PERFORMANCE ROCKIN' THE FILLMORE

'''Performance Rockin' the Fillmore''' is the 1971 live album by English blues-rock group Humble Pie.

Contents

Album profile

Track listing

Releases

Notes

External links

Album profile

This hour-long set boasted only one original song and a handful of cover tunes, beefed up and presented Humble Pie-style. Peter Frampton's guitar playing was at its most melodic and Steve Marriott's vocals are captured here in essence and preserved. "I Don't Need No Doctor" was the biggest airplay hit from the album (having been issued as a single in edited version, and reaching #73 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1971), while some consider the biggest highlight to be the Doctor John cover "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" that stretches out over almost 25 minutes; one can even hear a bottle drop in the menacing intro. The song listed as "Four Day Creep", and attributed to classic blues singer Ida Cox, bears no melodic nor lyrical resemblance to her self-recorded composition with that title. The single of "I Don't Need No Doctor" was backed with another live recording from the Fillmore East not contained on the album, "A Song for Jenny" which Marriott wrote for his first wife Jenny Rylance.
During the mixing of the album, the band presented what they thought to be the finished product to their manager, Dee Anthony. Upon listening to it, he made one comment: "Great, but where's the audience?" Marriott and drummer Jerry Shirley are reported to have stonedly forgotten to include the sound of the audience in the mix - so it was back to the mixing desk.
Shortly before the album's release, guitarist Peter Frampton left due to growing frictions between him and Marriott, an event which hurt Marriott greatly, though he would never admit it to the other band members.

Track listing

★ "Four Day Creep" (Ida Cox) – 3:46

★ "I'm Ready" (Humble Pie, words by Willie Dixon) – 8:31

★ "Stone Cold Fever" (Humble Pie) – 6:18

★ "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" (Dr John Creaux) – 23:25

★ "Rolling Stone" (Muddy Waters arranged by Humble Pie) – 16:07

★ "Hallelujah" (I Love Her So) (Ray Charles) – 5:10

★ "I Don't Need No Doctor" (Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson, J. Armstead) – 9:15

Releases

:1971 LP A&M 3506
:1990 LP A&M 6008
:1990 CD A&M 75021-6008-2
:1990 CS A&M 75021-6008-4
:1996 CD Universal/Polygram 1887
:2004 LP Classic 3506
:2006 CD Universal 6229
:2007 CD Universal 93221
:2007 CD Universal 93221 (Japan)

Notes

External links

★ You Tube:/ "I Don't Need No Doctor" 1971

★ Steve Marriott - The Official Website

★ The History of Humble Pie