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Top cuts include a surprisingly beautiful number 'You're So Good To Me,' a rendition of Eddie Cochran's 'C'mon Everybody' and a lusty rocker '30 Days is the Hole.' His replacement, Clem Clemson seems an insistently fervent guitarist and a welcome addition to the group. This is the Pie's first album since the departure of the erstwhile 'face' of 1969, Peter Frampton. In the meantime, my next-door neighbor said, I didn't: ' Smokin' makes a great Frisbee.' A killer group, a killer album - check it out for yourself. Even Van Morrison lives in the USA! But that's yet another story. To me, America is where the exciting young talent is: Fanny, Nils Lofgren, Dust, Black Oak Arkansas, the amazing Blue Oyster Cult. I wouldn't care if they all collapsed tomorrow. Mainly Humble Pie are just another less than mediocre English rock group aside from T. The Stones play good slide guitar, but Humble Pie - pssshew! 'Old Time Feelin',' on the other hand, is offensive: the end-of-the-side WhiteBoy country blooze conceit in its worst form yet. Other cuts aren't so much bad as they are nondescript, ultimately boring because of their length: for example, 'Sweet Peace And Time' and 'The Fixer' is four minutes spent around mainly two chords, which'd be fine were it the Stooges or Black Sabbath or even the Kingsmen or the Music Machine, but it's not even rock - a mere ballad, for Chrissake, and a boring one at that. 'C'mon Everybody' is horrific, especially when compared to the heartwarming early-Blue Cheer-ish version by UFO (a real Third Generation British rock group, not sham posturers, and a fine one) on their debut album last year. 'Roadrunner' is slowed down to a tortoise crawl, maybe to showcase the just plain stupid one-note organ solos.

And I'm not saying that just because of the glorious 8:53 'I Wonder.' Smokin' abounds with highlights aplenty that together compose an object lesson in how not to play rock and roll.

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Except for '30 Days In The Hole,' a perfectly competent Free imitation, this album must win the Wretched Excess award of the budding young decade. Smokin' is (save for the live album) their worst yet. For Humble Pie are such all-time losers they almost wind up winning.

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Never mind that the Pie are a walking anachronism, a group full of mannered old Cream-like histrionic tricks more laughable than they are quaint in the face of modern Alice Cooper/Grand Funk/Sabbath power rock. Their first record company (Immediate) went out of business, vile-tempered record reviewers slandered their early albums from here to Zanzibar, and their early tours were total duds.īut, like another English group, Yes, Humble Pie stuck it out until they got their hit: Rockin' The Fillmore.

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