Review by Gary Hill The first thing that must be addressed is the "bootleg" in the title of this set. These recordings obviously started literally as bootlegs. The recording quality is never great here. It is generally listenable, but never without some issues ranging from mostly minor to pretty major. Once you've got that out of the way, though, this is an intriguing set of music from three different years in Humble Pie's history.
One of the concerts (the Tokyo show, which starts on the first disc and makes up all of the second disc) includes the Blackberries providing backing vocals. For the first couple shows, Steve Marriott sings all his stage banter. While it's a bit interesting, it also gets a little annoying. Perhaps that's why he stopped doing it later. Humble Pie's brand of bluesy hard rock might not be Earth-shattering in terms of originality, but they definitely did it really well. This set is probably mostly geared toward those who have all the other albums, but there is something here for most people who dig this kind of music.
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