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STEVE MARRIOTT’S BAD OLD DAYS

Steve Marriott laid back, looking like a spaced-out leprechaun, a cigarette in one hand and a bottle of Guinness in the other.

May 1, 1975
JIM ESPOSITO

Steve Marriott laid back, looking like a spaced-out leprechaun, a cigarette in one hand and a bottle of Guinness in the other. Brewed in Dublin, Guinness is to Humble Pie what Budweiser is to Alice Cooper. Whenever The Pie hits the road, they always pack about a twenty mule team's worth just so they don't get homesick.

Exhausted from a show, buzzing from his brew and laid back from a joint, Marriott was in a very mellow mood* but the son-of-a-bitch still wouldn't tell me the words to the second verse of "The One Eyed Trouser-Snake Rumba" off Humble Pie's debut A&M release.

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