We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago…..
For awhile in the late 60’s and early 70’s you were hard pressed to find a better blues-rock band than Humble Pie. In a landscape filled with young British guys singing and playing the blues with that rock edge pioneered by names like John Mayall and Alexis Korner, Humble Pie could bring it with anybody. They seemed to be a perfect rock combination of raw and sweet. Steve Marriot brought the grit with both his guitar and his voice. Peter Frampton offered the sugar with his more pop oriented vocals and fretwork. Aided by a solid rhythm section of Greg Ridley on bass and a teenage Jerry Shirley on drums, the Pie offered up their fourth LP in 1971 called “Rock On”.