as safe as yesterday is

hickey's humble pie post got me thankin' about the pie, one of the forgotten faves of my misspent yoof. sure, they were as crass as the jeff beck group, and a step down from the small faces for pint-sized front dude steve marriott. still, i liked their uber-obscure debut alb as safe as yesterday is -- recorded before dee anthony got ahold of them, when they were still trying to be traffic -- real much when i found it back in '71. even peter frampton seemed like he was gonna be an interesting gtrist and songwriter, seven yrs before he morphed into the pink-haired monster of that alb that evabody must have owned back then but no one will admit to today.