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Hearing The Complete Recordings is the whole picture of a band operating at their all-time peak.

With four studio albums in the can, Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore was the perfect vehicle to launch the band stateside at a time when the hard rock world, spearheaded by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad and Deep Purple, was creating this great monolith of thunderous rock ‘n roll. It was when they went to America that they were encouraged to beef up their sound. Marriot’s time with Small Faces, Frampton’s with the Herd and Ridley late of Spooky Tooth all gave the band tons of street credit their evolving musicianship surely inspired them to be more than just a Top 10 sensation in the UK. When Humble Pie - vocalist and guitarist Steve Marriott, vocalist and guitarist Peter Frampton, vocalist and bassist Greg Ridley and drummer Jerry Shirley - first came together, they played a lot of acoustic songs and were being groomed as a super pop band. Listening through Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore – The Complete Recordings, you’ll really wish you were. The sets include many of the same songs, but as four complete performances, you’ll hear slight variations and an out-of-this-world mix by engineer Ashley Shepherd to make you feel like you’re there. Humble Pie’s Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore, one of the most revered live albums from the 1970s, has been expanded into a four-disc set, covering the four sets the band played May 28 at the Fillmore East in New York City.