Posted on 05/01/2024 10:45:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The guitar legend says he's "speechless" after hearing the news.
Peter Frampton says news of his long-awaited Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction “hasn’t really sunk in yet.” But he’s still thrilled that the honor is upon him after 26 years of eligibility as a solo artist.
“I think I’m a little bit in shock, and speechless,” Frampton tells Billboard with a laugh from his home in Nashville. “I never expected this. People always said, ‘You should be in.’ I said, ‘Eh, what is to be,’ y’know? So mixed emotions, because it’s something that I just never expected, whereas other people did for me. (laughs) It’s wonderful.”
Frampton is particularly stoked that he also finished second in the fan vote with 528,000 — second only to the Dave Matthews Band. “You never quite know how you are regarded,” Frampton explained. “I don’t think about that; I just do my thing. But ending up in the number two position blew me away, actually. It’s an honor people regard me in this way. I’m just honored and blown way.”
Of course, Frampton did his part, too; during his most recent concert tour he spoke about the nomination, putting a QR code up on the video screen to take fans to the voting site in real time.
“That was wonderful,” he recalls. “Every night when I said, ‘I got this phone call a couple months ago…and my managers told me I’m being nominated for the Rock….’ I never got out ‘Fame’ — they just went berserk, the audience, every night, and it made me feel like, ‘Well, they think I deserve to be in.’ So that was very, very nice from the word go. It’s quite uncanny we would be touring during the public voting, so every night I could hopefully get a few hundred out of the couple of thousand, three thousand that were in the audience. And it made a difference.”
Frampton regards the 2024 Rock Hall lineup as “a wonderful class to be involved with,” with many personal connections. He and Foreigner founder Mick Jones, for instance, go back to sessions for French singer Johnny Hallyday when Jones was his musical director and songwriter; Jones subsequently played on “All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side)” on Frampton’s 1972 debut album, Wind of Change. And Foreigner’s lineup included Rick Wills, who also played bass in Frampton’s Camel. “I was hoping they would get in, too,” Frampton says. “I figured they would, but you never know, so I’m thrilled.”
In the musical influence category, meanwhile, Frampton played with Alexis Korner during the mid-‘60s and was also a fan of John Mayall. “I was in the front row at the Flamingo and all the clubs, watching Eric (Clapton) and so many other guitar players — Peter Green, Mick (Taylor) from the (Rolling) Stones, so that means a lot to me,” Frampton notes. “It’s just amazing that (Mayall) was a spawning ground for so many great English guitar players.”
Frampton – who began as a teen star in England before achieving worldwide fame in the band Humble Pie and especially with his Frampton Comes Alive! album in 1976 — has begun thinking loosely about the induction ceremony night on Oct. 19 in Cleveland, though with no concrete plans yet. “I’m thinking about people to invite to play with me and all that kind of stuff he says,” noting that number one on the list will be Sheryl Crow, who “championed” Frampton by including him in her induction performance last year in Brooklyn.
Meanwhile, Frampton — who continues to work in defiance of the degenerative inclusion body myositis (IBM) disorder he’s been battling during the past six or so years — is continuing with his other work. He’s planning a trip to England during June as well as a filmed concert performance for the career documentary he’s been working on. He’s also writing songs for a new album, his follow-up to 2021’s instrumental set Frampton Forgets the Words. “It’s just got to be the best one I’ve ever done,” he says. Another leg of touring is also a possibility, he says, “but I don’t know when that’s going to be at this time. We’re still looking at availabilities and things like that.”
Maiden has done it all: sales, influence, hard prof rock epic writing, spectacular live shows, excellent musicianship, and Bruce pilots the bloody tour aircraft.
Jann Wenner should be keelhauled.
I’ll perform with him. Check it out!
“BWOWWWWW……….BWOWWOWWOWOWOWWWW….BWOWWOWBWOWWOWBWEEEEBWOW..BWOWWOW”…
Eh? Ehhhh? Not to shabby right?
Just don’t shake her hand or touch anything after her.
GAAAAH!
LOL...couldn’t find that old Photoshopped picture to post of Sheryl Crow with that single square of toilet paper in her crap-soiled hand after she attempted to wipe with it!
Why do you say that? (Just curious.)
But Dolly Parton is in the RRHOF?!?!
So sad.
And Willie “Doobie” Nelson.
Ted Nugent will never get in. They hate him.
It took years for Rush to be inducted and they deserved it far more than many of the bands who got in before them.
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Some bands have 10 albums with three great songs on each. Some have three albums with 10 great songs on each. I stand for BOSTON.
Saw him in a Texas outdoor concert during his Frampton Comes Alive! album.
Ah, I had forgotten about that. Thanks.
Peter Frampton is a genuine rock’n’roll legend. What took so long?
Blackhole Sun, 2012:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8yuWddw0E&pp=ygUecGV0ZXIgZnJhbXB0b24gYmxhY2sgaG9sZSBzdW4g
Not at all the same, but I DID attend the induction of the Star Trek main crew into the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Hall of Fame. Lined up an hour early. Totally alone. No one else seemed to think it was any big deal. Got a great table for husband and a good friend. Spent the whole time videotaping the stars chewing. But I loved every minute of it. Attending that and SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) were the highlights of my year.
Don Rickles and Larry King were being inducted at the same time.
Raw Footage for ST, Don and Larry - Hand held - Apr 1992
https://youtu.be/uyOkPr-XHEo
Star Trek Footage Only - Hand held - Apr 1992
https://youtu.be/o_owYhcPtEY
NAB TV Package of the Hall of Fame Ceremony - Star Trek - Apr 1992
https://youtu.be/fFlPSmDyDpM
Steve Marriott - certainly one of the Top Ten R&R vocalists of all time. His work with Humble Pie overshadowed any guitar work Frampton did with them
UGH
I have a friend who was a limo driver who drove Iron Maiden around when they came to town to do a show. One of the band members liked to go jogging super early in the morning (something crazy like 4 am) and asked my friend if the downtown area where they were staying was safe for that. My friend just said “well I don’t know but I’d be careful doing that”.
Too bad he couldn’t perform with Steve Marriott.
It's funny that in their early days, they called Rush a "Fascist" band, although Geddy's parents were Holocaust survivors.
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