“Greg was easily the most respected funk-oriented bassist in Britain at the time,” recalls Shirley. With him, Marriott would enlist another A-list ringer in Spooky Tooth singer/bassist Greg Ridley. can I join your band, then?” Marriott reportedly asked. Failing in that effort, Marriott had begun to curate a new, as-yet-unnamed combo with Peter as frontman, which would feature Frampton’s guitar and voice alongside 17-year-old phenom drummer Jerry Shirley, from Immediate Records’ minnow band The Apostolic Intervention. Indeed, Marriott had even included Frampton on several sessions and live performances with The Small Faces, aiming to have him join the band. Only 22 himself at the time, Marriott’s first call after exiting stage left on that fateful New Year’s Eve was to his 19-year-old protégé, the unusually gifted and fresh-faced lead guitarist and singer Peter Frampton-then of popular pop-rockers The Herd-whom Steve had recently taken under his wing. Their unimpeachably classic LPs like 1971’s heralded live album Performance: Rockin’ the Fillmore and 1972’s commercial breakthrough Smokin’ remain veritable cornerstones of classic rock, foundational influences for generations of artists from Aerosmith to Van Halen to Quiet Riot to the Black Crowes to Rival Sons, Dirty Honey, and beyond. Marriott’s new “supergroup”-as the British press quickly dubbed them-were the heavy harbingers of a new generation of organic, hard-hitting blues-rock that would help define the denim and doobies half-decade of the early 1970s.
HUMBLE PIE BAND MOD
When singer Steve Marriott stormed offstage at London’s Alexandra Palace on with his wildly popular band The Small Faces-the band which, even more than The Who, literally defined the Mod ethos throughout England in the mid-’60s-it was the end of an era for British psychedelic pop, the finale for the Small Faces, and the big bang moment for Humble Pie. “ was the best vocalist that this country has ever produced.” David Bowie
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