In 1971, the concept of a hard-rock band achieving its big commercial breakthrough with a double live album was nothing new. But the experience had to be a particularly satisfying one for Humble Pie.
Humble Pie's 1971 double live album 'Performance: Rockin’ the Fillmore' finally broke the British rock band in the U.S. after a couple years of missing the charts. The record reached No. 21 and gave the band the shot it needed to push forward.
Steve Marriott and his boys in Humble Pie were firing on all cylinders at the start of 1973, fueled by the career-high No. 6 chart placing achieved by the previous year’s aptly named ‘Smokin’’ LP, which appeared to indicate the British group’s de facto conquest of America. Now all they had to do was top it.
One could make a good argument that Humble Pie have in some ways lived out the prophecy of their name. Now frequently overshadowed by the same peers they once blew off the stage, the British group have indeed been forced to eat humble pie in the grand scheme of classic rock history...
Hot 'n' Nasty indeed but that doesn't mean you have to get the children out of the room. It means a very cool classic Humble Pie track from their most successful album, Smokin'...
Humble Pie's live album Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore was a turning point for the band, in more ways than one. It was the first time they got serious recognition here in the States and it was their last album with soon to be superstar Peter Frampton...
Ever been to Itchycoo Park? It's easy to find because it's in your mind man. Heavy! A very young pre-Humble Pie Steve Marriott wrote this little psychedelic gem that his band at the time, The Small Faces, had such a big hit with in 1967...
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