Humble Pie - "30 Days In The Hole"
1972
This is what happens
when Peter Frampton's sunny disposition
and boyish good looks
aren't around to save us.
This ain't The Small Faces. It's not Lazy Sunday; one of those precious, dainty English songs. Like when Small Faces morphed into The Faces, Steve Marriott's Pie outfit embraced soul screaming and jagged guitars.
background female soul singers
booming bass rolls into it late,
harmonica
imitation of a stuttering Southern lawman threatening to cut your hair, jailhouse bound
a greasy whore, Hammond B-3
finger snapping
still controlled enough to pass for blue-eyed soul
but about to tilt hard into boogie
Enough drug references to make you look for a B12 shot: Red Lebanese, dust, coke spoon, Newcastle Brown (smack, not the Schmidt Dark of imported beers), Durban poison (a type of marijuana apparently, the internal rhyme here is "urban noise"), Black Nepalese.
CONCLUSION: Thirty days for the levels of illegalities detailed in this one seems light. So much for Nixon's promises on law and order.