So what do you guys think? Worth keeping and listening to, or send it back to the used rack as quick as I can?
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 26 December 2002 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 26 December 2002 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete Porchos, Monday, 30 December 2002 11:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Saunders (csaunders), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
- Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
From what I remember of the vinyl version it was has more tracks than the origianl CD issue. On the 25th anniversary edition the missing tracks are replaced and more included, but I haven't heard the 25th anniversary edition.
― Pete Porchos, Monday, 30 December 2002 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 00:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 00:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 00:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
STILL A QUESTION FOR THE AGES.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 00:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 00:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 01:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 02:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete Porchos, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete Porchos, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
You see, the box is in the line between the guitar and the amp, and he puts the hosepipe in his mouth, the sound of the guitar comes out of the hose, bounces around inside his mouth, and comes out into the mic in front of his face which goes to the PA.
Danelectro recently put out a talkbox that has a mini-microphone in the tube, so you don't need a mic & PA, just a guitar, 2 cables and an amp.
One of my favorite talkbox memories was the Ween show in cleveland 99, when Deaner was talkboxing the phrase "Kill Whitey", and then I guess he got too close to the mic that the vinyl tube was attatched to/sticking off of, and then he choked, recoiled, and came back to the other mic and said "Fuck man, I almost threw up there". I love Ween.
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
24 minutes of "Walk on Gilded Splinters"?! Sweet mother of mercy...
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 06:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 07:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
Had no idea this was recorded inside theaters and arenas. Ruins my whole vision of it at as an outdoor summer jam, beach balls bouncing in the moonlight.
― pplains, Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Listened to this interview with Alec Baldwin recently - good one:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/222659-peter-frampton/
― did click through tho on the money (Eazy), Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
great album
― the late great, Thursday, 12 June 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
He wasn't a great singer, was he? It actually seems like a p exceptional case that an album by a good guitarist/meh singer could have been as popular as this.
― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Friday, 21 September 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
yeah but he had the talk box
― President Keyes, Friday, 21 September 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
You kind of had to be there, and even then it was kind of hard to fathom his massive popularity at the time. I *was* there, and the J. Geils band blew him off the stage. Very much like this account!
https://www.magicalmomentphotos.com/j-geils-band-geils-band-foghat-upstage-frampton/
― Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Friday, 21 September 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
I have yet to wrap my head around the phenomenon of this album. So dude follows four solo albums that didn't get much traction with a double live at a reduced price and that's the one that turns into one of the biggest albums of all time? It's weird. Like the audience freaking out to the opening notes of 'Do You Feel Like We Do' as if the song was already some massive hit. I don't understand! Explain it to me!
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 June 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
After the lack of success of his "Camel," Frampton performed under his own name and began touring the United States extensively for the next two years, supporting acts such as The J. Geils Band and ZZ Top, as well as performing his own shows at smaller venues. As a result, he developed a strong live following while his albums sold moderately and his singles failed to chart. "Do You Feel Like We Do" became the closing number of his set and one of the highlights of his show.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 17 June 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
it was a joke that 14 million people were in on
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 June 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
feel like he was another one of these 70s equivalents to DMB or something, quietly becoming really huge among teens/college kids based on live shows. like that snippet says i guess. it IS a weird phenomenon, esp combined with like, the cheesy title and the fairly unlabored-over cover, which all feels like a throwaway release to have something to sell at shows, and yet they're releasing a double live album for a not-super-huge name.also one of those albums where every single vinyl copy i have ever seen has a faded, worn out looking sleeve, as if ring wear was a special process applied at the factory.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 17 June 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
"Exqueese me? Have I seen this one before? "Frampton Comes Alive"? Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of "Tide""
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
The double album was released in the US with a special reduced list price of $7.98, only $1.00 more than the standard $6.98 of most single-disc albums in 1976.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch),
Ultimately, sales phenomena are unexplainable. How did Hootie become so massive in 1995?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
Whatever the Friends friends are into, I'm into too
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
xpost too much whiskey prior to show time
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
I have yet to wrap my head around the phenomenon of this album.
I was there, I bought it (I was 15, I think), and I can't explain it (beyond the cult for live-doubles at the time). Payola was still a big thing at the time, I think--maybe that factored in.
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
Plus the Lester Bangs Rule: tasty licks and all that Traffic twaddle.
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
At FCA's level of sales, payola ceases to matter at some point (see: Rumours, Saturday Night Fever, Thriller).
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
with no easy way to sample music back then and word of mouth and print recommendations being more of a thing, once something got into the zeitgeist, zoooooom. add a cult following that enjoyed his live shows and wants to recapture the magic of said live show, I guess that explains it.
also dude was in Humble Pie, maybe that helped get him some attention
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
his s/t solo album also went Gold, so he wasn't exactly popular but he wasn't invisible prior to the live album, either
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
I think it got certified after FCA iirc
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:35 (two years ago) link
payola doesn’t explain why the rest of the western world would follow suit one factor I’ve not seen mentioned on this thread that Frampton was considered a hottie for the ages and He Was In You
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
I did consider the Humble Pie factor but I didn't get the sense that they were particularly huge themselves.
Responses have been very illuminating, and I thank u all.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Bowie discusses his history with Frampton here, specifically the tradition in which Frampton plays:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhaRvqI0nHk
(he also, typically, makes Never Let Me Down sound juicier than it is, should you listen to the rest).
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
Christgau's review might shed some light: "All right, Peter, you've made your point--tour enough and smile enough and the tunes sink in. I'll rate your fucking album--it's been in the top five all year."
So maybe he's a version of the Grateful Dead, with an audience built up through non-stop touring. Again, I'm just guessing. If I could remember why I bought it, that would probably help.
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
also he used talkbox and people thought when he made the guitar say "I want to thank you" that it said "I want to spank you"
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
Some good background here:
An Exclusive Oral History of 'Frampton Comes Alive!'
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 17 June 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
I've never actually listened to this record
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 June 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
Frampton comes unalive
― calstars, Friday, 18 June 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Frampton also was able to appeal to both the teenyboppers and the He Can Really Play Guitar audience.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
Not sure about play guitar angle .. he’s no steve lukathar or Lee rit
― ncxkd, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
looking him up, bob mayo was briefly in rat race choirFun fact: Rat Race Choir was the backing band for John Entwistle on some of his ‘80s US tours, and Frampton played on Entwistle’s Whistle Rymes album in 1972. It’s all a rich tapestry.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 18 June 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
i also saw john entwistle's ox at the calderone concert hall, fwiw. 3/16/75. a few months before frampton. i remember it was very loud, and sort of a short set.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
Was Entwistle headlining that show? Most of his 1975 US tour dates, which he lost tens of thousands of dollars on, were opening for Humble Pie or the J. Geils Band.(His ‘80s-‘00s US tours drained him financially. He didn’t care; he just wanted to play, and he knew that the next Who tour would bail him out.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 18 June 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
yes, he was headlining. i don't remember if there was an opening act. the whole thing sort of felt like an afterthought. if i remember right, they closed off the balcony, and even the orchestra seats were sparsely filled. of course that meant that my group was able to move up close. it was fun, and rocking, but...short.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
there are ads for it here: http://www.thewho.info/proads16.htm
maybe his band had to clear out early because it looks like the barker-gurvitz army was playing a 10:30 show that same night. https://www.ebay.com/itm/313488548041?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338722076&toolid=10001
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
baker
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
i wish Sandy were on this thread, feel like she could help parse out some more of the finer-grained sociology of Frampton listenership.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:24 (two years ago) link
I did the incognito thing and found Cameron Crowe's RS piece from April '76:
“Sweet guy”...“nice kid”...nobody has anything bad to say about Peter Frampton. He is extremely easy to like. An already endearing personality combined with the automatic courtesy that comes with all the second-billed years on the road have made him expertly charming. In conversation he remains light and breezy, but his personal life comes out in the albums. “I write about what happens to me,” he says. “It’s all there. I couldn’t do it any other way.” Wind of Change, for example, was a pleasant slice of life from the time of his first marriage. Frampton’s Camel was a depressing look at the marital breakup. Somethin’s Happening marked the arrival of his current girlfriend, Penny, and Frampton was a joyous testimony to their success together.
Before the now platinum Frampton Comes Alive!, none of his albums had gone beyond the 200,000 sales mark. Why the sudden fever? Peter isn’t about to question his explosion to the top: “Dylan, Chicago, Paul Simon...and me?” Rather, he shrugs in wonder. “I’ve figured it out,” he laughs. “There’s no way anybody could like that album and hate my guitar playing. That takes care of a lot of my insecurities. I’ve always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old. Ever since I saw Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers and...anybody else with a Stratocaster. But between you and me, I’ll settle for just being listened to.”
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:51 (two years ago) link
And this:
Frampton Comes Alive! was originally meant to be another single album. “I was told to keep it to a one-record package,” Frampton recalls, “’cause the day of the double live album is gone. I agreed, you know. So I mixed and cut together the whole thing, with ‘Lines on my Face’ and ‘Do You Feel’ on one side and ‘All I Want to Be,’ ‘Something’s Happening,’ ‘It’s a Plain Shame’ and ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ on the other. That’s all.
Gone? Seems to me it was just beginning--I suspect you could list 100 double-lives from the second half of the decade. Although maybe it was dying and then record companies took a look at Frampton's album.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:56 (two years ago) link
This says far more about me than Frampton Comes Alive: I did not, when I bought it at 15, think I'd be sitting in front of little screen at the age of 59--much less on a Friday night--trying to figure out why it was so popular.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
clemenza, I think you have the opening and closing scenes of an autobiography there.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 19 June 2021 01:08 (two years ago) link
We're Up All Night Trying To Figure Out If Frampton Comes Alive Was Destined To Be Popular, Or Did He Just Get Lucky?
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 June 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
Remembrance of Things Frampton
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 01:29 (two years ago) link
I think they may have been on the way out, but then the triple-whammy of Frampton, Alive!, and Live Bullet (all career makers too), brought 'em back.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 June 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
Yeah, as soon as I typed that, I realized Frampton himself was the answer. Did the first wave of double-lives start with Live Dead?
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
The internet is not answering that question for me...had to have been the first.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
Yeah, Live/Dead in '69, then the Woodstock soundtracks in '70 & '71, Mad Dogs & Englishmen in '70, Allmans at the Fillmore in '71...
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 June 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
Live/Dead probably was first — all live non-jazz/non-classical albums at that point were single LPs — Live At The Apollo, The Live Kinks, Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison, B.B. King’s Live At The Regal — mostly because those artists rarely played (or were allowed/had the opportunity to play) a live set longer than 40 minutes or so. The Dead obviously played far longer sets than many acts.And even after Live/Dead, many of the iconic late ‘60s/early ‘70s live albums — Live At Leeds, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out!, Band Of Gypsys — were all singles from bands whose sets were often longer than double-LP length.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 19 June 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
Just remembered too that Absolutely Live by The Doors from '70 was a double. Like alot of the early Rock double lives, it had a number of exclusive/expanded tracks.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 June 2021 03:02 (two years ago) link
4 Way Street must have been one of the first.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
The Little Feat live from Ultrasonic Studios is all-time.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 June 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
live adventures of bloomfield/kooper was jan 69 so pre-live/dead (tho does have some tangential dead connections)
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 19 June 2021 03:30 (two years ago) link
also yes to the little feat tip!
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 19 June 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
Wow, you're right--many months ahead of Live/Dead. Yet the Wikipedia entry doesn't even mention it as the first. Either an oversight, or there's something else earlier.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 03:34 (two years ago) link
Guess this doesn’t really count?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famous_1938_Carnegie_Hall_Jazz_Concert
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Saturday, 19 June 2021 04:34 (two years ago) link
JAZZ
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 June 2021 04:36 (two years ago) link
I had not twigged to this 70s double live thing before. Gives the title of the Butthole Surfers 'Double Live' official bootleg some context which I would not have considered before.
― ringworm, Saturday, 19 June 2021 04:38 (two years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/adV9AwhXGFUzd-JTdY65PObXP1k=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-10911005-1515020145-1293.jpeg.jpg
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 June 2021 04:48 (two years ago) link
It’s known as The Foghat Principle (at 1:24):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgpQBaziy0
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 19 June 2021 08:13 (two years ago) link
Solid rule.
― ringworm, Saturday, 19 June 2021 08:17 (two years ago) link
they actually did two shows there, in '73 and '74. also worth a listen: Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George & John Hammond Ultrasonic Studios, Hempstead, NY October17,1972
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 19 June 2021 10:38 (two years ago) link
― ringworm, Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:38 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I thought that was like an understood given. maybe less visible if you're coming from much later or something.But yeah did seem to be something that was a near standard thing for early 70s hard rock bands and presumably others.
I thought the mid 70s might be the milieu it was characteristic of too. Interesting if the fading arc was interrupted by a chance reignition in a double lp that could have been a single becoming popular outside of other trends.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 19 June 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
Yes, the double live album is such a 70s cliche, usually released when bands had run out of new material or needed a break from the one album a year treadmill.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 June 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
Hard to imagine that without FCA, Jimmy Buffett might never have released "You had to be there."
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 11:36 (two years ago) link
At one point I thought about putting together a book proposal for something like The 101 Greatest Seventies Live Albums (with extra space devoted to triples like Yessongs and the ELP one and Santana's Lotus).
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 19 June 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
I have never heard Frampton Comes Alive!, ftr.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 19 June 2021 12:29 (two years ago) link
Neither have I, but I'm not American!
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 June 2021 12:30 (two years ago) link
you haven't lived until Frampton has
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 12:31 (two years ago) link
35 years ago, for a defunct Canadian magazine, a friend and I did a piece on stage patter that was dominated by '70s double-lives. Kiss Alive!, of course, was the Citizen Kane of stage patter, though someone else might argue for Take No Prisoners. (Can't remember if there's much patter on Frampton Comes Alive. I don't think we quoted anything--probably good-guy innocuous, if there is.) It'd take some box moving to retrieve the piece, but from memory, one of my favourite bits was from a Thor live album (a single, I think):
"Anyone out there read Kerrang!? (no response)...Kerrang!? (no response)...Anyway..."
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link
hahahah
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link
The Little Feat live from Ultrasonic Studios is all-time.they actually did two shows there, in '73 and '74. also worth a listen: Bonnie Raitt with Lowell George & John Hammond Ultrasonic Studios, Hempstead, NY October17,1972― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:38 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, June 19, 2021 6:38 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I didn't realize this. The one I know is from 1973 and opens with the dedication of Apolitical Blues to Chairman Mo Astin. I always loved that joke.
I will have to find the 1974 show.
― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
I misspoke; I dug through my Twitter archives and it turns out I listened to Frampton Comes Alive! in 2019. But I have absolutely no memory of that, so I'm listening to it again this morning.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
The only track that stood out to me on this record was a bonus, "Nowhere's Too Far For My Baby".
UFO's Strangers in the Night and Neil Young's Live Rust, both 1979, seem like the last iconic rock double live albums of that era. Something like The Name of This Band is Talking Heads is already a different world.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
Oh wow, I was going to mention "Strangers in the Night" earlier!
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
It's one of those live records that's more acclaimed than any of the band's studio albums.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
These were also really popular live records too.
DP's - Live in JapanThin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East (their first Platinum record but not a double)
The one surprisingly not mentioned yet and filed in getting big in Japan and then released to US/UK...
Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
It is one like Frampton's where the live versions are the more known version of song rather than the studio take. It was the album the broke them in the US. Not a double LP though...
― earlnash, Saturday, 19 June 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
I don't really know the lp but do know Frampto0n from the Herd and Humble Pie.Face of 68 too.I probably heard it in the wake of Dinosaur Jr covering Show Me The Way though.& I think I have a few live sets by him and various backing bands on various hard drives. Frampton's camel among them. Probably mostly early 70s though. But nothing I know well enough to sing a song from its title. Apart from Show Me teh Way I think.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 19 June 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link