Guitar Jam

[James Hetfield…]

Of course, im just a young pup at the tender age of 28, but i heard Humble Pie the other night on the radio and the station played the entire Rockin The Fillmore album. I had only caught the last 2 songs and i thought it was pretty cool so i went out and bought it the cd. Very impressive! How old was Frampton on this album, about 19 or 20? He has always made me sick and i always thought of him as a sissy but now i have a whole new respect. I cant believe this is the dude who wrote Baby I Love Your Way and stuff like that. I cant bare to listen to that stuff. Steve Marriot and the drummer kick ass too. Did Humble Pie ever make it that big? I hardly ever hear of them and they dont seem to get much recognition. WHere can i find pics of the lineup on this album? I cant imagine what Frampton used to look like.

[babybatter]

Humble Pie was BALLS.

[jjpistols]

Steve Marriott came from The Small Faces. They went on to become The Faces, with a then cool Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood.

[Meotch]

Hmm, rockin' Frampton eh? What songs should I "purchase"?

[Flamencology]

Originally posted by jjpistols
Steve Marriott came from The Small Faces.

As did Ronnie Lane.

Talk about a band with bad luck.

[555]

I saw Humble Pie open for Ten Years After, and they were excellent. No one sitting near me had ever heard of them, but they quickly won the crowd over. They were very tight. Much better live than in the studio.

And Rockin The Filmore (vinyl) was worn out and replaced several times due to heavy use/abuse by me and my roomates.

[mc5nrg]

Originally posted by James Hetfield Acne Scars
Steve Marriot and the drummer kick ass too. Did Humble Pie ever make it that big? I hardly ever hear of them and they dont seem to get much recognition. WHere can i find pics of the lineup on this album? I cant imagine what Frampton used to look like.

In the early 70s Humble Pie was one of the most popular/biggest rock bands on the planet.Rock On was a fairly popular LP and the post Fillmore LP Smokin' quite popular.Thirty Days on the Hole off of that record still gets some airplay.At the peak of there success the Pie were hooked up with Dee Anthony one of the great movers and shakers in the USA music industry and a very popular touring band.Steve Marriott ranks as one of the great rock vocalists for his work with the Small Faces and Humble Pie.

[Bucky Goldstein]

The first few bars of "Hallelujah I Love Her So" used to give me chills.
That's some thick tone

[NashSG]

Humble Pie and The Small Faces are both really underrated.

If there are alternate universes, there are quite a few where Steve Marriott becomes a legend. Things might have been a lot different if Marriott would have hooked up with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, who were interested in starting a band with him after they heard the Small Faces had broken up. Marriott had already started the Pie with Frampton and wasn't interested.

Check out "You Need Loving" by the Small Faces, Marriott's singing is a dead ringer for Robert Plant and it is from 1966. Like "Whole Lotta Love", it is a rewrite of Muddy Water's "You Need Love" which was written by Willie Dixon.

There are good two Cd samplers of both bands available and I highly recommend both. The Small Faces one is called "Ultimate Small Faces" and it is an English import, but it can be found through Amazon at regular price. The Humble Pie one is called "Hot'n Nasty" and I got mine through the BMG record club.

[GTO]

Originally posted by babybatter
Humble Pie was BALLS.

+1

[Detox]

Yes, it's true. For the briefest of moments, Frampton actually rocked.

[GCDEF]

You should check out his Live in Detroit DVD. Now that he's older and no longer a pretty boy, you can actually focus on the music he's playing. If you like really good Les Paul/Marshall guitar playing you'll really like that DVD. His playing now is much better than it used to be.

[BootRoots]

frampton has always rocked, but for some reason it has only been cool to "say" he rocked at certain times.

[surfsteve]

Rockin The Fillmore is my favorite live album. Play it for those who never heard it. I love making em guess who it is for at least 3/4 of the album.

[335clone]

Originally posted by BootRoots
frampton has always rocked, but for some reason it has only been cool to "say" he rocked at certain times.

This is true. Only after he followed his managers horrid advice did he slip into obscurity, and his rep as a rocker suffered greatly.

[sonrise]

Saw them open for Black Sabbath on the first Sabbath tour, I guess it was around early '71.....Here's the kicker it was a 3 band bill with Sabbath headlining, Humble Pie was 2nd billing and the opening act was a band nobody ever heard of at the time "Yes"...talk about a strange collection of bands....I had gone to see Sabbath as they were new and I was blown away by the guitar and vocals that I heard on the first album....Well Yes opened and smoked the joint, it was the Capital theater in Port Chester new york...then Humble Pie came out and totally blew the crowd away....when they were done and the house lights dimned again and over the PA you could here someone saying "Where is Black Sabbath, where is Black Sabbath then the house lights came back up and out on the stage was Humble Pie again....Ozzie apparently was already starting to pull out from shows at the last minute due to strange circumstances, but Steve Marriot and the boys refused to dissapoint the crowd so they came back on and did a 2nd show of covers and blues jams....Incredibule show I will never forget it....To this day I never did see Sabbath, but after that night I never cared....

Humble Pies rocks!!!!

[GCDEF]

Originally posted by 335clone


This is true. Only after he followed his managers horrid advice did he slip into obscurity, and his rep as a rocker suffered greatly.

I don't know if you were around for the movie "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with Frampton, Aerosmith, the Bee Gees and others who were big around that time. That was a career killer for several artists and supposedly contriubuted to Frampton's demise.

[335clone]

Originally posted by GCDEF


I don't know if you were around for the movie "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with Frampton, Aerosmith, the Bee Gees and others who were big around that time. That was a career killer for several artists and supposedly contriubuted to Frampton's demise.

You had to remind me:mad:

I saw Frampton two years in a row as part of 'the british are coming' arena tours. Basicaly Frampton comes alive-live. He was at the top of his game, but as you said, a couple of career moves generated by his mgmt dug his grave for him.

Great player.

[GCDEF]

Originally posted by 335clone


You had to remind me:mad:

I saw Frampton two years in a row as part of 'the british are coming' arena tours. Basicaly Frampton comes alive-live. He was at the top of his game, but as you said, a couple of career moves generated by his mgmt dug his grave for him.

Great player.

I was a movie theatre manager back then. We were directed to kill that movie. Theatrers are contractually obligated to run a movie for a certain amount of time depending on sales. Upper management told us to underreport sales so they could get that dog out of there.

[P90DSL]

Originally posted by sonrise
Saw them open for Black Sabbath on the first Sabbath tour, I guess it was around early '71.....Here's the kicker it was a 3 band bill with Sabbath headlining, Humble Pie was 2nd billing and the opening act was a band nobody ever heard of at the time "Yes"...talk about a strange collection of bands....I had gone to see Sabbath as they were new and I was blown away by the guitar and vocals that I heard on the first album....Well Yes opened and smoked the joint, it was the Capital theater in Port Chester new york...then Humble Pie came out and totally blew the crowd away....when they were done and the house lights dimned again and over the PA you could here someone saying "Where is Black Sabbath, where is Black Sabbath then the house lights came back up and out on the stage was Humble Pie again....Ozzie apparently was already starting to pull out from shows at the last minute due to strange circumstances, but Steve Marriot and the boys refused to dissapoint the crowd so they came back on and did a 2nd show of covers and blues jams....Incredibule show I will never forget it....To this day I never did see Sabbath, but after that night I never cared....

Humble Pies rocks!!!!

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