One of those cases where record company censors bring your attention to something you never would have noticed. The bleep on the CD was particularly annoying because I couldn't recall anything Marriott said in the middle of a song that was offensive enough to censor. I'm assuming that is not on the new release.īefore I got the CD, I had only heard the record. This may sound nit-picky, but on the original album and CD, at one point Marriott sings (in the song Rollin' Stone) the line 'it don't mean shit to me' and there is a bleep over the word 'shit'. Thanks, Maybe someone will get this for me for Christmas. The original is something I pull out once a year for a listen, but to hear four similar shows all at once or in the space of a few days is not something I'm likely to do. It's an interesting historical document, but not sure how much I'll listen to it down the line. This is how they played live, with a jam-band approach. Even small vocal harmony bits you might remember from the original release are not repeated in other shows - someone would chime in with a harmony bit when the mood struck but it wasn't set in stone. Even with the call-and-response rap at the beginning of 'I'm Ready', he doesn't play the same licks every show in response to Steve's 'preaching'. Steve makes small changes in the lyrics from show to show, and larger changes in the 'raps,' like the rap about the 'fat-legged woman' in 'Rolling Stone.' Frampton does not play the same solos note-for-note every show, there is varying degrees of change. This is not a prog show where everything is played note-for-note every show. The song structures are basically the same but there is a good deal of variation between songs in the lead guitar and vocal department. In some cases, someone just omits their line altogether. Especially when the three singers are trading off lines in a verse one of them will be less audible. Occasionally a vocal is low in the mix and perhaps with how they were recorded on the tracks, there was no way to bump them up. The early shows on the two days have slightly less quality - they were working out bugs with the mikes especially on the first day as Steve makes a comment to that effect near the end of the show. All of the tunes that made it to the original album were culled from the two late shows, and the best cuts did indeed make it to the original album. Four CDs of four shows that were played over the course of two days. You may not need no doctor, but you do need Humble Pie's Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore The Complete Recordings.Well finally got to listen to the whole thing over the course of a few weeks. The seven tracks that comprised the original album are joined here by 15 previously unissued performances including the never-before-heard complete first set from May 28! No editing or resequencing just the four sets as they were played on May 28 and 29, 1971. Now, for the first time, Omnivore Recordings has gathered all four shows from Humble Pie's historic Fillmore East stand in this lovingly packaged four-CD box set. album chart and becoming the Pie's first Gold album. Performance caught on in a big way with American listeners, hitting #21 on the U.S. 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. breakthrough with their 1971 the double-live set Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore. Humble Pie recorded four albums and several singles before achieving its U.S.

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. Marriott teamed with 18-year-old guitarist Peter Frampton, already a U.K. When Steve Marriott left the Small Faces (Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Class of 2012) to launch a new band in 1968, expectations were high. One of the world's greatest live albums is now four times greater!

Humble pie live at the fillmore