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I saw this tour twice in the 70s!!! I also saw him live last month. He's 73, he played 2 and a half hours straight and sounded even better than before.
Nothing really defines the mid seventies more than this album. The fact it was a double album AND a live album and still sold this many copies is one of the greatest accomplishments in musical history.
That's true because record companies did not like to put out live albums because usually, they just didn't sell well. This one was an exception, 10 million upon release.
Most of the albums sold, including the one I purchased at the time, was because of the FM airplay this song was getting. The song itself was absolutely huge. And I was a big Humble Pie fan before this.
My grandmother, who was born in 1917, bought me a record player, and this album. I remember listening to it over and over. Thank you Grandma, I love and miss you 💓.
I went to see Frampton a couple of years ago, 2018. The crowd was either filming with their phone or talking to each other the whole time. It was like Frampton was just the background music. It was ridiculous. I miss the days when people came to watch and listen to the music
This was taped at The Commack Arena here on Long Island (Later the Long Island Arena)..It was the first venue I went to, and saw Black Sabbath, '71. I was 14..This, I believe, was around '74/'75....They put on some good shows back then...Long since torn down, sadly...Replaced by a shopping center..Ahh..Progress!
Exactly....so when these reaction people(many of them) no diss, are trying to analyze these works strictly from an instrumental breakdown and creation only from a studio creation mentality.....Sigh. They miss the whole inexplicable creative genius of many of the bands of that era putting out music that was meant to be lengthy, head trippy and not depending on a format or predictable. YOU HAD TO BE THERE...
Frampton still plays and sings just as well as he did in 1975. Amazing. I just saw him in June 2023 at a concert in Ohio and this guy, despite having to walk out with a cane and plop himself down in his chair for the entire show, was incredible. His band is also excellent with great keyboard and guitar players. The best thing of all was how obviously happy Peter was even being there and playing. All in all it was an uplifiting experience. As a bonus he played some old Humble Pie songs and sampled others. It was almost 2.5 hours of non-stop Frampton. It was the most fun I ever had at a concert.
I’m 62 and by FAR we definitely grew up with MOST OF BEST MUSIC EVER WRITTEN AND BEST CONCERTS! So happy to this day this was the music of my teenage years. Superior music!
This Album seemed to drop out of the sky from nowhere. No-one knew who he was, but boy did that change. You need to listen to the whole album, as we always did. Everyone had this record. Nice choice!!
Dorothy...it always blew my mind that the first time we heard him was from a live album... Don't you get famous first and then drop a live album... where did all these people come from...lol
This is so true. I remember having the solo album "Frampton" that came out the year before this and really loving it. I used to play for people and they had no idea who he was. The typical reaction was "yeah, it's pretty decent but nothing special".
I served Peter Frampton a gin and tonic at a wedding reception. One of the kindest souls and complete joy to talk with for about 15 minutes. A class act.
I can confirm, my high school parking lot was that parking lot. I graduated in 78, and I wish I had a few of those cars that, at that time, we thought of as junkers. They would be worth a pile of cash these days.
Texas Eagle Hey Eagle, we did have a helluva lot of FUN back then didn't we? I really feel bad for the genxers, y's, millennial's, they will never have that "soundtrack" of their life like we do. We were so lucky to grow up when we did. ---Heart.
He was a classical ly trained guitarist, and the guitar player for Humble Pie when he was a kid. You might want to check out Humble Pie... 30 Days in the Hole
Wish I was born about 1950, so I could've experienced the late 60's, 70's and 80's as an adult. I had to put up with kids my age all crying when Cobain killed himself, cuz they all listened to shit grunge music when we were 16, 17, 18. Meanwhile I started listening to Led Zep, Fleetwood Mac and Deep Purple.
I was born in 55. Graduated high school in 72, college in 77. Back then it was like every week a new rock masterpiece came out. There’s nothing going on in music today that comes close to what I grew uo enjoying- Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, CSNY, Creedence, Allman Bros, The Who, Three Dog Night, the Guess Who, Beach Boys, Aretha, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Steppenwolf, Chicago, and it just doesn’t end. What is there going on today that will still be amazing 50 years from now?
Ah, this song, more than any other, represents the 70s for me, especially the line: "...must have been a dream, I don't believe where I been...c'mon! Let's do it again!"
I agree. You have to have the experiences to fully appreciate songs like this. And, to understand how different it sounded from other songs at the time, especially the talk box part.
This album was an accidental hit. Virtually nobody knew who Frampton was, on a whim they put out this live album and struck gold. Definitely one of the best live albums ever recorded.
No, we knew who he was - he had just left Humble Pie and had put out a solo record or two (You have to have been around) ... That said - NOBODY expected what happened to this record ...
Not true in the least. He was already somewhat famous from Humble Pie. He already had 4 solo albums out before this. In 1975, the Frampton album went to No. 32 in the US charts. Frampton Comes Alive! had been intended to be a single LP disc, but at the suggestion of A&M Records additional shows were recorded and the album expanded to two LPs for release.
I remember it differently. Frampton had the hit "Show me the Way" in 75 that charted ok. Also Frampton was on "Midnight Special" in 75 that gave him notoriety on the Concert circuit in the Summer of 75 when I saw him at Spartan Stadium. "Frampton Comes Alive" was an anticipated Album so much so that Local Radio station KSJO broadcast the Entire Album the night before it's official release. I know. I recorded that early broadcast, and had the record a day before everyone else. LOL!
Was?? The cat is sa good or better than in 1976. I was stationed at Cherry Point Marine Air Base. At the time a friend and I were in a record store and the lit this entire album up. You could sit in cushy seats and put headphones on and listen. Needless to say we both bought the album. Thanks for listening...great tune!
"Frampton Comes Alive" was one of those records that EVERYONE had back in the day. In those days, when you went to someones house for a party or just to hang out, you'd ALWAYS flip through their vinyl collection. Sometime just to gauge WHO you were dealing with.
And you would pull an Album out you wanted to hear and put in the to be played pile. Oh and you had to nominate which side you wanted to listen to. Remember listening to sides of albums.
Its important to remember that Peter was only 25 when he made this. To front a band, at 25 with his name all over it? unreal! His guitar chops and musicianship was insane!
Oh yes! Me and every other teenager in the late 70's had this album. And on 8-track, blasting it from our car speakers, car doors open, we're sitting in the grass, maybe making out a little. Such memories to this music. There was some kind of magic to this album. Yes many have said Robin Trower should have been picked and from a musical standpoint, perhaps. But this song had the magic.
Frampton was a prodigy. He went to “High School” with David Jones (aka Bowie). He is a virtuoso guitar player. George Harrison asked him to play lead work on his fabled album “All Things Must Pass.” The test of a great guitar player is in how well he can play on acoustic. I saw him perform an all acoustic show a couple of years ago with his writing partner and it was amazing. It is not easy to sing well and play well at the same time. He does both at the top of the line. Plant played nothing but his voice. Page did the virtuoso shredding. This album was HUGE in its day and got heavy air play on Album Oriented Rock stations on FM at the time. It’s popularity came with back lash against the album and Frampton. They tried turning him into a teen pop idol (re: “I’m in You”) and make him a movie star (the gawd awful Robert Stigwood production of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - costarring the BeeGees by the way). Unfortunately, see Frampton live now. He is/was pre-COVID on his last tour. He is suffering from a progressive neuromuscular disease that has not yet impacted his playing but will. As a credit to his character as an artist, he will stopped performing after this tour ends because he wants to give the live audiences a show while his talents are at their best. He is a helluva artist, songwriter, singer, performer and guitar player.
Regarding how big this album was, like The Who Live at Leeds, this album was in virtually every stack of records at every friend's house you went to in the 70's. To take this in the direction of live albums, you need to dig into Live at Leeds. Young Man's Blues at ear-bleeding volume levels is an absolute must. Also the live 12-minute version of My Generation is worth listening to. Carry on.
Thank you for your comment and knowledge of Frampton. I love these reaction videos cuz they take me back in time. My sister used to blast this on her very cool (Pioneer) stereo system. Remember those huge speakers with the big woofers? Frampton sounded amazing!
From _Wayne's World 2_ : "Everybody in the world has 'Frampton Comes Alive'. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide."
Exactly. Even though modern day music is convenient there’s nothing like having to wait for the album to be released and getting to the music store in enough time to get the album. That anticipation of new music from your favorite band. Good times my friend, good times
Hearin Frampton s one thing, live is a whole new ball game. We saw him in Shreveport Louisiana when he toured for the Comes Alive album. Great show. Still have his pick, and a never played album of Frampton Comes Alive.
Shawn yes! I just responded/ commented this and more, to someone above, before I saw your post- nothing like back in the day.so excited to get your hands on a new drop before it sold out! Made it much more appreciated! ✌️
Charles Smith This is so true. IMHO, although MIDI and DAWs are amazing music creating tools, there is something about human musicians fleshing stuff out in the studio, garage, bedroom, or wherever. Steely Dan was my god up until Gaucho, but I can't listen to their stuff from Two Against Nature (2000) onward, excpet live performances. They sound so sterile, I can just see them dragging or copy-pasting notes to the grid on their computer screen. So sad.
Surprised no one has commented, "Okay, Boomer.", yet. Little shts have no clue, how the world is a million times bigger today, yet, 100 billion times smaller... and less fun.
When you have the opportunity to watch this performance, you will see the happiest guitarist ever to grace a stage. His energy pours into his performance.
Legend has it that Dave Davies, The Kinks' lead guitarist, was the first smiling one, and then there was the smiling guitarist Eddie Van Halen--started by covering Kinks' songs! But we forgot that Peter Frampton was another smiling, beautiful lead guitarist!
The funny thing is that I have NEVER in my life heard the studio version of this song...lol. Anything I've ever heard from Peter Frampton was off of Frampton Comes Alive. Am I the only one?
It took me til now after listening to this over 30 years to even wonder about a studio version. I looked it up, not even close to live version, live rocks my world.
You guys nailed it. The reason we said do the live version is the jam. Now go listen to the entire album. It's a masterpiece. Been wanting this one for a while. Glad y'all finally did it.
This is superficial given what a singular talent Peter Frampton is, but I smile when he plays/says, "that's all roight, that's all roight.." with his heavy British accent. 🤘🤩
I'm 60 years old now.... almost... and I thought I was the coolest girl in school with my boombox playing Frampton... Over and over and over. This was like listening to it for the first time and it brought chills and tears to my eyes! I so enjoyed watching this! This may sound odd... but I wouldn't mind playing this at my funeral!!!
Family: "What do you want us to play at your funeral?" Me: "All these songs from the 60s 70s and 80s" F: "It's gonna be over 10 hours!" M: . . . "Bring snacks"
What a mind blowing thought! I can see everyone from your closest loved ones to casual friends having some of their sorrow at your passing, taken away and let a smile show on their faces if this started playing at your funeral. I bet one of the first thoughts would be,"She was a cool chick!"
I haven't heard this in years and I am almost in tears. This was EVERYWHERE the summer of 1976! I think you guys know when we say we had the BEST music ever in the back then,,,i think you know.
Hey guys- I was front row for Peter on the Midnight Special a few nights after he recorded this - after the show 1st thing I asked him was: when are you going to put out a live album, as I had seen him many times here in So Cal - he smiled at me and said - I just recorded a show up in San Fran. One of my great memories!!!
Ev-a-ree-one had this album back then. And no one said ‘oh, I love that song!’ - they said ‘I love that album!’. You just put it on and let it go and then start all over again.
@@josephpedroza632 Me, too! The original I bought was ruined somehow over the years but I’ve replaced it. I really wish I still had that first one, tho. 🙂
I saw him in Richmond in the late 70s. Saw him again in Va Beach about 6 years ago. Don't know why I was still expecting the long blond hair & hot pink satin pants😂🤣 but he sounded exactly the same!!
He was on AXS Tv being interviewed by Dan Rather a couple years ago and he said he can't rock anymore because he has a degenerative disease that won't allow him to play anymore. Before Covid came along he had planned to one last tour.
I've heard this album a million times, but way back in the 70's I wasn't really analyzing it, just digging it. As I was listening AND analyzing it today, I think the main reason we all loved it so much back then was that it put us right in the middle of a great concert. In the 70s, nothing much was better than going to a great concert. And they were all great!
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I actually attended this concert in San Francisco Where this album was recorded The show was absolutely amazing it was my 1st live concert When I was 20 years 20 years old
Ikr .. lol. He doesn't even appear to b undernourished either Alex. Andy so what's ur plan for Alex when u r doing ur top 5???😏 I mean he did put u n the closet. Inquiring minds want to know🤭
Oh you missed it. Up against the front ropes (gen. admission) Purple lights. He loved us all and we loved him. I was 17 and fell in instant love. Esp. the voice box. He is still rated the best at it. Joe Walsh is #2, according to Rolling Stone. Love my generation of R & R....we had it made!!! And now you know our secret of still being cool. This was our growing.
"Show Me the Way" (live version from the same album) is one you definitely should check out. It is a lot more interesting as an actual song, but still features a lot of the elements you liked here.
Peter Frampton's dad, Owen, was a high school art teacher. When he didn't have a class going on, he let Peter and a few boys use his room/courtyard for jam sessions. One of the other boys in that group was David Bowie. When David went on his Glass Spider tour in the 80's, he asked Peter to join him. Peter accepted, but only on the condition that he only play guitar...no singing or playing of his own songs. One of the most underrated guitarists of rock.
@@franciscomoliner1296 Interviews I've seen with Peter indicated that he did, because he said he'd go on another tour, if asked (and play on another album, as he had Never Let Me Down)...because it allowed him to play for a bigger audience. He and Carlos Alomar butted heads a bit though, so don't know how that figured into things. Have you seen the video of David and Peter walking around Madrid looking for a beer? Hilarious, but a bit sad that no one asked Peter for an autograph, only David.
The only thing that makes me okay with getting old is I was around when this stuff was fresh and new. Why our children didnt make even better music I Don t know.
5speedMax (Cool name!👍🏻) OK...here it goes... So much ground-harmonically, rhythmically, melodically, sonically-was covered, and discovered, in the 60s, 70s, and even some of the 80s, that it was-and still is-difficult to do something really great-in rock music-without treading on already trodden ground. Many bands-who came after the giants of the 70s-tried really hard to do something different, which they achieved, but, it was at the expense of musical quality. I understand the energy of punk, but more often than not, the quality suffered! Also, musicians got infected with this post-modern/ modern art idea, that your “personal expression” was more important than the quality of said expression. And, it was inspiring to see these punk bands, and think, “I could do that!” Yeah, maybe, but the great artists spend many years on their craft, and I would rather hear something that lifts me up, and blows me away, and makes me think, “How the hell did they do that??”, rather than hear something that takes five minutes to figure out how to do. The goal of creating Beauty, and Elevation, in art, was lost-to a certain extent-and superseded with ‘My Expression’! Or, maybe, it was mostly the fault of the record companies, who saw the massive success of their great artists, got impatient for more, and thought they could just follow the same formula, without realizing that almost all of the greats were unique, and that it took time for people to catch on to what they were about. (If you don’t know the story, The Beatles were basically turned down by every record company, until their producer, George Martin, heard them, and thought they had something. Even, he wasn’t 100% convinced!) There’s only ONE Led Zeppelin, who succeeded right out of the gate! Although, even their groundwork was laid by their progenitor band, The Yardbirds, of which Jimmy Page was the last remaining member. Maybe, when some of the greats reached the pinnacle, it appeared that it could only go down from there! However, I have to hold on to the belief, that the pinnacle is perpetually shrouded in clouds, and can never be reached! (Sorry for the not-so-short essay!). A not-so-small addition: I don’t want to fail to mention a few great bands and artists, who were/are great, and could’ve been successful if given the record company support that their music deserved. Such as: King’s X, Altered State, TNT, Kevin Gilbert, Hughes/Thrall, Black Country Communion, Blue Murder, Bourgeois Tagg, Maxus, Burning Water, Echolyn, Eddie Jobson & Zinc, Gamma, Levitation, Lynch Mob, Stone Fury, World Trade, and Streets.
I was 16 when these albums were playing: Frampton Comes Alive, Boston's debut album, Aerosmith's Rocks; Fleetwood Mac Rumors; Steve Miller's Book of Dreams; Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak,; Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees; Eagles' Hotel California; Jackson Browne's The Pretender; Bob Seger's Live Bullet album; Ramones' Ramones album; and Kansas' Leftoverture. All this music and more. That's what we grew up with playing in the truck stereo. We had great music.
I don’t know, Post-Beatles, if there was an artist that burst onto the scene like Frampton did when this was released. This album was omnipresent and absolutely massive.
Pete: Rave Mag's Face of '68, and schoolmate of Bowie at Bromley Tech (Pete's daddy, Owen, was Bowie's art instructor)! Pete's Little Ravens band once played on the same bill at Bromley as Bowie's band, George and the Dragon (David was 3 years older).
A couple reasons why this is one of the best live albums ever: (1) superb engineering...quality beyond anything tracked to date, (2) superb, frickin' tight band, (3) over the top into it crowd. If you played to a crowd like that, you would put out your best too.
They were probably all stoned out of their collective gourds with grass, reefer, pot, Tai stick, hashish and shrooms I'm sure. The music is good without it but.......
@@BONNIE091059 'ludes! Of course, how did I overlook those? That's a lot of water near a bridge. Thank the higher power I have been drug and alcohol free for over 25 years.
"Frampton Comes Alive!" came out in 1976, and was the first live album to ever reach #1 on the Billboard Album Chart, and the 1st live album to go Platinum (1 million copies sold), then to go on to achieve multi-platinum status, over 11 million copies sold world-wide, to date. I bought my first copy of this record when I was 15 years old in 1977.
I was more disco and funk and I even I owned this and the Cars, I there was a law it may have included Zepplin, Yes, Foghat, Cheap Trick, The Police... or I was just all over the place and love music lol
@@funnyaura Actually, the record fairy went by every American's house, and in their respective years, dropped off "Frampton Comes Alive," Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours," Boston's debut album, AC/DC "Back in Black," and "Eagles Greatest Hits."
I grew up in the 60's and 70's, but for some reasons I never liked the live albums, so I didn't even hear this one back then. I liked the purer sounds of the studio album. Though, of course, nothing can compare to being at a concert live. To me that just didn't come across on a recorded concert album.
One thing that I really like about this live concert version that you don't get in shorter versions is the keyboard. He is the only artist that gets called out by name, and he deserves to be recognized because that keyboard riffing is stupendous. I also like how the audience becomes part of the concert with whistles, clapping, and cheers that somehow perfectly fit the music.
I want to thank you guy's for all you do,when this whole "reaction video" shit started I really rolled my eyes at it,but with the 2 of you I love seeing your impressions or reactions 🙄 lol to songs that are truly in the fabric of who I am, please don't ever stop what you're doing 💜
I absolutely love this song, and the whole album, but i don't think this was an anthem. Maybe Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, Smoke on the water, songs like those. But not this. All subjective of course.
Kids in the seventies respected musicianship. Every kid had a favorite guitar player and a favorite drummer etc...Teenaged girls had posters of guitar players on their walls. They went to concerts to see real musicians play live in real time. Most songs had guitar solos or saxophone solos or keyboards solos etc... Ask a millennial who their favorite guitar player is. Do they have one? Can they even name one? It was different world.
You gotta realize this was the first time any of us had heard such a thing - it was wild and wonderful and new. I remember it like yesterday the first time I heard the talk box. I freaked out! I'm glad you liked it guys. I sure did - ♥ There is a fantastic video of him doing this on The Midnight Special. You really should check that out. Seeing him jam with that damn tube in his mouth LOL - it's crazy. ♥
RockyMtnHighChick if I remember correctly it was also called squawk box. I was a sophomore in high school when I first heard this album and I just kept listening to it over and over with my friends. It was the first major Live album and then it snowballed with Lynyrd Skynyrd and kiss alive, Derringer live, Cheap Trick,Led Zeppelin, Rush, Bob Seger, AC/DC,Blue Öyster Cult and Yes! I was lucky enough to see all those groups in concert. I loved growing up in Ca. But glad also that I left in my late 20’s. Still the most epic era of music! Just singing🎤
ABC Saturday night, parents let you stay up late cause hey it's the weekend. Besides you were a good boy and was back home by the time the streetlights were on.
Saw Peter Frampton & Yes & Mr. Dream Weaver Gary Wright At JFK Stadium 1976 140,000 People Showed Up for That Concert When Pete Did This Song , It Blew Everybody Away Best Live Album EVER !! 2 / 11 / 21
My Dad had Frampton comes alive on 8 track and had it going round and round continuously in his car when this came out, I'm 58 now and my Dad would now be 87 and he absolutely loved that album as do I still, and being a guitarist since 9 and at a fairly high standard can really appreciate the playing and the whole jam vibe of this song even though my main style of playing is hard rock and metal this never gets old and I've heard this countless times and always think of my Dad when I hear this.
By the way, whoever mixed Frampton Comes Alive bringing the audience well into the mix deserves a Grammy as that is one of the elements that makes this album.
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Frampton came from Humble Pie. Check out 30 days in the hole or Hot and Nasty. Great band with great vocalist... Steve Marriott.
Andy - Neil Young will rattle your cage like Bob Dylan did. A long guitar jam like Cowgirl in the Sand or Down by the River!
Hey guys! He could make his guitar talk
Ok ...you boys picked out a rocker ....a little talk box action 🤘
This album was like the Thriller album of 1976! Hugely popular and they used to play this live 13 min version on the radio all the time.
I saw this tour twice in the 70s!!! I also saw him live last month. He's 73, he played 2 and a half hours straight and sounded even better than before.
The "voice box guitar solo" is fantabulous.... and the fan reactions are priceless. This is a top tier "lost in sauce" song . Timeless.
My kids tell me I'm stuck in the 70's. Wouldn't want to be stuck anywhere else. LOL
That moment when you realize that your parent’s generation was bad ass.
Oh, it was!!!
...'til they cut their hair and became yuppies in the 80s.
@@halwakka504 not all of us were yuppies, thankfully.
I'm that generation
The best music I've ever heard was introduced to me by my father. He's always been a bad ass.
Nothing really defines the mid seventies more than this album. The fact it was a double album AND a live album and still sold this many copies is one of the greatest accomplishments in musical history.
That's true because record companies did not like to put out live albums because usually, they just didn't sell well. This one was an exception, 10 million upon release.
I remember when this album was _everywhere._ The posters all over the place, I remember those.
Most of the albums sold, including the one I purchased at the time, was because of the FM airplay this song was getting. The song itself was absolutely huge. And I was a big Humble Pie fan before this.
Every body had this
I had the 8 track version
Most people had never heard a talkbox before when this came out and it completely blew our minds.
on point !!
Except for Joe Walsh/James Gang fans.
I believe Joe Perry with Aerosmith as well.
And then Mick Mars
Joe Walsh and David Gilmour both used a talk box.
Man Frampton Comes Alive was a beast everyone owned a copy in 76
I remember this song playing on the car stereo as my girlfriend's mom was giving me a beej
oh yeah I wore my 8track out!
@@laurazimmerman8725 put that old matchbook in the bottom so it would play right
@@timmurphy7652 lol hell ya! And I was stylin with my underdash removable player!
I still listen to my copy bought in 1976
My grandmother, who was born in 1917, bought me a record player, and this album. I remember listening to it over and over. Thank you Grandma, I love and miss you 💓.
That’s what crowd noise sounds like when nobody has cell phones out recording video. God I miss that
I went to see Frampton a couple of years ago, 2018. The crowd was either filming with their phone or talking to each other the whole time. It was like Frampton was just the background music. It was ridiculous. I miss the days when people came to watch and listen to the music
I so agree!
Unfortunately those days are gone forever. The "feel" is gone, by the way of electronic gadgetry. That's progress ?
Brady Hogan that’s probably why Tool does it too.
This was taped at The Commack Arena here on Long Island (Later the Long Island Arena)..It was the first venue I went to, and saw Black Sabbath, '71. I was 14..This, I believe, was around '74/'75....They put on some good shows back then...Long since torn down, sadly...Replaced by a shopping center..Ahh..Progress!
45 years later and this STILL makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Damm straight
I got to see the tour in summer '75 after this album came out. It was like hearing the record on the world's biggest stereo!
Same
Michael Reardon same!
Agree
Imagine back in the 70's how many stems and seeds were cleaned on this double album !
Now THAT'S funny
Exactly....so when these reaction people(many of them) no diss, are trying to analyze these works strictly from an instrumental breakdown and creation only from a studio creation mentality.....Sigh. They miss the whole inexplicable creative genius of many of the bands of that era putting out music that was meant to be lengthy, head trippy and not depending on a format or predictable. YOU HAD TO BE THERE...
Stems and seeds......lol.....
don't smoke the seeds...they will make you sterile...lol
Acapulco gold is the bad ass weed.
Frampton still plays and sings just as well as he did in 1975. Amazing. I just saw him in June 2023 at a concert in Ohio and this guy, despite having to walk out with a cane and plop himself down in his chair for the entire show, was incredible. His band is also excellent with great keyboard and guitar players. The best thing of all was how obviously happy Peter was even being there and playing. All in all it was an uplifiting experience. As a bonus he played some old Humble Pie songs and sampled others. It was almost 2.5 hours of non-stop Frampton. It was the most fun I ever had at a concert.
I’m 62 and by FAR we definitely grew up with MOST OF BEST MUSIC EVER WRITTEN AND BEST CONCERTS! So happy to this day this was the music of my teenage years. Superior music!
I'm with you Susan
Indeed we did!!!
You dont know how right you are! (iam 65.)
BEST EVVVVVVER
Yessum
This Album seemed to drop out of the sky from nowhere. No-one knew who he was, but boy did that change. You need to listen to the whole album, as we always did. Everyone had this record. Nice choice!!
Dorothy...it always blew my mind that the first time we heard him was from a live album... Don't you get famous first and then drop a live album... where did all these people come from...lol
This is so true. I remember having the solo album "Frampton" that came out the year before this and really loving it. I used to play for people and they had no idea who he was. The typical reaction was "yeah, it's pretty decent but nothing special".
He was actually quite well-known - this "he was a nobody" theme is incorrect ...
He was pretty much unknown to marginally known in the US until this LP.
Yes I played it so much I wore the groves off the album😜
This album came out of NOWHERE and was instantly the most popular thing on the air. Frampton is one great guitar player.
I don't care what you rate the song, but that is an S tier performance, plain and simple.
I'm 62 years old guys. Everyone from my generation knows this song.
I'm 68 😁 and yes, EVERYBODY that was born before 1980!💯 Banger!🔥💥❤️✌️
And we also know that they will never ever make music like this again
I'm 63 and I'M WITH YOU!
same here - this music never lets us down!!
Always liked Frampton he rocks. The Oakland concert was amazing. I'm only 59
I served Peter Frampton a gin and tonic at a wedding reception. One of the kindest souls and complete joy to talk with for about 15 minutes. A class act.
Envy!
Jelly
@@mollyhall2954 right? what an opportunity!
when no one looked at their phone and everyone just listened and appreciated the true artistry of this man and his band
I agree!! Hate these addictive things.. destroyed social interaction...
lil poohbear Nobody wanted to be on the phone! We wanted to be OUT!
The phone was fixed to the wall or table anyway.
@@delphi-moochymaker62 yup
@@MegaHatLady Or you'd call people to *talk*.
In every high school parking lot, in a sea of bondo and smoke, Kraco 8 track players cranked this tune to the heavens.
"My radio is the same brand as my Floor Mats..."
I was THAT guy!
EDIT: Kraco, for the uninitiated
Wow I Kraco stereos was some of the best music that ever came out of those cheap but badass speakers and car stereos 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
OMG that is exactly right! Excellent comment.
Kraco stereos and Mindblower amplified 6x9 rear deck speakers.
I can confirm, my high school parking lot was that parking lot. I graduated in 78, and I wish I had a few of those cars that, at that time, we thought of as junkers. They would be worth a pile of cash these days.
Frampton comes alive IS one of the best live albums ever .
Its not 100% live tho, they added a lot of stuff afterwards
No, THE BEST!!!
I honestly don't remember ever hearing any Frampton played on the radio other than from the live album.
It was best selling live album for many years. First concert I saw in 77 in Birmingham Alabama.
@@craigdoriety9798 I saw him in Jackson Ms.in 77 .I was 16 years old.
I’m so glad I grew up in this era of music.
I love the fact we can pass it on. ❤
Dudes...as a teen in the 70s I cannot explain what you guys doing this meant to me. Thank you so much!!!
Being a teen of the 70s is almost undescribable to todays kids. Very sad.
Right there with you guys!
Texas Eagle Hey Eagle, we did have a helluva lot of FUN back then didn't we? I really feel bad for the genxers, y's, millennial's, they will never have that "soundtrack" of their life like we do. We were so lucky to grow up when we did. ---Heart.
Well it Was a totally different time. That’s why I have a time machine.
It may impossible to imagine in 2021, but this 13 min. song was all over the radio in it's day. CONSTANTLY. Enormously popular.
Back before everyone had the attention span of a fruit fly.
All day long, everyone loved this song, everyone.
He was a classical ly trained guitarist, and the guitar player for Humble Pie when he was a kid. You might want to check out Humble Pie... 30 Days in the Hole
Yes, but he didn't play on that particular Humble Pie song, which was recorded after he left the band
Yes MrMasongray. Humble Pie at the Fillmore! A great classic album of pure energy and concert rock music!!!
Yesss!
bws1971 another great live at the Fillmore, 1971 was Allman Brothers “One Way Out.”
Thanks!
Back in the 70's a band could play a 15 minute song and the audience was into it; songs could develop and go places; really cool places.
See, guys, this is what growing up in the 70's was all about. Nothing today even comes close.
Wish I was born about 1950, so I could've experienced the late 60's, 70's and 80's as an adult. I had to put up with kids my age all crying when Cobain killed himself, cuz they all listened to shit grunge music when we were 16, 17, 18. Meanwhile I started listening to Led Zep, Fleetwood Mac and Deep Purple.
We had the best music in that time.
@@Doodsy1975 They discovered Kurt Cobain had dandruff when they found his head and shoulders in the bathroom.
I was born in 55. Graduated high school in 72, college in 77. Back then it was like every week a new rock masterpiece came out. There’s nothing going on in music today that comes close to what I grew uo enjoying- Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, CSNY, Creedence, Allman Bros, The Who, Three Dog Night, the Guess Who, Beach Boys, Aretha, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Steppenwolf, Chicago, and it just doesn’t end. What is there going on today that will still be amazing 50 years from now?
Absolutely Agree!
Greatest live song EVER!!!!
This is why Frampton spent the late 70s on the cover of every Guitar magazine.
That was played at some point at every party I attended on the late 70s.😆
When the good smoke was hanging in the air.
True dat! Crack open a Miller High Life and let’s get this party started!!!
I think if you were born at a certain time they issued this album to you
Left It at A graduation party. I was wasted!
And Boston's debut album.
Man hard to believe this was 50 years ago - Just goes to show 70's rock was solid!
44 years...don't make me feel older!
Concerts were awesome in the 70s and 80s...
Oxmustube exactly! I’m 50 and I was rocking to this album when I was 6 thanks to my older sisters..lol.Still sounds as good today as it did back then.
"Frampton Comes AlivFe" is an amazing album & if you were alive in 1976, you remember how huge this was!
Ah, this song, more than any other, represents the 70s for me, especially the line: "...must have been a dream, I don't believe where I been...c'mon! Let's do it again!"
I was thinking the SAME thing about representing the 70s. Duuuuuuude...
Came out in 76. Album was HUGE that summer the year I graduated HS
I agree. You have to have the experiences to fully appreciate songs like this. And, to understand how different it sounded from other songs at the time, especially the talk box part.
This song just tastes, sounds and smells of 70's!
People don't realize how GREAT a guitar player *FRAMPTON* was.
Still IS 🎸 !!!!
Is.
Frampton is a great finger picker too. He can do anything with it honestly
IS
Rick Beato had him as a guest in the studio for one of his videos.
This album was an accidental hit. Virtually nobody knew who Frampton was, on a whim they put out this live album and struck gold. Definitely one of the best live albums ever recorded.
No, we knew who he was - he had just left Humble Pie and had put out a solo record or two (You have to have been around) ... That said - NOBODY expected what happened to this record ...
@@jiffin1 By nobody, I mean mainstream. Some of us knew, but most didn't, Frampton kind of came out of nowhere for most people.
Not true in the least. He was already somewhat famous from Humble Pie. He already had 4 solo albums out before this. In 1975, the Frampton album went to No. 32 in the US charts. Frampton Comes Alive! had been intended to be a single LP disc, but at the suggestion of A&M Records additional shows were recorded and the album expanded to two LPs for release.
I remember it differently. Frampton had the hit "Show me the Way" in 75 that charted ok. Also Frampton was on "Midnight Special" in 75 that gave him notoriety on the Concert circuit in the Summer of 75 when I saw him at Spartan Stadium. "Frampton Comes Alive" was an anticipated Album so much so that Local Radio station KSJO broadcast the Entire Album the night before it's official release. I know. I recorded that early broadcast, and had the record a day before everyone else. LOL!
Everyone I knew was aware of him before this album. Your local radio stations must have sucked..
I like the fact that you guys can actually have an intelligent discussion about the music and lyrics; most reviewers can not.
People don’t necessarily realize just how good a guitarist Frampton was. Dude could flat out tickle the strings!
Was?? The cat is sa good or better than in 1976. I was stationed at Cherry Point Marine Air Base. At the time a friend and I were in a record store and the lit this entire album up. You could sit in cushy seats and put headphones on and listen. Needless to say we both bought the album. Thanks for listening...great tune!
Is
Too many good guitarists in the 70's. Got lost in the shuffle- until this album.
Didn't he win best guitarist in '76?
When I finally got my kids to see him 10 years ago my son looks at me eyes wide and says, “he’s GOOD!” Like I didn’t know.
I LOVE that Andy and Alex had no idea what was coming! Bring on Rocky Mountain Way!
Or Funk 49
Hey Texas 👋🏻. They did Rocky Mountain Way. It’s on their Patreon.
I just love Joe Walsh .. he's a hoot🥰
TheFlorida Mimi NO! I don’t pay to play! That sucks big donkey D!
They are frauds
"Frampton Comes Alive" was one of those records that EVERYONE had back in the day. In those days, when you went to someones house for a party or just to hang out, you'd ALWAYS flip through their vinyl collection. Sometime just to gauge WHO you were dealing with.
Right? I never felt the need buy it because everyone had a copy
Me and my 2 best friends each bought a copy at the same time!
And you would pull an Album out you wanted to hear and put in the to be played pile. Oh and you had to nominate which side you wanted to listen to. Remember listening to sides of albums.
It came in the mail with the boxes of Tide.
So true! I honestly can't think of another album that _everybody_ I knew had.
Its important to remember that Peter was only 25 when he made this. To front a band, at 25 with his name all over it? unreal! His guitar chops and musicianship was insane!
Oh yes! Me and every other teenager in the late 70's had this album. And on 8-track, blasting it from our car speakers, car doors open, we're sitting in the grass, maybe making out a little. Such memories to this music. There was some kind of magic to this album. Yes many have said Robin Trower should have been picked and from a musical standpoint, perhaps. But this song had the magic.
I played this album so much back in the day it wore the grooves off the record.
This is one album I wore out also.
Oh my god...Robin Trower, Bridge of Sighs haven't thought of that in years. I hope I can find it and add it back into my collection!
We were rockin it in the 80s too
@@phillyboyfloyd7050 Hell, I still am!
Frampton was a prodigy. He went to “High School” with David Jones (aka Bowie). He is a virtuoso guitar player. George Harrison asked him to play lead work on his fabled album “All Things Must Pass.” The test of a great guitar player is in how well he can play on acoustic. I saw him perform an all acoustic show a couple of years ago with his writing partner and it was amazing. It is not easy to sing well and play well at the same time. He does both at the top of the line. Plant played nothing but his voice. Page did the virtuoso shredding. This album was HUGE in its day and got heavy air play on Album Oriented Rock stations on FM at the time. It’s popularity came with back lash against the album and Frampton. They tried turning him into a teen pop idol (re: “I’m in You”) and make him a movie star (the gawd awful Robert Stigwood production of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - costarring the BeeGees by the way). Unfortunately, see Frampton live now. He is/was pre-COVID on his last tour. He is suffering from a progressive neuromuscular disease that has not yet impacted his playing but will. As a credit to his character as an artist, he will stopped performing after this tour ends because he wants to give the live audiences a show while his talents are at their best. He is a helluva artist, songwriter, singer, performer and guitar player.
Regarding how big this album was, like The Who Live at Leeds, this album was in virtually every stack of records at every friend's house you went to in the 70's. To take this in the direction of live albums, you need to dig into Live at Leeds. Young Man's Blues at ear-bleeding volume levels is an absolute must. Also the live 12-minute version of My Generation is worth listening to. Carry on.
You remember exactly how it went down
Thank you for your comment and knowledge of Frampton. I love these reaction videos cuz they take me back in time. My sister used to blast this on her very cool (Pioneer) stereo system. Remember those huge speakers with the big woofers? Frampton sounded amazing!
WTF ! I had finally forgotten that POS Sgt Pepper's version.
Son of a …..lol
Yes just like us he is getting old
But we had him for 50 years
This concert was lightning in a bottle, arguably one of the best live albums ever.
"Show Me The Way" should be next.
Baby I love your way too. The whole damned album is incredible. No auto tune no nothing just dudes on stage jamming and belting out vocals.
Yes!
@diver69 same here
As great as it is, live at Fillmore East with the Allman Bros. is better still
I saw this show at The Forum L.A. in 76. Peter played a Guitar, piano, drums solo in this song it was AWESOME
From _Wayne's World 2_ :
"Everybody in the world has 'Frampton Comes Alive'. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide."
LOL
😂🤣
Party on!
Friends would get tired of lugging their vinyl albums around so would give them to me--is how I wound up with four copies of this album.
The discount coupon was attached to your starter bong
This thing was a monster album when it was released. I miss those days, when people really got excited about music.
Exactly. Even though modern day music is convenient there’s nothing like having to wait for the album to be released and getting to the music store in enough time to get the album. That anticipation of new music from your favorite band.
Good times my friend, good times
Just about EVERYONE had this album! I still have the double LP from 1976 and will until I die. 🤟🎸
Hearin Frampton s one thing, live is a whole new ball game. We saw him in Shreveport Louisiana when he toured for the Comes Alive album. Great show. Still have his pick, and a never played album of Frampton Comes Alive.
Totally. Frampton blew up on this tour. I knew half the tracks on Comes Alive and I was 9 in ‘76. 😅
Shawn yes! I just responded/ commented this and more, to someone above, before I saw your post- nothing like back in the day.so excited to get your hands on a new drop before it sold out! Made it much more appreciated! ✌️
The thing about being young in the late '60s and the '70s is there was so much great music coming out every month
And not out of some pre recorded electronic device. Submerged with imagination.
Charles Smith... hey I resemble that remark! :-) ... tried and true boomer here
Charles Smith This is so true. IMHO, although MIDI and DAWs are amazing music creating tools, there is something about human musicians fleshing stuff out in the studio, garage, bedroom, or wherever. Steely Dan was my god up until Gaucho, but I can't listen to their stuff from Two Against Nature (2000) onward, excpet live performances. They sound so sterile, I can just see them dragging or copy-pasting notes to the grid on their computer screen. So sad.
Surprised no one has commented, "Okay, Boomer.", yet.
Little shts have no clue, how the world is a million times bigger today, yet, 100 billion times smaller... and less fun.
When you have the opportunity to watch this performance, you will see the happiest guitarist ever to grace a stage. His energy pours into his performance.
that's the one thing I miss about the reactions, not seeing the videos with them.
I agree and he still is!
What I love about seeing Peter's shows are the seas of people...who didn't LOVE seeing one of his shows???
Legend has it that Dave Davies, The Kinks' lead guitarist, was the first smiling one, and then there was the smiling guitarist Eddie Van Halen--started by covering Kinks' songs! But we forgot that Peter Frampton was another smiling, beautiful lead guitarist!
The funny thing is that I have NEVER in my life heard the studio version of this song...lol. Anything I've ever heard from Peter Frampton was off of Frampton Comes Alive. Am I the only one?
It took me til now after listening to this over 30 years to even wonder about a studio version. I looked it up, not even close to live version, live rocks my world.
I was in high school and college during the 70s and I didn't even know there was a studio version made.
Nope...me either
I have never heard the studio versions either! Kind of the same thing on the Cheap Trick live in Budokan album!
Me either.
You guys nailed it. The reason we said do the live version is the jam. Now go listen to the entire album. It's a masterpiece. Been wanting this one for a while. Glad y'all finally did it.
Mike Harris Great album
This album was literally in EVERYONE'S collection. Slam dunk...
Great party tune from my youth.
Right next to Foghat live....zep4 and dark side of the moon
@@viclagina347
And obviously Boston (20 million). 1976 had some BIG albums.
This album is still in everyone's collection.
ArtVanAuggie Mine was ripped off by a college roommate.😬
52 and still have it fro m back in the day....great album!!
This is superficial given what a singular talent Peter Frampton is, but I smile when he plays/says, "that's all roight, that's all roight.." with his heavy British accent. 🤘🤩
I'm 60 years old now.... almost... and I thought I was the coolest girl in school with my boombox playing Frampton... Over and over and over. This was like listening to it for the first time and it brought chills and tears to my eyes! I so enjoyed watching this! This may sound odd... but I wouldn't mind playing this at my funeral!!!
donna wilburn That’s not odd. My best friend wants Cheap Trick’s “I Want You To Want Me” played at her funeral.
I'm having Jimi Hendrix's Fire played right in front of my cremated ashes.
Family: "What do you want us to play at your funeral?"
Me: "All these songs from the 60s 70s and 80s"
F: "It's gonna be over 10 hours!"
M: . . . "Bring snacks"
What a mind blowing thought! I can see everyone from your closest loved ones to casual friends having some of their sorrow at your passing, taken away and let a smile show on their faces if this started playing at your funeral. I bet one of the first thoughts would be,"She was a cool chick!"
I haven't heard this in years and I am almost in tears. This was EVERYWHERE the summer of 1976! I think you guys know when we say we had the BEST music ever in the back then,,,i think you know.
I agree. I was 16 years old then and virtually played this to death. Great times, even greater music!
I was 16 and this was everything.Sherman in my hand.
Hells yeah we did!!!
Rock-'n'-roll 🤙
Hey guys- I was front row for Peter on the Midnight Special a few nights after he recorded this - after the show 1st thing I asked him was: when are you going to put out a live album, as I had seen him many times here in So Cal - he smiled at me and said - I just recorded a show up in San Fran. One of my great memories!!!
Ev-a-ree-one had this album back then. And no one said ‘oh, I love that song!’ - they said ‘I love that album!’. You just put it on and let it go and then start all over again.
I still have that album....
@@josephpedroza632 Me, too! The original I bought was ruined somehow over the years but I’ve replaced it. I really wish I still had that first one, tho. 🙂
@@Kim-hc5si I have some others also. I have Physical Graffiti Zepplin
@@josephpedroza632 Nice!
Andy says "I'm sure the studio cut is okay...," what studio version?
Peter turned 70 years young this past April, and although he looks like your sweet old Grandad, he can still rock you to the core of the earth.
I saw his final concert in October, 2018...and he brought the house down when he did this.
JSBIRD69 Everyone gets a turn if they're fortunate to live long enough!
I saw him in Richmond in the late 70s. Saw him again in Va Beach about 6 years ago. Don't know why I was still expecting the long blond hair & hot pink satin pants😂🤣 but he sounded exactly the same!!
He was on AXS Tv being interviewed by Dan Rather a couple years ago and he said he can't rock anymore because he has a degenerative disease that won't allow him to play anymore. Before Covid came along he had planned to one last tour.
@@markrobertdevison1227 I figure Peter has given enough...he can take a well deserved break.
I've heard this album a million times, but way back in the 70's I wasn't really analyzing it, just digging it. As I was listening AND analyzing it today, I think the main reason we all loved it so much back then was that it put us right in the middle of a great concert. In the 70s, nothing much was better than going to a great concert. And they were all great!
Exactly! The concerts in the 70s and 80s were so organic- the music, the crowds and their reactions. Listening to these LIVE albums gives me chills...
It was like listening to great music with 20,000 good friends.
@ted ritola I was 19 when this came out.....how I miss the 70's ...everything now just sucks and sucks and sucks.....
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Very cool choice, I was jamming to that classic just a few minutes ago.👍
Yess, and an incredible tribute to the rockabilly/rock&roll swing, taken to the next level
I take “2” for a 1000, Alex.
Yup, been suggesting this for a while.
No doubt! One of their best!
I actually attended this concert in San Francisco Where this album was recorded The show was absolutely amazing it was my 1st live concert When I was 20 years 20 years old
Frampton was so underrated as a guitarist historically
Yes!
no he wasn't, maybe in the US but in England all the major performers knew
and used him.
no,he is not
When I got to college, they said "here's your bong and your copy of Frampton Comes Alive. Welcome to College!"
Alex, glad to see you untied Andy and let him out to do this reaction
Now tie him back up!
:D :D ....so funny.
Andy's having a "great life"....so
he must be okay ;)
Ikr .. lol. He doesn't even appear to b undernourished either Alex. Andy so what's ur plan for Alex when u r doing ur top 5???😏 I mean he did put u n the closet. Inquiring minds want to know🤭
Oh you missed it. Up against the front ropes (gen. admission) Purple lights. He loved us all and we loved him. I was 17 and fell in instant love. Esp. the voice box. He is still rated the best at it. Joe Walsh is #2, according to Rolling Stone. Love my generation of R & R....we had it made!!! And now you know our secret of still being cool. This was our growing.
"Show Me the Way" (live version from the same album) is one you definitely should check out. It is a lot more interesting as an actual song, but still features a lot of the elements you liked here.
Yep
Yes, "Show Me the Way" was the big hit. "Baby I Love Your Way" is also really good.: Both from this live album.
Peter Frampton's dad, Owen, was a high school art teacher. When he didn't have a class going on, he let Peter and a few boys use his room/courtyard for jam sessions. One of the other boys in that group was David Bowie. When David went on his Glass Spider tour in the 80's, he asked Peter to join him. Peter accepted, but only on the condition that he only play guitar...no singing or playing of his own songs. One of the most underrated guitarists of rock.
Great story about a couple of legends!
Don't know if he played the whole Glass Spider Tour, but I was in the concert in Madrid.
@@franciscomoliner1296 Interviews I've seen with Peter indicated that he did, because he said he'd go on another tour, if asked (and play on another album, as he had Never Let Me Down)...because it allowed him to play for a bigger audience. He and Carlos Alomar butted heads a bit though, so don't know how that figured into things. Have you seen the video of David and Peter walking around Madrid looking for a beer? Hilarious, but a bit sad that no one asked Peter for an autograph, only David.
Interesting .
@@lala_sparkles8035 My daughter just todo me about it, round it: ua-cam.com/video/eYQ0Xd0nybQ/v-deo.html
My daughter was going through stuff in the basement recently and found all my albums from the 70’s. You know this was in the collection.❤️
If you didn't have this album back in the 70's, you were exiled to Siberia.
Maybe Antarctic.
Sorry. Listening to Black Sabbath, and many others
If you didn't own this album you knew at least 3 people that did
The only thing that makes me okay with getting old is I was around when this stuff was fresh and new. Why our children didnt make even better music I Don t know.
Music being played today is aweful.
@@recabitejehonadab2654 Its unlistenable. Its produced for the sheep just like Pop on KIIS FM was and is still for sheeple
I actually thought that rock in general would continue to get better, sadly I was absolutely wrong.
Yep me too!
5speedMax (Cool name!👍🏻) OK...here it goes...
So much ground-harmonically, rhythmically, melodically, sonically-was covered, and discovered, in the 60s, 70s, and even some of the 80s, that it was-and still is-difficult to do something really great-in rock music-without treading on already trodden ground.
Many bands-who came after the giants of the 70s-tried really hard to do something different, which they achieved, but, it was at the expense of musical quality. I understand the energy of punk, but more often than not, the quality suffered! Also, musicians got infected with this post-modern/ modern art idea, that your “personal expression” was more important than the quality of said expression. And, it was inspiring to see these punk bands, and think, “I could do that!” Yeah, maybe, but the great artists spend many years on their craft, and I would rather hear something that lifts me up, and blows me away, and makes me think, “How the hell did they do that??”, rather than hear something that takes five minutes to figure out how to do. The goal of creating Beauty, and Elevation, in art, was lost-to a certain extent-and superseded with ‘My Expression’!
Or, maybe, it was mostly the fault of the record companies, who saw the massive success of their great artists, got impatient for more, and thought they could just follow the same formula, without realizing that almost all of the greats were unique, and that it took time for people to catch on to what they were about. (If you don’t know the story, The Beatles were basically turned down by every record company, until their producer, George Martin, heard them, and thought they had something. Even, he wasn’t 100% convinced!) There’s only ONE Led Zeppelin, who succeeded right out of the gate! Although, even their groundwork was laid by their progenitor band, The Yardbirds, of which Jimmy Page was the last remaining member.
Maybe, when some of the greats reached the pinnacle, it appeared that it could only go down from there! However, I have to hold on to the belief, that the pinnacle is perpetually shrouded in clouds, and can never be reached!
(Sorry for the not-so-short essay!). A not-so-small addition: I don’t want to fail to mention a few great bands and artists, who were/are great, and could’ve been successful if given the record company support that their music deserved. Such as: King’s X, Altered State, TNT, Kevin Gilbert, Hughes/Thrall, Black Country Communion, Blue Murder, Bourgeois Tagg, Maxus, Burning Water, Echolyn, Eddie Jobson & Zinc, Gamma, Levitation, Lynch Mob, Stone Fury, World Trade, and Streets.
Yes! Thank you for reacting "Do You Feel Like I Do" from Frampton Comes Alive. Woot and hoo!
I was 16 when these albums were playing: Frampton Comes Alive, Boston's debut album, Aerosmith's Rocks; Fleetwood Mac Rumors; Steve Miller's Book of Dreams; Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak,; Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees; Eagles' Hotel California; Jackson Browne's The Pretender; Bob Seger's Live Bullet album; Ramones' Ramones album; and Kansas' Leftoverture. All this music and more. That's what we grew up with playing in the truck stereo. We had great music.
Next two Frampton songs need to be Show Me The Way and Baby I Love Your Way both from Frampton Comes Alive! In that order!
"Green Grass And High Tides" by The Outlaws is definitely one you need to check out.
Really great guitars on this one.
Oh, boy, those guitars get going about half way in, huh? Absolutely love that song, thanks for the reminder. Even better than Frampton.
Been asking for this one too...studio version...the 22 minute job on the live album is pretty weak...
I don’t know, Post-Beatles, if there was an artist that burst onto the scene like Frampton did when this was released. This album was omnipresent and absolutely massive.
Zeppelin
Pete: Rave Mag's Face of '68, and schoolmate of Bowie at Bromley Tech (Pete's daddy, Owen, was Bowie's art instructor)! Pete's Little Ravens band once played on the same bill at Bromley as Bowie's band, George and the Dragon (David was 3 years older).
Van Halen and Montrose
A couple reasons why this is one of the best live albums ever: (1) superb engineering...quality beyond anything tracked to date, (2) superb, frickin' tight band, (3) over the top into it crowd. If you played to a crowd like that, you would put out your best too.
What a tight 4 piece band! Don't think much if any overdubs was needed.
🥰👏👏👏👏👍
They were probably all stoned out of their collective gourds with grass, reefer, pot, Tai stick, hashish and shrooms I'm sure. The music is good without it but.......
@@jacksonmorganfroghin4815 don't forget quaaludes
@@BONNIE091059 'ludes! Of course, how did I overlook those? That's a lot of water near a bridge. Thank the higher power I have been drug and alcohol free for over 25 years.
If feels like you were issued this album in high school on the 70’s. It was everywhere. The music world was much different than today.
Smaller world.
"Frampton Comes Alive!" came out in 1976, and was the first live album to ever reach #1 on the Billboard Album Chart, and the 1st live album to go Platinum (1 million copies sold), then to go on to achieve multi-platinum status, over 11 million copies sold world-wide, to date. I bought my first copy of this record when I was 15 years old in 1977.
Not only the first live album but it was a double album
I thought it was 17million
Didn't everyone buy this album? Think it was a law or something. 😉😋😄
I was more disco and funk and I even I owned this and the Cars, I there was a law it may have included Zepplin, Yes, Foghat, Cheap Trick, The Police... or I was just all over the place and love music lol
@@funnyaura Actually, the record fairy went by every American's house, and in their respective years, dropped off "Frampton Comes Alive," Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours," Boston's debut album, AC/DC "Back in Black," and "Eagles Greatest Hits."
Yep just about
I grew up in the 60's and 70's, but for some reasons I never liked the live albums, so I didn't even hear this one back then. I liked the purer sounds of the studio album. Though, of course, nothing can compare to being at a concert live. To me that just didn't come across on a recorded concert album.
You couldn't be a teenager without this album. Pretty sure it was standard issue. 😎
One thing that I really like about this live concert version that you don't get in shorter versions is the keyboard. He is the only artist that gets called out by name, and he deserves to be recognized because that keyboard riffing is stupendous. I also like how the audience becomes part of the concert with whistles, clapping, and cheers that somehow perfectly fit the music.
I want to thank you guy's for all you do,when this whole "reaction video" shit started I really rolled my eyes at it,but with the 2 of you I love seeing your impressions or reactions 🙄 lol to songs that are truly in the fabric of who I am, please don't ever stop what you're doing 💜
Find a current interview with Peter Frampton. You'll see how genuine and thoughtful he is.
He is a great guy
The Howard Stern interview was great.
Here's part
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Like 'Freebird", and "Comfortably Numb", this was one of the ROCK ANTHEMS of the 70's.
Overstatement
I absolutely love this song, and the whole album, but i don't think this was an anthem. Maybe Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, Smoke on the water, songs like those. But not this. All subjective of course.
And Stairway To Heaven
And 2112
@@JimMalmPHOTO Whose album did you see in friends collections more than this one? (And "Bat out of Hell?") LOL.
Reliving the concert now! It was a beautiful thing❤ 1976
Kids in the seventies respected musicianship. Every kid had a favorite guitar player and a favorite drummer etc...Teenaged girls had posters of guitar players on their walls. They went to concerts to see real musicians play live in real time. Most songs had guitar solos or saxophone solos or keyboards solos etc... Ask a millennial who their favorite guitar player is. Do they have one? Can they even name one? It was different world.
They might ask Whats a guitar...lol
You gotta realize this was the first time any of us had heard such a thing - it was wild and wonderful and new. I remember it like yesterday the first time I heard the talk box. I freaked out! I'm glad you liked it guys. I sure did - ♥ There is a fantastic video of him doing this on The Midnight Special. You really should check that out. Seeing him jam with that damn tube in his mouth LOL - it's crazy. ♥
RockyMtnHighChick if I remember correctly it was also called squawk box. I was a sophomore in high school when I first heard this album and I just kept listening to it over and over with my friends. It was the first major Live album and then it snowballed with Lynyrd Skynyrd and kiss alive, Derringer live, Cheap Trick,Led Zeppelin, Rush, Bob Seger, AC/DC,Blue Öyster Cult and Yes! I was lucky enough to see all those groups in concert. I loved growing up in Ca. But glad also that I left in my late 20’s. Still the most epic era of music! Just singing🎤
He made the talk box cool. Jeff Beck, Joe Perry, etc had used it as well.
The people in the audience were stoned by this time and now they’re are all grandparents
Caught the Tour In Seattle at THE KINDOME...I'm now 64. What a time to be alive
I can attest to the truth of this statement. 👵🏻
Yes, this is true.
Yes we were and yes we are!
Retired and no job to go to....... many are stoned again. LOL. If your Grandma is always making cookies................
The euphoric eruption by the crowd at the end is an essential part of this experience. It's good to let it linger. At that moment, the kids were free.
DAY MADE! I am 15 years old again. 😘🤘🤘🤘👊🖖✌❤
These dudes would be up late watching "THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL" !
ABC Saturday night, parents let you stay up late cause hey it's the weekend. Besides you were a good boy and was back home by the time the streetlights were on.
Midnight Special one night & Don Kirsner's the other.
@@lazzy2day then on Sunday night we would listen to the Kings Biscuit flour hour.
HA! No Doubt!!!!
And In Concert
It's about time you guys listened to this. Classic 👍
Saw Peter Frampton & Yes & Mr. Dream Weaver Gary Wright At JFK Stadium 1976
140,000 People Showed Up for That Concert
When Pete Did This Song , It Blew Everybody Away
Best Live Album EVER !!
2 / 11 / 21
Frampton's early work in Humble Pie along with Steve Marriott is EPIC!!
Used to ride around with my best friend in high school, getting high listening to this on an 8 track player - car speakers cranked! 🔥🎶🔥
Kraco or Pioneer 6x9's in the day.
Yep...in my 1968 SS Camaro...I still have one!
@@hypocrisyhunter8919 yes!
My Dad had Frampton comes alive on 8 track and had it going round and round continuously in his car when this came out, I'm 58 now and my Dad would now be 87 and he absolutely loved that album as do I still, and being a guitarist since 9 and at a fairly high standard can really appreciate the playing and the whole jam vibe of this song even though my main style of playing is hard rock and metal this never gets old and I've heard this countless times and always think of my Dad when I hear this.
@@juliemanarin4127
Yep, In my '70 Chevelle❤
... good times
My favorite recorded live song. At 12:10 when the band kicks in for the final solo is pure Rock magic! I get goosebumps every time!
That's my moment too!
By the way, whoever mixed Frampton Comes Alive bringing the audience well into the mix deserves a Grammy as that is one of the elements that makes this album.
Especially the reaction after the voice box part back into the main part. Priceless!
Back in the day, no matter how shitty your Jensen car speakers sounded this song made it sound great! Lol
Triaxial 6x9!
6 by 9’s
Or your Marantz or Technics receiver could handle
Frampton was one of the founders of Humble Pie, another group you should check out. Start with 30 Days in the Hole
The drummer in humble pie was only 17 when they formed .
Yes I agree 30 days in the hole ✌️
30 Days In The Hole is in my Top 10 jams of all time. Smokin
30 Days In The Hole YES...especially because of Steve Marriott's vocals.
30 days is in my top ten of all time bangers.
Honestly.. I’ve listened and loved this over 30 years-I didn’t know studio or any other version even existed!!