This album was originally recorded by the band as a raw-edged Rhythm and Blues album, but their record company wanted a slicker album. Humble Pie toured the US as part of the 'Rock 'N' Roll Marathon Bill' with Ted Nugent and Aerosmith and also recorded the album Go for the Throat (1981). They recorded the album On to Victory (1980), and "Fool for a Pretty Face" reached No. They secured a recording contract with Atlantic Records subsidiary Atco and in the UK their material was released by Jet Records, owned by former Small Faces manager Don Arden. They submitted "Fool for a Pretty Face", a song Marriott and Shirley had just written, to record labels. In late 1979, Marriott and Shirley revived Humble Pie, adding Bobby Tench, former vocalist and guitarist from The Jeff Beck Group, along with bassist Anthony "Sooty" Jones from New York. It was eventually returned to Frampton in 2011. It was featured on the cover of Frampton Comes Alive and was thought to have been destroyed in 1980 when a plane carrying Frampton's stage equipment crashed in Venezuela during a South American tour, killing the crew, but with the guitar in fact surviving the accident with some minor damage. Frampton played it almost exclusively for the next ten years. After the show he was approached by fan and musician Mark Mariana, who loaned him a modified 1954 Gibson Les Paul, and by the end of the second show Frampton had become so enamoured of the guitar that he offered to buy it on the spot, but Mariana refused payment.
Humble Pie was playing a run of shows at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in early December 1970, and during the first show Frampton was plagued by sound problems with his then-current guitar, a semi-acoustic Gibson 335, which was prone to unwanted feedback at higher volumes. It was during this period that Peter Frampton acquired his famed "Phenix" guitar, the black 1954 Les Paul Custom which became his signature instrument and his favourite guitar for the next decade. Recent tape archives show that the band recorded around 30 songs in its first nine months of existence, many of which remained unreleased for decades, including an interpretation of Henry Glover's " Drown in My Own Tears". Humble Pie concerts at this time featured an acoustic set, with a radical re-working of Graham Gouldman's " For Your Love" as its centrepiece followed by an electric set. This album featured a more acoustic sound and songs written by all four members. Their second album, Town and Country released in the UK during 1969 while the band was away on its first tour of the US. As Safe as Yesterday Is was one of the first albums to be described by the term "heavy metal" in a 1970 review in Rolling Stone magazine. 4 hit in the UK Singles Chart the album peaked at No.
Their debut album, As Safe as Yesterday Is, was released in August, 1969, along with the single, " Natural Born Bugie", which reached No. They chose the name Humble Pie and were signed to Andrew Loog Oldham's record label Immediate Records. Marriott had brought together Shirley and Ridley as a possible band for Frampton, then ended up joining the band himself. In January 1969 Steve Marriott, having just left Small Faces, got together with Greg Ridley, Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley.
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