![]() This article originally appeared in VG March 2014 issue. It was an incredible band, and I enjoyed every second.” “Still, I wouldn’t trade my time in Humble Pie for anything. “I’ve been able to do exactly what I wanted to do,” he said. Perpetually active, Frampton is working on a collaboration with the Cincinnati Ballet, as well as live songs culled from his 2013 tour, which featured guests such as B.B. “I’m thrilled about it, and Jerry was thrilled with how it turned out, as well.” “This is going to be around when I’ve kicked the bucket,” he said. There were guitars hanging on strings everywhere!”įrampton is grateful for the opportunity to supervise the expanded version of a classic album, and believes the finished product validates their effort. ![]() Back then, everybody wanted wood finishes, so we started working on them in his flat in London. “Myself and Ian McLagen, from the Small Faces, went into the business of stripping guitars. When it came to solos, you had me with jazz influences and Steve playing harder riffs, so it was a mish-mash of styles that made Humble Pie so vibrant and lyrical.”įrampton was already playing his fabled three-pickup Les Paul Custom, Marriott a single-pickup Epiphone Coronet, and Ridley had a “refinished” Fender Precision Bass. “Blues or rock with Steve singing R&B all the time. “It was heavy rock, not heavy metal,” he clarified. Those familiar only with Frampton’s solo career might be surprised at how hard Humble Pie rocked, and the influence of blues on their material. Ashley Shepherd did wonderful mixes, and if you play a track from the original and the same one, re-mixed, the difference is incredible.” “We were able to bring out so much more, and it sounds ‘bigger’. “The sound is vastly different because of today’s technology,” he said. Jerry and I went over every detail – every mix, every name. “We downloaded the tapes, went into the studio, and started from scratch. ![]() I said, ‘Wait… What are you talking about?’ They sent me mixes, which were not to my standards, and we said ‘If you want this out, Jerry and I have to be involved.’ “Someone had re-mixed the tapes, and Jerry and I knew nothing about it until I was contacted about getting permission to release it. “It was very close to being released without our knowledge,” Frampton recounted. The band, with guitarists Steve Marriott and Clem Clempson, bassist Greg Ridley, and drummer Jerry Shirley, continued for several years.įorty years later, all four 1971 Fillmore East concerts from which Performance was culled have been released as a boxed set.įrampton and Shirley are co-producing the effort. “When the album started selling like hotcakes, I wondered if I’d made the worst decision of my career thus far,” Frampton said. thanks to its live album, Performance – Rockin’ the Fillmore, Peter Frampton had departed and begun to beat the odds by forging a successful solo career. All things considered, Running With the Pack paints an attractive, if imperfect, picture of Humble Pie's post-Frampton work.By the time Humble Pie reached “breakthrough” status in the U.S. And Marriott sounds like he is enjoying his soul obsession tremendously on Brown's "Think" as well as original material like "Snakes & Ladders," "Charlene," and "Midnight of My Life." But as John Hellier points out in his liner notes, the other members of Humble Pie didn't share Marriott's enthusiasm for this blue-eyed soul direction - and the result was a return to the heavier, guitar-powered hard rock/boogie mindset that one hears on the Philadelphia performances. ![]() Much of the studio material, meanwhile, takes a funky, soul-drenched approach to rock - sort of Ike & Tina Turner meets Janis Joplin meets Otis Redding meets Rare Earth. Taking the stage in Philly, Humble Pie gets into a heavy, guitar-powered hard rock/boogie groove on "Stone Cold Fever," "C'mon Everyday," "I Don't Need No Doctor," and "Four Day Creep" (which gives the impression that Marriott had been paying a lot of attention to Robert Plant's singing with Led Zeppelin). Running With the Pack contains four live performances (all of them from a December 1973 show in Philadelphia) and ten early-'70s studio recordings - and there is a major difference between the two. Assembled in 1999, this British release takes a generally enjoyable, 65-minute look at singer Steve Marriott's post-Frampton work with the British outfit. Some of Humble Pie's post-Frampton LPs were uneven, but some were solid. When singer Peter Frampton left Humble Pie in 1971 and became a full-time solo artist, it was a major blow for the British band, but not a fatal one.
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