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)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/YPG5JBky

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ZAsYh76vroOngpH/file

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

Humble Pie - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1971-1974

Here's the third and last album of the British band Humble Pie playing for the BBC. This is a collection of BBC studio sessions.

Humble Pie was mainly created so that singer and guitarist Steve Marriott could be in the same band as singer and guitarist Peter Frampton. This worked well for a while, but Frampton left the band by the end of 1971. The first five songs here come from a BBC session in March 1971 when Frampton was definitely still in the band. But all the other songs are from 1972 or later, after Frampton had left.

Everything here is officially unreleased. The first seven songs are from BBC studio sessions. Tracks 8 and 9 come from a BBC TV show called "Full House." Tracks 10 and 11 come from another BBC TV show, "The Old Grey Whistle Test." The last song, "30 Days in the Hole," comes from a BBC concert in 1974. This was the band's biggest hit and best known song. Surprisingly, even though it was released in 1972, I couldn't find a BBC version until 1974. By that time, the success of the band was declining, so it seems they stopped being invited to the BBC. The band broke up in 1975, though there were a few reunions after that, so that's why this is the last volume in this series.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 I Don't Need No Doctor (Humble Pie)
02 Four Day Creep (Humble Pie)
03 I'm Ready (Humble Pie)
04 Rolling Stone (Humble Pie)
05 The Light (Humble Pie)
06 Road Runner (Humble Pie)
07 Sweet Peace and Time (Humble Pie)
08 Say No More (Humble Pie)
09 Honky Tonk Women (Humble Pie)
10 Black Coffee (Humble Pie)
11 Twist and Shout (Humble Pie)
12 30 Days in the Hole (Humble Pie)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292110/HumbleP_1971-1974_BBSessionsVolum3_atse.zip.html

I'm not sure when or where this photo is from exactly. But it's from the time Frampton was still in the band.

Humble Pie - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 9-10-1970

Here's the second of three volumes of British band Humble Pie at the BBC. The first and third volumes are mostly made up of BBC studio sessions. But this one is a concert, the only one they did for the BBC (at least that I'm aware of).

This concert took place relatively early in the band's career, while it was still co-lead by Steve Marriott of the Small Faces and Peter Frampton of the Herd. It was shortly after the band's third album, simply called "Humble Pie." They were moving more towards the boogie rock direction that would lead to great success with their 1971 live album "Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore."

The concert was emceed by BBC DJ John Peel; he did pretty much all the talking between songs. As far as I know, it remains officially unreleased. But the sound quality is very good. However, there was a problem to my ears: I thought the lead vocals were too low in the mix. So I boosted them for nearly all the songs using the X-Minus audio editing program.

This album is an hour long.

01 talk (Humble Pie)
02 Four Day Creep (Humble Pie)
03 talk (Humble Pie)
04 I'm Ready (Humble Pie)
05 talk (Humble Pie)
06 Live with Me (Humble Pie)
07 talk (Humble Pie)
08 Stone Cold Fever (Humble Pie)
09 talk (Humble Pie)
10 Hallelujah I Love Her So (Humble Pie)
11 talk (Humble Pie)
12 Walk On Gilded Splinters (Humble Pie)
13 talk (Humble Pie)
14 Sad Bag of Shakey Jake (Humble Pie)
15 talk (Humble Pie)
16 One Eyed Trouser Snake Rumba (Humble Pie)
17 talk (Humble Pie)
18 Big Black Dog (Humble Pie)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292115/HumbleP_1970_BBSessionsVolum2InConcert__9-10-1970_atse.zip.html

I must admit the cover photo is kind of a fake. I didn't find many good photos of the band in concert from around this time. However, I found two good photos of Humble Pie playing at Hyde Park in London on July 3, 1971. But one of them featured Steve Marriott very well, holding up a fist, yet didn't have Peter Frampton in it at all. The other one featured Frampton well, but Marriott was only a small figure on the side. So I used Photoshop to bring Frampton into the photo that most prominently featured Marriott. Frampton is the guitarist with the light blue suit. Since the lighting and such was the same in both photos, I think the edit works okay, although the right and the left of Frampton's guitar playing is flipped.

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.