As Safe As Yesterday Is

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As Safe As Yesterday Is
As Safe As Yesterday Is cover
Studio album by Humble Pie
Released August 1969
Recorded Olympic Studios, London, England
Genre Blues Rock
Folk Rock
Length 55:45
Label Immediate
Producer Andy Johns
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 4/5 stars link
Humble Pie chronology
As Safe As Yesterday Is
(1969)		 Town and Country
(1969)

As Safe As Yesterday Is is the debut album for rock band Humble Pie, released in the UK in August, 1969. The album peaked at number 16 in the UK album chart.[1] [2]

Featuring former frontmen Steve Marriott (ex-Small Faces) and Peter Frampton (ex-The Herd). Humble Pie were saddled with the then popular tag of supergroup before they had even played a note.[3]

Contents

[edit] Album profile

As Safe As Yesterday Is is a blend of heavy blues, crushing rock, pastoral folk, and post-mod pop. Marriott contributed six songs to the album, one co-written with Frampton, who also contributed two solo efforts. The record opens with a cover version of Steppenwolf's "Desperation" and the track "Growing Closer" was written by ex-Small Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan who actually rehearsed with Humble Pie early on, before deciding instead to form The Faces with Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Kenney Jones and Ronnie Lane.[4]

Mike Saunders is credited for first coining the term heavy metal as a sub-genre, in a review of As Safe As Yesterday Is for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 2006, the VH1 Classic documentary Heavy: the Story of Metal, the original text is shown in a close-up from the November 12, 1970 issue, in which he wrote: "Here Humble Pie were a noisy, unmelodic, heavy metal-leaden shit-rock band, with the loud and noisy parts beyond doubt." [1]

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Desperation" (John Kay) – 6:28
  2. "Stick Shift" (Frampton) – 2:22
  3. "Buttermilk Boy" (Marriott) – 4:22
  4. "Growing Closer" (Ian McLagan) – 3:13
  5. "As Safe As Yesterday Is" (Frampton/Marriott) – 6:05
  6. "Bang!" (Marriott) – 3:24
  7. "Alabama '69" (Marriott) – 4:37
  8. "I'll Go Alone" (Frampton) – 6:17
  9. "A Nifty Little Number Like You" (Marriott) – 6:11
  10. "What You Will" (Marriott) – 4:20

[edit] Album credits

  • Steve Marriott - vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards
  • Peter Frampton - guitar, vocals
  • Greg Ridley - bass guitar
  • Jerry Shirley - drums
  • Lyn Dobson - wind instruments
  • Andy Johns - producer
  • Humble Pie - Arranger, Main Performer

[edit] References/Notes

Notes:

  1. ^ Hewitt, Paulo. Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful.... Helter Skelter, pp.190. ISBN 1-900924-44-7. 
  2. ^ Guide to British Music of the 1960s Humble Pie. Making Time 1995-2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-22.
  3. ^ As Safe As Yesterday Is. rateyourmusic.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-09.
  4. ^ Hewitt, Paulo. Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful.... Helter Skelter, pp.191. ISBN 1-900924-44-7. 

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Humble Pie
Steve Marriott • Peter Frampton • Clem Clempson • Greg Ridley • Jerry Shirley
Studio albums
As Safe As Yesterday Is • Town and Country • Humble Pie • Rock On • Smokin' • Eat It • Thunderbox • Street Rats • On to Victory • Go for the Throat
Live albums
Performance Rockin' the Fillmore• King Biscuit (live 1973) • Live At The Whiskey A-Go-Go '69
Compilations
Best of Humble Pie • Classics Volume 14 • Early Years) • Hot n' Nasty: The Anthology • The Scrubbers Sessions Archive • The Immediate Years: Natural Born Boogie • Running With The Pack • Natural Born Boogie: The BBC Sessions • Extended Versions • Twentieth Century Masters: The Millennium Collection • Back On Track • The Atlanta Years • Definitive Collection (Best Of)
Singles
"Natural Born Bugie" • "The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake" • "Big Black Dog" • "Shine On" • "I Don't Need No Doctor" • "Hot n' Nasty" • "30 Days in the Hole" • "Get Down To It" • "Shut Up And Don't Interrupt Me" • "Black Coffee" • "Oh La De Da" • "Ninety-Nine Pounds" • "Rock 'n' Roll Music"
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