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Humble Pie was a British band formed in 1968 by guitarist and
vocalist Steve Marriott of the Small Faces and
virtuoso guitarist Peter Frampton, who had just climbed the charts with his
band The Herd (From The Underworld, Paradise Lost, I Don't Want Our Loving To Die). They debuted in the year of Led Zeppelin with
the hard-rocking As Safe As Yesterday (Immediate, 1969) and
Town And Country (Immediate, 1969), the latter containing
Natural Born Boogie. The dual guitar attack was quite disappointing.
Humble Pie (A&M, 1970) and Rock On (A&M, 1971) offered a more
mature sound, closer in spirit and execution to American southern-rock than
to British hard-rock.
Frampton launched a successful solo career with
Wind Of Change (A&M, 1972), Frampton's Camel (1973), with
Do You Feel Like We Do and one of his best solos in Lines on my Face,
Somethings Happening (1974) and Frampton (1975), with
the radio-friendly hits
Show Me The Way and Baby I Love Your Way.
The double live album Comes Alive (A&M, 1976) was a best-seller (over
15 million copies sold in five years), but
also the beginning of the end, as I'm In You (1977) was his last
success.
His guitar-hero image was a mere illusion and his soul-rock was simply
tedious.
Colosseum guitarist Dave Clempson joined Humble Pie
that released Smokin' (A&M, 1972), possibly their best
(Hot And Nasty, Thirty Days In The Hole).
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