Humble Pie – Smokin’ (Analogue Productions)

Humble Pie — Smokin’

180-gram vinyl

Turn up the heat with the iconic Smokin’ 1972 album that made Humble Pie a rock ‘n’ roll force!

Mastered by Kevin Gray from a 1/2″ flat tape copy of the original master tape

Pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Stoughton Printing tip-on gatefold jacket w/ recording session photos!

Scuff-resistant matte finish cover with spot U.V. coating

Fifth studio album, released in 1972 by the English rock band

Features “30 Days in the Hole,” “C’mon Everybody,” and “Hot ‘n’ Nasty”

Smokin’ reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 albums chart

Shortly before cutting the hard-rock classic Smokin’, Humble Pie played the biggest US gig of them all: Shea Stadium, opening for Grand Funk Railroad. It was a make-or-break moment for the U.K. band, and just as the set was heating up, it began to rain. Playing during a storm is a risky situation in the best of times, but in 1971 it meant taking your life in your hands. Frontman Steve Marriott took the mic and dramatically announced that the group didn’t care: “It’s comin’ down rain, and we don’t give a f***! We’re gonna rock your asses all night long!”

“The audience went absolutely berserk,” drummer Jerry Shirley recalls. Even Grand Funk’s fastidious manager Terry Knight was impressed enough to allow a couple of encores. The band managed to avoid getting killed. And America was now Humble Pie territory.

Lucky for the group, the next studio album they released had just as much rock ‘n roll bravado — seasoned with deep blues roots and a whole lot of soul. Smokin’, Humble Pie’s fifth studio set, made Steve Marriott a star for a second time, gave the band its most enduring song — “30 Days in the Hole” — and made them U.S. headliners.

It was also the sound of a band in transition, both in sound and personnel. When Humble Pie formed in 1969, everybody had something of a profile: Marriott had been in the Small Faces; guitarist/singer Peter Frampton, fresh from the Herd, was known both for his chops and his good looks (the U.K. press called him the “face of ‘68”). Bassist Greg Ridley and drummer Jerry Shirley, meanwhile, came from cult favorite hard-rock bands Spooky Tooth and Apostolic Intervention. So Humble Pie initially functioned as a democratic supergroup: Everybody wrote songs, everybody sang lead, and the sound seesawed from heavy rock to the acoustic direction of their second LP, Town & Country.

Format : Vinyl Record

1 Lp