HUMBLE
PIE
PERFORMANCE
ROCKIN’
THE FILLMORE
THE
COMPLETE RECORDINGS
4
CD Deluxe set/Digital
When Steve Marriott left
the Small Faces to launch a new band in 1968, expectations were high.
Marriott teamed with 18-year-old guitarist Peter Frampton, already a U.K. star
through his work with The Herd, along with bassist Greg Ridley from Spooky
Tooth, and 17-year-old drummer Jerry Shirley, who Steve Marriott had used as a
session player for Andrew Loog Oldham’s Immediate Record Label. Humble
Pie recorded four albums and several singles before achieving its U.S.
breakthrough with 1971’s double-live set Performance: Rockin’ the
Fillmore.
Drawn from four shows played over two consecutive nights at Bill
Graham’s legendary Fillmore East, Performance captured a red-hot band
firing on all cylinders, distilling the crowd-pleasing heavy blues-rock style
that had come to dominate the Brit foursome’s repertoire, and which would help
to lay the foundation for the sound that would soon become known as heavy
metal. Performance caught on in a big way with American listeners,
hitting #21 on the U.S.
album chart and becoming the Pie’s first Gold album.
Now for the first time, Omnivore Recordings, in conjunction with
Universal Music, have gathered all four shows from Humble Pie’s historic
Fillmore East stand in this lovingly packaged four-CD box set. No editing
or re-sequencing took place — just the four sets exactly as they were played on
May 28 and 29, 1971. The seven tracks that comprised the original album
are joined here by 15 previously un-issued performances — including the
never-before-heard complete first set from May 28.
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