Frampton Comes Alive! (Remaster) (CD)

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.

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  General Rock & Pop
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• Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Label: A&M Records (USA)
• UPC: 731454093026
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105802940
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #3482 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #1586 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
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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).

Engineers: Ray Thompson, Eddie Kramer, Chris Kimsey.

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. Includes liner notes by Cameron Crowe.

Digitally remastered by Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab).

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.

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.

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