As Safe as Yesterday Is

As Safe As Yesterday Is
Studio album by Humble Pie
Released	August 1969
Recorded	1969, Olympic Studios, London, England
Genre	Blues-rock Folk rock , hard rock
Length	55:45
Label	Immediate
Producer	Andy Johns
Humble Pie chronology
As Safe As Yesterday Is (1969) Town and Country (1969)

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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]

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 one of the first coinings of the term heavy metal as a sub-genre in a 1970 review of As Safe As Yesterday Is for Rolling Stone. 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]

Track listing

1. "Desperation" (John Kay) – 6:28
2. "Stick Shift" (Peter Frampton) – 2:22
3. "Buttermilk Boy" (Steve 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

CD bonus tracks:

1. "Natural Born Bugie" (Marriott) (Single A-side) – 4:12
2. "Wrist Job" (Marriott) (Single B-side) – 4:14

Album credits

• Steve Marriott - vocals (01,02 [fade-out vocals],03,04,05,06,07,08 [second vocals],09,10), guitar (01,03,05,06,09,10), slide guitar (02), acoustic guitar (07), harmonica (04,07), organ (02,03,05,09,10), goofs (09), tablas (04), piano (06)
• Peter Frampton - vocals (01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09 [second vocals],10), guitar (01,02,03,04,05,06,08,09,10), slide guitar (07), organ (01), tabla (05), bass tablas (07), piano (03,08,10)
• Greg Ridley - bass (01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10), vocals (01,03,04,05,06,07,10), happy noise (07), percussion (05), skins (04)
• Jerry Shirley - drums (01,02,03,04,05,06,08,09,10), grins and explosions (01), percussion (04,05,07), tablas (07), harpsichord (08), big ones (02), piano (05), lead thumbs (03)

• Lyn Dobson - flute (04,07), sitar(07)

• Andy Johns - producer
• Arranged : Humble Pie

References/Notes

Notes:

1. ^ Hewitt, Paulo; Hellier, John. 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. http://www.makingtime.co.uk/humblepie.html. Retrieved 2007-08-22. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ "As Safe As Yesterday Is". rateyourmusic.com. http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/humble_pie/as_safe_as_yesterday_is/. Retrieved 2007-09-09. 
4. ^ Hewitt, Paulo; Hellier, John. Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful.... Helter Skelter. pp. 191. ISBN 1-900924-44-7. 

References:

• Paolo Hewitt John Hellier (2004). Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful.... Helter Skelter Publishing ISBN 1-900924-44-7.

External links

• Indepth Humble Pie information website