Steve Marriott, Tim Hinkley, Greg Ridley - Scrubbers Vol. 1

So, who are the Scrubbers? Certainly NOT Humble Pie! It all started when Humble Pie were in Olympic Studios, London recording their eighth album. The recording was halted and Steve, disillusioned with Humble Pie, decamped to his home and embarked on his solo album. This is where The Scrubbers was born. Steve Marriott gathered musicians Tim Hinkley & Greg Ridley, augmented with Boz Burrell (King Crimson, Bad Company), Ian Wallace (King Crimson, Bob Dylan), Clem Clemson (Colosseum, Humble Pie) and backing singers, The Blackberries (Vanetta Fields & Clyde King). Bizarrely the 16 track, unmixed tapes went missing; Stolen? Confiscated? Purloined? They resurfaced at A & M, and one track, 'Street Rat' (badly re-mixed) ended up as the title track of the Humble Pie album, Street Rats. Steve Marriott said, Street Rat was a track with me Ian Wallace and Tim Hinkley, it was nothing to do with Humble Pie!. However, Tim saved the 47-year old 1/4 inch tapes, that he & Steve had mixed, in the original boxes with Steve's hand-written playlists.