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The new Humble Pie were quickly back on the road to hone themselves for the impending Smokin' sessions in March 1972. Humble Pie were so impressed with Clempson's playing that they even announced he was joining before he'd told his bandmates in Coliseum. It was David "Clem" Clempson, whom Shirley had seen in the power trio Bakerloo and then as part of Coliseum, who got the job after ringing up Marriott. Listen to Humble Pie's '30 Days in the Hole' I can't add to that.'" The idea of Joe Walsh joining was nixed by his management Rick Derringer's name was also mentioned but nothing came of that. He, singer Steve Marriott and bassist Greg Ridley were already working on new material, including "The Fixer" and "Sweet Peace and Time." When former Jethro Tull and Blodwyn Pig guitarist Mick Abrams heard the material "he didn't even take his guitar out of his case. "We thought we were going to have to keep going as a three-piece because we couldn't find the right replacement," Shirley recalls. The momentum from Performance and its well-received studio predecessor, Rock On, was threatened when Peter Frampton decided to leave the band in 1971 to start a solo career. "That happened quite a bit, honestly." The success, meanwhile, came as a "great relief" for Humble Pie, who faced some challenges leading up to Smokin'. "I remember that night Alice came into our dressing room, leans against the door with his drink in his hand, and he looks at us and just went, 'How do I follow that?'" drummer Jerry Shirley tells UCR.