As Safe As Yesterday Is (Remastered Expanded Edition) Humble Pie

• 1 Desperation (2025 Remaster) 06:24
• 2 Stick Shift (2025 Remaster) 02:24
• 3 Buttermilk Boy (2025 Remaster) 04:20
• 4 Natural Born Bugie (2025 Remaster) 04:11
• 5 As Safe as Yesterday Is (2025 Remaster) 06:09
• 6 Bang! (2025 Remaster) 03:39
• 7 Alabama '69 (2025 Remaster) 06:59
• 8 I'll Go Alone (2025 Remaster) 04:00
• 9 A Nifty Little Number Like You (2025 Remaster) 06:14
• 10 What You Will (2025 Remaster) 04:22
• 11 Wrist Job (2025 Remaster) 04:14
• 12 Growing Closer (2025 Remaster) 03:13
• 13 Road to Ride (2025 Remaster) 02:28
• 14 Leave No Turn Unstoned (Just a Riff) (2025 Remaster) 03:24
• 15 Hello Grass (No Regrets) (2025 Remaster) 03:58
• 16 Zeptoe Through the Tulips (2025 Remaster) 03:52
• Total Runtime 01:09:51

Info for As Safe As Yesterday Is (Remastered Expanded Edition)

This remastered 60th anniversary version of "As Safe As Yesterday Is" has been lovingly curated and overseen by surviving Humble Pie members Peter Frampton & Jerry Shirley.

Formed in January 1969, Humble Pie soon became one of the best-loved, hardest-rocking live acts of the 1970s. In Steve Marriott, the one-time Small Faces frontman, ‘The Pie’ had the best showman & biggest voice in the business. Peter Frampton, the ‘Face of ‘68’ with The Herd had a new role – guitar hero extraordinaire. And with hard-hitting powerhouse drummer Jerry Shirley & ex-Spooky Tooth bassist supreme Greg Ridley, Humble Pie quickly developed into a sophisticated studio unit where tough riffs, rustic rock & bursts of blissed-out psychedelia earned the band instant chart success & critical acclaim.

"As Safe As Yesterday Is" was Humble Pie’s debut album for Immediate Records, originally released on 1 August 1969 and reaching No.32 in the UK charts. Recorded at Olympic & Morgan Studios with top engineer Andy Johns, the album featured a blend of heavy blues, hard rock, pastoral folk & acoustic songs, all superbly produced.

Unknown at the time was the controversy surrounding the disappearance of the master tape enroute from Olympic Studios in London to the mastering studio in New York. Panicked phone calls for a replacement only yielded a much-played listening copy, not intended for production & certainly not to the quality needed to cut an LP. The band were horrified when they heard the finished LP with its flat, muffled sound. Despite Immediate label boss Andrew Loog Oldham’s wholehearted support of Humble Pie above the other artists on his label, Immediate Records were in financial difficulties and could not afford to withdraw the LP. By March 1970, Immediate Records were in liquidation, with its master tapes either lost or stolen. Immediate LPs soon disappeared from record store racks, including ‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ – its master tape never found. Later CD & LP reissues were all copied from old vinyl, with labels seemingly not realising (or not caring) that the sound quality was poor. Until now that is…

For many years, Nice Records owner Kenney Jones along with Immediate Records reissue producer Rob Caiger had searched archives around the world for missing Immediate tapes for the Small Faces. As part of that global search, tapes for a number of Kenney’s fellow Immediate artists have been found, including a safety master for Humble Pie.

Now, almost sixty years later, ‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ can finally be heard as it should have been experienced in 1969 – and now with even more power & clarity!

Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley have also restored Humble Pie’s debut hit single ‘Natural Born Bugie’ to where it should have been on the original UK LP. The newly remastered album adds UK LP track ‘Growing Closer,’ four outtakes from Olympic & Morgan Studios recorded during June & July 1969 and B-side ‘Wrist Job’, one of the last tracks to be recorded alongside ‘Natural Born Bugie’ in sessions for the first album during spring 1969.

“Thanks for the care you are giving these old chestnuts.” (Peter Frampton, July 2025)

“It sounds like it should sound. It sounds a lot cleaner. Everything is in its place and where it should be. It sounds fabulous! You should be very proud of yourselves. I know I couldn’t be happier with it all.” (Jerry Shirley, July 2025)

Steve Marriott, vocals, guitar (1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10), slide guitar (2), acoustic guitar (7), harmonica (4, 7), organ (2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10), goofs (9), tablas (4), piano (6)
Peter Frampton, vocals, guitar, slide guitar (7), organ (1), tabla (5), bass tablas (7), piano (3, 8, 10)
Greg Ridley, bass, vocals (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10), happy noise (7), percussion (5), skins (4)
Jerry Shirley, drums, grins and explosions (1), percussion (4, 5, 7), tablas (7), harpsichord (8), big ones (2), piano (5), lead thumbs (3)
Additional musicians:
Lyn Dobson, flute (4, 7), sitar (7)

Digitally remastered

Humble Pie
A showcase for former Small Faces' frontman Steve Marriott and one-time Herd guitar virtuoso Peter Frampton, the hard rock outfit Humble Pie formed in Essex, England in 1969. Also featuring ex-Spooky Tooth bassist Greg Ridley along with drummer Jerry Shirley, the fledgling group spent the first several months of its existence locked away in Marriott's Essex cottage, maintaining a relentless practice schedule. Signed to the Immediate label, Humble Pie soon issued their debut single "Natural Born Boogie," which hit the British Top Ten and paved the way for the group's premiere LP, As Safe as Yesterday Is.

Town and CountryAfter touring the U.S. in support of 1969's Town and Country, Humble Pie returned home only to discover that Immediate had declared bankruptcy. The band recruited a new manager, Dee Anthony, who helped land them a new deal with A&M; behind closed doors, Anthony encouraged Marriott to direct the group towards a harder-edged, grittier sound far removed from the acoustic melodies favored by Frampton. As Marriott's raw blues shouting began to dominate subsequent LPs like 1970's eponymous effort and 1971's Rock On, Frampton's role in the band he co-founded gradually diminished; finally, after a highly charged U.S. tour which yielded 1971's commercial breakthrough Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore, Frampton exited Humble Pie to embark on a solo career.

Smokin'After enlisting former Colosseum guitarist Dave "Clem" Clempson to fill the void, Humble Pie grew even heavier for 1972's Smokin', their most successful album to date. However, while 1973's ambitious double studio/live set Eat It fell just shy of the Top Ten, its 1974 follow-up Thunderbox failed to crack the Top 40. After 1975's Street Rats reached only number 100 before disappearing from the charts, Humble Pie disbanded; while Shirley formed Natural Gas with Badfinger alum Joey Molland, and Clempson and Ridley teamed with Cozy Powell in Strange Brew, Marriott led Steve Marriott's All-Stars before joining a reunited Small Faces in 1977.

On to VictoryIn 1980, Marriott and Shirley re-formed Humble Pie with ex-Jeff Beck Group vocalist Bobby Tench and bassist Anthony Jones. After a pair of LPs, 1980's On to Victory and the following year's Go for the Throat, the group mounted a troubled tour of America: after one injury-related interruption brought on when Marriott mangled his hand in a hotel door, the schedule was again derailed when the frontman fell victim to an ulcer. Soon, Humble Pie again dissolved; while Shirley joined Fastway, Marriott went into seclusion. At the dawn of the 1990s, he and Frampton made tentative plans to begin working together once more, but on April 20, 1991, Marriott died in the fire which destroyed his 16th century Arkesden cottage. He was 44 years old. (Jason Ankeny, AMG)

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