Humble Pie

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.

Humble Pie's 1971 double live album 'Performance: Rockin’ the Fillmore' finally broke the British rock band in the U.S. after a couple years of missing the charts. The record reached No. 21 and gave the band the shot it needed to push forward.

Steve Marriott and his boys in Humble Pie were firing on all cylinders at the start of 1973, fueled by the career-high No. 6 chart placing achieved by the previous year’s aptly named ‘Smokin’’ LP, which appeared to indicate the British group’s de facto conquest of America. Now all they had to do was top it.

One could make a good argument that this band in some ways lived out the prophecy of their name.

Long after the departure of Peter Frampton, a revised version of Humble Pie soldiered on into the ‘80s. Deadline Music has announced plans to release a deluxe edition of two Humble Pie albums from that era with bonus material.

Three of Humble Pie's early '70s albums will be re-released this spring courtesy of Lemon Records --  specifically, their self-titled 1970 effort, 1973's 'Eat It' and the 1975 double album 'Thunderbox.'

After 40 years, Peter Frampton and fellow former Humble Pie member Jerry Shirley will revisit the ‘Pie’s classic live album ‘Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore,’ with new interviews that will air this weekend on the syndicated radio program ‘In The Studio.’