Drummer reacts to "Do You Feel Like We Do" (Live) by Peter Frampton 

It was such a privilege growing up with this great music.

The inventor of the guitar "talkbox", Mr Heil, just passed away a few days ago. RIP.

The 70's were so cool

For me, a single line that's repeated twice in this song completely defines the mid to late 70s. "Must have been a dream, I don't believe where I've been. Come on! Let's do it again!" is what those 4-5 years were all about.

Everybody I knew in the 70’s had this album “Frampton Comes Alive” he was also a member of the great “Humble Pie” ❤️🎸🔥 Peter Frampton & Steve Marriott were co-founders of Humble Pie

Frampton is doing remarkably well, having being diagnosed in 2015 with an incurable degenerative muscular disease I.B.M. He announced his retirement from touring in 2019 and his farewell tour, but therapy has slowed down the disease, so he has toured, playing sitting on a chair, and in 2023 there was his "Never Say Never Tour". As of Nov./23 he said he didn't have any plans to stop touring yet.

I was born in 1954. I can't imagine surviving without music like this...Frampton...Stones....Who...Moody Blues...Monkees...Beatles...Cowsills...Partridge Family...Buckinghams...Ides of March...Chicago...REO Speedwagon...Blood Sweat and Tears....The Association... Y'all add on many of the many bands I've missed!

You should hear it on Frampton Comes Alive. When he does the “talk box” the crowd goes nuts. Really listen to that album. Every bit of it is great.

“Like a Vocoder, but analog.” Exactly.

Glad you enjoyed this so much! At some point, you should listen to the whole album, Frampton Comes Alive, whether for the channel or for your own pleasure. Rolling Stone has it as #3 in the top live albums of all time. It was the top selling album of 1976, and also one of the top selling albums of 1977!

Back in the day, there were three major networks, and all three of them had rock concert shows every weekend. There was "The Midnight Special," "In Concert," and "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert." And even PBS had concerts from time to time, though it wasn't as regular. If only we had VCRs or DVD recorders back then! "Frampton Comes Alive" was an unbelievably massive hit, especially for someone who was mostly unknown to the general public prior to its release. His studio albums had basically done nothing, but that live album was magical. In fact, I saw him open for Black Sabbath when I had no idea who he was. I don't really remember anything from his performance there, but I did see him twice on his tour for this album, and he was fantastic! Seems like a genuinely good dude too.

Multiintrumenalist. Maestro on the talk box. Most underrated guitarist.

Peter, was a teenage guitar prodigy, in his Humble Pie days, with the great Steve Marriott. His work on "Rockin The Filmore", is legendary Great reaction again bro!

Frampton is the best at the talk box.❤❤❤He started playing professionally in a band at around 16 yrs old.

When this song was released, I was 19 and had major knee surgery. I was stuck at home listening to the radio. I loved the song! First use of talk box! Then I saw what he looked like. Umm yeah lol I bought the album, it was HUGE that year. I started smoking colored Sherman cigs too. I was finally diagnosed with a genetic condition, Ehlers Danlose Syndrome at 67!! I had health issues my whole life starting with that knee. Good to finally know why.

In '75, I turned 18, graduated HS, and could buy beer. I saw Jaws in the theater and the Frampton "Comes Alive" tour in the summer, but the highlight of the year was seeing The Who with Mooney in November. Great year!

Perhaps THE most successful live album. It never gets old.

The album version of this is even better, it has a phenomenal keyboard solo, that they didn't play in this performance. ( probably due to time restrictions on The Midnight Special..)

I never missed “The Midnight Special” or “In Concert.”

I remember when this came out. It annoyed the hell outta me, lol! Frampton seemingly came outta nowhere. Then, when Frampton Comes Alive came out, it wasn't huge. No. It COMPLETELY TOOK OVER! You couldn't escape it! It was an absolute monster. Radio rotation was every twenty minutes. Just about drove me crazy, lol. Now, I can finally enjoy it.

🇨🇦 The most unique, original, innovative music written, played and sung in the last Century, came from 1959 to 1989 ! 🇨🇦

One of the greatest performanes ever, Frampton comes alive.

One of the top 5 live rock performanceces of all time . Frampton was was one of the best guitarists in the 70's

Peter Frampton is a legend. This a great next best version. The best is the audio version directly from Frampton Comes Alive.

Every Friday night at Midnight on ABC network after the late local news, The Midnight Special was on, and had the top Bands and artists on, like this one with Peter Frampton, or the next week it was "Steely Dan, and then "The Doobie Brothers," and they had Black R&B artists like Marvin Gaye or Stevie Wonder and on and on. It was so good, if we were at a party at someone's house, or just out cruisin', we'd say "Hey man, let's get back to the house to watch "The Midnight Special, tonight they have "The Eagles," or whoever. It was a great time back in the 70s, and so much music from all these great Bands and solo artists. It was a 90-minute show too. We were spoiled for sure. Nothing comes close to that music these days.

Some other Frampton songs to check out are: "Show Me The Way , "Baby, I love Your Way" and "I'm in You". He did a live concert with footage of some of these songs which were included on his album "Frampton Comes Alive"

One of the best albums ever!!

"Frampton Comes Alive" was a MONSTER album when it came out, one of the greatest live albums of all time. As great as this version is, the live album track is even better. When you get a chance, listen to that album.

Frampton Comes Alive is one of the greatest live albums ever recorded.

I know I'm getting old when I see videos like this, I remember actually watching this when it aired.

This double live album, Frampton Comes Alive, was the best-selling album of 1976 and has sold 20 million to date. This was one of 3 hit singles from it.

Midnight Special, Don kirshners rock concert and yes even american bandstand and soul train. What an amazing time we had growing up in the 70s

Sold millions of record's on a feel and a moment....

Saw him do this live in concert in 1976. ❤

If I’m not mistaken, I believe that you have seen the live version of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird” in Oakland 1977. This is who Skynyrd was opening for. 🎸✌🏼😎🇺🇸

1976, and a local FM radio station announces that a person named "Peter Frampton" was releasing a live album and that they were going to play the whole thing on the radio. I had no idea who he was but a friend told me I should tape it. So I did, on a portable (mono) cassette deck. Oh my! The album blew me away. Every song on it was a winner. Where did this come from? I had no idea at the time that this was going to be a blockbuster. I wore out that tape before going out and buying the 2-LP album. It was only the 3rd album I ever bought but the first of hundreds to come. ROBIN TROWER LIVE was the first, and is also a great live album to own. Not as big As Peter's though.

Peter Frampton hung out with David Bowie in school. Peter’s dad was the art teacher and he let the boys keep their instruments in his room. Peter was a year or two younger, but they were music buds growing up and all the way to the end.

When he toured he would change the dialog on the talkbox part to include the location. Crowd would go nuts

And Frampton is STILL rocking !

I was lucky to be a teenager in the late 70s and get to see Frampton a few times at a Day on the Green at the Oakland Colliusm. Those were good times!

He always had catchy hooks in his songs but I think he was really underrated as a guitar player!

The Midnight Special was "taped before a studio audience", which means that the audience wasn't allowed to stand up, or react too much to the music. They don't want anything to screw up the filming.

Peter is still touring, his playing is even better now. That guitar has it's own story: there was a plane crash in South America, all the equipment was assumed to have been destroyed. As it happens, someone stole the guitar before it could be on the plane. Decades later, Peter was reunited with his old flame. Check out Peter today, he's quite the character!😁

Yes, everyone had this album! And, most of the time they had the actual album for the house and an 8-track or cassette for the car!

Been married 40 years now but before that after my dates or clubbing, I d often get back to my place and catch the last half of the Midnight Special. It was amazing the level of talent they always had there performing. Groups wanted to be there and play well and most often did. Such great memories back then.

Bob Mayo on keyboard for this performance, and on the same song on Framton's live album "Frampton Comes Alive". You need to check out the version of this song from this album; it's epic. Frampton was in the band Humble Pie before he went solo. Yo need to check out "I Don't Need No Doctor" from Humble Pie's live album "Performance Rockin' the Fillmore". Steve Marriott is the lead singer, and is epic on this song, and everything else he did. You'll love their drummer too, Jerry Shirley. Bass is Greg Ridley; his tone is fat, fat, fat!!!

This is the best version where you can actually see him perform. But the best overall performance of this song is the one on the Frampton Comes Alive Album, which came out in 76. Its 3 or 4 minutes longer too. The whole album is incredible, but the big hits were Show Me the Way, Baby I Love Your Way and this one

The Midnight Special was such a great show! Every Friday night at midnight (1 am here on the west coast.) The greatest musical acts of the time were on every week!

He was in a great group called Humble Pie with Steve Marriott. You really want to check them out, start with “Black Coffee”!!

"It's like a vocoder, but it's analog..." Exactly. Well spotted.

My 24 year old self wore this LP out !! Thanks for the memories!

Saw him last November on his 'Never Say Never' tour. I looked-up how the talkbox works after seeing it in action. The guitar output is switched to the small box that has an amplifier and a small speaker that 'shoots' the guitar sound up the plastic tube to the guitar player's mouth. He uses his mouth to shape the sound, and it is all picked up on the microphone. Simple, but clever. Peter still sounds great, but he's suffering from inclusion body myositis (IBM), a progressive muscle disorder characterized by muscle inflammation, weakness, and atrophy. He and the band played the whole show sitting down, but the music was great!

Frampton was huge in1976 "Frampton Comes Alive" was a monster hit. And Peter Frampton was all over the radio. Also he was a huge "Hearththrob" with teenage girls during that era as well. Also to see a kind of similiar experience from that era, try George Benson's "This Masquerade". Benson Scat sings to his guitar playing and hits the same notes singing and playing. It is Amazing and a gorgeously jazzy hit from the roughly same years 75-76.

I don’t think you could have went no longer than 2 days and not hear this coming from someone’s car or home that summer when it was released. It was everywhere

Very Surprised We got the long Version. Midnight Special seems to always cut the Songs Short!! Just an Iconic Song, Thanks to All!!!

Frampton dominated progressive rock radio in 1976 with his live LP. Thanks for covering his achievement.

The version from Frampton Comes Alive is so ingrained in my brain it's not easy hearing a different version of it, let alone the studio version, which very few people have heard. At any rate, he's a fantastic guitarist and live performer. I saw him way back in the day and then several years ago.

Three other guitarists and me drove from Toronto to Flint Michigan in 1976 in my 1970 Dodge Challenger to see Peter Frampton live. Because that was the closest he was coming to Toronto on that tour.

I had a talkbox in high school in the mid to late 70’s that I played occasionally with my guitar in a rock band. It was just a small guitar speaker in a metal box with a clear rubber tube that directed all of the amplified sound through the tube. You would attach it near your singing microphone, put the end of the tube in your mouth and direct the output into your microphone while saying things without speaking. A very simple device. Mine was stolen in 1979 or so.

My junior year in high school. You have no idea what a fantastic time it was to be a teenager back in those days. The album is “Frampton Comes Alive”. The live performance on the album is stunning. It’s around 21 minutes. It’s what’s on the album. And obviously, it’s live. The performance is electric. Seas of people in the audience going crazy. I’m sure if you tried to post this version, it’d most definitely be blocked. But do yourself a favor and watch it for yourself. The guitar work by Peter Frampton is top notch.

The version we all heard was from I think a couple years later on his Frampton Comes Alive album. That was on the radio all the time along with a couple other hits off of there. And boy did the girls love him, laugh. The talkbox is basically a microphone that you insert into your mouth and it is playing back your guitar into your mouth, which you can then shape as you please so you are playing and shaping your mouth at the same time. And you can add actually a little voice now and then behind it to get a more complex blend. Not only it is a fantastic song to react to but a few years after this, another famous use of the talkbox was by Nazareth, and it was in the title track from their Iconic Hair of the Dog album. I think it came out around 1978 and they're basically Hard Rock and early metal. And the album itself became extremely popular but their version of Love Hurts as a ballad became incredibly popular and there's some good live footage of it, but the original studio recording that was on the radio all the time and everybody bought the record to, you would love that. But I'm talking about the title track which is, Hair of the Dog. I have to believe you've probably heard at least the chorus of it before because it was such a big deal and a real banger, but at any rate it's a fantastic use of the talkbox as well, but in a more Hard Rock environment.

Nobody did the talk box better than Peter Frampton ✌️

Humble Pie - For Your Love (1970).He is in this band for a bit and this video is the most high I have ever someone function..... the whole band is wasted .You rock dude!!!

There were 5 shows during the 70s that brought all of these amazing groups to the television on Friday and Saturday nights. American Bandstand (afternoon), Soul Train (afternoon), In Concert, Don Kirchner's Rock Concert and the Midnight Special. And during disco, there was that show called dance fever. But all of those shows died once MTV came along in the early 80s.

What an amazing performance!!! But it is tame when compared to the live version from the "Frampton Comes Alive" album, which is 14 minutes long!!! The sound is clearer and richer, the guitar and voice box solos are crazier and longer, and the crowd is wilder!!! Truly worth listening to as well!!! Hope you give it a try!!!

Love his grin! He always seems to love performing, even now❤ He performs with lots of people, including Ringo Starr and Friends sometimes. Great guitar skills.

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GREAT REACTION! Your face when he hit the Voice Box was what reactions are all about! Peter Frampton is a #GuitarGod 🎸

The LP “Frampton Comes Alive” version audience went nuts over the talk box. They hadn’t heard it before. This live version is excellent, but the audience first time surprise reaction isn’t on this version. If you get a chance put on the LP version, not for the music, but for the audience reaction.

I was at the live Frampton show for the album

Thanx for the college blast from the past!!! Great time for great music!

Never missed an episode of Midnight Special… My best friend (later sister in law) would sit on the brick wall in front of the cemetery across from her house and sing this at the top of our lungs in 1976

Back around 2010, i was following him on Facebook, and he was telling a story of how at some point.......all of the band's instruments were on a plane that crashed in the jungles of South America. That black guitar was his favorite & it was feared lost forever. A hiker trudging thru the jungle happened to find it & it was not in good shape, having been missing & out in the elements since the crash....probably since sometime in the 70s or 80s. But somehow the original manufacturers got hold of the guitar & completely restored/refurbished it. Peter was reunited with the guitar in the 2000s & played it at least a few times.

Frampton was huge. Reminds me of college.

I've seen hundreds of concerts and PF Live Is still in the top 10.

Check out "I Don't Need No Doctor" from "Live at the Fillmore" by Humble Pie, the band where he honed his chops. An absolutely incendiary performance!

LOL, We all heard the same thing you did, back in the day! Great reaction to a great old song.

Peter frampton was 18 when he joined humble pie and he was 26 when he did this.

The guitar he is playing is a Gibson Les Paul "Black Beauty". He was leaving a concert in Brazil and the cargo plane carrying all of their equipment crashed and burned. Frampton was told everything was destroyed. Years later someone saw a guy playing this guitar on stage and called Frampton. When they tried to chase it down the guy was gone. It was seen again later on a stage in Mexico City. Frampton finally got it back 50 years after it was assumed destroyed in the fire.

Bob Heil Was a genius. Big time Ham radio guy also. Best friend of Joe Walsh. Listen him playing it on "Rocky Mountain Way"

There was a man on "The Lawrence Welk Show" in the mid-60s that used the Talk Box. He was billed as "(I can't remember his name) and His Talking Guitar."...it was actually a pedal steel guitar. YES also used a Talk Box on "And You and I."

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Lucky enough to see him at a ‘Day on the Green’ in Oakland Stadium, Cali in the mid ‘70’s, Peter was very talkative and jammed this song resulting in the crowd losing our minds, what a great decade for rock, like your reaction.

It’s pronounced 👋 le. I met him in high school. Friend had band and sound company. They were hired for a school musical and the gain needed caused a power supply hum. We went to Bob’s shop in Illinois. He put in a IC and 9V battery. Way over my head. Chatted about recent King Crimsonp show and monitors they used. I had no idea who he was at the time, but he was big ham radio legend who I saw in Parade magazine a few weeks later. BTW, the daughter of conductor Leonard Slatkin, was in play. He approached my friend after the play and said “It’s a great job on sound when you don’t notice the sound system”., Pedal steel session man , Pete Drake gave Joe Walsh a homemade talk box. Joe took to Bob who made it work for loud live performance. Both Frampton and Pete played on George Harrison”s “All Things Must Pass” album. Walsh and Frampton later shared a bill and Frampton sheepishly used what was Joe’s exclusive gadget.

I loved this show. A bunch of mini concerts. Amazing

I beg your pardon ,you can count on me to come look for your videos every day. I was lucky enough to see Frampton when he was with Humble Pie back in the 70's of course 💖the 70's ✌️

Here's the full live concert version at the Oakland Coliseum in 1977 - with Bob Mayo's incredible keyboard solo that's missing here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DsJK9sYRUWc.html

Saw him in Saratoga CA about 7 years ago...he was great! Bald, but great!! ❤😂😊

Peter Frampton is a beast guitarist !!!

While there is nothing wrong with this performance, there is a much more awesome RU-vid video of Frampton performing “Do You Feel Like We Do?” Uploaded by docrobson1, the video is from a July 2, 1977 concert at the Oakland Colisseum. Besides including an extended guitar solo and jam session, this video shows much more interaction with the crowd, which was huge.

Talent by man!!!!!

Back in the day, the tag line for the talk box was, "Sing Your Axe Off".

This was my very first concert. Gary Moore opened for him. Summer 76 Colt Park Hartford CT. Later in the year Jeff Beck/Jan Hammer Waterbury CT Palace Theatre. Then Aerosmith, Rick Deringer, UFO Springfield Auditorium Mass. All in the space of a couple months. Those days can't be repeated; but such great memories!

I saw Peter Frampton play three times when he was touring with "Ringo Starr and His All-Star Band". Ringo surrounded himself with really good musicians and they would play Ringo's songs as well as his fellow musician's songs. They were very cool concerts.

simply a classic..

Finally… after all these years, I have tickets to see Frampton next month. (I did see him with Bowie on the Glass Spider tour)

Joe Walsh was also a master of the talk box as well. Check out Rocky Mountain Way from the "Smoker you are the Higher you get" album...

Playing the Phenix before it became the Phenix. Such an iconic guitar.

The guitar he is playing was stolen in the late 70's and was returned to him just a few years ago

I don't know if Frampton, or Joe Walsh, who used a talk box before Frampton on "Rocky Mountain Way" were originally using the commercially available Heil product (1973). They both have stories of having dealings with country artist Pete Drake, who used a similar device with his steel guitar. He featured the device on an album in 1964. There are videos of him playing it on TV in 1964, but the output had to be modified for rock guitar. There's a 1974 video of Jeff Beck on British TV ("She's a Woman") using a similar device called The Bag, put out by the Kustom company in 1969, and invented by a guy named Doug Forbes in 1967. The one Pete Drake used was probably inspired by steel guitarist Alvino Ray. You can see Rey and his "Stringy The Talking Steel Guitar" playing "St.Louis Blues" on the 1944 movie Jam Session. For that, his wife manipulated the sound with a throat mic offstage. Check out that entertaining movie clip.