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  • To me, this was/is what rocknrollsoul is all about. Effortless guitar mastery, raw vocal power, total charismatic control of the audience and stage. Love it. Glen

  • "When Steve Marriott opened his mouth... gold dust came out every time"~ Peter Frampton

  • Wow!, I think this tour passed through Marrero, Louisiana, because I saw Steve playing in a dive joint, had about 20 people, I think I was the only one who knew who he was, amazing to think!, but he had the same cover-alls on, and used the same guitar, had to be! this tour! The name of the bar was ,The Arches, now it is the jefferson parish water co. maint.building. everytime i pass there a always think about that nite i saw Steve Marriot, and thats no bullshit! I was lucky to be there!

  • when the stones were looking for another guitarist in the 70's (prior to hiring ron wood), they auditioned marriott... steve and keith hit it off so well in the audition that it made mick feel insecure, so mick gave the thumbs down to steve joining the band..

  • @zwartepiet412

    Also if all this was true, Mick would realize that Steve would never be able to keep quietly in the background with all that charisma.

  • back in the day  , you could always hear humble pie live waffling on the summer winds coming from some distant party , we actualy preferred them over anyone , inc the stones , we didnt need no doctor , stevie marriott , the rock in roll , doctor ..

  • happy birthday cock! 64 today and still so very sorely missed! god bless ya,alwaysxx

  • I Knew he was good but i did not know he played guitar as good as Hendrix!!!!

  • looks a bit like Gary Bone off the wire cutters!

  • God bless Steve Marriott. 'Had some very hard times, but his brilliance lives on.

  • Still awesome Steve ! love from Tony and Sean !

  • I never smoked Durban Poison, but only because I never could get any.....

  • @MrHarpman123 Go visit the Drakensburg Mountains in South Africa/ Transkei/Lesotho next time you have a holiday, thats where its grown. I stayed with the Pondo natives ( enemy of the Zulu) for 3mths way back in the early 70's. I can assure it is very potent stuff.

  • Everybody (outside UK) up with what "Packet of Three" is all about?

  • @jrg45721 please develop LOL tell us, really! TIA

  • @jrg45721

    lol packet of condoms huh lol, Steve Marriot / Humble Pie, ain't better artists than that

  • @jrg45721 I'll tell you what "Packet of Three" is all about - It's about he plays better than those other fuckers anyway

  • happy Birthday steve, still the best voice to come out of the UK Your \ f****ing legend,

    R.I.P

  • Steve would have been 63 today!

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY! fondly remembered!

    Up there Groovin' with Jesus! Have a Ball-Cock!xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • @sjmorris1966 Thanks for the heade-up will make somthing at Rocks Off for him, a header or something

  • I heard the small faces manager asked page if he still wanted to carry on playing the guitar....no way was he letting steve join zeppelin.

  • No, Steve quit Small Faces because the remaining members didn't agree to hire Peter Frampton as a new member so he formed Humble Pie with Peter, Greg & Jerry and later invites Brian Jones who pased away the week of the first rehearsals.

    Jimmy Page invited Steve Marriott to joint the "New Yardbirds" Robert Plant was a huge fan of Steve, just listen Whole Lotta Love is a tribute to Steve Marriott LZ version is more closer to the Small Faces version than the onie by Willie Dixon

  • every post is so true about Steve... Every time i log on to youtube, I always wind up watching Steve Marriott in one of his bands. Just wish I could have saw him live. I got to stationed in England just 4 months after he had passed. What a bummer. When ever I go out to a bar, I always look for his music on the juke box.

  • I've seen everybody from 1965 to 1975 including the Beatles, and I mean EVERBODY, and Humble Pie was the BEST live band I ever saw...period, full stop

  • there was only one Steve Marriott could he sing and play his ass off

  • And to think Steve turned down Jimmy Page when he was offered front man for Jimmy's new Group Zeppelin. It would have been interesting with another guitarist in the Group!

  • he also turned down an offer from Page in the 80's to do a project . He did not trust the big labels , and just chose to play the pubs later on .

  • Wasn't he also offered a house producer job by Swan Song (Page's record label)?

  • Not to mention the original and not the Robert Plant's imitation of Marriott

  • The mainstream-shit queen Tina Turner would be happy to have a voice like this. Not to speak of the attitude too.

  • i just love the musical quality of this song... the guitar playing, bass and drums. they work so well... musical perfection

  • You get a voice like this come round every 50 years or so. So make the most of Steve Marriot because you're unlikely to hear anything as good as his voice in your lifetime.

  • Marriott - just a one off

    Best soul/rock singer ever

    God bless you Stevie RIP

  • Yeah man,Stevie's voice is blacker that Michael Jacksons,but hey thats not saying much ha ha!

  • I too saw these guys in 1972 I think, probably at the Forum in LA or Long Beach Arena. Those were the days. Steve Marriott had a big voice, too bad he doesn't get more credit. Loved the Pie.

  • I saw them in...I think 70, maybe 71. Steve was like an explosion going off every minute. He would cock back and spit ten feet all over us. I was right up front and every one there seemed to take it as a privilege to be spat upon by him. As I look back, I know it was. I would give my right testicle to go back to that night and watch him live one more time. He was truely a sight to behold.

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  • It's Gibson 335

    on humble pie web site it's written:

    "The blonde semi-solid blues guitar, two humbucker pick-ups mounted on a solid block of wood in an acoustic guitar shell, which provides a massive tonal range. The harsh electric top and the plummy mid-bassy tones used in jazz and blues were both able to be used in this epitome of an electric guitar."

    I hope it helps :-)

  • Steve Mariott will always be one of the world's greatest rock singers ...EVER!!!!

  • "No mangers, no record companies, total control... I can work when I want to and where I want to. I much prefer it this way. No big money means no hassles." RIP soulful Steve

  • Found HP CD today, got me to listening. What a great voice and guitar player. Funny, like to see Adam Lambert sing this song, he has the range, but maybe not the lows. Great, great voice.

  • actually the original main guitar player for Humble Pie was Peter Frampton!! Frampton said he always just wanted to play guitar.Steve was the front man and Frampton set on the side and wailed!!

  • just listen to tht guitar!

  • Great rock voice!!! saw one of his last performances in Atlanta before he moved back to England.

  • The absolute greatest singer of his generation - where is the statue to commemorate his soul, talent and legend. Love ya Steve.

  • thank you 1000 times-nuff said

  • ENORME STEVE MARRIOTT! Nadie como él, un saludo desde México

  • Saludos desde México también, espero ya se vaya esta pinche influenza porcina!

  • We lost Steve 18 years ago today. We miss you, mate.

  • great one with Mr. Oitiful included

  • Steve was happy as long as he had enough to pay his way....Nowadays he'd be a multi-millionaire feckin shame! R.I.P mate.

  • check out steve marriott memorial concert. all these big names singing his best songs. none of even come close to the great man. if he were still with us he'd be headlining glastonbury or something just as grand. followed by a nice few pints and pie and mash flown in from his favourite pie and mash shop!! top bloke!!!

  • Yes, none of them come close to Steve but the memorial show was great

  • what a natural soul! maybe he had to die young. can't imagine him an old man like jugger. and he died in a fire! it looks like him...

  • Cant stop watching this! Although it's costing me on PAY AS YOU GO well worth it! love you Steve.

  • I agree , it's brilliant, download it and watch it when you want !

  • Wow what a vocal with soul!!

  • Go on my son!!

  • thats what it will git cha!

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  • BadAss

  • Mariott ROCKS..my ass off. Will we ever get another voice like that? So that's why we tip our hats to him !o) Grateful..sighing

  • heh.  i don't think he'd be thinking about that. he's always too busy rocking his OWN ass off! haha

  • damn i just read he died on my birthday, thats sad. but that was good video thnx

  • Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Thanks for posting. That's how it's done. Cheers mate, the late great Steve Marriott indeed!

  • THIS IS! my fovourite music! Steve we'll miss you and your music!

  • keep the memory alive- tell your friends, burn a cd, pass it on, he was good wasn't he?......yeah!

  • What an amazing guitar player he was!!!

  • I was introduced to live Rock n'Roll when my brother took me to see Humble Pie in Wildwood, NJ in 1971 at age 9! Still the best rock show I've ever seen. Great video!

  • James Brown wished he had that much soul.

  • Knew Steve in the early days, won't tell when as it will make me feel old. Best white soul singer the world has ever had or will have.Held an audience in the palm of his hand. Not many can do that now or then.Miss him what a waste of such a raw talent.

  • I saw Steve Marriott and Humble Pie at a concert in Mannheim, Germany in 1972. Man, did they rock!

  • Good call darkarts,Geldof maybe didn't want upstaged at live aid,feckin twat.R.I.P Steve.

  • Missed out on the Faces/Humble Pie thing but had the privilege of Official Receivers/Packet Of Three on the pub circuit many times. Great entertainer & all round good guy. RIP Stevie.

  • fond memories! Had steve stuck around for another 3 years or so, who knows! lets just celebrate the LEGEND that remains! the FINEST white soul voice this country ever produced!!!

  • SJ glad to find someone who shares my own opinion of Steve...actually I'd go one further. Finest white soul singer the world ever produced.

  • I was 15 in 1971...even then in my life with all the things...He stood out in my mind, It is like yesterday all over again....Best of the Best was he....See u in the new system Steve

  • Another fine white soul singer is Alvin Lee. I can see similarities between them.

  • bloody gud on the bat as wel ! wat a talent !

  • Best singer to come out of england hands down

  • Let me get this straight. This was '85 the same year as Live Aid. Steve would've blown every fucker away. Geldoff you twat.

  • brings shivers running up and down my spine - so good it hurts - he has been sampled v recently something about africa - was trying to find it on ggogle whne i came across this

  • Allo Mrs Jones, How's yer Bert's lumbago? Buy everything you can find with Steve Marriot's name on it kiddies. Old Grampee here was lucky enough to see the Pie at the Academy of Music NYC Feb. 1975. Gerbing on the fans long b4 Johnny Rotten & rockin so much harder than Jimmy Page. Boy was I lucky to have witnessed that! These vids are fookin greeat!

  • Did the mijit really spit a lot on stage?

  • best there ever was

  • Blessings to Marriot!

    He was an amazing talent in one little package.

    More soul and talent than many could blink an eye at.

    His influence abounds to this day ,and like he said

    if the kids could take what the "old geezers " did and keep it alive ,that matters most .

    After a life time of listening ,his voice still gives me chills.

  • Fuck sake. The man is dead. Just enjoy the music or turn it off. Easy realy.

  • Gregyman fuck you was there any need for that comment ?? What the fuck have you ever done you deadbeat loser now go fuck off and die and give the world a break Steve Marriott is a LEGEND !!

  • I've seen Humble Pie and the Stones and I can attest to the fact that there ain't a stage in the world big enough for Marriot and Jagger. Marriot was a ball of insane energy. Sweating and spitting and going wild. I was standing right in front dodging his spit! He was amazing. If he became a Stone, he would have run over Jagger.

  • In the 70's Steve Marriot was a finalist to replace

    Mick Taylor in the 'Stones. Must have been some

    personality differences or something that led them

    to pick the substandard Ronnie Wood over Steve

    which is a shame because Steve would have been

    so much better ! Oh well......

  • Consider this:

    Do you think Jagger's ego could have handled a frontman as raw, powerful and full of fury as the mighty Steve? Unh-uh. Jagger would have been upstaged time and again, he wouldn't be able to handle it. I personally saw the Pie blow GFR, Black Sabbath, and others right off the stage. No band, EVER had the raw energy and fury of a live Pie show. EVER. PERIOD. Not before, not since.

    Rock On in Heaven Steve and Greg. Best to Peter, Clem, and Jerry. You guys made rock history!

  • Cool post.

    From a guitar players standpoint, the awesome Marriot would have picked up and continued the intensity of Mick Taylor era 'Stones. Ron Wood was more intent on playing "Im a Rolling Stone" than his guitar. The 'Stones were never as raw after Taylor left. Stevie woulda been blowing them away all the way until his untimely demise and everyone would have been better for it. RIP Steve !

    PS. Do you know Steve Marriot played with Johnny Thunders too ?? How cool is that !?!?!

    =:^D

  • Steve sang a little bit on Thunders' "So Alone" album. The track was "Daddy Rolling Stone". I don't know if they ever performed live together though.

  • Amazing song!!!. ANd as afar i know they never performed live together

  • Great points ! Do you think either Bon Scott or Brian Johnson with AC/DC can hold a candle to Steve Marriott? They both had raw energy every night they performed. What a show Humble Pie and AC/DC would be on the same ticket !

  • Steve Marriot was great in his own way but he was not a Rolling Stone. To call Ronnie Wood substandard is a reflection of your own Small Mind.

  • maybe a reflection of his "small face" LOL

  • Not quite true. Ronnie was born to be a Stone and is the ONLY guitarist that can weave a tapestry with Keith Richards. Marriott is fantastic, but in his own right. Not just as a guitarist, but as a singer as well. Remember, Clapton and Beck were there to try out as well, but they are too big to be a part of an ensemble like the Stones. Big name rock stars aren't interchangeable as we would hope them to be in other groups.

  • Tell me, i've also heard my fav guitarist Mick Ronson was also considered. Is this true?

  • Havent heard this befor ! but i think its great . but then what else would you expect from the late great STEVE MARRIOT.*****

  • "there ya go".....man there's some really good guitaring done by as talented a rock singr as there ever was...cat was sooooooooooo good...wutashame he couldnt keep it together....wutawaste....rip steviem

  • Yes, I'd love to! Hope to see him playing again, end of November. He talks just the same still as they sound on the packet of three, live at dingwalls audio i listen too.

    But I think Jim's singing voice is actually sounding more like Steve nowadays...that smokers edge to it!

    He and Geoffrey are good mates and their gigs are very special too.

    I'd much rather see them, than Led Zeppelin or The Police etc.

  • The Three Mariners, Oare, near Faversham, Kent UK.

    he was singing with guitar, as a blues/folk duo with Geoffrey Richardson, multi-instrumentalist(Caravan, The Penguin Cafe)

    ...Some own stuff, and covers like 'Wild horses' by Rolling Stones, songs by Ronnie Lane, Dylan, Clapton, Kinks etc.

    They are playing at Colchester Arts centre, on November 2nd and The Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable on november 23rd 2007

  • edit!! I meant Its The Headgate Theatre, Colchester they are playing next friday, dont know why i put Arts centre!

  • Jim, the bass player is still very much gigging...we saw him playing in a pub last week, lovely man x

  • Saw him play a few times. "Hurt By Love" One of his later Humble Pie songs proved he could still crank 'em out. The man put on a great show!

  • His voice is really cool but that dress makes Freddie Mercury look cool

  • man he is good, he is probably the true "king of the blue"...i just realized it right now:)

  • Rest easy Bro'. You really were a soulful performer.....

  • "poor punk" from the slums... Steve was as a

    child famous, go find out mr. genius!

  • My favorite Humble Pie song. John Cougar (Mellencamp) opened with 30 Days when I saw him in 1982, opening for Heart.

  • STEVE MARRIOTT FOR PRESIDENT, 2008!

    He'd make a better President as a dead man than any live candidate we've ever elected! Think about it!

  • Marriott returned from the US and Frampton's studio in 1991 with his wife; He usually rolled his own cigs, but instead this time bought a regular pack at Heathrow. He and his wife got in a row at a friend's place and while the rest slept, Steve went home and lit one up while drinking. He then passed out. The cigarette ember fell and caught the rug ablaze, Steve was overcome by smoke and burned with the upstairs room. The 'chick' wasn't in the fire, only Steve died.

  • Marriott is a legend, it's clear cut ... one the all time greats

  • BLIMEY ! ....... there ya go - the real thing. Thanks for that.

  • the best performer best singer and a very good guitarist ive ever seen on the stage even when he was skint he put a 100% in every time i seen him many times and when he got of the stage he whould be haveing a pint with you steve marriott top bloke r.i.p

  • Ever since I picked up Rockin' The Fillmore about 34 years ago I've been captivated by the mighty mijit's authoritative soul shouting, wailing white boy, blues voice.

  • 34 years is it that long?! I bought the double vinyl but couldn't find the cd in the UK Managed to get a copy from the US on Ebay. saw them in Bristol after they returned from that tour minus Peter Frampton. Didn't matter Marriott made the band

  • Jerry Shirley once said that he thought Steve felt pretty hurt when Peter left, but carried on like nothing happened. Anyway, as you stated Steve was the main man in the Pie.

  • Bloody Great ballsy voice that ever existed!!! I've followed Steve ever sice the small faces and his art in songcrafting,great guitar work and his soulful, gut wrenching tones remain some of the best to date. What a gift you were to us all Steve... 'Rock On Forever!!!

  • Sad that this was Steves last Band " Packet of Three"...only Marriot could come up with that name lol

  • If the bloke was still around he'd still be the bomb!

  • Steve was the Bomb back in the day. Wish I could find more video of the glory days with Frampton and 30 Days line-up.

  • Badass Motherfucker!

  • The best "Mr. Pitiful, since Otis did it. NoJa

  • Steve Marriot the best white soul singer ever

  • Fine rockin' performance - Steve Marriott was not only the best soul shouter to ever emerge from the UK (even better than that Robert Plant guy) but he played a pretty mean guitar too. Great drummer. Great band.

  • the best! marriot a true legend taken from us too soon one of my true influences as a musician..an inspiration..thank you steve ..we miss you

  • I don't care if Marriot has a mullet or smells like one. lol I've seen everyone from Led Zepplin, to Audioslave, and never saw anyone better on stage than Marriot waswhether it was while Humble Pie was together or later on solo. Probably seen 500 what I would call big shows (at least 12,000 90,000) and I never saw anyone even in the same league as a live performer. If we are going to get picky about hair styles, has anyone looked at the heads coming out of the UK these days? Take the mullet

  • Such a great rocker!

  • don,t ya just love em moments.

  • I saw Humble Pie in 1972 at the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum in Shreveport, Louisiana. I paid $5.00 for the ticket. I was 13 years old. It remains the best fucking concert I've ever been to, and I'm 48 years old, so I've been to many, many concerts. They don't make music like that anymore. How I miss those days.

  • why is everything judged by to days Fashions? Steve looked good for that time, Mullets were in fashion then. And we all get older, just wish he was still around to get even older. Besides, who really cears what he looked like when he could sing as good as that and give so much joy to the world.

  • Great shame the day we lost Steve. He had a lovely cottage near to where I lived (Moreton, Essex UK) and drove a gorgeous white Aston Martin which 'took off' once and landed in the river ! He must have had a liking for Essex as he was renting another lovely cottage in Arksden where he sadly died in a fire.

    Wonder what he would be doing now if he'd lived ? Probably what he loved best - rocking on stage somewhere !!

  • Humble Pie,My first concert back in 1971,Those were the days. Great show in Providence RI

  • wow, i love this band, i didn't hear much humble pie growing up on canadas east coast in the 70's, catching up on what i missed and lovin it

  • Brings back great memories of seeing the official receivers, and packet of three. Live Marriotts voice was so powerful, that he didn´t need a PA. This shows that he was also a great player too. Nice!

  • lennola ... steve looks better than u ever looked in ur life ... and he has talent ... how DARE you, insect

  • ha i dont think so,so a fat ageing balding mullet bloke looks better than a young me with steve marriots 60s hairstyle,na dont think so,love steve marriot from the 60s,but not this bloke

  • We miss you Steve! you will always be remembered through your music, those were the days.

  • Humble pie was a favorite band that I listened to back in the early 1970's I loved Mr.Marriott's raspy voice and guitar playing...I was very saddened of his untimely death...I was happy to find a DVD of a live concert performance... GOD REST YOUR SOUL...

  • thanks gliedo, i was precisely referring to the things you mentioned. apart from the similarity between you need loving and whole lotta love it's what you call 'the way to sing' that is clearly copied, intonation, ou s and ah s, blue notes. steve is the forerunner.

  • Ive read a Plant bio, and Robert was kind enough to acknowledge that whilst he was very proud of his voice and live performance, he couldnt do what Stevie did. Plant was a big Small Faces fan, he ran 'errands' for them... no doubt who is big influence was

  • listen to the small faces' first album (from 65 or 66)and you know where the likes of robert plant and paul rodgers (don't get me wrong, they're great singers) pinched to build their careers. does anybody know whether they have acknowledged steve's influence? to me steve is the first white soulman, a far better singer than jagger and he was around before joe.

  • he looks awful,i put this video on after watching the itchycoo park video and and look at how his fashion style went down the pan,whats with the shit balding mullet lol,hes still ace though

  • Speaking as a WOMAN, I'd have F***ED STEVE EXACTLY AS HE LOOKS HERE in a New York minute!!! Lennonla, didn't your mamma tell you the wise old saying "Beauty IS as beauty DOES"! Steve was ALWAYS A STUNNING BEAUTY!!!

  • shut it american

  • Lennonla said:

    "shut it american"

    Tisk, tisk..to be THIS senselessly belligerant AND ignorant at only TWENTY years of age...hardly OLD enough to have experienced ENOUGH of life's REAL troubles to become so NASTY a piece of work! I pity your family, I pity YOU! :(

  • haha thats a bit strong isnt it? ahh yeah i forgot,your one of those americans who go over the top about things,like most of u lot.

  • As the lady said, you and your kin are to be pitied for your bigotry and ignorance.(If your lager lout attitude is just a pose, drop it--it's tiresome.) Also, learn some grammar--"your' and "you're" are not synonymous.

  • Fab

  • Still the sh*t, but a few years earlier , all the parts where Steve sings lower were the parts the he sang an octave higher!

  • Steve returned home from a flight in 1991, late...He got home, had a couple drinks and a cigarette and fell asleep in his chair. The cigarette fell and started a fire. He never escaped.

  • how did he die again?

  • steve at his fantastic best,

  • Marriott Rules!! RIP..My friend!

  • Great! I love it!

    Kjell, Mo i Rana, Norway

  • top, top, top stuff,

    steve just kills ya every time!

  • What a waste! All those years I missed...all this good rock. Well, I still got my hearing, so CRANK THE FUCKA!

    R.I.P., Steve and Greg!

  • Yes, Sir!

    Wouldn`t it be noice, to get on with me naibarz?

  • This was an awesome long version of this song, I been lookin for this for 2 weeks now, thanxxx for tharing this gliedo. Deb

  • I always loved Humble Pie, and I like Otis Redding's Mr. Pitiful at the end.

  • this guy was a god, true no messing rock, saw him in Cheltenham pump rooms, real small venue, i could'nt here for a week, wicked!!! real shame how he died, what a waste.

  • have you ever heard of small faces....this guy is a legend...

  • I saw Steve live just a few months after this was filmed (Jerry was no longer in the band). It was in Sir George Robey, a pub opposite the Rainbow Theatre. It was the best concert I EVER saw. No limousines for Steve, he came to the gig by Underground and walked into the pub half an hour before show time, carrying his guitar. Apart from being one of the all time greatest rock singers he was a VERY underrated guitar player!

  • I have the video, and I sincerely miss the man!

  • I heard that John Bon Giovi got a good schoolin' back in the late 80's, when he walked in on Steve at one of local pubs in England when he and his boys were on tour there.

  • Wonderful. Sheer bleeding foookin' wonderful, that is.

  • "one can never have too much Steve Marriott" haha, I love it. =)

  • Nor do I. I'm just glad you've put it here for all of us to enjoy. I have the DVD on order and I'm sure that once it arrives I will still watch this many times a day as I do now. After all, one can never have too much Steve Marriott.