Product Details
Frampton Comes Alive! (LP)Album Notes
| Miscellaneous |
| This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. |
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| Personnel: Peter Frampton (vocals, guitar); Bob Mayo (vocals, guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ); Stanley Sheldon (vocals, bass); John Siomos (drums). |
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| Recorded live at the Winterland, San Francisco, California; Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, California; Island Music Center, Commack, Long Island, New York; State University Of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, New York. Origianlly released as A&M (3703). Includes liner notes by Cameron Crowe. |
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| Decades after its 1976 release, FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE! seems like an anomaly, with its unusual genesis almost impossible to believe. Peter Frampton, guitarist for a modestly successful boogie band (Humble Pie), released several solo records that were almost entirely ignored. However, he spent years crisscrossing the nation's sports arenas, opening for everyone under the sun, until so many people had seen him in America's hockey rinks that his double-LP live record became one of the most successful rock albums of all time. |
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| Listening to the whole record--not just the three pop-rock gems that immediately became FM radio staples ("Show Me the Way," "Baby, I Love Your Way," and the talkbox-enhanced jam "Do You Feel Like We Do")-- it's clear that its success is due to Frampton's road-tested mastery of the sweetly melodic material, which didn't rock this hard on the original studio recordings. Of course, FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE! also won over a legion of fans with its classic rock-god album cover. Any way you look at it, FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE! is a classic for a reason. |
Album Details
| Album Title | Frampton Comes Alive! |
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| Number of Discs | 2 |
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| Mono/Stereo | Stereo |
| Studio/Live | Studio |
| Label | A&M Records (USA) |
| Catalog Number | 7502165051 |
| Release Date | 07/08/2008 |
| Import | No |
| UPC | 075021650510 |
Artist/Group
| Overview |
| Peter Frampton started out with British pop-rockers the Herd in the mid-1960s before moving on to a harder sound with U.K. blues-rock legends Humble Pie. Singer/guitarist/songwriter Frampton started a solo career in the '70s that didn't really take off until he released a concert recording in 1976. His massive hit double-live album FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE! almost single-handedly re-popularized the live-album format for other rockers, and made the curly-haired singer a rock god and pinup boy overnight. Naturally, he could never equal that record's runaway success, but Frampton never stopped working. He even took a spot in David Bowie's band for a while in the '80s, ever the guitarist's guitarist. |
| Definitive Albums |
| Frampton |
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| Frampton Comes Alive! |
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| Greatest Hits |
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| Rockin' the Fillmore |
Also See
| Performers |
| Bill Wyman & The Rhythm Kings; Herd (The); Humble Pie; On, Pickin' |
| Albums |
| Pickin' on Peter Frampton |
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