After hearing the first side of Led Zeppelin my jaw was on the floor. “I flew back with Glyn and went to his house straight from the airport, as he wanted me to listen to a new band he’d just recorded.
So we went to Paris and I joined The Small Faces for a week. “The way he put it was: ‘Johnny would like either Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page, but they’re busy. He’s always been a big fan and wants to do a couple of Ronnie Lane/Steve Marriott songs’. Rather than Marriott muscling in on Frampton’s band, it was the latter who wanted to be one of The Small Faces.įrampton: “ Glyn Johns called me up and said: ‘The Small Faces are going to go to France to do this record with Johnny Halliday. The story of the band’s formation has been mis-told a thousand times. It wasn’t that good for Humble Pie’s long-term direction, because we did everything – acoustic, country, you name it we did it, all the way up to full-on rock’n’roll. And I think both Steve and I realised that we could do anything we wanted, now we were starting all over again. We were just having a lot of fun playing. It worked against us, because it took three or four years before we actually made the record everybody expected of us.”įrampton revelled in the freedom:“The first day we got together, in Jerry Shirley’s mother’s living room, I think, we were doing songs off Music From Big Pink. “And that was partly why the band’s name was chosen.
“We wanted to build it slowly,” drummer Jerry Shirley recalls. Marriott and Frampton had stopped enjoying the teen adulation of their previous groups The Small Faces and The Herd respectively, and wanted above all to be considered serious musicians. From the off, though, Humble Pie were to be a reluctant supergroup.
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