Whilst cataloging all my images this morning I found this composite picture of all the photographs used for the album cover of Humble Pie's Live 1971 classic album 'Performance'.
The pictures were originally printed across the centre-gatefold and back of the album so I stitched those covers together and corrected for crease-lines in the original scans. I also corrected the included pictures of the band playing live in Hyde Park back in July 1971 which were mirror images in the original composition.
Here it is in all its fabulous glory for anyone who's remotely interested.
For people not familier with the band the images show a very young Peter Frampton with his famous 3 pickup 54 Les Paul Custom, Steve Marriott sporting in most pictures a Dwight (Epiphone) Coronet, Greg Ridley on Bass and Jerry Shirley on drums.
As a lad of 12 years old back in early 72, opening up this album and seeing these pictures was one of the most exciting times of my life.. and when I put the album on the record player and heard "4 Day Creep" .. holy shyte..that was a life changing experience.
(pronounced: equal-sequel) "I suffered for my art.. now it's your turn"
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(formerly miserneil)
I was impressed enough to buy another Humble Pie album, Eat It, which I thought was another double live - I think it turned out to be only partially live - but I never got into that one at all.
A mate put it on late one Friday night. I just happened to have my amp set up iin his living room.
I just fell in love with 4 day creep so we put it on repeat and I jammed to it for about 2 hours.
I was an instant humble pie fan.