Steve Marriott the great!

From the DVD "The life and times of Steve Marriott", buy the DVD, please contact John Hellier or go to the link at the bottom.

The one and only Steve Marriott performing with Small Faces and "the second" line up of Humble Pie. This is just a sample, please buy the DVD

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[lukemanify]

How come the Fillmore live is one of the best live albums ever but the studio works just don't have the energy?

[gliedo]

@lukemanify Well, it depends, if you listen HPs second album it's acoustic and ballad-oriented with some exceptions but listen Rock On, Street Rats, and Thunderbox, they all rock

[jimncheryl]

Humble Pie "Rockin' the Fillmore" is still one of the all-time great albums. Steve was an amazing front man. ... awesome stage presence!

[elephanta2]

he was born to sing

[mydogspet]

Sorry for the second post. Steve Marriott was a gift to this world who got sandwiched between other great gifts. What I think hurt his publicity overall was that he fed off the crowd- HP was far better than Zep live by far. Led Zep was far better in a studio by far, because Paige could stay sober long enough to do his magic there that he didn't do on stage. Paige was a great studio musician.

[mydogspet]

@mrbabblehead Frampton was also better live than he was in a recording studio. His songs were catchy, and his non-vocal-box leads on "Do you feel like we do..." were killer sounding- and well constructed. And women thought he was adorable before he lost his hair, which helped immensely. The problem with Frampton was that his next album just wasn't good, and his work on Seargent Pepper Movie made him into a clown. That movie probably killed more careers than any other force. 

[mrbabblehead]

@mydogspet Not to take away from Frampton's success but he became popular, at least in the US, because of a device called the voice or talk box for the guitar, which blew everyone's mind on the song "Do You Feel Like We Do".... some of his songs were good though and his vocals were decent.....not like Steve's explosive vocals....Steve needed a big hit and never really broke through the way he should have.

[mydogspet]

@lukemanify Steve Marriott is a ball of energy. I'm sure he overpowers his mics. But also, he's the kind of guy who obviously feeds off the energy of the crowd. It's like Frampton Live- his best selling. His other stuff sounded sterile. ....Perhaps if Steve Marriott had the right engineers that would have come through better in the studio. You have to remember that recording technology was horrible when the small faces were doing their thing.

[thebird55]

@lukemanify I have to agree. And it's not just the change from acoustic/ballad style. There is just something about that album. It captures the feel of the live performance. I know, because I saw them one month before it was recorded. (In a roller skating rink, opening for this new group called Black Sabbath). Another good example of that phenomenon is Ten Years After's 'Recorded Live'.

And in case anyone is interested, that was not Frampton in that Pie clip. That's Clemson.

[queenie1972]

what a great voice....

[11FISHEY]

The power the unchianed expression this man had is unbeliveable he had the natural feeling that every rock star craves and did fake any of it wish i had one once of his rawness RIP steven

[gliedo]

@ihatespam2 You're 100% right "That's the way"... BTW, when I say Led Zeppelin made the plagarism from Small Faces and not from Willie Dixon (the author) is because the way Robert Plant sings is the exact way Steve Marriot did in "You Need Loving"

[ihatespam2]

@gliedo Cause they made bit more money. I dig Marriot also, I just get sick of everyone claiming plagarism when all you have to do is scratch the surface of most any player to see their source