Humble Pie: Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore CD Track Listing
Humble Pie
Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore (1971)
Originally Released 1971\nCD Edition Released November 1988\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Recorded while Peter Frampton was still in the band, Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore captures an early performance by Humble Pie where Steve Marriot's lyricism and ideas where balanced by Frampton's searing lead guitar. This is hardly as engaging as As Safe Yesterday Is, which had studiocraft along with songcraft, but as a document of a band at a pivotal point in their existence, this is valuable and at times insightful. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nIf you like Free, you'll rave about this, October 23, 2004\nReviewer: Gavin Wilson (Thames Ditton, Surrey United Kingdom) \nHow did I miss this until now? This is an utterly fantastic live record -- at least as good as another live album from that era, Deep Purple's MADE IN JAPAN -- but here there is much more interaction between the band and the American audience. \n\nI don't think the band's label has helped -- A&M seems to have forgotten about many of its once-adored groups. And reading through the books, it's clear that Pie lacked a certain amount of consistency, so that their back-catalogue isn't as strong as say, Free's. But on this album -- a double on LP -- everything came together wonderfully. \n\nThe CD documentation is woefully inadequate, so I still cannot tell you who the bassist or drummer is. But they form a great rhythm section in support of Pete Frampton and the soulful Steve Marriott. \n\n"Orlright? Orlright? Orlright?" is the classic opening dialogue that ultra-cockney Marriott starts with the San Francisco audience. And from that point you're hooked as the band make their way through seven numbers (some of their own, some blues standards), in their loud-then-soft style that gives plenty of space for the crowd to shout back. It's been said that what made Free a great band was the gaps between the notes, but that's even more true of Humble Pie. And as a vocalist Steve Marriott was just as good, if not more impassioned, than Paul Rodgers. \n\nThe duelling guitars of Marriott and Frampton were highly influential on bands such as Wishbone Ash. And if you listen to Paul Weller's STANLEY ROAD, it's hard to argue that he doesn't owe a tremendous debt to the Pie. And then, of course, there came FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE in 1977, far poppier than FILLMORE and without the soul that this fantastic album overflows with. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nThe Best Slice of An Average Pie, March 15, 2001\nReviewer: BluesDuke "A sacred cow is worth but one thing...STEAK" (Huntington Beach, California) \nThe good news: Humble Pie could outplay Grand Funk Railroad - opening for whom the Pie made their rep, after two early and badly underappreciated albums melding quiet rock (without forgetting the "rock" side of it) with crunchy rock - on their (the Pie's, that is) worst night. The bad news: Just HOW much better than Grand Funk did you have to BE to outplay those turkeys?\nAccording to "Rockin' The Fillmore," about all you really needed was a lead guitarist with a little less self-consciousness, which in Peter Frampton the Pie had to spare. His sleek, jazzy solos and fills stood out brightly from the rest of the burgeoning run of boogie-till-you-plotzers as the 60s crossed into the 70s. He didn't have a half bad rhythm section to play over and through, either, in bassist Greg Ridley and drummer Jerry Shirley. What he DID have, though, was Steve Marriott for a frontman, who didn't know the meaning of the word subtlety and who substituted bombast for genuine soul, not to mention delivering, arguably, the most insufferably chauvinistic rambleogue in the history of British rock by way of the superfluous (and unlistenable) version of "Rollin' Stone" which appears here.\n\nThat, on the original LP, took up side three; a hard rock jam version of Dr. John's hoodoo psychedelic soul classic, "I Walk On Guilded Splinters," took up side two, and probably told people that this kind of thing was probably best left to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. I had often said in years past that sides one and four would have made one hell of a fun album. That opinion holds even now, since you'd have to go through an awful lot of contortion to deny that "Four Day Creep," "Stone Cold Fever," and "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" aren't good harmless fun, and they actually crank it up a legitimate notch and rock the living hell out of "I Don't Need No Doctor." Do yourself a favour, though - when it comes to "I'm Ready," just skip Marriott's opening hectoring and cut right to the chase, unless, of course, mouthy pipsqueaks who think they were gospel shouters in their previous lives are a staple in your diet.\n\nHalf.com Album Notes\nOriginally released on LP as a double album.Recorded live at The Fillmore East, New York.
This rock cd contains 7 tracks and runs 72min 43sec.
Freedb: 67110907
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- Humble Pie - Four Day Creep (03:46)
- Humble Pie - I'm Ready (08:30)
- Humble Pie - Stone Cold Fever (06:20)
- Humble Pie - I Walk On Gilded Splinters (23:28)
- Humble Pie - Rollin' Stone (16:10)
- Humble Pie - Hallelujah, I Love Her So (05:10)
- Humble Pie - I Don't Need No Doctor (09:14)
