Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!

If you were challenged to name five rock albums that epitomized the '70s, Frampton Comes Alive! should probably top the list. Former Humble Pie guitarist Peter Frampton recorded a few perfectly fine albums with his band Frampton's Camel, but it wasn't until some of those tracks were recorded at a live performance in San Francisco and released as Frampton Comes Alive! that he became a household name. Buoyant pop, sentimental ballads, arena rock--this album has it all. The double-LP package set sales records and contained three bona fide radio hits--"Baby, I Love Your Way," "Show Me the Way," and "Do You Feel Like We Do?" This 25th-anniversary remastered package features three previously unreleased tracks from the source shows, plus an additional selection recorded at the time as a radio promo. --Lorry Fleming Amazon.com

I could not be happier!

If you do not have Frampton comes alive, then GET IT!
There is a reason this is one of the most important rock albums ever.
No description I could give would do it justice :) May 23, 2008

Arguably rock's greatest live album gets a deluxe makeover

English guitar hero Peter Frampton's fifth album Frampton Comes Alive was released in January of 1976.
This album, over 32 years on, still rocks and does not only feature Frampton's great guitar solos and vocals and Stanley Sheldon's great bass playing but also showed us what great musicians the late John Siomos and Bob Mayo were. John was what Peter called "the John Bonham of his band" and John's death in January of 2004 was a sad moment and less then a month after John's passing keyboard player/occasional guitarist/backing vocalist Bob Mayo died of a heart attack in Switzerland while touring with Peter. This album is a living testament to Peter's band whom played with him from 1975 to 1979.
This live album (unlike many live albums of its era) was completely live save part of the vocal of "Something's Happening" (the killer opener), the rhythm electric guitar on the classic Top 10 hit "Show Me the Way" (the voice box came out but the engineer failed to switch the microphones) and the piano on "I Wanna Go to the Sun" (also a classic) but the rest is all live (all guitar and keyboard solos, drums, bass and backing vocals, rest of vocals and rest of rhythm guitars).
This classic album features the Frampton standards "Show Me The Way" (which hit #6 on the singles charts), the Top 20 hit "Baby I Love Your Way" and the Top 20 epic "Do You Feel Like We Do" in all of its 14 minute plus glory with its famous talk-box section and he and Joe Walsh would have a great talk-box duel.
The other tracks "Doobie Wah", "It's a Plain Shame", "All I Wanna Be (Is By Your Side)", "Wind of Change", "I Wanna Go To The Sun", "Penny For Your Thoughts", "I'll Give You Money", his rendition of Humble Pie's "Shine On", his killer cover of "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Lines On My Face" are all superb classics!
This classic live album showed Peter Frampton and his band in all their glory. Besides being a excellent songwriter and singer, Frampton ranks as one of the greatest guitarists in all of rock and roll history.
This live album for the longest time was the biggest selling live album ever and was #1 for a total of 17 unconsecutive weeks making it the best selling album of 1976 hands down.
It's unfortunate that critics panned Frampton for his good looks rather than his musical talent showing critics are more about pazazz and glitter than music integrity.
In January of 2001 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of this classic album, A&M re-released the album in an expanded deluxe version with an expanded booklet and four bonus tracks bringing to album's running time to nearly two hours.
The additional material on the expanded edition includes three additional live pieces (including a killer "Nowhere's Too Far For My Baby") as well as an radio broadcast version of "Day's Dawning" which originally appeared on 1975's Frampton.
This remixed/remastered version was superbly remastered by Bob Ludwig and Peter makes a classic live album sound even more classic today.
Highly recommended! May 16, 2008

Sounds Great (more filling)

One of the things I've always loved about this album was that it SOUNDED live. The audience is right there in the forefront with the music, loud and raunchy.
The remastering is superb. After having listened to this double album hundreds of times over the past thirty years, I was a little caught off-guard listening to the different track sequence and extra tracks. It made the album different, but no less great.
One of The B's favorites during that period. April 24, 2008

and boy does he!!!

The guitar playing alone would make this album worth having. The pure rock and roll would make this worth having. Combined, this is an album you must have.

It may not the greatest live album ever (I think it is Warren Zevon's "Stand in the Fire"), but it's pretty damned close.

Not only "...an honorary member of San Francisco Society..." but all society, Mr. Peter Frampton...in all his glory.

Enjoy January 27, 2007

I just don't get it!

While this is a fairly good record, I just don't get why it receives all of the praise it gets. "The Allman Brothers Live At The Fillmore East", "One More From the Road" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, and "The Who Live at Leeds" are three of the live records that are better. Even the live Humble Pie record that Frampton was on leaves this in the dust. I've had this recording in some form (LP, CD) since it was released and it seldom finds it's way to my play list. As I said earlier this is a fairly good record but the best live record ever, PLEASE! January 12, 2006

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