Velvet Thunder review:
This rather interesting two-disc set has, in fact been released before, albeit with slightly different tracklisting and completely different packaging, some fifteen years ago. It wasn’t exactly a high profile release, however, and in all likelihood escaped the notice of all but a few die-hards, so it’s well worth having it available again. What we have, in essence, is a document of eighteen months or so of ‘lost’ Humble Pie history, when Steve Marriott assembled a new band after the latest incarnation of Humble Pie had dissolved in 1981, originally to be billed under suggested names as The Official Receivers or simply The Pie, but unsurprisingly when they started playing the clubs in the US, promoters with dollar signs for glasses began billing them as Humble Pie, so – unofficially perhaps – so they were…