido Tokyo, May 16, 1973 (continued)

  1. Honky Tonk Women
  2. Steve’s Little Jam
  3. I Believe to My Soul
  4. 30 Days in the Hole
  5. Road Runner
  6. Hallelujah (I Love Her So)
  7. I Don’t Need No Doctor
  8. Hot ‘n’ Nasty
  9. Oh La-De-Da

CD 3

Charlton Athletic Football Ground, May 18, 1974

  1. Introduction
  2. What’cha Gonna do About It
  3. Thunderbox
  4. Sweet Peace and Time
  5. 30 Days in the Hole
  6. Let Me Be Your Lovemaker
  7. C’mon Everybody/I Want a Little Girl
  8. I Don’t Need No Doctor

Rainbow Theatre, London, June 6, 1974

  1. Thunderbox
  2. 30 Days in the Hole
  3. Sweet Peace and Time
  4. C’mon Everybody

HUMBLE PIE – ” Natural Born Bugie “

Posted: August 8, 2017 in MUSIC
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Humble Pie – Debut Bugie

On 8th August Humble Pie released their debut ‘Natural Born Bugie’, It was Steve Marriot’s composition, released on the Immediate label; it was the second to last single release from the label that had been formed in 1965 by Andrew Loog Oldham, while still manager of the Rolling Stones. Humble Pie debuted ‘Natural Born Bugie’ on the BBC in early August along with, ‘Desperation’, ‘The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake’ and ‘Heartbeat’. Of these four tracks only ‘Desperation’, written by Steppenwolf’s John Kay, appeared on their debut album, As Safe As Yesterday Is that came out later in August. ‘Natural Born Bugie’ was a single release and the other two tracks were held over until their follow up, Town and Country album that was released in November 1969.

Peter Frampton told journalist Richard Younger that it was in January 1969 that he and Steve had first got together. “I was round at Glyn Johns’s house listening to this new band he’d recorded, called Led Zeppelin. I’m drooling and my jaw is on the floor and was just turning the record over when the phone rings.” It was Steve Marriott saying that he had quit the Small Faces. Steve had already been helping Peter put his band together and he had found Jerry Shirley, the drummer with Apostolic Intervention who Peter wanted to use. Steve, once he had left the Small Faces, also said he could bring and bass player Greg Ridley with him who had been playing with Spooky Tooth. Humble Pie soon began rehearsing, listening to the Band’s Music From Big Pink for musical inspiration – a fact born out by their debut album.

‘Natural Born Bugie’ made No.4 on the UK charts, a excellent start for their first single. “As Safe As Yesterday Is”  spent a month on the NME album chart, peaking at No.15 and Town and Country did not do as well due to the band’s record label going bankrupt soon after its release. Their debut album has the distinction of being the first in which a reviewer, in this case Metal Mike Saunders in Rolling Stone in November 1969, referred to music as ‘heavy metal’.

If you’ve never listened to “As Safe As Yesterday Is” seek it out and give it a spin. It’s one of the most underrated debut albums ever to be released from any band. Full of great songs and some great playing – standout tracks are the title track, As Safe As Yesterday Is written by Steve and Peter, ‘Desperation’, which is better than the Steppenwolf original, and ‘What You Will.’

HUMBLE PIE – ” The A&M Vinyl Box Set 1970-1975 “

Posted: April 9, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Early seventies rock ‘super group’ Humble Pie see new vinyl editions of all their A&M released albums collected in the appropriately named The A&M Vinyl Box Set 1970-1975.

The band were formed by Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton in 1969 and also featured former Spooky Tooth bassist Greg Ridley and Jerry Shirley on drums.

This new 9LP box set has been put together in conjunction with Jerry Shirley and Peter Frampton and features remastered versions of Humble Pie (1970), Rock On (1971), Performance Rockin’ The Fillmore (1971), Smokin’ (1972), Eat It (1973), Thunderbox (1974) and Street Rats (1975).

Shirley makes reference to the sound quality for this new box set: “At last we have the extreme privilege, thanks to the hard work of the restoration engineers at Universal, to hear all of our catalogue from A&M in it’s finest form, on vinyl. “Eat It” in particular, had sound problems originally that have now been eradicated once and for all, so that all our fans, old and new, can hear it as it was intended to be, a wonderful slice of Humble Pie Rock & Roll”.

Frampton adds “We pay tribute to our two lost brothers, Steve and Greg and hope you enjoy this as much as we did putting it all together.”

The records are pressed on 180g vinyl and feature “replica artwork” which means respecting original die-cut sleeves and inners. The A&M Vinyl Box Set will be released on 2nd June 2017.

HUMBLE PIE The A&M Vinyl Box Set 1970-1975 (out-of-print 2017 limited edition Seven Album 9-LP box, remastered from the original analogue masters and pressed on audiophile quality 180gram vinyl. Includes the albums Humble Pie, Rock On,Performance Rockin’ The Fillmore (2-LP set), Smokin’, Eat It (2-LP set), Thunderbox and Street Rats [U.S. Version]. Each in their own replica original artwork picture sleeve, housed inside a heavy duty slipcase style box. 

HUMBLE PIE – ” For Your Love “

Posted: February 18, 2017 in MUSIC
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Humble Pie were an English rock band formed by Singer Steve Marriott , in Essex during 1969. They are known as one of the late 1960s’ first rock supergroups and found success on both sides of the Atlantic. The original band line-up featured lead vocalist and guitarist Steve Marriott from the Small Faces, vocalist and guitarist Peter Frampton from The Herd, former Spooky Tooth bassist Greg Ridley and a seventeen-year-old drummer, Jerry Shirley.

The groups concerts around this time featured an acoustic set, with this radical re-working of Graham Gouldman’s “For Your Love” as its centrepiece.

The rock band Humble Pie from England with their song “For Your Love” live on German TV for Beat Club, A band just dripping with talent who never got their just dues. A warm,loving version of the Yardbirds classic done to perfection.

PETER FRAMPTON – ” Frampton Comes Alive ” Released 6th January 1976

Posted: January 6, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Frampton Comes Alive!

40 years ago today, Peter Frampton released “Frampton Comes Alive!” and it became the best-selling album of 1976.

Release on January. 6th, 1976, Peter Frampton released his LP “Frampton Comes Alive!”. The album was recorded in summer and fall 1975, primarily at Winterland in San Francisco and the Long Island Arena in Commack, New York, as well as a concert on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus in Plattsburgh, New York.

The live album was originally intended as a single LP disc, but at the suggestion of A&M Records additional shows were recorded and the album expanded to two LPs for release.

The double album was released in the US with a special reduced list price of most single-disc albums in 1976. The album was pressed in “automatic sequence”, with sides one and four on one record, followed by sides two and three on the other. This arrangement was intended to make it easier to listen through the whole album in sequence on automatic record changers.

We remember when you couldn’t go anywhere and not hear this playing. How many of you still give this record a listen every now and then? Happy 41st Birthday to “Frampton Comes Alive!”!!!

The ’70s were the era of the live album. the ’70s were the live album’s golden age.

The gauntlet was thrown down in May 1970 by a pair of future live classics released only a week apart. The Who‘s Live at Leeds and the triple live album “Woodstock” soundtrack brought the show into kids’ bedrooms better than anything that had come before, and both were rewarded with stellar sales and critical praise. A format that was once reserved for contractual filler or stopgap releases was suddenly fashionable. Before the year ended, the Rolling Stones released “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!”; before the decade ended, we had live releases from the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Ted Nugent and Aerosmith. It was a status symbol, an indicator of commercial clout: The bigger you were, the more likely your discography sported a live album.

In the middle of the decade, another pair of live albums changed the paradigm. Both featured artists whose recording careers were floundering but who did well on the road. With one last chance to catch on with the record buying public. The first was the September 1975 release of Kiss Alive! Three months later (and also sporting an exclamation point), A&M Records released former Humble Pie guitarist Peter Frampton‘s concert masterpiece, “Frampton Comes Alive!”

Frampton was a prodigy who counted David Bowie among his childhood friends. By age 18 he’d already tasted success with the Herd and had formed Humble Pie with Steve Marriott . Together they would record four studio albums before jumping on the ’70s live LP bandwagon with another classic live album “Performance Rockin’ the Fillmore” at the end of 1971. It would be Humble Pie’s most successful album, but the band’s hotshot guitarist was gone before it was even released.

At the tender age of 21, Frampton had two successful bands in his rear-view mirror and a limitless road ahead of him. His first solo album, 1972’s Wind of Change, eschewed the muscular boogie of Humble Pie for a more acoustic, singer-songwriter vibe . Songs like the album’s title cut introduced the new, mellow Frampton while “It’s a Plain Shame” and a cover of the Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jump Flash” seemed tailored for his established fan base. In other words, the album was neither fish nor fowl, and sales were disappointing.

HUMBLE PIE – ” Eat It ” Released 43 Years in 1973

Posted: March 25, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Rock Fans Eat Humble Pie

“Eat It” was the decisively-titled Humble Pie album that made its chart debut exactly 43 years ago and progressed into the top 15, during a five-month chart run in the US.

The album saw the British rock band growing ever more confident and autonomous. A double LP and their seventh studio release, Eat It was the first Humble Pie record to be made in Steve Marriott’s new home studio, Clear Sounds, in Essex. What resulted was a set showcasing the group’s influences in an ambitious and imaginative way.

This album showcases the dynamic diversity and talent of Steve Marriott’s gritty bluesy vocals with some funky soul mixed in throughout along with straight ahead blistering rockers. The band is right on and they deliver an extremely energetic powerhouse combination on this double album that overall ranks with their best along with Smokin’ and Performance Rockin’ The Fillmore.

Each of the four vinyl sides was themed, showing both the current direction of Humble Pie, and where they’d come from. Side one had them rocking their way through four new Marriott compositions; side two featured R&B covers such as Ike & Tina Turner’s ‘Black Coffee,’ Ray Charles’ ‘I Believe To My Soul’ and the much-covered soul number probably best known by Otis Redding, ‘That’s How Strong My Love Is.’

Side three of “Eat It” was comprised of four more Marriott songs, but this time performed in acoustic style; side four was recorded live, with the band’s own ‘Up Our Sleeve’ alongside the Rolling Stones cover ‘Honky Tonk Women’ and Holland-Dozier-Holland’s Motown gem ‘(I’m A) Road Runner.’

“Hard rock and blues accompaniment blend perfectly on this double LP,” Assisting the British quartet are Clydie King, Venetta Fields and Billie Barnum, whose unison singing acts like horns to the band’s guitar lines.”
The band led into the album’s release with some shows in Britain, including one at the London Palladium. But in the week it hit the US chart, they were on the road there for extensive touring, augmented by Japanese dates in the spring. The album was on the UK chart for two weeks in April 1973,

The Blackberries:

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PETER FRAMPTON – ” Frampton Comes Alive ” Released 40 Years Ago Today

Posted: January 7, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Frampton Comes Alive!

40 years ago today, Peter Frampton released “Frampton Comes Alive!” and it became the best-selling album of 1976.

The ’70s were the era of the live album. the ’70s were the live album’s golden age.

The gauntlet was thrown down in May 1970 by a pair of future live classics released only a week apart. The Who‘s Live at Leeds and the triple live album Woodstock soundtrack brought the show into kids’ bedrooms better than anything that had come before, and both were rewarded with stellar sales and critical praise. A format that was once reserved for contractual filler or stopgap releases was suddenly fashionable. Before the year ended, the Rolling Stones released “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!”; before the decade ended, we had live releases from the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Ted Nugent and Aerosmith. It was a status symbol, an indicator of commercial clout: The bigger you were, the more likely your discography sported a live album.

In the middle of the decade, another pair of live albums changed the paradigm. Both featured artists whose recording careers were floundering but who did well on the road. With one last chance to catch on with the record buying public. The first was the September 1975 release of Kiss Alive! Three months later (and also sporting an exclamation point), A&M Records released former Humble Pie guitarist Peter Frampton‘s concert masterpiece, “Frampton Comes Alive!”

Frampton was a prodigy who counted David Bowie among his childhood friends. By age 18 he’d already tasted success with the Herd and had formed Humble Pie with Steve Marriott . Together they would record four studio albums before jumping on the ’70s live LP bandwagon with another classic live album “Performance Rockin’ the Fillmore” at the end of 1971. It would be Humble Pie’s most successful album, but the band’s hotshot guitarist was gone before it was even released.

At the tender age of 21, Frampton had two successful bands in his rear-view mirror and a limitless road ahead of him. His first solo album, 1972’s Wind of Change, eschewed the muscular boogie of Humble Pie for a more acoustic, singer-songwriter vibe . Songs like the album’s title cut introduced the new, mellow Frampton while “It’s a Plain Shame” and a cover of the Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jump Flash” seemed tailored for his established fan base. In other words, the album was neither fish nor fowl, and sales were disappointing.

HUMBLE PIE – ” 30 Days In The Hole “

Posted: February 14, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Speaking of frequently covered songs, ’30 Days in the Hole’ ranks with Humble Pie’s most oft-revisited tracks since it was first unveiled as the second-side opener on 1972’s ‘Smokin’’ LP. Not only does the song absolutely cook with a funky vengeance, but its virtual catalog of chemical bad habits makes it an irresistible fix for bad boy rockers of all ages. Indeed, Humble Pie never sounded more addictive, and we therefore had no choice but to tap out ‘30 Days in the Hole’ as one of the Top Humble Pie songs.

Smokin’ comes as close to any Humble Pie LP ever did to achieving classic status. My advice to the neophyte is to check out Eat It, Smokin’,and 1971’s Rock On (the last Humble Pie LP to feature the work of Peter Frampton)

Band members

  • Bass, Vocals – Greg Ridley
  • Drums, Keyboards – Jerry Shirley
  • Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals – Clem Clempson
  • Vocals, Guitar, Harp, Keyboards – Steve Marriott

HUMBLE PIE – ” I Don’t Need No Doctor “

Posted: February 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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Rock history isn’t exactly littered with cover versions that became more definitive than the originals (though Joe Cocker’s “With a Little Help From My Friends” comes to mind), but Humble Pie delivered scores of them. None more definitive, we believe, than on the live album the ‘Rockin’ the Fillmore’s’ positively scorching reinvention of the classic R&B side ‘I Don’t Need No Doctor’ turned into a heavy rock powerhouse. From this point forward, arguably more artists have covered Humble Pie’s arrangement of the song than the Ashford/Simpson/Armstead original.

STEVE MARRIOTT – ” The Life and Times “

Posted: February 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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It’s such a shame that Steve Marriott isn’t around to see the appreciation and activity surrounding his musical legacy in 2015. ‘All Or Nothing,’ a musical about the life of the Small Faces set in the modern era and written by Carol Harrison, looks set for a London theatre run after a full showcase performance in Worthing last September.

Steve’s post-Small Faces band, Humble Pie, continue to be revered by rock fans everywhere, and his daughter Mollie Marriott, after singing with the likes of Paul Weller and the Gallagher brothers, is getting rave reviews for her solo work, especially her new single ‘Transformer,’ co-written with another great English singer-songwriter, Judie Tzuke. it “combines dirty guitars with the purity of Mollie’s blues/rock voice to craft a track packed full of emotion.”

Like father, like daughter, then. Mollie’s dad would have been 68 today, born in Manor Park in Essex on January 30, 1947. “The real modfather,” as he was once called, was taken from us in tragic and premature circumstances in a fire in April 1991, at the age of just 44, but what a lot he packed into his years of passionate musicianship.

 

Steve Marriott was just 12 when he formed his first band, 13 when he was first on the London west end stage, 16 when he landed his first solo record deal with Decca and 17 when the Small Faces got together. With his brilliant songwriting, much of it with fellow Small Face Ronnie Lane, and Steve’s distinctively soulful rock helmsmanship, the group became an essential part of what we remember as the swinging ‘60s. He was daring, impudent, uncontrollable and innovative, and the Small Faces packed more into four years than most bands do in a lifetime.

Then Steve managed the almost impossible achievement of creating another band who were also instantly successful, but with a harder rock sound that would see them fill American arenas in the 1970s. Humble Pie were another perfect vehicle for Marriott’s effusive talent, and after his glory years, Steve embraced various reunions of his two groups and numerous side projects, happy for any stage on which to express himself. Maybe he’s looking down on the new momentum around his catalogue, and his daughter’s work, and enjoying it all.

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