Humble Pie

"It was on fire immediately," says drummer Jerry Shirley.

Unreleased LP band recorded between 1974 and 1975 getting released.

The popularity and proliferation of live albums was a distinct phenomenon of '70s rock 'n' roll.

On July 11, 1971, Humble Pie had difficulty following their opening act, the Bruce Springsteen Band.

This project would ultimately go down as a transitional LP.

They'd attained some commercial success, sending a string of LPs into the American Top 40 and notching a handful of hit singles.

In August 1969, an LP made to resemble a stamped, and rather worse-for-wear, post-office parcel began cropping up in record-store shelves across the U.K.

The album was titled after a 17th-century slang term for toilet. Coincidentally, that's also where their sales were headed.

In 1971, the concept of a hard-rock band achieving its big commercial breakthrough with a double live album was nothing new. But the experience had to be a particularly satisfying one for Humble Pie.

Classic rock is about heavy hooks, power chords and tight harmonies. But it’s also about letting loose and enjoying the good times. And there’s no better time for that than Friday evening, when we pick up our paycheck, punch out of work and enjoy a couple days of much-needed rest and relaxation.