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Rating: "Ok for the last time at the Fillmore, the Humble Pie!". This is how the concert held by Humble Pie in the historic hall owned by impresario Bill Graham, now close to closing, begins. It's the end of 1971 and Performance Rockin' The Fillmore is the ultimate live manifesto of a historic hard rock band, underrated and with mixed fortunes. The group revolves around guitarist and singer Steve Marriott, coming from the Small Faces, with whom he developed a pronounced Rhythm & Blues sense that sometimes sneaks in strongly in Humble Pie's compositions. Supporting Marriott's guitar, there's a very young Peter Frampton, an imaginative and melodically gifted guitarist, who would stay with Pie for only a couple of years. To complete the rhythm section, we have bassist Gregg Ridley and drummer Jerry Shirley.
From the first notes of Four Day Creep, it’s immediately clear that the four Englishmen are at ease on stage and start to warm up the audience with gorgeous guitar chases between Marriott and Frampton, all seasoned by a frenzied drum session by Shirley. Then it moves through Stone Cold Fever, always at very high volumes as in almost the entire concert, to reach a cover of Dr. John's I Walk On Glided Splinters, where blues and Rhythm & Blues triumph. It then continues with bluesy themes with another cover, this time it's Muddy Waters with a Rolling Stone served with venom, where Marriott sings as if he were a black man from Alabama and the ecstatic crowd screams with him.
Then it's the turn of another classic called Hallelujah I Love Her So where both Marriott and Frampton alternate on vocals, sending the audience into raptures. This rare moment of calm on the record is nothing more than a preview for the final tsunami where another Rhythm & Blues gem is covered, I Don't Need No Doctor. This track is violently and wildly transformed for almost 8 minutes by terrifying rock, hammering drums, breaks, stops, and restarts, seeming to have no end.
After the album's release, Peter Frampton left the band to try his luck as a solo artist, but after the release of his work in 1976, he went through a period of crisis, from which he emerged a few years later, becoming a well-regarded session man.
Humble Pie, on the other hand, found another guitarist in the figure of David "Clem" Clempson, formerly of Colosseum, and continued recording with mixed results until the late '70s.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 I'm Ready (08:30)
I have an axe and pistol, my graveyard train
Shoot tombstone bullets wearing balls and chain
I'm drinking TNT, smoking dynamite
I hope some screwball start a fight
'Cause I'm ready, yeah, ready as anybody can me
Hey babe, listen
I'm ready for you, I hope you're ready for me
Oh, you pretty little chicks with your curly hair
I know that you feel that I ain't nowhere
Cause stop what you're doing and come down here
I'll prove to you mama, that I ain't no square
I'm ready, ready as anybody can me
Yeah
I'm ready for you, I hope you're ready for me
Come on, take it
I been drinking gin like never before
Feeling good, I want you to know
One more drink, I wish you would
Take a whole lot of loving to make me feel good
I'm ready, ready, yeah, ready as anybody can me
Yeah, I'm ready for you, I hope you're ready for me
I said, I'm ready for you, but I hope you're ready for me
Oh yeah, yeah
Oh yeah, yeah
03 Stone Cold Fever (06:20)
Oh! Stone cold fever, yerr!
So hard to see
I've got trouble in my back bone
Since that lonesome day
Oh! Yerr!
Tried too hard, I heard you speak
Somethings wrong--only me
I've been washed, as long as my hair
What do I do? If it ain't no dream nightmare
Yerr!
Yerr! One, Two, Yerr! One, Two
07 I Don't Need No Doctor (09:13)
I don't need no doctor
Cause I know what's ailing me
I don't need no doctor
Cause I know what's ailing me
Yes I do
All I need is my baby
You don't know I'm in misery
I don't need no doctor
I don't need no doctor
I don't need no doctor
My prescription tells me that
I don't need no doctor
I don't need no doctor
I don't need no doctor
My prescription tells me that
I don't need no doctor
I don't need no doctor
All I need is my baby
You don't know I'm in misery
I don't need no doctor
I don't need no doctor
Well the doctor said I need rest
He put me on the critical list
Keeping me safe from harm
All I need is her sweet charm
He gave me a medicated lotion
It wouldn't do woah yeah
My emotion oh yeah
I don't need no doctor
I don't need no doctor
I don't need no doctor
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