People Who Like Humble Pie: Are They Assholes?

People who don't like Humble Pie are assholes

imo

gtfo

They are not assholes and they don't need no doctor either.

as though any of us here would not buy this record were we to find it in the $1 bin
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/humble_pie.jpg

wtf I've never seen that sleeve before - beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu3aeuGTpqI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPjJzdNvA_Y&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewf8Ezwe9RM&feature=related

ie yes I would totally buy that for a dollar!

also I am an asshole

i'm more of a butthead

wtf I've never seen that sleeve before - beautiful

Strongly suggest you google the name 'Aubrey Beardsley'

http://www.wormfood.com/savoy/

um I am familiar with the work of Aubrey Beardsley thx I meant I never knew Humble Pie had used his work for a sleeve

But where does this put the king of spain?

WikiLOLs:

The album title Eat It means "dig it", although there is also an innuendo of cunnilingus, as with the group's name, which refers to a woman's crotch. Another meaning, common at the time "Man, did he eat it!" for having a serious accident or failure. "Oh man, he ate it!" though in this case, the album title is more likely based on the saying "Eat Humble Pie"

everyone should own every Humble Pie album up through "Smokin'"

(including the 'Fillmore' live 2lp)

aerosmith, have you heard the first two, folky, albums on Immediate? think you would like them.

and yeah the s/t one that tylerw posted is way awesome. maybe my favorite of theirs.

this is a joke thread stemming from an exchange on one of the metal threads just fyi humble pie fans

like it has literally nothing to do with the band humble pie

too late!

People who like asshole pie are humble

necessarily, I think

Drummer Jerry Shirley ended up a very, very popular DJ on the classic rock station in Cleveland, WNCX, until he was fired following a very ugly incident in which he was accused of stealing money from his annual charity food/cash drive. He was exonerated, but it was pretty nasty.

people who eat humble pie would be the opposite of assholes, right?

aerosmith, have you heard the first two, folky, albums on Immediate? think you would like them.

these are the only two I have. they're pretty good.

for a sec i thought i remembered an interesting anecdote involving a member of Humble Pie but no it was Lovin' Spoonful

Fred Goodman's wildly uneven The Mansion On The Hill has a decent chapter on Humble Pie/Dee Anthony. Anthony promised the band a Rolls-Royce each if they sold out Madison Square Garden (I think). They got their Rolls', but not much else. Shirley was quoted as saying, "Little did we know we'd someday have daughters who want to go to college."

The first two records are brilliant -- I'd give a slight edge to the spooky pastoralism of Town & Country. And shit, Frampton was pretty underrated as a guitarist, no?

like it has literally nothing to do with the band humble pie

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 3, 2011 9:33 PM (34 minutes ago)

OH I BEG TO DIFFER SIR

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

hahahahahahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lomJx2ClzoA

Knew I should have voted. Was just listening to the 2CD best of, Hot 'n' Nasty, yesterday.

hahahahahahahahaha

based on this poll & thread I'm classifying today an unmitigated success

Amen brother

double guitar line in Gilded Splinters at the Fillmore is one of the most sublime things in rock imo

they're definitely assholish in a blues hammer sort of way, but they sell it so hard that it becomes ecstatic and outlandish, a lot like Robert Plant's vocalizing on the first couple of Zep records.

Digging into the new Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore box and holy shit, they were some heavy motherfuckers.

double guitar line in Gilded Splinters at the Fillmore is one of the most sublime things in rock imo

Yup. They were early adopters of said tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PsFlUVP5iU

Sounds like Steve M is pronouncing it "grease grease"

Above version is about 1/5th the average length of those on the Fillmore box.

I bought the Fillmore box; I love it when the band is cranking, but Marriott's vocals drive me right up a wall; he was the hammiest motherfucker in the whole blooze-rawk universe—makes Robert Plant sound like Bryan Ferry.

yeah, the vocals are just stoopid hammy. I mean even the guitar is kind of hammy, but in a more awesome way.

That's part of what I love about Marriott, and why I never really got into Plant. Marriott fully commits to the absurdity of it all, whereas Plant frequently finds himself lost and/or out of his depth/range.

And anyway, not only was Marriott Page's first choice for Zep vocalist, but Plant cribbed much of his approach from him.

I like a little more subtlety. I've always liked Paul Rodgers best of all of 'em.

it's like blues drag xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnXBCthzMME

Yeah, Rodgers is great. I guess I'm something of a Marriott stan, though, since he never seemed to get the accolades/reap the rewards he deserved. Also, in addition to being the template for British blooze howling, he had an engaging sense of humor in his Small Faces days with the various cockney accents/soft-spoken asides.

Humble Pie had a great rhythm section. Greg Ridley the bassist was really great, one of the better rock bass players of that period.

Rockin' the Winterland is another good Humble Pie live recording with the later adapted band with the background singers. That said, I probably got more of a blues ham tolerance than most. How they use the background singers and tie together the Ray Charles songs though is really pretty killer.

I'm not so sure in retrospect that those size theaters or dance halls were about some of the best places to see a rock band (or make a live recording). I think the fact that they were made to play music even worked at the rock and roll volume and they were not too big that the band couldn't really interact with the band.

...interact with crowd.

Everybody wanted to interact with The Band, cuz they wore cool hats

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/379881/The+Band.jpg

Of all the UK responses to Music From Big Pink -- and there were many -- Town and Country was probably the best.

Humble Pie had a great everything, and was somehow less than the sum of its parts

"Forget about that tired old myth that rock 'n' roll is just making records, pullin' birds, gettin' pissed and having a good time. That's not what it's all about. And I don't think Roger really believes it either. I think that's what he'd really like to believe rock 'n' roll was all about.

Steve Marriott has chosen to live it like that and, as far as I can see, he's having a good time. Fair enough. But in my opinion Marriott's music falls short of his potential, which is a bloody shame because everyone knows what he's really capable of ... there's all those old incredible Small Faces records piled up. For me, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake is one of the classic albums of the Sixties and, if it's the difference between that music and having a good time, I prefer that Steve Marriott suffer, because I want the music."

Pete Townshend

http://www.thewho.net/articles/nme_75.htm

I think Town and Country stands up pretty favorably to most of the Small Faces' records. But Townshend's spot-on re: Marriott circa 1975.

apparently rock and roll is about makin records, pullin lads, and suffering

WikiLOLs (take 2)

"Incidentally, the word Thunderbox is a seventeenth century slang word for the toilet[2] which gives an example of Humble Pie's sense of humour.[3] The cover shows a keyhole through which a woman can be seen sitting on a toilet."

Still haven't heard Street Rats nor the couple later records but Eat It and Thunderbox are good listens. I think the big thing with Marriott's music is that he quit writing all that many tunes as their records have bunches of covers. He just wasn't that prolific as a songwriter. The covers are pretty good, I really like their take on "I Can't Stand the Rain".

Listening to quite a bit of Small Faces, Humble Pie and even The Faces over the past couple years, I don't think they really suffered all that much. Those seem to be 'blokes' that liked to live it up a bit and their music has quite a bit of humor. The Stones got quite a bit more dred in their music by comparison.