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| | Small Faces/Humble Pie/Frampton |
 | | When Marriott abruptly quit to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, the remaining band members renamed themselves the Faces, absorbed Rod Stewart and Ron Wood, and promptly metamorphosed into, well, the second-best bluesy early 70s English rock band, after the Stones. |
 | | Humble Pie did get much better as it went along, and not coincidentally they later sold a ton of records themselves. |
 | | More than anyone at this point other than the Stones and the Faces, Humble Pie was carrying on the great British blues - R & B - hard rock tradition, and succeeding. |
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