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.
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.
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
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.
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 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! 👍✌😁
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.
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!
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"
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." ✌️
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!
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"???🤷♂️
You are absolutely the most intelligent, insightful, engaged and sweet "youngster" doing music reactions on RU-vid! 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 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. ;)
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.
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 .
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!!
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T7Dm77k-tZo.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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K1ijcpo1Ep8.html
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 ❤
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
Great reaction Dicon! I saw him here in Las Vegas in 2019 and he did this song of course and 40 plus yrs later he still sounds the same. It was amazing 🤩
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.
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 RU-vid, 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!
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.
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.
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.
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
Good call with the connection to the Traffic sound. Brilliant catch. I was fortunate enough to see him live once, but well after his prime. Still a legendary man. I swear nearly every rock music fan bought the "Frampton Comes Alive" when it was released.
WOW! LOL That's the same thing I thought the first time I heard this when I was in high-school. I went out and bought the album the same day! A lot of good songs on the live album!
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.
