Humble Pie

Back On Track / Live In Cleveland

HNE/CHErry rEd

Stale Pie. The very idea of a band called Humble Pie without the towering grit of Steve Marriott, who formed the band in 1969, is unthinkable to anyone who caught them at their early-70s peak or relished the sizzling blues-rock rituals of Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore. After winning the Pie’s name in court in 1988, drummer Jerry Shirley used it to play the old songs in other bands, starting with the 1990 charity show captured on Live In Cleveland, which sees a competent tribute band replicating mainly Marriott-era faves.

In 2002, Shirley warmed another Pie with original bassist Greg Ridley, journeyman singerguitarist Bobby Tench and guitarist Dave ‘Bucket’ Colwell, recording Back On The Track’s pedestrian originals and sickly ballads at David Gilmour’s houseboat studio, all of which is still sorely missing the magisterial fire of the band’s original master chef, who by then had perished in a house fire.