Posted on 05/26/2023 11:58:31 AM PDT by DallasBiff
At the time of its release, Frampton Comes Alive! was an anomaly, a multi-million-selling (mid-priced) double LP by an artist who had previously never burned up the charts with his long-players in any spectacular way. The biggest-selling live album of all time, it made Peter Frampton a household word and generated a monster hit single in "Show Me the Way." And the reason why is easy to hear: the Herd/Humble Pie graduate packed one hell of a punch on-stage -- where he was obviously the most comfortable --
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My second would be Cheap Trick,"Live at Buodokan.
Third, The Who, "Live at Leeds"
I know it's rock heresy.
Grand Funk LIVE!..........................
Frampton’s phrasing in those performances was incredible. And he was just a kid relatively speaking.
Soundtrack of my junior year in HS.
Ah, memories. What a juggernaut this album was back then.
Going to see him live on 6/22.
Grand Funk Live is a bare knuckle brawl of an album!
Very Impactful.
I saw him in concert in 76.
sorry,feel like i do was the best song!
I saw them back then!.................
Agree with Budokan.
I remember when the Frampton album came out. Teeny bopper girls were building shrines to him in their bedrooms.
6/23? Glad to hear he is back touring. Didn’t he have some health issues a while back?
My late wife worked in a record store and Frampton personally called her just to chat for about 15 minutes. My wife worked with a guy from Atlantic Records on the store orders and he set it up as a surprise.
Frampton was her favorite. I played Not Forgotten at her service.
What do you do when you love? There’s no tomorrow. Hold hands, sing songs, Live life til you’re gone. But not forgotten.
I distinctly remember driving from Schenectady NY to Providence RI in June of 1976 and songs from that album were all you could hear on the FM stations along the route.
Later on that summer Boston pulled that trick as well with its eponymous first album.
One of my favorite albums. The owner of the local guitar shop told me he saw Peter a while back selling guitar strings, or rep’ing for a string company at a guitar show somewhere. “He didn’t look happy doing it”.
He did a episode of Ba Ba Blacksheep.
I’m not sure of his political leaning these days. He’s made some comments that tells me he’s probably a bit of an activist. He is also vegan.
Unfortunately, he’s a lib.
RFK Stadium, Philadelphia, late spring 1976 with J Giles and Dickey Betts. My sophomore year of High School.
It’s a wonder that Frampton came out of that still sane. He always seemed to be a down-to-earth guy.
Apparently, when Steve Marriott passed, there were plans for Marriott and Frampton to put Humble Pie back together, shame it never came to be.
Yes indeed. The Frampton album was hitting it big as I graduated high school and the first Boston album was released as I started college. Got real tired of both of them.
Do you feel
That song was made famous cuz it used a talk box effect.
The Talk Box for electric guitar and keyboard is based on one of the classic effects that helped shape the sound of the 1970s.
This little box amplifies a guitar or keyboard signal with an integrated amp, which then passes through a tube, or “hose”, into the mouth.
There, the sound can be modulated by movements of the mouth and tongue. In this way, the guitar or keyboard sound is “vocalised” using a, e, i, o, and u sounds.
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