As I recall Humble Pie didn't get much credit for such incredible talent even back in their hey day. To me it's BS that they aren't in the RRHOF. He started really standing out on lead guitar by this time, because he was the lone guitarist fronting a trio. One great set including tunes from the Small faces and Humble Pie, and a bunch of Blues tunes. The bartender didn't hide his opinion of Steve, saying how he "couldn't stand that guy." Of course, once he played, and made a joke about the place being so small "you can pick off the cash register" from the stage. I told him I had been following him for years, and he told me to follow him through the F-g door! He was gigging with a trio called Packet Of Three, and did one show, although contracted to do two. He was walkin' up to the door with a drop dead gorgeous Blonde wearing a big toothy smile across his face. I will never forget one night in the 80's in NYC when I introduced myself to the one and only Steve Marriott outside of a club called Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village. They chose the make-up to embelish it, but they were doing their own brand of Pie from the schoolin' they got. From what I understand, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons from Kiss sat in the balcony at most of their shows and got an education about what a Rock band is supposed to look and sound like in concert. I saw them a number of times afterwards and was always blown away. After that night, I never listened or thought about Tull anymore, and became obsessed and consumed with Marriott and Frampton. I was a big Jethro Tull fan until I walked into the Fillmore East one night and they had cancelled, so I was left with the option of seeing Humble Pie, and I did. Years later when "Frampton Comes Alive" became the best selling live album of all time, it really was a return to some of the styles he learned playing with Marriott in the Pie.
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They were one of those bands like Free and Procol Harum that toured the US on bills with other bands and you heard great performances but they didn't have enough hooks to get people to go out and buy their records. They weren't even played much on FM radio in the 70's. I don't think they ever had enough songs that the record buying public would remember. Marriott and Frampton were a great performing duo onstage and when Steve, Peter and Greg Ridley traded vocals it was powerful. I think even the Stones probably heard these guys perform and were impressed. It was the kind of music that Rod Stewart should have done but he was too much of a sissy to do that kind of rock. I was at one of their concerts in the very early 70's before Peter Frampton left and the music was very ballsy. As far as recordings go I don't think there is enough there to put the Pie in a commercial mess like the RHOF.
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