MetaChat - I've been on a Humble Pie kick the last couple days.

MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.

30 December 2007

I've been on a Humble Pie kick the last couple days. →[More:] They always struck me as proof that Peter Frampton is (on a certain level) punker than fuck. He left his gig with teenybopper outfit The Herd to play gloriously lumbering sweaty blooze with this outfit. Good for him.

and what great boogie it is: I Don't Need No Doctor, Natural Born Boogie, and my personal favorite of theirs, a rollicking, wonderfully lumbering demolition of Ray Charles' 'Hallelujah I Love Her So'.

(side note: although they are almost completely forgotten, there was a time when bands like this ruled the earth. Remember Mountain? Grand Funk Railroad? Uriah Heep?

Dinosaurs? Sure, but sometimes dinosaurs can be quite majestic in their lumbering.

post by: jonmc at: 09:50 | 10 comments

and as a bonus, the Godfathers of this sound: Blue Cheer, baby!

posted by jonmc 30 December | 09:54

and Black Oak Arkansas (who dug them up?) Ten Years After! Edgar Winter!

posted by jonmc 30 December | 10:03

If you guys ever make it to North Cackalacky, I'll drag you to Humble Pie.

posted by chewatadistance 30 December | 10:26

Heh. Do they have Natural Born Boogie Bread?

(also, am I alone in finding that Black Oak Arkansas video both totally bizarre and absolutely endearing at the same time?)

posted by jonmc 30 December | 10:28

My brother is smiling in heaven (not to mention bobbing his head). Light one up, brother.

posted by Pips 30 December | 11:39

I love GFR's version of the Stone's Gimme Shelter. Weird video

posted by chillmost 30 December | 13:37

30 Days in the Hole, baby!

Yeah, Frampton could rock like fuck, and Steve Marriott really knew how to wail. The story goes that when Jimmy Page was getting Led Zeppelin together, his first choice for a singer was Marriott (who was still with the Small Faces at the time). But with Marriott unavailable, he hooked up with the next best thing: a hardcore Small Faces fan named Robert Plant.

posted by scody 30 December | 15:30

(oh, and Jon, you may be amused by this: when my family lived in London in 1976-77, our next-door neighbor was one of the guys in Uriah Heep. I can't remember for sure, but I'm pretty sure it was Mick Box.)

posted by scody 30 December | 15:38

Sorry, one more: here's a nice slice of Small Faces, for anyone who's never heard or seen 'em. Besides being one of their greatest tunes, it gives a nice sense of where Marriott would shortly go with Humble Pie, as well as where Ronnie Lane et. al. would go with the Faces.

posted by scody 30 December | 15:54

No shit?

(also, I kind of think that dancing old broad in the Black Oak vidwo is kinda sexy, but I'm perverted)

posted by jonmc 30 December | 15:55

← ?? || Russian LOLcats →

HOME || REGISTER || LOGIN