So we went to Paris and I joined The Small Faces for a week. “I flew back with Glyn and went to his house straight from the airport, as he wanted me to listen to a new band he’d just recorded.
After hearing the first side of Led Zeppelin my jaw was on the floor.
Then the phone rang, and it was Steve: ‘Look, man, I just left The Small Faces. That band, Humble Pie, ended up on Immediate Records, where the combination of a creative band with songs coming out of their ears and a record company desperate for cash resulted in two albums that have since been released a dozen times. “When you consider we were only in the studio between the months of April and July intermittently, a week here, a week there, it was a tremendous amount of input for a relatively short space of time,” Jerry Shirley says. Singles didn’t figure in the equation initially, but Natural Born Bugie nevertheless went to No.1 in several European countries (No.4 in the UK). Which is what he and the whole band were trying to appeal to – people who were into music.” “Steve had a bad feeling about singles,” Shirley says, “because he associated them with screaming little divs, as opposed to serious music fans. So off-the-cuff was Natural Born Bugie that it didn’t even get on to the band’s second album, Town And Country, which arrived in the record stores in December 1969, just six months after Pie’s debut, As Safe As Yesterday Is. Although those first two albums had been recorded by a band with no live experience together, Humble Pie were soon to get to know every inch of America’s freeways and turnpikes, thanks to their management. “They’d done it before with Joe Cocker,” Shirley says. “Put the band out there, have them play for months, years, whatever, until they’re tighter than a duck’s ass, then capture that on vinyl and away you go.”īut the talent-packed Pie initially proved too eclectic for American rock audiences to digest. And although they would play an ‘unplugged’ opening set – way ahead of its time – it was clear they would have to cut the fiddly bits and concentrate on the down-the-line blues rock that ended the show. “By our third record ,” Frampton explains, “our first album for A&M in 1970, Glyn Johns said: ‘I think you ought to look at your direction. Steve’s the singer, Pete’s the lead guitarist, Greg’s the bass player and Jerry’s the drummer – how’s that?’ If you pay attention to your strengths, we might have something. “We all sang a little bit, but we relinquished the singing to Steve. I hate the term ‘legendary’, but there’s only one Steve, and we were all lucky to be in a band with him.” No one had a problem with this because it was such an honour to be in a band with someone who had a voice like that. In 1971 Humble Pie exploded into major stardom with not one but two best-sellers. Studio album Rock On progressed things in the right direction, with Marriott singing R&B over heavy riffs the others came up with. The tour to promote that record also resulted in Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore, one of the hottest live albums of the period.
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