Humble Pie Tour Archive
(last updated 10/23/2008)
Background
This
is a website dedicated to the archival of Humble Pie tour dates from the
beginning in August 1969 until March 1975 when the classic Humble Pie ended with
their “Goodbye Tour”. Over time we hope this archival collection will include setlists, photos, ticket stubs, posters, performance
reviews and of course details of each concert date,including location, venue, headlining/support acts,
number of shows, cancellations,etc. Although it will
be a significant challenge we hope to achieve the success of DeadBase, Brucebase
(Springsteen), ABBBase as examples of the standards
of concert tour archival databases. We will only achieve this with your help.
So that is why we have included links to the Humble Pie Tour Archive as it
exists today.
History
Steve Marriott
(guitar & vocals) formerly of The Small Faces formed Humble Pie in early
1969. He recruited Peter Frampton formerly of The Herd (guitar & vocals),
Greg Ridley formerly of Spooky Tooth (bass & vocals) and Jerry Shirley
formerly of Little Women (drums) in the middle of the rock and roll explosion
known as the British Invasion, Part II. Humble Pie #1 released their debut
album in July 1969 “As Safe As Yesterday” on the
Immediate label. This album and the December 1969 follow up “Town &
Country” could be best described as mellow,countrified,acoustic
anything but hard driving rock & roll/R&B based that Humble Pie later
became famous for. They toured under these albums until early 1970.
Upon the bankruptcy of their Immediate record label,
Humble Pie hired new management, Dee Anthony and signed on with A&M
Records, a label familiar to Greg Ridley as they were Spooky Tooth’s record
label, as well as the label for Procol Harum, Free, Joe Cocker and Fairport Convention. In July
1970 Humble Pie released “Humble Pie" on the A&M label which began to
display the power that most rock & roll fans would come to know and love
about the live Humble Pie. Under new management and a new record label they
began to tour and conquer the
Ironically, just prior to the release of their definitive live album, Peter
Frampton left the band to go solo. In October 1971, Steve recruited guitarist
Dave “Clem” Clempson formerly of Colosseum
and Bakerloo to replace Frampton. The first gig for
Humble Pie #2 was 11/28/1971 at the London Roundhouse. This version of Humble
Pie began touring in December 1971 and basically did not stop until they broke
up in March 1975. They recorded four additional albums, “Smokin’”
in March 1972, “Eat It” in April 1973, “Thunderbox” in February 1974 and “Street Rats” in February
1975. “Street Rats” was released while Humble Pie #2 was on their “Goodbye
Tour”.
Tour Archive
If
a show listing is unconfirmed by us and the source is another tour archive
website, click on the underlined city and venue and it will take you to the
respective tour archive. Once the show is independently confirmed by Humble Pie
Tour Archives we will remove the link. Several shows were gathered from the
tour date list from the old Humble-Pie.org.uk website. A list of those dates
that are included in the Humble Pie Tour Archive can be found at the link below:
In
Search Of
Our goal is to
assemble the most accurate, comprehensive tour archive for Humble Pie from the
beginning in 1969 to March 1975. Ultimately we hope to confirm all dates with
newspaper ads, performance reviews, ticket stubs and posters. If you have any
information on any Humble Pie concert during this time period please let us
know. Send us an email of your information, or scan or send a copy of a
newspaper ad, performance review, ticket stub or poster. If any of the
information in the tour archive is incomplete or inaccurate please email us
with the corrections.
If
you taped the show, possess a tape or otherwise know the setlist
for any show, please provide us with that information. We also need to know the
headlining or opening acts that Humble Pie played with. If you know the live
source for any live track on a Humble Pie official release
please provide the track and the location.
If you have any information to help us or any questions please email us at:
Links
Keeping the Memory of Marriott Alive
