You should really listen to the album version. The crowd in the arena is so into it and they play off of each other wonderfully. It's just bigger and better in every possible way.
Absolutely agree. One of the most truly disappointing let downs in rock music history is that nobody had the foresight to record and/or release live video of this legendary performance. If they indeed have and none of us know about it, I'd love somebody to point us all in the right direction!
the album version as well as that Entire Album is a must have, was one of the best worst times of my life but the music was Amazing...and I am still here....I think....lol
Yeah - shame Daniel isn't hearing the Comes Alive version. I was moving in to the dorm as a freshman and I swear this album was cranked in every third room.
The original live version on "Frampton Comes Alive" is the one I'm most familiar with. This one is good, but the other version is simply electrifying, as it's done before a huge audience. (There are longer guitar solos, too.) Glad you're hearing this, DS9.
"Hello, my name is Peter Frampton and I'd like to sing a song for you." I heard that every day from a classmate of mine in the 7th grade. Right in the middle of the classroom, in a British accent.
Frampton Comes Alive was in everyone’s record collection. And I think there was a rule that you always had to play it very loud. Goodness I love that album. Thanks for sharing, Daniel.
I'm positive he said "I want to thank you" in the talk box but knew what you were thinking when I saw your "what the.." look when he did LOL. For anyone who was a kid in the 70s, old Frampton videos are a time machine back to parties and driving around in the car. Pretty much everybody had Frampton Comes Alive on vinyl. And yea...definitely hear a Traffic sound in this... As soon as you mentioned it, I noticed how similar this one sounds to the song "Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys" (another great jam)
He says that's what he says, and maybe that is what he says, but he knows damn well how it sounds and what everything thought he said. You can see it in the little grin.
The album Frampton Comes Alive was awesome and every fan of rock bought a copy. Brings back memories, fuzzy as the may be, of the mid to late 70's. The Midnight Special was a must watch TV show. The talk box Peter used, I heard used first from Joe Walsh a couple years earlier.
I went with a college boyfriend, who was a guitarist and knew Frampton, to see him in Central Park 1975. I got to hang out with him afterward for a short while. The nicest guy!! I saw him before that with Humble Pie at the Fillmore East, and as a guitarist for Bowie in his Glass Spiders tour. That time in Central Park (in an outdoor ice skating rink, know as the Shaefer concerts-every summer for 15 years beginning 1967) was the only time I saw him as Frampton, and this was the tour that the live album was culled. It was the very last time you could see him in a small venue. EVERYBODY played Shaefer! I went to many shows there, maybe 35 (a lot more if you count the ones I sat outside for a portion-say, if I only wanted to hear one of the two bands playing that day), but when I look at the list of All the performers, my heart breaks for all the shows I could have, but didn’t, see. The first 2 years I was too young. (I started going to concerts when I was 15. 1/2 a century later, and I still go.) These were great because they were during the day. Also, I went to Hunter College (71-75) which was 1 mile north and right near the Park. I took summer workshops, so I was often just a long walk or a short subway ride away. Except 1973: right after my second year of college I turned 19 and did what so many did in those years: backpacked my way through Europe and the mideast ( for $5 a day, as a travel booklet promised: and it was true. Without having to stay at youth hostels, which were fine in a pinch.) Best summer ever!! Tickets to Shaefer concerts were so cheap ($1 the first bunch of years; $3 by 76-can you imagine?) plus you could just sit outside and hear everything and if you were lucky enough to grab a seat on The rock, you could see as well. The rink was receded with small hills nearby. Thank you for letting me sink into a moment of nostalgia.
Frampton Comes Alive was a required album to have in your collection!! Oh ya, he could play as well. Treat yourself to the longest version you can find
@@georgewodicka4839 several of us misheard one of the lyrics where he says I want to thank you. We also heard it as I want to f you. Of course that caused us to love the song even more
There is quite a story around that guitar Peter is playing here. It is available on tube, but for short, he lost it in a plane crash. It was a freighter that among others carried the bands' equipment. They thought it was lost for good. However it turned out that it survived if scorched here and there. A local musician used it but finally Peter got it back about 20 years later. He tells that the musicians who were in the band then, immediately recognised the sound when he first time used it after getting it back for this intro.
I remember the adverts in music magazines saying : "The man who makes his guitar talk". Loved this funny gimmick and even if this sounds pretty dated, I often play Frampton Comes Alive album
I had a rich friend who's dad bought him that exact, black, 3-pickup, Les Paul back in the late 70s. I was so freaking jealous....lol I was playing a Carvin which were great, but nothing like that axe.
Crazy story, about 10 years ago I was in the back of a guitar shop outside Cincinnati when the owner came hurrying back saying he needed his camera. I glanced up front and there were two guys at the counter, I didn't pay much attention until I heard a British accent, I looked again and it's Peter F'ing Frampton!! He was very pleasant, chatted and laughed, no hint of ego, just a guy in a guitar shop. I remember he had a very infectious laugh!
Peter is my personal favorite all-time guitarist. What a guitar wizard he was and still is. Check out "Show Me The Way" from him as well. Or, "Baby, I Love Your Way"
Before solo Frampton, he was in Humble Pie. Black Coffee, 30 Days in the Hole, and a brilliant Yardbird cover of For Your Love. Btw, July 2, 1977 Oakland Coliseum concert (same concert where Lynyrd Skynyrd brought down the house with Freebird), Frampton performed this song while running around the stage as his band members stepped aside and Frampton played several instruments.
I was 14, in 1976, when "Frampton Comes Alive" was released. My, now deceased (RIP, John, 3/7/20), older brother, played this album, and particularly this song, frequently, if not constantly. This song/album will forever remind me of him. I may be wrong, but I think the part of the song that you are referring to is "I want to thank you"???🤷♂️
That was a great live performance but you need to hear it off the live album. In fact, just listen to the whole thing. It's a double album but you'll love every minute of it.
My, that Peter Frampton certainly was an exceptionally good-looking young man! I'd kind of forgotten that. Frampton Comes Alive is right up there with the first Boston album, Fleetwood Mac Rumours, Eagles Hotel California, Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees, and Heart Dreamboat Annie, as the albums *everybody* had when I was in college.
I remember watching this episode of The Midnight Special. Crushed on Frampton for a few minutes too, he was adorable was well as talented. But he couldn't steal me away from my all-time love David Bowie, who he was school chums with. Frampton's father was actually Bowie's art teacher at school, and the boys used to play guitar together during breaks. More to be uncovered by both of these talented musicians, Daniel! Great fun! 👍✌😁
The lost fine art of Talk Box. On it he said, "I want to thank you", to the audience. "Frampton Comes Alive", is one of those quintessential albums that your record collection isn't complete without. You will also like his song, "Show Me The Way." ✌️
A true guitar talent that played so effortlessly like Terry Kath. There is another live version of this with Peter jumping on the drum kit…and pretty damn good I might add!
Mid 70’s this song was a radio staple. Frampton Comes Alive album had a series of huge hits that Frampton wrote literally in a 2-3 day period. Other huge hits were “Show me the Way” and the much covered “Baby I love your way”. And BTW during this performance he says “I want to thank you” but in the talk box distortion it sounds like “I want to F*!k you”. I had the same reaction you had when I saw this performance. LOL Even on Live album recording it’s misinterpreted in that same part also.
Love this song, practically every one I know bought the 'Frampton Comes Alive' double album when this came out. The Midnight Special was a "special" show, you can find some great performances from many great artists and bands. Most of them I saw live(on tv) back in the day.
Yeah! So happy you came to this one! There's a reason why "Frampton Comes Alive" was a break through album and you should listen to this song from that one, whether or not you share it with us. (This performance was not it, there isn't any video just audio)
I was lucky enough to see Peter Frampton about 15 years ago. He told an entire story about crossing the border and talking to a judge with the Talk Box.
You are absolutely the most intelligent, insightful, engaged and sweet "youngster" doing music reactions on UA-cam! Love it. I was probably about 12 when his "Comes Alive" album came out and put it on my Christmas list; I then displayed it on a shelf in my bedroom. Later, my mom said she didn't like seeing that "hippie-looking" guy first thing when she went into my room, LOL! -Joni
I fail completely at just trying to sing while playing guitar so I can't even imagine how difficult it is to consciously use your mouth to control the sound of the guitar while also having to focus on what notes you're fretting. I have massive respect for anyone that can use a talkbox well. And I may be wrong but about your question, I believe he said to the audience "I want to thank you" lol.
1976 was the year of the Frampton Comes Alive tidal wave. I went to his concert on that tour. Still think its the biggest selling live album ever. Only criticism would be concert was note for note like live album. Check his story for the impossibility of following up such a successful album. In the end, he handled it well and has a happy life.
Frampton Comes Alive, probably the reason I starting seeing every concert I could. Set me on a journey of thousands of shows! Not my first, but the album got worn out! Penny For Your Thoughts/I Give You Money off the album probably my favorite over the years. Show Me the Way was the hit that started it off. His Humble Pie work was good, underrated really. Played lead for Bowie the last time I saw him.
Good news... Frampton is on tour again... He performs live this Saturday night March 16th 2024 in Windsor Ontario Canada and throughout the USA after that. If you have never seen him in concert before now is the time to snap up tickets.... He is in his '70s now so it may very well be a final opportunity for us... He plays better than he ever has and if you want to know what an absolutely incredible guitarist he is, check out the song that he plays called "black hole sun"... He plays it in his 70s like I have never seen a guitarist play in their 20's😮😮 I had the incredible opportunity to see Peter Frampton live when I lived in the USA in 2011 and it was definitely the highlight of my 5 years living there. Enjoy the concert.
The second guy singing is the late Bob Mayo, very very solid on keys, guitar and backup vocals. The keyboard solo on this song (album version) is quite difficult to play. That guitar was in a plane crash in Argentina and stolen from the wreckage and about 40 years later found and returned with a bit of burn marks on it from the crash.
If you thought that was an awesome track , play the extended live version from Frampton Comes Alive - its been on my playlist ever since it came out Lots to love from Frampton Comes Alive - Lines on My Face is a favorite track for me Stick with live performances for Frampton - studio versions pale by comparison . Like another contemporary artist to Frampton , the band Foghat ( their album , Foghat Live is also well worth experiencing) , Peter was at his best in a live setting .
I was about 10 years old and I had his poster on my wall and all his albums in my collection!! His live performances blew me away and of course all the girls loved him!! Great musician and great reaction!! 🥰
6/12/1976 we had just graduated HS, and drove to JFK Stadium in Philly for the Frampton Comes Alive concert. 110,000 to 130,000 (reports vary) fans packed into JFK for an all day event well into the evening with Frampton, Gary Wright (Dream Weaver, My Love is Alive), The Mummers, Pousette-Dart Band, and when the sun set, Yes. We were 17 and 18 years old, with no cell phones, no masks, no lockdowns, no social media, just lots of mellow weed and great music. Different times. Frampton was the hottest act on the planet at that time, yet with all the hype, he was (and is) a superb, incredibly skilled musician. Plenty of nostalgia is well worth cherishing.
Frampton Comes Alive! was absolutely HUGE in 1975/76. If you want to hear a truly beautiful song then listen to Lines On My Face off that live album. Also, you won't meet more of a gentleman in the rock and roll community. I wish him all the best.
My only advice for Frampton is to download his Album: Best of FCA! 35 Tour: An evening with Peter Frampton Live at the very least listen to the cut on Disc one of "Lines on my Face" ; and the rare cut of his "all I wanna be (is by your Side) Live Acoustic cut; and for some extremely fine lyrics "Baby I love your way" and finish with a instrumental "Float" He is very talented! He just released an album, no words as his health is holding him back pretty much. He has a form of MS to frame his condition.
There is a live in Oakland version that is quite good as well, along with the Frampton Comes Alive! version. In 1969, when Frampton was 18 years old, he joined with Steve Marriott of Small Faces to form Humble Pie. While playing with Humble Pie, Frampton also did session recording with other artists, including: Harry Nilsson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and John Entwistle's Whistle Rymes. Frampton left the band and went solo in 1971.
Peter Frampton is an English rock musician, singer, songwriter & producer. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie & The Herd. I had his famous 1976 album "Frampton Comes Alive". His biggest hits are "Show Me The Way," "Baby, I Love Your Way," "Do You Feel Like We Do" & "I'm In You". He was famous for using a talk box in live performances.
@@dagmar.6954 Ah, right it's your English that's poor. "All I have ever heard him saying is the phrase..." implies that that's all you've ever heard him say and nothing else.
lol yes he did. the talk box got it passed the Radio and TV sensors (prudes) of the day. another reason we love this song. it slapped the face of the network sensors without them knowing they been slapped. ;)
Wow! This brings back so many memories. What a time it was for amazing, innovative music. But you really MUST listen to the version which blew everyone’s mind back then, from the Frampton Comes Alive album. More intense and audience reaction. This song was HUGE!!
I think a majority of people would just say go to the "Frampton Comes Alive" version instead of the studio album ("Frampton's Camel"). It's a song like "I Want You to Want Me" ("Cheap Trick at Budokan") and "Ridin' the Storm Out" ("Live: You Get What You Play For", REO) are just defined by the live version.
Always have loved Peter Frampton for over 40 years...just saw him "live" a few years ago...HE WAS INCREDIBLE...played his tail off for almost 3 hours. Thanks for the memories Peter...your music will always be on my playlist!!
I saw his 1976 show at the Forum in LA. Floor seats. He had the audience so whipped into a frenzy during Jumpin' Jack Flash that I wondered about our collective sanity...40,000 screaming fans responding to Frampton's calls.
It's great to catch up with you again, my friend. Peter has just retired because of his fingers after nearly 60 years playing and he was born and raised near where David Bowie moved to in South East London, near me, as well. HIS DAD taught Peter AND David Bowie ART in College in Beckenham, S E London/Kent and they remained good friends and he toured with David :)
I'm sure you were blown away. It's amazing, no?? I see your Rick Beato notification!!! Just to let you know: I stopped editing my video to watch this!! I can hear that TRAFFIC connection too. 6:45-- You and I both smiled at the same time!!!
Oh yeah man ....Daniel you sure chose a great one . This one especially brings back great poignant memories. My sister who recently passed from pancreatic cancer Used to melt when this guy played. I remember her in her room , in the seventies playing this over and over. Frampton hit the scene hard , and made an overnight sensation with this song. You couldn't turn on a radio anywhere in those days without hearing Frampton Live , or Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. YES Daniel he said what you thought he said to the audience in the talk Box when he winked at them.
Loved watching him perform this song-I am so used to listening to the album version of this and hearing the audience response. I'm torn. Loved watching him-just to see this song being performed is awesome. Plus, he is so charming and personable. But I also love hearing the audience response in a full concert. Either way, so glad you saw and heard this song. As someone else here in the comments said, it is CLASSIC rock, no question.
Hi , this is a really good version especially as it's on video....however what isn't on video is the incredible live version from "Frampton Comes Alive" which is a shame. It knocks this version right out the water ! I would also recommend from the same album "Lines On My Face" it is very emotional and another superb guitar solo - Tho no voice box ..... The other voice box track on the same album is called "Show Me The Way". - On the voice box he said "Do you feel like I do ...I wouldn't blame you ....Alright " - As live albums go with both electric & acoustic numbers, it was massive in the charts for a very long time, and among one of the biggest selling live albums of all time. His studio albums are worth checking out....Just listen to the wonderful - "Fig Tree Bay" seriously good music. Great reaction to this - Wow ! is exactly right !
I love him singing/playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." I saw him in Palm Springs about 15 years ago and he played that song and made me cry. Every song on Frampton Comes Alive is great. He is pretty active on Facebook. He seems to be a really nice guy, always smiling and upbeat.
The only way to react to this is by watching the live performance!! Well done, too many others don't and they're missing out on appreciating the AMAZING talent that's Peter Frampton
I had the privilege of seeing him in concert when the claridge hotel/casino was still in Atlantic City, N.J. many years ago..he had lost most of his hair, and someone from the audience asked him what happened to his hair...he responded.."The hair might be gone, but the music's still good" so true!! What a great performance by a great singer/ guitarist ..he then proceeded to come off stage grinning while he played and strolled right past my table..it was awesome!!..as always, Daniel, great reaction..bless you young man ❤
Rumour has it that Bowie taught Frampton how to play guitar, they went to the same school, they remained friends, Frampton was one of the guitarists on Bowie's Glass Spider tour.
Yeah! Daniel finally you reacted to this song. I know you ha e the CD so listen to the version from Frampton Comes Alive. It's great to see Peter perform this too so either way, I'm happy. Now I'm waiting for you to react to Supper's Ready by Genesis, and particularly the other Peter, I love so much. But I've been with you from the nearly the start. You've the best reactions on UA-cam, Daniel! Thank you! Oh, and watch Rick Beato's interview with Peter Framton on What Makes This Song So Great. Episode 100. Peter is also a very nice guy!
A little back story... he was in a band called the Herd. Then onto Humble Pie all before the age of 20. A successful solo career followed. He was 25 when he appeared on MS. After the sucessful Frampton Comes Alive he kind of slipped into obscurity for quite sometime until his boyhood friend David Bowie (Peter's father taught David Bowie in school) resurrected his career. It's still going strong today, although he has medical issues and no hair now. You need to look at his solo stuff ( Frampton's Camel) and of course Humble Pie.
Frampton was a session guitarist for a time, worked and hung out with Harry Nilsson. The lyrics to this song sound like the kind of partying one would have observed from ol' Harry. I've often thought Frampton wrote this as a summary of the Nilsson lifestyle.
EVERYONE had the Frampton Comes Alive album back in the day. It still is one of the top selling live albums of all time. Recently he released a video with the Doobie Brothers it’s a great pandemic recording of “Let It Rain” ua-cam.com/video/T7Dm77k-tZo/v-deo.html There is also a performer with Eric Clapton that is great “while My Guitar Gently Weeps”. Two of the greatest guitarists of all time. ua-cam.com/video/K1ijcpo1Ep8/v-deo.html
One of the best songs of it's time and remains timeless. We used to drive around in a friend convertible Mustang "cruising" lol. Something todays generation I don't think knows about. :-) Peter Frampton is left out of most conversations about best guitarists. Woefully overlooked.
Although symphonies had been recorded live for decades, rock music live seemed to stump the record industry. Frampton Live was the one that set the mark and was one of the reason for it's huge success. It was for the time an amazing recording quality of a great concert. Following this good quality live performances started becoming more common.
This takes me back to been a teenager in the 70s, my bedroom wall was plastered with photos of Peter, but also loved his music and still do, listen to him sing Show Me The Way live, there is a video on here where he is playing an open air concert, also such a lovely guy
Frampton is incredible. sadly, to most people this guy came out of nowhere and became one of the biggest artists on the planet instantly with the release of Frampton Comes Alive. Once that hit big, the powers that be stepped in and tried to take advantage of his good looks and rush out more 'product' and made him a teen idol for the second time in his life. the pressure of the business along with excessive partying basically led to a big career crash. unfortunately what got lost in the whole process was, Peter Frampton, first and foremost was a FANTASTIC guitarist. still is. check out more of his stuff, the live album, his stuff prior to the live album, his work with Humble Pie (their live album 'Rockin the Fillmore' was incredible....he left the band just as that was releasesed) and his later stuff....did some great instrumental stuff including an insane version of 'Black Hole Sun'. dive in...you won't regret.
Got to see Frampton twice back in the day; first time was during his time with Humble Pie at the Cloisters in NYC and then two shows back-to-back front row at the Capital Theater in Passaic, NJ. Major major good time shows.
You should really listen to the album version. The crowd in the arena is so into it and they play off of each other wonderfully. It's just bigger and better in every possible way.
Yes that version is the definitive one.
@@Jp421JP 100% agree!
Absolutely agree. One of the most truly disappointing let downs in rock music history is that nobody had the foresight to record and/or release live video of this legendary performance. If they indeed have and none of us know about it, I'd love somebody to point us all in the right direction!
the album version as well as that Entire Album is a must have, was one of the best worst times of my life but the music was Amazing...and I am still here....I think....lol
Yeah - shame Daniel isn't hearing the Comes Alive version. I was moving in to the dorm as a freshman and I swear this album was cranked in every third room.
He said "I want to THANK you". Yeah, I thought the same thing you did the 1st time I heard it way back when 😆
The original live version on "Frampton Comes Alive" is the one I'm most familiar with. This one is good, but the other version is simply electrifying, as it's done before a huge audience. (There are longer guitar solos, too.) Glad you're hearing this, DS9.
Amen.
IIRC, it was recorded at the Winterland in S.F., several tracks on the album were recorded there...
I'm usually a man of many words, but all I'll say: NOW WE'RE TALKING!!! This is the epitome of CLASSIC, classic rock! This made my day.
My gawd…could never figure out why his guitar skills were over looked..So underrated. He’s awesome!!♥️
right ? people lost sight of that because of the 'teen idol' nonsense., world class and totally unique guitar player
"Hello, my name is Peter Frampton and I'd like to sing a song for you." I heard that every day from a classmate of mine in the 7th grade. Right in the middle of the classroom, in a British accent.
Frampton Comes Alive was in everyone’s record collection. And I think there was a rule that you always had to play it very loud. Goodness I love that album. Thanks for sharing, Daniel.
One of the few players who could play a twenty minute improvised guitar solo that still leaves you wanting more.
I'm positive he said "I want to thank you" in the talk box but knew what you were thinking when I saw your "what the.." look when he did LOL.
For anyone who was a kid in the 70s, old Frampton videos are a time machine back to parties and driving around in the car. Pretty much everybody had Frampton Comes Alive on vinyl.
And yea...definitely hear a Traffic sound in this... As soon as you mentioned it, I noticed how similar this one sounds to the song "Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys" (another great jam)
^this^
Frampton says "I want to thank you."
It's a touch clearer on the Frampton Comes Alive live version.
He says that's what he says, and maybe that is what he says, but he knows damn well how it sounds and what everything thought he said. You can see it in the little grin.
The album Frampton Comes Alive was awesome and every fan of rock bought a copy. Brings back memories, fuzzy as the may be, of the mid to late 70's. The Midnight Special was a must watch TV show. The talk box Peter used, I heard used first from Joe Walsh a couple years earlier.
The version from Frampton Comes Alive is everything.
I forget how fun 'Midnight Special' was until I see these old videos again. Serious rockin' by the cream of the scene in the 70s.
The whole "Frampton Comes Alive" album is sensational, btw.
It came on the scene like a Hawaiian tsunami :)
@@georgewodicka4839 ISWYDT.
@@georgewodicka4839 I saw what you did there........
Please do "I Want You To Show Me The Way ." One of Peter Frampton's best and well known songs!
I went with a college boyfriend, who was a guitarist and knew Frampton, to see him in Central Park 1975.
I got to hang out with him afterward for a short while. The nicest guy!!
I saw him before that with Humble Pie at the Fillmore East, and as a guitarist for Bowie in his Glass Spiders tour. That time in Central Park (in an outdoor ice skating rink, know as the Shaefer concerts-every summer for 15 years beginning 1967) was the only time I saw him as Frampton, and this was the tour that the live album was culled. It was the very last time you could see him in a small venue.
EVERYBODY played Shaefer! I went to many shows there, maybe 35 (a lot more if you count the ones I sat outside for a portion-say, if I only wanted to hear one of the two bands playing that day), but when I look at the list of All the performers, my heart breaks for all the shows I could have, but didn’t, see. The first 2 years I was too young. (I started going to concerts when I was 15. 1/2 a century later, and I still go.)
These were great because they were during the day. Also, I went to Hunter College (71-75) which was 1 mile north and right near the Park. I took summer workshops, so I was often just a long walk or a short subway ride away. Except 1973: right after my second year of college I turned 19 and did what so many did in those years: backpacked my way through Europe and the mideast ( for $5 a day, as a travel booklet promised: and it was true. Without having to stay at youth hostels, which were fine in a pinch.) Best summer ever!!
Tickets to Shaefer concerts were so cheap ($1 the first bunch of years; $3 by 76-can you imagine?) plus you could just sit outside and hear everything and if you were lucky enough to grab a seat on The rock, you could see as well. The rink was receded with small hills nearby.
Thank you for letting me sink into a moment of nostalgia.
YOu got to hang out with him, Wow , how cool was that, had to be great time
Though it may sound like something else, he actually says " I want to thank you", talking to the audience.
He said, “I want to thank you”. I saw your eyes - he did not say what you think.
Great song by Peter Fammton. I loved the music playing the guitar.
Such a talented musician than and still now. Seem him perform a couples of years back n even though he ( including myself) are older he still rock.
Frampton Comes Alive was a required album to have in your collection!! Oh ya, he could play as well. Treat yourself to the longest version you can find
Absolutely
Right Stephanie. Back then, I honestly did not know ANYONE who didn't own Frampton Comes Alive.
@@anerdtoolate2795 not only was his poster in every girl's room but also the guys
@@stephaniethurmer5370 The girls loved him, the guys wanted to be him...
@@georgewodicka4839 several of us misheard one of the lyrics where he says I want to thank you. We also heard it as I want to f you. Of course that caused us to love the song even more
Great musician and he drove all the girls crazy. He played lead for Humble Pie previously. maybe do another song from the Comes Alive album
There is quite a story around that guitar Peter is playing here. It is available on tube, but for short, he lost it in a plane crash. It was a freighter that among others carried the bands' equipment.
They thought it was lost for good. However it turned out that it survived if scorched here and there. A local musician used it but finally Peter got it back about 20 years later. He tells that the musicians who were in the band then, immediately recognised the sound when he first time used it after getting it back for this intro.
Did anyone mention Frampton Comes Alive yet? ;)
That live album made Peter a superstar.
It was a staple of FM rock radio in the 70's.
Many DJ's would put it on to give them time to sneak out and "burn one" while it was playing... yes, it was the 70's.
@@timnewman1172 It was also used for DJ bathroom breaks.
I remember the adverts in music magazines saying : "The man who makes his guitar talk". Loved this funny gimmick and even if this sounds pretty dated, I often play Frampton Comes Alive album
"Dated" isn't a bad thing. It just means that something is of its time.
I had a rich friend who's dad bought him that exact, black, 3-pickup, Les Paul back in the late 70s. I was so freaking jealous....lol I was playing a Carvin which were great, but nothing like that axe.
Peter Frampton has always had killer live shows.
Solid gold classic by the golden hair boy himself. A rock anthem for the '70s.
Crazy story, about 10 years ago I was in the back of a guitar shop outside Cincinnati when the owner came hurrying back saying he needed his camera. I glanced up front and there were two guys at the counter, I didn't pay much attention until I heard a British accent, I looked again and it's Peter F'ing Frampton!! He was very pleasant, chatted and laughed, no hint of ego, just a guy in a guitar shop. I remember he had a very infectious laugh!
Much like Boston's debut album, Frampton's early "Frampton Comes Alive" album was SO awesome he had a hard time ever replicating it.
Peter is my personal favorite all-time guitarist. What a guitar wizard he was and still is. Check out "Show Me The Way" from him as well. Or, "Baby, I Love Your Way"
Before solo Frampton, he was in Humble Pie. Black Coffee, 30 Days in the Hole, and a brilliant Yardbird cover of For Your Love. Btw, July 2, 1977 Oakland Coliseum concert (same concert where Lynyrd Skynyrd brought down the house with Freebird), Frampton performed this song while running around the stage as his band members stepped aside and Frampton played several instruments.
Before Humble Pie he was in The Herd who had a big UK hit with 2From The Underground" :)
I was 14, in 1976, when "Frampton Comes Alive" was released. My, now deceased (RIP, John, 3/7/20), older brother, played this album, and particularly this song, frequently, if not constantly. This song/album will forever remind me of him. I may be wrong, but I think the part of the song that you are referring to is "I want to thank you"???🤷♂️
My condolences. This music is a wonderful bridge to his memory.
@@georgewodicka4839 Thank you
That was a great live performance but you need to hear it off the live album. In fact, just listen to the whole thing. It's a double album but you'll love every minute of it.
My, that Peter Frampton certainly was an exceptionally good-looking young man! I'd kind of forgotten that. Frampton Comes Alive is right up there with the first Boston album, Fleetwood Mac Rumours, Eagles Hotel California, Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees, and Heart Dreamboat Annie, as the albums *everybody* had when I was in college.
He's still a good looking man, even without the hair. Such a bright soul.
I remember watching this episode of The Midnight Special. Crushed on Frampton for a few minutes too, he was adorable was well as talented. But he couldn't steal me away from my all-time love David Bowie, who he was school chums with. Frampton's father was actually Bowie's art teacher at school, and the boys used to play guitar together during breaks.
More to be uncovered by both of these talented musicians, Daniel! Great fun! 👍✌😁
Midnight Special performance I recall oh so well. He is awesome. Love when he used that mouthpiece. Sounded incredible!
The lost fine art of Talk Box. On it he said, "I want to thank you", to the audience.
"Frampton Comes Alive", is one of those quintessential albums that your record collection isn't complete without. You will also like his song, "Show Me The Way." ✌️
He was a pioneer of the talk box, and a hell of a guitarist without it too. Glad you enjoyed... He has some other fine tunes to check out.
The 70's were very much the party decade and Frampton was allegorically speaking to that. Wake up and do it all over again. Great album great track.
A true guitar talent that played so effortlessly like Terry Kath. There is another live version of this with Peter jumping on the drum kit…and pretty damn good I might add!
This 58 Grandma took her teenage kids to see him in Concert in 2002 is was Awesome 😎
Mid 70’s this song was a radio staple. Frampton Comes Alive album had a series of huge hits that Frampton wrote literally in a 2-3 day period. Other huge hits were “Show me the Way” and the much covered “Baby I love your way”. And BTW during this performance he says “I want to thank you” but in the talk box distortion it sounds like “I want to F*!k you”. I had the same reaction you had when I saw this performance. LOL Even on Live album recording it’s misinterpreted in that same part also.
There were no live fixes or autotunes at this time. Everything was delivered as captured.
“Frampton Comes Alive” version has more audience participation and worth checking out. This appearance was pretty good too, especially for a TV show.
Love this song, practically every one I know bought the 'Frampton Comes Alive' double album when this came out. The Midnight Special was a "special" show, you can find some great performances from many great artists and bands. Most of them I saw live(on tv) back in the day.
Yeah! So happy you came to this one! There's a reason why "Frampton Comes Alive" was a break through album and you should listen to this song from that one, whether or not you share it with us. (This performance was not it, there isn't any video just audio)
I was lucky enough to see Peter Frampton about 15 years ago. He told an entire story about crossing the border and talking to a judge with the Talk Box.
You are absolutely the most intelligent, insightful, engaged and sweet "youngster" doing music reactions on UA-cam! Love it. I was probably about 12 when his "Comes Alive" album came out and put it on my Christmas list; I then displayed it on a shelf in my bedroom. Later, my mom said she didn't like seeing that "hippie-looking" guy first thing when she went into my room, LOL! -Joni
haha...yep...I had a paper photo (LOL) with m e holding this album sitting on my bed...I was prob about 15!! Love my Frampton
I fail completely at just trying to sing while playing guitar so I can't even imagine how difficult it is to consciously use your mouth to control the sound of the guitar while also having to focus on what notes you're fretting. I have massive respect for anyone that can use a talkbox well. And I may be wrong but about your question, I believe he said to the audience "I want to thank you" lol.
1976 was the year of the Frampton Comes Alive tidal wave. I went to his concert on that tour. Still think its the biggest selling live album ever. Only criticism would be concert was note for note like live album. Check his story for the impossibility of following up such a successful album. In the end, he handled it well and has a happy life.
Frampton Comes Alive, probably the reason I starting seeing every concert I could. Set me on a journey of thousands of shows! Not my first, but the album got worn out! Penny For Your Thoughts/I Give You Money off the album probably my favorite over the years. Show Me the Way was the hit that started it off. His Humble Pie work was good, underrated really. Played lead for Bowie the last time I saw him.
Good news... Frampton is on tour again... He performs live this Saturday night March 16th 2024 in Windsor Ontario Canada and throughout the USA after that. If you have never seen him in concert before now is the time to snap up tickets.... He is in his '70s now so it may very well be a final opportunity for us... He plays better than he ever has and if you want to know what an absolutely incredible guitarist he is, check out the song that he plays called "black hole sun"... He plays it in his 70s like I have never seen a guitarist play in their 20's😮😮 I had the incredible opportunity to see Peter Frampton live when I lived in the USA in 2011 and it was definitely the highlight of my 5 years living there. Enjoy the concert.
The second guy singing is the late Bob Mayo, very very solid on keys, guitar and backup vocals. The keyboard solo on this song (album version) is quite difficult to play.
That guitar was in a plane crash in Argentina and stolen from the wreckage and about 40 years later found and returned with a bit of burn marks on it from the crash.
The crowd! The album cut is live, and the best.
Had his poster on my wall in 1976. He grew his hair and he had long curly blonde locks and all the girls were in love with Frampton! ❤
The 24-minute version recorded during an afternoon concert in San Francisco is absolutely amazing as well!
I was 16 when this came out…needles to say everyone had Frampton comes Alive album…it felt life changing!
If you thought that was an awesome track , play the extended live version from Frampton Comes Alive - its been on my playlist ever since it came out
Lots to love from Frampton Comes Alive - Lines on My Face is a favorite track for me
Stick with live performances for Frampton - studio versions pale by comparison .
Like another contemporary artist to Frampton , the band Foghat ( their album , Foghat Live is also well worth experiencing) , Peter was at his best in a live setting .
I was about 10 years old and I had his poster on my wall and all his albums in my collection!! His live performances blew me away and of course all the girls loved him!! Great musician and great reaction!! 🥰
Lines on My Face From Frampton comes Alive is a great tune that no one has reacted to yet. You will like it
I agree completely. More people need to hear that track. Just wonderful.
6/12/1976 we had just graduated HS, and drove to JFK Stadium in Philly for the Frampton Comes Alive concert. 110,000 to 130,000 (reports vary) fans packed into JFK for an all day event well into the evening with Frampton, Gary Wright (Dream Weaver, My Love is Alive), The Mummers, Pousette-Dart Band, and when the sun set, Yes. We were 17 and 18 years old, with no cell phones, no masks, no lockdowns, no social media, just lots of mellow weed and great music. Different times. Frampton was the hottest act on the planet at that time, yet with all the hype, he was (and is) a superb, incredibly skilled musician. Plenty of nostalgia is well worth cherishing.
Frampton Comes Alive! was absolutely HUGE in 1975/76. If you want to hear a truly beautiful song then listen to Lines On My Face off that live album. Also, you won't meet more of a gentleman in the rock and roll community. I wish him all the best.
My only advice for Frampton is to download his Album: Best of FCA! 35 Tour: An evening with Peter Frampton Live at the very least listen to the cut on Disc one of "Lines on my Face" ; and the rare cut of his "all I wanna be (is by your Side) Live Acoustic cut; and for some extremely fine lyrics "Baby I love your way" and finish with a instrumental "Float" He is very talented! He just released an album, no words as his health is holding him back pretty much. He has a form of MS to frame his condition.
On tour again this summer 2023. Wish I could see him.
I believe he said "I want to thank you". I know it sounds worse at first listen, but listen again and I thin it is "thank".
There is a live in Oakland version that is quite good as well, along with the Frampton Comes Alive! version.
In 1969, when Frampton was 18 years old, he joined with Steve Marriott of Small Faces to form Humble Pie.
While playing with Humble Pie, Frampton also did session recording with other artists, including: Harry Nilsson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and John Entwistle's Whistle Rymes. Frampton left the band and went solo in 1971.
Peter Frampton is an English rock musician, singer, songwriter & producer. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie & The Herd. I had his famous 1976 album "Frampton Comes Alive". His biggest hits are "Show Me The Way," "Baby, I Love Your Way," "Do You Feel Like We Do" & "I'm In You". He was famous for using a talk box in live performances.
He says "do you feel like we do" a lot through the talk box in this video. If you're deaf and dumb, I apologise.
@@dagmar.6954 Ah, right it's your English that's poor. "All I have ever heard him saying is the phrase..." implies that that's all you've ever heard him say and nothing else.
lol yes he did. the talk box got it passed the Radio and TV sensors (prudes) of the day. another reason we love this song. it slapped the face of the network sensors without them knowing they been slapped. ;)
His "guitar face" is everything!
Brings me right back to my teenage years.
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Wow! This brings back so many memories. What a time it was for amazing, innovative music. But you really MUST listen to the version which blew everyone’s mind back then, from the Frampton Comes Alive album. More intense and audience reaction. This song was HUGE!!
I think a majority of people would just say go to the "Frampton Comes Alive" version instead of the studio album ("Frampton's Camel"). It's a song like "I Want You to Want Me" ("Cheap Trick at Budokan") and "Ridin' the Storm Out" ("Live: You Get What You Play For", REO) are just defined by the live version.
The album we all had to have back in the 70’s. I’m 71 and I’m dancing as I listen to this. I was 25 when this song came out.
Always have loved Peter Frampton for over 40 years...just saw him "live" a few years ago...HE WAS INCREDIBLE...played his tail off for almost 3 hours. Thanks for the memories Peter...your music will always be on my playlist!!
I saw his 1976 show at the Forum in LA. Floor seats. He had the audience so whipped into a frenzy during Jumpin' Jack Flash that I wondered about our collective sanity...40,000 screaming fans responding to Frampton's calls.
It's great to catch up with you again, my friend.
Peter has just retired because of his fingers after nearly 60 years playing and he was born and raised near where David Bowie moved to in South East London, near me, as well.
HIS DAD taught Peter AND David Bowie ART in College in Beckenham, S E London/Kent and they remained good friends and he toured with David :)
I think he was trying to say I want to thank you.
Peter Frampton could make me feel any way he wanted.
Man this song always brings my past screaming back, Everytime I hear it.
Great song Daniel !
I heard what you heard for sure! I'm surprised he got away with it but the Who also did clearly say who the f*@% are you in their radio play hit!
I'm sure you were blown away. It's amazing, no?? I see your Rick Beato notification!!! Just to let you know: I stopped editing my video to watch this!! I can hear that TRAFFIC connection too.
6:45-- You and I both smiled at the same time!!!
Oh yeah man ....Daniel you sure chose a great one . This one especially brings back great poignant memories. My sister who recently passed from pancreatic cancer Used to melt when this guy played. I remember her in her room , in the seventies playing this over and over. Frampton hit the scene hard , and made an overnight sensation with this song. You couldn't turn on a radio anywhere in those days without hearing Frampton Live , or Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. YES Daniel he said what you thought he said to the audience in the talk Box when he winked at them.
Its clear he says I wanna thank you and smiles at the audience thanking them you can see his mouth form it and hear it
Loved watching him perform this song-I am so used to listening to the album version of this and hearing the audience response. I'm torn. Loved watching him-just to see this song being performed is awesome. Plus, he is so charming and personable. But I also love hearing the audience response in a full concert. Either way, so glad you saw and heard this song. As someone else here in the comments said, it is CLASSIC rock, no question.
Everyone had Frampton comes alive in their collection
Hi , this is a really good version especially as it's on video....however what isn't on video is the incredible live version from "Frampton Comes Alive" which is a shame. It knocks this version right out the water ! I would also recommend from the same album "Lines On My Face" it is very emotional and another superb guitar solo - Tho no voice box ..... The other voice box track on the same album is called "Show Me The Way". - On the voice box he said "Do you feel like I do ...I wouldn't blame you ....Alright " - As live albums go with both electric & acoustic numbers, it was massive in the charts for a very long time, and among one of the biggest selling live albums of all time. His studio albums are worth checking out....Just listen to the wonderful - "Fig Tree Bay" seriously good music. Great reaction to this - Wow ! is exactly right !
He was one of the greatest guitarists of his time. Always enjoyed his music.
I love him singing/playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." I saw him in Palm Springs about 15 years ago and he played that song and made me cry. Every song on Frampton Comes Alive is great. He is pretty active on Facebook. He seems to be a really nice guy, always smiling and upbeat.
The only way to react to this is by watching the live performance!! Well done, too many others don't and they're missing out on appreciating the AMAZING talent that's Peter Frampton
Yes Daniel. You heard what you heard.
I had the privilege of seeing him in concert when the claridge hotel/casino was still in Atlantic City, N.J. many years ago..he had lost most of his hair, and someone from the audience asked him what happened to his hair...he responded.."The hair might be gone, but the music's still good" so true!! What a great performance by a great singer/ guitarist ..he then proceeded to come off stage grinning while he played and strolled right past my table..it was awesome!!..as always, Daniel, great reaction..bless you young man ❤
Rumour has it that Bowie taught Frampton how to play guitar, they went to the same school, they remained friends, Frampton was one of the guitarists on Bowie's Glass Spider tour.
Frampton Comes Alive is one of the greatest live albums of the rock era. I wish you had listened to that version. The crowd participation is amazing!
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Yeah! Daniel finally you reacted to this song. I know you ha e the CD so listen to the version from Frampton Comes Alive. It's great to see Peter perform this too so either way, I'm happy. Now I'm waiting for you to react to Supper's Ready by Genesis, and particularly the other Peter, I love so much. But I've been with you from the nearly the start. You've the best reactions on UA-cam, Daniel! Thank you!
Oh, and watch Rick Beato's interview with Peter Framton on What Makes This Song So Great. Episode 100. Peter is also a very nice guy!
A little back story... he was in a band called the Herd. Then onto Humble Pie all before the age of 20. A successful solo career followed. He was 25 when he appeared on MS. After the sucessful Frampton Comes Alive he kind of slipped into obscurity for quite sometime until his boyhood friend David Bowie (Peter's father taught David Bowie in school) resurrected his career. It's still going strong today, although he has medical issues and no hair now.
You need to look at his solo stuff ( Frampton's Camel) and of course Humble Pie.
Peter Frampton was "The Face of 1968" in The UK and on Girls's bedroom walls everywhere :)
Frampton was a session guitarist for a time, worked and hung out with Harry Nilsson. The lyrics to this song sound like the kind of partying one would have observed from ol' Harry. I've often thought Frampton wrote this as a summary of the Nilsson lifestyle.
EVERYONE had the Frampton Comes Alive album back in the day. It still is one of the top selling live albums of all time.
Recently he released a video with the Doobie Brothers it’s a great pandemic recording of “Let It Rain” ua-cam.com/video/T7Dm77k-tZo/v-deo.html
There is also a performer with Eric Clapton that is great “while My Guitar Gently Weeps”. Two of the greatest guitarists of all time. ua-cam.com/video/K1ijcpo1Ep8/v-deo.html
One of the best songs of it's time and remains timeless. We used to drive around in a friend convertible Mustang "cruising" lol. Something todays generation I don't think knows about. :-) Peter Frampton is left out of most conversations about best guitarists. Woefully overlooked.
Although symphonies had been recorded live for decades, rock music live seemed to stump the record industry. Frampton Live was the one that set the mark and was one of the reason for it's huge success. It was for the time an amazing recording quality of a great concert. Following this good quality live performances started becoming more common.
This takes me back to been a teenager in the 70s, my bedroom wall was plastered with photos of Peter, but also loved his music and still do, listen to him sing Show Me The Way live, there is a video on here where he is playing an open air concert, also such a lovely guy
Frampton is incredible. sadly, to most people this guy came out of nowhere and became one of the biggest artists on the planet instantly with the release of Frampton Comes Alive. Once that hit big, the powers that be stepped in and tried to take advantage of his good looks and rush out more 'product' and made him a teen idol for the second time in his life. the pressure of the business along with excessive partying basically led to a big career crash. unfortunately what got lost in the whole process was, Peter Frampton, first and foremost was a FANTASTIC guitarist. still is. check out more of his stuff, the live album, his stuff prior to the live album, his work with Humble Pie (their live album 'Rockin the Fillmore' was incredible....he left the band just as that was releasesed) and his later stuff....did some great instrumental stuff including an insane version of 'Black Hole Sun'. dive in...you won't regret.
Got to see Frampton twice back in the day; first time was during his time with Humble Pie at the Cloisters in NYC and then two shows back-to-back front row at the Capital Theater in Passaic, NJ. Major major good time shows.