Peter Frampton singing While My Guitar Gently Weeps

danger boy

Yes! lovely rendition.. he's not the best singer.... but the dude can play..

I'll be seeing him in August.. hope he does this song.. wow! :biggrin:

audiobliss

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Had to look it up. Great stuff indeed!!

Hope he does that song for you, too!

danger boy

thanks for posting it... so all can hear.

sadly after he released Frampton Comes Alive.. he never really had much chart success again... but so talented.

sda2mike

they say he tanked because of the cover of his follow up to 'comes alive'....for me and most of the yewts back then, his songs were ball-less...his singing pretty bland...his playing, while sometimes really good, was faceless...aside from the song with the voice-box, you can't recognize a peter frampton guitar solo from the average schmoe..like i said, his songs mostly were weak throw aways...really a nice englishman...too nice, maybe? if you're a fan, that's cool..enjoy the show...these are my opinions..ymmv

danger boy

Mike, surprising to know that he only did two songs on FCA where he used the talk box.. but everyone did associate him with it... he used it in other songs later too I understand.

I have a soft spot for FCA because i grew up with it.. I think i was like 12 or 13yrs old when it came out. It was THE live album to have in the 70's. Surprising to know.. it entered the top 200 at # 191 when released. :eek:

Frampton Comes Alive! was voted "Album of the year" in the 1976 Rolling Stone readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and was still #14 on Billboard's 1977 year-end album chart.

WGDB

Early bands

By the age of ten, Frampton played in a band called The Little Ravens. Both he and David Bowie were pupils at Bromley Technical School where Frampton's father, Owen Frampton, was an art teacher and head of the Art department. The Little Ravens played on the same bill at school as Bowie's band, George and the Dragons.[5] Peter and David would spend time together at lunch breaks, playing Buddy Holly songs.[5][8]

At the age of 11, Peter was playing with a band called The Trubeats followed by a band called The Preachers, produced and managed by Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones.[5]

He became a successful child singer, and in 1966, he became a member of The Herd. He was the lead guitarist and singer, scoring a handful of British pop hits. Frampton was named "The Face of 1968" by teen magazine Rave.[5][7][9]

In early 1969, when Frampton was 18 years old, he joined with Steve Marriott of The Small Faces to form Humble Pie.[5][9]

I'm old enough to remember the band he joined in the late 60's "Humble Pie" I personally consider him to be a great guitarist! Say what you will DangerBoy..... It takes a lotta balls to do what he did in the era when disco was starting to take root..... He plays his Les Paul just as creamy as the best of them..... Partying too hard and too much money as a 25 year old was what got him down..... Please..... Don't define Frampton with "Framptom Comes Alive...." You will miss the best of him......


From Wikipedia - While playing with Humble Pie, Frampton also did session recording with other artists, including: Harry Nilsson, Jim Price, Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as on George Harrison's solo All Things Must Pass, in 1970, and John Entwistle's Whistle Rymes, in 1972.[9] During the Harrison session he was introduced to the 'talk box' that was to become one of his trademark guitar effects.[10][11][12]
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dorokusai

He was fairly talented but agree with his songs being weak and forgetable. FCA will always be his swan song no matter what he did or does afterwards.

Polkie2009

I think I have a couple of copies of the FCA albums,remember most everyone bought it back in the day. The album has has huge playtime on the radio and is still played sometimes. Gotta agree, for his age back then ,the kid was playing the Les Paul pretty well. I recall Peter made a cheesy Sgt.Pepper's movie with the Beegees???

sda2mike

ya he had some time in the cheeseville movie dept...marketing types loved the frampton product for the female demographic appeal..the most frustrating part i had in trying to give his music a chance, was the uneveness...he could play some killer guitar...but the song was weak...the vocals weak. and the one or two decent tunes were always bookended by some fluff...some of that sht should have earned him a back alley beating...i guess he could never figure out wtf pf was...pretty boy? guitar hero? folk singer? pop star?

danger boy

i read that back in the day after FCA was released. he did a magazine cover which was shirtless or something like that.. ever since then he was pegged as a teen idol back in the day.. he never was able to overcome that image and a lot of people never took his music serious after that. at least that's how he explains it.

Mike most all groups or single artists only have one or two hits on their albums.. even today.. and the rest for the most part is fluff... so nothing has changed since then...

that Sgt. Pepper movie was one of the biggest bombs I've ever seen..

sda2mike

this is how you lose fans





and it's called 'i'm in you' aaaack!

gudnoyez

Peter Frampton will be at the river boat in Iowa City in a couple of weeks and the wife says were going ,and I am ok with that as Humble Pie with Peter Frampton and Steve Marriott is some darn good blues based Rock and Roll Peter just did the pretty boy stuff to make some money he is a better Guitarist than some of you think,want proof listen to Humble Pies Rock On!

scottyboy76

His work with humble pie and framptons camel was true.

Frampton comes alive is an icon and the sound of summer of 76 to me, although only some was great to me.

If you think the cover is awful for "Im in you" and the title, try listening to some of the songs.

Thats what happens when you have the biggest selling album of all time, you are in the age of rock dinosaur albums, and you know you can never live up, because FCA was a "Moment in time " type thing.

Im in you, Horrible Horrible, the cover was least of it, in fact, by the time FCA hit, he was considered a pretty boy type with an incredible album, doubt the cover hurt him that bad, whats inside?

By the way, def. true about songs making or breaking any artist, dont believe it?

Write one song, just one.

Not even one that impresses anyone, just one that doesnt make people roll their eyes.

Now, think of artists who have written even one song that makes people turn up the volume knob.

Now think of those who wrote many songs,that, in their time, people loved.

Now think of songs that 35. 40 years later people still crank the vol. knob.

And now, the bernie taupin,elton johns. page, plant , bonham, jones. richards, jagger. and certain others, who have entire catalogs of fine songs.

Yeah the songwriting is the hardest.

cubdog

Frampton, not so bad. I've read what some guys around here listen to.

cubdog