The hard rocking is resumed with a stylish cover of Eddie Cochran’s “C’mon Everybody”. The hard rocking abates for the gentler and more reflective “You’re So Good for Me”, however once again, it sounds for all the world like The Black Crowes circa By Your Side. “The Fixer” is a more jam-flavoured rocker, however the thing is driven forward by a slow and deliberate riff and the rhythm partnership of Greg Ridley and Jerry Shirley. This is a soulful rock band at the top of its game, given fresh impetus by replacing the more pop-orientated Frampton with former Colosseum guitar player Clem Clempson, whose arrival gave a significant harder-edged rock sound to the band who weren’t short of the ability to rock out. On top of it all is Marriott’s unmistakable holler. I had always subscribed to the common opinion that it was the sound of former Marriott associates Faces that the Robinson brothers had built their band around, however “Hot ‘n’ Nasty” blows that theory, with super-charged guitars, funky organ, and the lashings of soul-debted backing vocals. Within the opening bars of “Hot ‘n’ Nasty” Humble Pie have already invented The Black Crowes a good 15 years before that band released their first album. Humble Pie are a band I had certainly heard of, but beyond knowing that they were the band that post-Small Faces Steve Marriott formed with pre-Frampton Comes Alive! Peter Frampton and that they were a harder-rocking proposition than both, I knew very little, beyond the fact that Smokin’ was reputedly their best studio album.