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illustrated booklet pages from humble pie's album eat it (1973)

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Humble Pie - Steve Marriott

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i dont feel like putting together a sketch log ... i dont have enough drawings for one yet wwww

i like clem clempson~ i havent drawn humble pie in so long

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The Blackberries - Twist & Shout (with Humble Pie) The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1973

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Snafu: All Funked Up (1975)

With this aptly named third and final release, Snafu’s moniker (a military acronym for Situation Normal: All Fucked Up) became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as their hard-luck career came to a stumbling and undignified halt, bound for eventual obscurity.

Formed in late 1972 by former Procol Harum drummer, now singer, Bobby Harrison, and slide guitarist Micky Moody (ex-Juicy Lucy), Snafu’s fixation on soul, funk and R&B was distinctive enough for a U.K. group, but it had failed to secure a sizable audience with either one of their first two albums.

And when the time came to record LP number three, the band was coming off an ill-matched U.S. tour opening for those pretentious proggies, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, suggesting that none of their business minders -- managers or label suits -- had any idea what the hell they were doing.

Then again, Snafu’s second LP, Situation Normal, had been eclectic to a fault (albeit in a regressive, not progressive fashion), with keyboard player Pete Solley temporarily dominating proceedings before moving on to other bands and then production work for the likes of Peter Frampton, The Romantics, even Motörhead!

With him out of the picture, Harrison and Moody did away with all unnecessary genre-hopping (bye-bye country rock) and steered Snafu back to their soulful, funky comfort zone via confident, clavinet-powered new offerings like “Please Don’t Keep Me Wondering,” “Bloodhound” and “Bar Room Tan,” for which Micky’s missing-in-action slide is gratefully deployed. 

Sophomore album highlight “Lock and Key” was also dusted off for a second, smoother, more danceable go-round, the Doobie Brothers were channeled into yacht-rocker “Deep Water,” and irresistible final number “Dancing Feet” even survived a close brush with disco relatively unscathed. 

Plus, Snafu’s stylistic reset continued with a handful of convincing covers, ranging from Stax god Otis Redding’s “Hard to Handle,” to Stevie Wonder’s “Keep On Running” (former King Crimson sax-man Mel Collins guests), to his Motown label mate Brenda Holloway’s “Every Little Bit Hurts.”

But it was ultimately all for naught, as Capitol Records did zilch to promote the LP, and when Moody was propositioned by erstwhile Deep Purple singer David Coverdale to join his new solo band (soon rechristened as Whitesnake), the guitarist duly accepted.

Harrison briefly attempted to keep Snafu going by recruiting guitarist Clem Clempson (ex-Humble Pie), but the die was cast and the band soon went their separate ways -- All Funked Up, indeed.

More Micky Moody: Snafu’s Snafu, Situation Normal; Juicy Lucy’s Lie Back and Enjoy It; Whitesnake’s Snakebite EP, Trouble, Lovehunter, Ready an’ Willing, Live … In the Heart of the City, Come an’ Get It, Saints & Sinners, Slide it In.

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Rock band Humble Pie, c. 1972

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