The Travels Of Humble Pie, Colosseum Guitar Stalwart ‘Clem’ Clempson

The Travels Of Humble Pie, Colosseum Guitar Stalwart ‘Clem’ Clempson

There’s a stalwart rock guitarist who replaced Peter Frampton in Humble Pie and played with Colosseum, Jack Bruce, Cozy Powell, and many others, but whose name remains unfamiliar to many. It’s David Clempson, known to most of his friends and admirers (if not his mother, as he once revealed) as “Clem.” Born on September 5, 1949 in Tamworth, Staffordshire, Clempson was encouraged down the blues route when he heard the famed Bluesbreakers with Eric…