Inside, tea time - at the rear of the hall where the group’s equipment and instruments are set up as if for a gig before an invisible audience. Steve was outside on the gravel path talking to two young fans, who’d come by on horseback, when we arrived after a two-hour drive from the West End culminating in us getting hopelessly lost in the maze of winding country lanes. It is ideal “getting-yourself-together” country in this green and peaceful part of the county where Humble Pie are local stars but where the villagers accord them due solitude to work. A second album, for release two months later, is also recorded.
Magdalen Laver is a tiny Essex hamlet, comprising little more than a village hall in which the youth club gathers on certain evenings and in which on most days since the New Year Humble Pie has been rehearsing solidly with little ado in order to put itself before you the public in two weeks time.Īn album, “Safe As Yesterday Is,” is scheduled for release then, along with a single (see centre news pages). It is also Greg Ridley (24), ex-Spooky Tooth of few words, and Jerry Shirley (17), ex-Apostilic Intervention of youthful enthusiasm and many words, who haven’t had the changes but have learnt enough from Steve and Pete to keep them right. He’s been through the same changes as Steve but quicker and more thoroughly. It is Peter Frampton whose guitar skill has been ignored in the rush to photograph and interview his face. Humble Pie is Steve Marriott, singer/guitarist and much else, a loquacious bustle of energy whose been through pop’s changes and come out eager to start anew.
Their music may indeed be super, my ears tell me it will be, but Humble Pie don’t wish to be regarded as four “ego-freaks” who left their groups to form a supergroup - nor do they wish you to judge them as one. Not the “just another group” they’d have us believe but neither the “supergroup” that others would. Super indeed.ĭon`t think of Humble Pie as a supergroup Just take a look at the careers of the members of Humble Pie after they went their separate ways.
Humble Pie may not have been a supergroup at the time, according to the members, but today, in retrospect, you would definitely call them something with the word “super” in it.
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