King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert [Live]

Humble Pie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 1996)
• Original Release Date: February 27, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: King Biscuit Flower
• ASIN: B000005EIW
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,945 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Up Your Sleeves/4 Day Creep

2. C'mon Everybody

3. Honky Tonk Women

4. Stone Cold Fever

5. Blues I Believe to My Soul

6. 30 Days in the Hole

7. (I'm A) Road Runner

8. Hallelujah, I Love Her So

9. I Don't Need No Doctor

10. Hot 'n' Nasty

Customer Reviews

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I WAS THERE !!!, June 21, 2007

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PHILIP S WOLF (SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CA. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert (Audio CD)

Yes, it's true, I was at Winterland that night and it was indeed quite a SHOW. The doors opened right on time at 6:30 and of course we headed for the floor, This was Humble Pie !!! My group was gonna be down front. Outta the way, Hipsters! This ain't no Quicksilver show, this was mighty English rock at it's finest and we were STOKED, and very STONED.

First band on stage: STEELY DAN, The original band with Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter on guitar & David Palmer on vocals. The Dan ROCKED !!! They played almost everything from their classic first album, and "Do it Again" featured a mean solo of 'Plastic Organ' as Donald Fagen, called it. We all knew these guys would be headliners the next time they came to town. {They DIDN'T tour again for over 20 YEARS!}.

The middle group was the: "Glam Band of the week"...SLADE. I had never heard of this lot before they took the stage BUT, they had had a number one hit in England. So here they be in all their glory and glitter, the lead guitar player looked like a Martian and he had "ODD GOB" written on his silver suit. The band KISS stole lot's of ideas and gimmicks from these boys, I never met a soul who actually bought one of their records, ever.

Well, after almost an hour...TA DAAAA....HUMBLE PIE! And loudly, they cranked out: "Up Our Sleeve", there is only one word to describe this assualt on our senses, POWER! The second tune? What else, could it be but: "4 Day Creep" from the "Live at the Fillmore" double set, when the crowd heard the first notes of this, we all went NUTS. Next, Steve introduced the back-up singers: The Blackberries, and sat at a white Hammond organ, and launched into: "Black Coffee" with a dirty rap directed right at the girls and what he had planned to do to them after the show. None of this can be found on the King Biscuit CD because of the subject matter {it's R rated).
There were a few more soul numbers performed, and just in time Steve jumped up from behind his big organ {his pun, not mine} and got back to playing some serious rock music once again with a KILLER: "Stone Cold Fever" that went on & on. This one was much longer than the "Fillmore" version. "Fever" was majestic and had some really pretty playing in the middle section. The guitar leads by Clem and Steve were amazing! This one needs to see the light of day once again, and alas, it ISN'T on this CD...$#!*

Also, not included is the long, long version of: "Rollin' Stone" they played that night in San Francisco. This one would not make the record due to the lyric content as they are very sexual. This version was way different from the other live version and is also merits an official release.

I am glad "30 Days" made it to the record, BUT, again there is an EDIT here as Steve introduced it with a long funny rap, and that is not included here as well as ANOTHER rap right in the middle of this crowd pleaser. This song could be from another night, and not from the May 6 Winterland show, if it IS Winterland, it's a great edit.

Some of the best stuff is included on this CD. "Halleluah, I Love her So" and "Hot N' Nasty" were SMOKIN'...these are the finest versions of these Pie classics, out there. The show closed with: "Doctor", and again this was a great version. The encore on this night was "Honky Tonk Woman" and then "Roadrunner". It was all over by 2AM {the official Winterland closing time}, if a show ran later than that they closed the doors and it became a "Private Party" until dawn.

I do wish we had the ENTIRE SHOW here, (it would take 2 CD's) because there is less than half of The Pie's set included here. But, I doubt that will ever happen. This was a GREAT NIGHT at Winterland, and I will always remember just How GREAT it was to see this band up-close.
Five STARS...

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SCREAMIN' STEVEN AND THE IRRESISTABLE PIE, March 3, 2000

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cd-heaven (ROCK CITY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert (Audio CD)

WOW, this man has lungs of steel. Truly one of the most gifted and talented singers in the 70's, Steve Marriott was a black man trapped in a white man's body. His soul was so deep in the ryhthm & blues that he not only wrote it, he sang it, continuously. Once onstage you here a man possessed by the power of soul. He sang nonstop during his concerts even going as far to sing the inbetween song banter that most fans dont usually want to here, but Steve made it interesting. Kicking this show off with the rocker Up Your Sleeves segueing into 4 Day Creep, Steve and Co. are in fine spirits. C'mon Everybody is just as powerful as the studio version and Humble Pie's version ofHonky Tonk Woman has got to give the Stones a run for their money. Revved up blues like Blues I Believe and Road Runner cement Steve's reputation as a voice to be reckoned with. By the time I Don't Need No Doctor and Hot N' Nasty are played, Steve's been singing his arse off for well over an hour, so if he sounds weak and tried you won't mind, because in that first hour you'll experience something you've likely never had or ever will again in music.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Humble Pie available - thanks to King Biscuit, September 6, 1999

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This review is from: King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert (Audio CD)

The King Biscuit recordings are hit and miss but this is a real hit. This has more energy than any HP studio recording and is better than their live record, as well. If you like Humble Pie, you NEED this.

Other King Biscuit hits (great stuff) ..Robin Trower.

Misses (avoid wasting $$)..Kingfish, Blackfoot, America