Humble Pie - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Reseda Country Club, Los Angeles, CA, 5-17-1981

Here's another album of the British band Humble Pie performing for the BBC. It's a BBC concert, from 1981.

As far as I can tell, the only previous BBC concert by this band took place in 1970. I find it kind of strange that there were no other BBC concerts in the early 1970s, when the band was at a commercial peak. By 1981, the band was having a hard time. It broke up in 1975, then got back to make a new album in 1980. But musical tastes had changed, and the band's style of boogie rock was no longer in vogue. The band put out albums in 1980 and 1981, but both albums sold poorly, with neither of them even making the U.S. charts at all. In July 1981, only a couple of months after this concert, the band's lead singer and lead guitarist Steve Marriott developed an ulcer, which forced the cancellation of a tour. The band broke up at that point. Just one year later, Marriott formed an all-new band, but due to commercial reasons he was obliged to call it Humble Pie. That only lasted for about a year before the band was retired for good, at least as far as any Marriott version went.

Marriott had gone through a lot of things since the early 1970s, and it could be argued that he was a shadow of his former self creatively, especially when it comes to songwriting. At once point in the late 1970s, he was so hard up for money that he took to collecting empty bottles to redeem them for spare change. He frequently had big issues with drugs and alcohol. But despite all that, if you listen to this recording, he was still singing and playing lead guitar at a top level. I checked out a forum of Humble Pie fans, and this is considered one of the band's best concert recordings, period, in terms of both sound quality and performance.

The music here has been officially released, but in an obscure way. A box set of five CDs called "The Official Bootleg Box Set, Volume 2" came out, consisting of five different Humble Pie concerts, and this was one of them. But in terms of sound quality alone, this one deserves more attention, since it sounds better than most of the other material in that set.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 I Don't Need No Doctor (Humble Pie)
02 Infatuation (Humble Pie)
03 30 Days in the Hole (Humble Pie)
04 Tin Soldier (Humble Pie)
05 Fool for a Pretty Face (Humble Pie)
06 [Get Your Kicks On] Route 66 (Humble Pie)
07 Be-Bop-A-Lula (Humble Pie)
08 Tulsa Time (Humble Pie)

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The cover photo of Steve Marriott is from a concert at the Park West, in Chicago, Illinois, on April 15, 1981.