Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Humble Pie - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1969-1970

Humble Pie was a British band that initially united the musical talents of Steve Marriott from the Small Faces and Peter Frampton from the Herd. It's time to see what they did for the BBC.

This first album is a collection of BBC studio sessions, with a couple of exceptions. The exceptions are "Wrist Job," done for Dutch radio, and "For Your Love," done for the German TV show "Beat Club." Everything here is officially unreleased. The sound quality is generally very good, though some are better than others.

Humble Pie would soon discover a successful formula with boogie rock, much like Status Quo, but for their first album or two their sound was more varied. That can be seen here. Most of the songs are originals, with a few exceptions, like "Shakin' All Over," Walk on Gilden Splinters," and "For Your Love."

There was some BBC DJ talk on "Sad Bag of Shakey Jake," but I edited it out using the X-Minus audio editing program.

For this album, I relied on the work of Prof. Stoned at his music blog, which you can find here:

http://www.profstoned.com/

He put together the best sounding versions of all of Humble Pie's BBC performances, so I relied on his choices.

This album is 53 minutes long. There are two other volumes coming soon.

01 Natural Born Bugie (Humble Pie)
02 Sad Bag of Shakey Jake [Edit] (Humble Pie)
03 Heartbeat (Humble Pie)
04 Desperation (Humble Pie)
05 Wrist Job (Humble Pie)
06 Shakin' All Over (Humble Pie)
07 Walk on Gilded Splinters (Humble Pie)
08 Four Day Creep (Humble Pie)
09 Big Black Dog (Humble Pie)
10 For Your Love (Humble Pie)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292117/HumbleP_1969-1970_BBSessionsVolum1_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken in 1969. I don't know any other details.

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