Performance Rockin' the Fillmore

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Performance Rockin' The Fillmore

Live album by Humble Pie
Released	1971
Recorded	Fillmore East
Genre	Rock
Length	72:39
Producer(s)	Humble Pie
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Humble Pie chronology
Rock On (1970)	Performance Rockin' The Fillmore (1971)	Smokin' (1972)

Performance Rockin' The Fillmore is a 1971 live album by Humble Pie.

At the time, the band was one of the hottest concert acts around, so documenting this on record was no problem as is shown in this live performance from the Fillmore East. 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 record (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."

This is considered a classic live album of the 1970s, on par with The Who's Live at Leeds and Frampton's later Frampton Comes Alive.