Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore

Ranks with the best live rock albums of all time, for sure. They were great, and the time in which they performed allowed for this sort of greatness. Everything you need to know about the direction of rock beyond 1973 is contained in the fact that Frampton left this lot to become an ice-cream-pants-wearing teen idol singing songs like "Baby I Love Your Way." Yes, he made a lot more money and got a lot more of everything that comes with it, and I actually like some of what he did by hisself, but Humble Pie was a better band. There is so much soul in this playing, especially Mr. Marriott. They just get out there and testify, it's the real thing, none of this pretend crap. I find myself wishing there was more recorded material out there from these shows. I can't believe this is all there was that was worth a listen.

Humble Pie Performance Rockin' The Fillmore is the first best-ever live album to come out of the double lp live albums of the seventies. This album is pure rock and roll ecstacy and is without peer. Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band album sounds like a bunch of pansys next to this masterpiece. Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive would never have happened had it not been for Rockin' the Fillmore, on which he played a vital role. This is rock and roll at its best. Powerful guitar, powerful singing, and a rock solid and powerful band.

Buy this cd. Great live Rock & Roll from a great band. Another great live album from the 70's. Steve Marriott was the man.

...get this CD. It'll be like the coolest water on the hottest day. The Godfather of Blues Rock, the late Steve Marriott, with his fine band of merry men (Peter Frampton among them, as well as the late Greg Ridley on bass and Jerry Shirley on drums) take the stage to shred, mince, dice, julienne your mind, and then savagely rip your liver out through your nose and make some sort of weird Japanese entrée out of it. This album is sorely underrated in the annals of rock history and deserves a spot among the best; It establishes the band as a good studio act and an even better live act (As is in the case of Frampton in his solo years). There's only one flaw: the censor's bleep during "Rolling Stone", which is easily overlooked due to the great quality of the music. A must for ANY rocker's CD library, I recommend it without reservation. ROCK ON!

Intense, lurid, boogiefied, and at time even borderline psychedelic.
Humble Pie took 1 original, 5 covers, and 1 song which they credited to Ida Cox but has nothing in common with the credited song, and through ripped through them with all the power, intensity and emotion they had for some of the best 73 minutes of rock and heavy blues I have ever heard!
The thing I love the most is that they had the ability to make the cover song completly their own. I have heard allot of versions of Willie Dixon's I'm Ready, none was energeic as this one. Steve Marriot is awsome on vocals. There's no frills and thrills here, just solid, pure rock with all the sleazy attitude expected from a hard rock show.