Label: Castle Music (UK), CMRCD 369
Style: Hard Rock, Rhythm & Blues
Country: Moreton, Essex, England, UK
Time: 51:00
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 307 Mb
This CD of music from Humble Pie's U.S. tour in 1969 constitutes a
helpful addition to the band's early recording history, which had been
limited to the pair of studio LPs cut for Immediate Records. The opening
number is an all-acoustic reworking of Graham Gouldman's "For Your
Love," a showcase for Peter Frampton's acoustic guitar and Steve
Marriott's soul shouting, and about as different as one could imagine
from the compact, punchy Yardbirds rendition. The drums and the harder
playing kicks in for "Shakin' All Over," which is similarly bent out of
its familiar shape and pushed -- Frampton and Marriott's guitars and
vocals are all over the map on the song, which is just about
recognizable despite the absence of the familiar central guitar riff.
"Hallelujah I Love Her So" and "The Sad Bag of Shakey Jake" are intact
and nicely played, and are what one would expect and hope for from an
actual live album. The finale, "I Walk on Gilded Splinters," is an
extended jam that goes through a few interesting changes, but it just
doesn't have the energy or cohesion to sustain its 20-minute length. The
overall audio quality is above average for a live recording of this
vintage, and the multi-track tapes were mixed under the supervision of
surviving bandmember Jerry Shirley. It's not a truly great moment in the
band's history, alas, but it is a flawed artifact of an early chapter
in that history.
(allmusic.com/album/live-at-the-whisky-a-go-go-69-mw0000218061)
(allmusic.com/album/live-at-the-whisky-a-go-go-69-mw0000218061)
01. For Your Love (09:17)
02. Shakin' All Over (12:20)
03. Hallelujah I Love Her So (04:20)
04. The Sad Bag Of Shakey Jake (03:40)
05. I Walk On Gilded Splinters (21:21)
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