| Title: | MUSIC V4 |
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| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Wed Oct 09 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Mar 12 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I saw Peter Frampton at the Paradise in Boston last night (a 500-seat club), and he put on a *great* show! Played for over two hours, and played just about all of the 'Frampton Comes Alive' album, plus more! He once again had Bob Mayo on keyboards and guitar with him, along with a bassist and drummer. Among the songs he did: Lines On My Face Do You Feel Like We Do (of course!) Baby I Love Your Way Penny For Your Thoughts Wind Of Change I'll Give You Money (with Mayo taking the lead guitar solo) Something's Happening I'm In You (done very playfully) Show me The Way I Don't Need No Doctor (a *rockin'* encore! and dedicated to Steve Marriott) ...plus a bunch more songs Peter was in great spirits, and he had a lot of fun onstage, and those feeling were infectious - it was impossible not to like him, and impossible not to have a good time! People sang along with all the songs (suprising the hell out of Peter at some points!). It was all just very entertaining - I don't think anyone walked away disappointed. For you guitar freaks out there - on the two acoustic songs, Peter played a Takamine cutaway. Most of the night though, he played what appeared to be a custom made guitar. Sort of looked like a Strat neck on a PRS body, with two humbuckers and a single coil between them, and the body may have been Koa (not sure of that). He used this guitar for both the electric and acoustic-sounding songs (ie. "Baby I Love Your Way"), it sounded pretty flexible. He had a 19-space rack of effects (didn't get a close look), then ran it into a Marshall head and cab, and also a Marshall head into a Leslie cab (for that trademark sound that you hear at the end of "Do You Feel Like We Do"). For "I Don't Need No Doctor", he strapped on his infamous black Les Paul. (One nit - he used this cavernous reverb/echo that made him sound like he's playing at the Boston Garden still. Sounded ok, but the leads sometimes tended to get lost in the mix, because they didn't cut through quite as much as they could have.) Overall, a definite thumbs up! No big surprises or anything, but just a very enjoyable show. Peter (and the whole band) was very personable, telling stories and jokes, and just having a blast. Definitely worth the bucks! alan
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| 151.1 | A fan for life | CIVIC::FAHEL | Amalthea Celebras/Silver Unicorn | Thu Feb 27 1992 13:40 | 20 |
I have to confess that when I was about 13 or 14 I was madly in "lust"
with Peter Frampton...and I liked his music, too.
(Him and Barry Gibb were the main reasons for me going to see "Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", a movie that even Alice Cooper, who
was also in it, hated. _I_, however, loved it.)
My very first concert was Stevie Nicks' "Rock A Little" show at the
Centrum (OK...so I was a late bloomer), and Peter was the opening act.
*sigh* I was 13 again.
His show was fantastic. So good, in fact, that the very next day I
went out and bought his new album, "Premonition". I also have "Live"
(who doesn't?), "Frampton" and "I'm In You".
It wasn't until recently that I found out that he was considered a
Great Guitarist!
K.C.
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| 151.2 | FVB roooolz | 7389::STEINHARDT | Fri Feb 28 1992 19:03 | 12 | |
I've seen Frampton twice - once with Humble Pie opening for Ten Years
After, and once with Frampton's Camel, opening for the J. Geils Band.
I liked him up until Sgt. Pepper, which impressed me at the time as a
total sell-out. I didn't care much for the movie, so much so that my
favorite scene was definitely when Steven Tyler was strangling
Frampton...
Glad to hear that he's back to a bit of his roots.
Cheers,
Ken
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| 151.3 | I love Peter's guitar work | CARTUN::CARTUN::BDONOVAN | I believe I'll dust my broom. | Sat Feb 29 1992 13:00 | 28 |
Frampton is pretty good example of a legitimate musician whose image
got away from him, and ruined him in the minds of many. Mike Nesmith,
who wrote "Different Drum" for Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys,
(*before* he was in the Monkees) is another.
There's not much doubt that Frampton can play guitar! The fellows in
Tesla have lifted entire lead guitar phrases from the Frampton
Comes Alive album and put them in their own songs, uncredited, of
course. He was also one of the guitar players on David Bowie's
"Glass Spiders" tour.
Still, once he got that "pretty boy" image, all of the great lead work
in the world couldn't free him.
Glad to hear the show was good, Alan. I wish I went!
Brian
PS. If you were listening to music in the mid-seventies, you probably
had the following albums in your collection:
Frampton Comes Alive
Boston
Boz Scagg's Silk Degrees
Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)
The Cars (first album)
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| 151.4 | WBC::DEADY | Sat Feb 29 1992 18:47 | 5 | ||
IMHO Frampton's best albums were Wind Of Change, and Somethings
Happening. Both were released in the early 70's, "prior" to his
being "discovered".
Fred Deady
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