Monday, 29 May 2017

Humble Pie - Official Bootleg Box Set Vol.1


Rating: 2/5

Review:
Great band, terrible sound



I took a risk on this album because I was at The Valley in 1974 and saw Humble Pie's set.  They were terrific, and I thought a record of it would be good.  Sadly the sound quality on this and the other recordings is very poor. 

Humble Pie were a fine band and you can get glimpses of it here, but for me the terrible recordings make it impossible to enjoy.  However good the shows were, this sort of quality should not be sold commercially, in my view – certainly not without very clear warnings to the buying public.  Rather than reliving part of a great day in 1974, I find I'm straining to get much sense of any real coherence in the sound and failing to enjoy the music.  It's a shame, but I can't recommend this.

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