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Stephen Stills, who was doing some recording at Olympic, wound up singing what Shirley calls "a very short but effective backing vocal line" on "Hot 'n' Nasty" and wound up hanging out with Marriott for considerably longer than it took to cut the part. got you weak in your knees,' all that stuff. "I remember sitting with him right before recording the live album, in his hotel room, and he was writing out lines – ' Newcastle Brown. We never actually played it until we did it as a jam in the studio, so there was a lot of freshness to it," Shirley says. "I remember sitting with him right before recording the live album, in his hotel room. Within the first two days, we recorded the ones we had been doing out on the road, then we started to create jams in the studio."Īmong the latter were the album's opening track, "Hot 'n' Nasty," and then "30 Days in the Hole," which Shirley says Marriott had started working on while touring in 1971. That's the best time to go in and record, when you've been on the road and you're just steaming literally. A lot of the material was being written as we went along, and by the time we got into the studio after touring, we were like a well-oiled machine.

And we were quite smart about it without realizing we were being smart. "There was no backlash to Peter not being there, which was a great relief. "It was on fire immediately," Shirley remembers. The new Humble Pie were quickly back on the road to hone themselves for the impending Smokin' sessions in March 1972. Humble Pie were so impressed with Clempson's playing that they even announced he was joining before he'd told his bandmates in Coliseum. It was David "Clem" Clempson, whom Shirley had seen in the power trio Bakerloo and then as part of Coliseum, who got the job after ringing up Marriott. Listen to Humble Pie's '30 Days in the Hole' I can't add to that.'" The idea of Joe Walsh joining was nixed by his management Rick Derringer's name was also mentioned but nothing came of that. He, singer Steve Marriott and bassist Greg Ridley were already working on new material, including "The Fixer" and "Sweet Peace and Time." When former Jethro Tull and Blodwyn Pig guitarist Mick Abrams heard the material "he didn't even take his guitar out of his case. "We thought we were going to have to keep going as a three-piece because we couldn't find the right replacement," Shirley recalls. The momentum from Performance and its well-received studio predecessor, Rock On, was threatened when Peter Frampton decided to leave the band in 1971 to start a solo career. "That happened quite a bit, honestly." The success, meanwhile, came as a "great relief" for Humble Pie, who faced some challenges leading up to Smokin'. "I remember that night Alice came into our dressing room, leans against the door with his drink in his hand, and he looks at us and just went, 'How do I follow that?'" drummer Jerry Shirley tells UCR.