As Safe As Yesterday Is

Infobox Album | Name = As Safe As Yesterday Is
Type = Album
Artist = Humble Pie


Released = August 1969
Recorded = Olympic Studios, London, England
Genre = Blues-rock Folk rock
Length = 55:45
Label = Immediate
Producer = Andy Johns
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:difexq85ldse link]
Last album =
This album = "As Safe As Yesterday Is" (1969)
Next album = "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. [cite book
last = Hewitt
first = Paulo
last2 = Hellier
first2 = John
title = Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful...
publisher = Helter Skelter
isbn = 1-900924-44-7
pages = pp.190 ] [cite web
title = "Guide to British Music of the 1960s Humble Pie"
publisher = Making Time 1995-2007
url = http://www.makingtime.co.uk/humblepie.html
accessdate = 2007-08-22]

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. [cite web
title = "As Safe As Yesterday Is"
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accessdate = 2007-09-09]

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. [cite book
last = Hewitt
first = Paulo
last2 = Hellier
first2 = John
title = Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful...
publisher = Helter Skelter
isbn = 1-900924-44-7
pages = pp.191 ]

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 , 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." [http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/heavy_the_story_of_metal/series.jhtml]

Track listing

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

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

References/Notes

Notes:References:
*Paolo Hewitt John Hellier (2004). "Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful...". Helter Skelter Publishing ISBN 1-900924-44-7.

External links

* [http://www.humble-pie.net/ Indepth Humble Pie information website]