Back in the 70's we had nothing but a phone on the wall - and a TV set with 3 channels. When *_Frampton Comes Alive_* came out - everybody under 30 - their heads exploded with happiness and this song and album was EVERYWHERE.
So true man. That album was and is still great to listen to. Great Choice you two. Suggest the live version of do you feel like we do off that album. You will need a bit if time however to dig up on it lol. I know you reacted to a video already. The live version on this album tops it by far.
Frampton is one of the happiest musicians on the planet. He always has a smile on his face, to this day. His health has taken a turn but he's still performing.
The talk box works by a little speaker sending the guitar sound into and up the tube, the sound goes into the mouth, the singer moves the mouth to shape the sounds, and the microphone picks up the sound coming out of the mouth.
To clarify a bit more - the tube is connected to a horn driver which is basically a voice coil without the speaker paper surrounding it and needs the 'horn shaped cone' to project high frequency sound in it's prescribed application. Tweeters followed later for even more high pitched clarity.
AWESOME reaction! Just imagine, 1976 was the Bi-Centennial, our country’s 200’th birthday. There were parties and fireworks shows and bbq‘s ALL summer and this song and the album Frampton Comes Alive was the soundtrack for that summer.You literally couldn’t go anywhere except possibly church where this song was not playing. Awesome time to be alive!
Just to echo what others have said, "Frampton Comes Alive" was massive in the 70's. It was the number 1 selling album of all time, I believe it may still be the number 1 live album. I saw him about 15 years ago, could still bring it.
@@snowfan0521 I saw that yesterday Garth Brooks had passed Frampton in the early 2000s. I come from an era that nobody's record collection was complete without "Frampton Comes Alive".
My brother got me a ticket to see him live as a birthday present because when I was a kid I got in trouble and my mom gave my ticket away as punishment...35 yrs later I was so close I could see the white of his eyes !!! Favorite concert ever!!! And I've been to hundreds
@@jco207 he has taken me to so many the last one was amon amarth but I think every concert I've been to has been with my brother ..slayer Ozzy Metallica Megadeath AC DC and many more he brought me into a genre that I absolutely love!!!!
The joke was that every teen aged male in the suburbs in 1976 was issued a copy of "Frampton Comes Alive"... it almost wasn't a joke. Everyone had this album.
If you were driving on the beach in Galveston in the summer of 1976 you would have heard Frampton Comes Alive playing on radio, 8-track and cassette on every other car it seems. Just HUGE. That and Boston's first album. And The Eagles Greatest hits album. What a summer! What a year!
@@brooksboyd1959 In those days you could drive down the whole West Beach so all the beaches merged together. Great days! And the best time for music in my 63 years.
The talk box is basically a speaker, the guitar sound goes through the tube and you adjust your mouth near the mic to change the sound coming out of your mouth and into the mic
@@mikeshoe74 it was invented in 1939 Jeff Beck and others used it before but Frampton comes to mind 1st when talking about it then maybe Joe Walsh, Jeff Beck "s cover of She's a woman is up there
But if you listen to especially the first verse it’s full of self doubt and searching for identity and purpose. It comes from a very insular and private place, but you’re so right. It’s very close to praise music, maybe it literally is talking to god, some of it- but you don’t have to be religious to appreciate the joy he infuses it with.
The talk box works by having some of the audio from the guitar go through the tube attached to the mic stand. When he puts his mouth over the tube and changed the shape of his mouth, it changes the sound and goes back in to the mic.
@@davidr.wilson8194 I don't think it would work. You need to hold the tube with your teeth, but not bite down all the way as that will mute the sound. If you were chewing gum, the sound would cut in and out, and the tube would probably slip out of your teeth.
Frampton comes alive was one of the biggest selling live albums for quite some time, and he was a Guitarist for Bowie on the Glass Spider tour Bowie only surrounded himself with the best
The output of the instrument is transmitted through the tube in his mouth and the sound is transmitted to the microphone. Basically his mouth becomes a speaker.
Amazing how The Midnight Special was all live music. It's basically a record of the last time there was actually great music being played constantly to live audiences. Almost every single great live album that came out was in the 70's. And Frampton Comes Alive was arguably the best of them.
Takes me back to high school. I bought this when it came out after hearing this song on the radio. Still sounds fresh 4+ decades later. Another great one is "Do You Feel Like I Do?" The video from The Midnight Special is here on TH-cam.
I was 16 when Frampton Comes Alive! came out. I got the album as part of my subscription to the Columbia Record Club. Peter Frampton was everywhere in 1976. The massive fame wasn't for him and he had some problems in his life due to the craziness. He sort of faded into the background but came back to work with a lot of great artists. David Bowie grew up with him in London. Bowie was very close to Peter's dad who was a teacher in their high school who encouraged them both to pursue music.
In this song, Frampton is a drowning man looking for someone to throw him a life preserver. The lyric is rather vague, but it's clear he is seeking guidance, asking another to "show him the way." The lyric could relate to a specific person or to a higher power; Frampton kept it universal on purpose, but he did have a specific inspiration in mind. "I just met somebody that gave me such confidence," he told Melody Maker in 1976. "My life is completely changed. All the lyrics in that song are about me and her." The original studio version of this song was released on the 1975 album Frampton, Peter's fourth. At the time, he had a modest following and was building a reputation as a stellar live performer. What he didn't have was a hit. Frampton's label, A&M, had him compile a live album for his next release. He put one together with six songs - none of which were "Show Me The Way" - and played it for his label boss, Jerry Moss, who asked, "Where's the rest of it?" With the go-ahead to make it a double album, Frampton included "Show Me The Way." Frampton Comes Alive was released in January 1976; by April, it sold a million copies in America. "Show Me The Way" got the best listener response and the most airplay, so it was issued as the first single, climbing to #6 in May and giving Frampton his first hit. Frampton Comes Alive was the best-selling album of 1976 and eventually sold over 8 million copies. (Songfacts.com)
One of my favorite albums of ALL TIMES. Artists back in the day would usually make 3 albums, then a fourth album would be a live greatest hits album. This one went through the roof!!!🕶️🎼🎵🎶🎼 Frampton can play the guitar. He was down with Humble Pie..who also have a monster live album, Rockin' The Fillmore.
Peter Framton's rise to success is one of the best stories you'll ever hear. he was relatively unknown, having released a few records that went nowhere. hie biggest claim to fame at the time was with the group Humble Pie. Long story short, he releases Frampton Comes Alive and becomes a world wide superstar. I wore my double LP out!
Peter Frampton got introduced to the talk box when he played guitar on George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass." Another guitarist (pedal steel) there, Pete Drake, had a talk box ... in fact, it was the one he'd lent to Joe Walsh for "Rocky Mountain Way." He showed Frampton how to use it, and Frampton fell in love with the sound and decided to incorporate it into his own music.
I was a teenager when this album came out and every song on the album was a hit!! He was a breath of fresh air for for all teens!! I think everyone I knew bought this album. The airwaves were filled with FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE!!
Summer 1976, live at Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO: Sly and the Family Stone (they actually showed), Gary Wright, Steve Miller Band, and Peter Frampton. Good times.
Peter Frampton's dad "Owen Frampton" was my Art teacher at school. Not just mine. He was also David Bowie's art teacher. Not at the same time as he was mine. Which is both good and bad. I would have liked to be at school with David Bowie but if I had been, I would be a lot older than I am and maybe dead by now. Anyway, Owen Frampton was a truly lovely man and sparked my lifelong interest in photography.
Hi Mom & Dad!! Peter Frampton is extremely talented. Check out his early work with Humble Pie live Performance Rockin the Fillmore, "I Don't Need No Doctor", "I Walk On Gilded Splinters, etc...whole album is fire! ✌️ ☮️ ❤️🇱🇷🎸🎵🎼🎶
WOW! This brings back memories! Saw him in concert with Yes in San Diego when I was in high school! My first festival seating concert in a HUGE stadium. I was 16. Man, that was a LONG time ago! Good times!
Peter Frampton, one of the greatest and most under-rated guitarists of my generation. He was recently diagnosed with a muscular disease which will eventually keep him from playing his beloved guitar. His final concert is here on yt. I have always owned a copy of Frampton Comes Alive, whether it be on LP, cassette or CD. A personal favorite of mine.
In the mid 70s this guy was a rock god. Got to see him in 1975 and again in the mid 90s. That wa wa sound is from a voice box he uses, there's a rubber/plastic tube taped to the microphone (at the 4:00 minute mark you can see it clearly). And yes, he's playing that live. No backing track or lip-synching.
Peter came here in 2019. We saw him outdoors here in K.C. at Starlight outdoor theater. His voice is a good today, as it was in the 70's. Heck, it's better.
I am from the same South East London area as Peter and David Bowie( taught by Peter's Dad at Art College). Heaven=Seeing Peter Live. Hell, Being there with thousands of screaming Women😀 Hell + was on a London train around 4 years ago, during a weekday, and noticed there were around 20 other passengers. All Women. All in Pairs and 4 years in and my ears haven't fully recovered from that, er,....experience🤣
"A talk box directs sound from the instrument into the musician's mouth by means of a plastic tube adjacent to a vocal microphone. The musician controls the modification of the instrument's sound by changing the shape of the mouth, "vocalizing" the instrument's output into a microphone." If you go back and listen to "Do You Feel Like We Do" you can hear him saying actual words, e.g. "Do you feel like we do", "we're gonna have a good night", etc.
Peter Frampton had is moment of celebrity where nobody was bigger, but the rest of his career left him terrible underrated. I've seen him live several times and his talent shines as bright as the sun.
There are songs that if played over and over, I can start to dislike, even though I liked them at first. My brother used to play this song day and night---but to my surprise I still loved hearing it. And I still do. Thanks for playing it.
I got to see him one summer evening in the 70s, at a stadium in DC. Now, for me, his music is synonymous with summer. Even though I went with a real a-hole of a boyfriend, it still brings back wonderful memories. Nostalgia.
The sound of the guitar travels up a tube into his mouth where he shapes it into sounds/words which are then picked up by his vocal mic and sent out through the PA stsyem with the rest of the mix. TWRP does it with a keyboard for all their vocals.
I remember walking home from School with a small transistor radio in 1975 and this came on and it blew me away. Then the next year when I left school in 1976, I bought the Album Frampton come alive based on that track. I still play it today!!
With talk-boxes, you slightly bite down on the tube by the microphone and make vowel sounds with your mouth whilst playing the same notes on the guitar. Nowadays, you can get digital pedals which approximate the same effect, but 'real' talk-boxes are a similar price and more versatile. (if you're happy cleaning out the saliva from the tube lol).
Just saw him live. Even at 73 years old, his voice iss amazing and his guitar playing is perfect. And this guy has a muscular degenerative disease, walks out with a cane, and plays sitting on an office chair.
I met Frampton in Austin in the early 80s. He stopped by the fitness club I was managing looking for a Racquetball game. We played for an hour or so. Good player. I assume he performed at one of the arenas around town that night. Chill guy.
This reminds me of sunsets on Indian Rocks beach in the 70s when I was a teenager! My husband and I went to see him at the Hard Rock Orlando about 10 years ago - he was just as good!
I wish you guys could have been there, no matter what else was going on or not going on in your life, this was part of it back then, and it made it better!
I was a teen with the Frampton Comes Alive was HUGE! So much great music we had growing up in the 70's. You really need to cover the LIVE music. Absolutely fabulous music!
This song, Peter Frampton and his Comes Alive album will always bring back great memories of hearing this on the radio as we were cruising around or playing the album with a bunch of friends.
I was in a band during high school in the late 70's and made my own voice box with a section of 4" PVC, a funnel, a speaker and fiberglass. I don't remember what songs I used it with, but we probably had a Peter Frampton song or 2 in there.
Frampton Comes Alive is my favorite album of ALL time! ( This is from The Midnight Special)Every song is amazing! The vocals, the guitar playing, the talk box, keyboards....its's a must own album! And that Peter Frampton poster was on many bedroom walls,mine included! 😅
Only person in the world to skyrocket into fame from their "live" album (after several studio albums with all the same songs). Frampton Comes Alive is one of the best albums of the 70s and rock history in general.
A couple of years ago I was in a vintage guitar shop outside of Cincinnati when I look up...Holy shit! Peter Frampton!! He was the nicest, most pleasant guy (with an infectious laugh). No ego, just another guy in a guitar shop!
The Talk Box has a metal coil that vibrates when you play the guitar, those sound vibrations travel up and out of the tube. The tube is inserted just far enough into the mouth cavity for the changing shape of your mouth to modify/alter the sound of the guitar. That sound then has no place to go but back out of the mouth and into the microphone which gets amplified just like when his voice when he is singing. You don’t make any noise, just manipulate the guitar sound with the shape of your mouth. In certain cases, like “Do you feel, like we do” the effect is used to manipulate the guitar sound into words by mouthing the intended words to make the guitar seem to be “talking.” Often confused with the vocoder which came slightly later with the advent of the synthesizer and typically used in conjunction with keyboard. In that case the person would sing or say words into the mic/vocoder input and then then manipulate the sound of that voice and words electronically with the keyboard synth. This more clearly sounds like the words that were just spoken or sung but then modulated or synthesized and typically made to sound robotic or very futuristic techno.
Peter Frampton was the biggest thing on the planet from the mid to late 70's, everyone had his live album, "Frampton Comes Alive". When I saw David Bowie on his Glass Spider Tour in 1987, Peter Frampton was a featured guitarist, meaning he wasn't on stage for every song, and he was shorn of his golden locks. Quite a change from ten years earlier. But when he was hot, he was HOT!
Can you imagine back then just sitting by a radio and all of a sudden for the first time Frampton Comes Alive comes on with this or Do You Feel Like We Do? Many a mind was blown!
The talk box is basically a tube that the sound of the guitar goes through that you put in your mouth. You can then shape the sound by moving your mouth to affect the sound and it is picked up by the microphone.
Frampton Comes Alive! If you were anywhere near a radio in the 70’s this is what you heard. There was a plethora of supreme music back in the day. And it’s still wowing every new person who takes a good listen to it nowadays, and I love that.
It's called a 'Talkbox'. That pipe that goes in his mouth is playing the guitar sound into his mouth and then it echos back out into the microphone. So he's "shaping" the sound of the guitar with his mouth.
Back in the 70's we had nothing but a phone on the wall - and a TV set with 3 channels. When *_Frampton Comes Alive_* came out - everybody under 30 - their heads exploded with happiness and this song and album was EVERYWHERE.
So true man. That album was and is still great to listen to. Great Choice you two. Suggest the live version of do you feel like we do off that album. You will need a bit if time however to dig up on it lol. I know you reacted to a video already. The live version on this album tops it by far.
I close my eyes, my hair is long again, and the top is down on my 1970 Pontiac Catalina Convertible.
@@kerrylewis2581 my hair is still long but now its white man lol. Love your comment. My car was a 1965 ninety eight oldsmobile then. Keep on rocking.
And radio played it to death
This was from Woodstock in the 60s
Frampton is one of the happiest musicians on the planet. He always has a smile on his face, to this day. His health has taken a turn but he's still performing.
The talk box works by a little speaker sending the guitar sound into and up the tube, the sound goes into the mouth, the singer moves the mouth to shape the sounds, and the microphone picks up the sound coming out of the mouth.
correct, and just to clarify a little, instead of your voice making the sound, its the guitar that makes the sound then the mouth moves as if talking
To clarify a bit more - the tube is connected to a horn driver which is basically a voice coil without the speaker paper surrounding it and needs the 'horn shaped cone' to project high frequency sound in it's prescribed application. Tweeters followed later for even more high pitched clarity.
AWESOME reaction! Just imagine, 1976 was the Bi-Centennial, our country’s 200’th birthday. There were parties and fireworks shows and bbq‘s ALL summer and this song and the album Frampton Comes Alive was the soundtrack for that summer.You literally couldn’t go anywhere except possibly church where this song was not playing. Awesome time to be alive!
I remember it well I was 14.
Just to echo what others have said, "Frampton Comes Alive" was massive in the 70's. It was the number 1 selling album of all time, I believe it may still be the number 1 live album. I saw him about 15 years ago, could still bring it.
Garth Brooks Double Live holds that title but Frampton Comes Alive is in the top 25 all-time live albums
@@snowfan0521 Garth has the best selling live album yes but TJ clearly said best selling album which would be Thriller by MJ.
I reckon it is probably one of the best live albums ever.
@@snowfan0521 I saw that yesterday Garth Brooks had passed Frampton in the early 2000s. I come from an era that nobody's record collection was complete without "Frampton Comes Alive".
My brother got me a ticket to see him live as a birthday present because when I was a kid I got in trouble and my mom gave my ticket away as punishment...35 yrs later I was so close I could see the white of his eyes !!! Favorite concert ever!!! And I've been to hundreds
I love your story. He's a good brother.
I never got to see him in the 70s ,but I saw him in 2018. He may have aged but his voice sounded awesome and he plays guitar like the master he is.
Bummer but great that you finally got to see him and had such good seats.
Wow, lucky you that you did get to see him!
@@jco207 he has taken me to so many the last one was amon amarth but I think every concert I've been to has been with my brother ..slayer Ozzy Metallica Megadeath AC DC and many more he brought me into a genre that I absolutely love!!!!
The joke was that every teen aged male in the suburbs in 1976 was issued a copy of "Frampton Comes Alive"... it almost wasn't a joke. Everyone had this album.
Wayne's World.
Never heard that, but I heard that every young woman wanted to do him.
It was mandatory.
If you were driving on the beach in Galveston in the summer of 1976 you would have heard Frampton Comes Alive playing on radio, 8-track and cassette on every other car it seems. Just HUGE. That and Boston's first album. And The Eagles Greatest hits album. What a summer! What a year!
Foreigner and Kansas blew up that year, too.
I was 15 in 1976, and I thank God this music was around while I was growing up. What passes for music with today's generation is actually rather sad.
I was prolly on Pirates Beach (or Jamaica Beach or whichever one) that summer jammin’ to it as well.
@@brooksboyd1959 In those days you could drive down the whole West Beach so all the beaches merged together. Great days! And the best time for music in my 63 years.
@@larryC1070 Yep…same age. Went to Lee in Houston…’77 grad. Dazed and Confused movie was like watching a replay of life in high school back then.
Peter Frampton was one of many heart throb posters that lined the walls in my bedroom when I was a teenager♥️ back in the day we called him a “BABE”
He most certainly was a babe!
This is the quintessential 1970's feel good song.
I remember when it was all over the radio, including AM radio.
This is live too, and it's so good.
The talk box is basically a speaker, the guitar sound goes through the tube and you adjust your mouth near the mic to change the sound coming out of your mouth and into the mic
Is Peter Frampton a pioneer of this?
He wasn't the first, but he made it popular, because of the hits that came out of Frampton Comes Alive.
@@mikeshoe74 it was invented in 1939 Jeff Beck and others used it before but Frampton comes to mind 1st when talking about it then maybe Joe Walsh, Jeff Beck "s cover of She's a woman is up there
@@alsleet442 @BrooklynPatriot313 Good information. Thanks.
This song feels so full of love and happiness.
But if you listen to especially the first verse it’s full of self doubt and searching for identity and purpose. It comes from a very insular and private place, but you’re so right. It’s very close to praise music, maybe it literally is talking to god, some of it- but you don’t have to be religious to appreciate the joy he infuses it with.
The talk box works by having some of the audio from the guitar go through the tube attached to the mic stand. When he puts his mouth over the tube and changed the shape of his mouth, it changes the sound and goes back in to the mic.
Would gum chewing not be recommended when performing with a talk box?
@@davidr.wilson8194 could add an interesting percussive aspect to the sound!
@@davidr.wilson8194 I don't think it would work. You need to hold the tube with your teeth, but not bite down all the way as that will mute the sound. If you were chewing gum, the sound would cut in and out, and the tube would probably slip out of your teeth.
Frampton wrote this majority of this song and "Baby I Love Your Way" on the same day! - That was a good day!
A very good day!!
The Peter Frampton Band has recently recorded “Loving the Alien” which is a David Bowie cover! They were close friends. The song is beautiful ❤❤❤
Frampton comes alive was one of the biggest selling live albums for quite some time, and he was a Guitarist for Bowie on the Glass Spider tour
Bowie only surrounded himself with the best
The output of the instrument is transmitted through the tube in his mouth and the sound is transmitted to the microphone. Basically his mouth becomes a speaker.
I was in high school when this album came out.......every house party played this album
Amazing how The Midnight Special was all live music. It's basically a record of the last time there was actually great music being played constantly to live audiences. Almost every single great live album that came out was in the 70's. And Frampton Comes Alive was arguably the best of them.
Totally agree. Those performances on Midnight Special were better than anything you'd see today.
Takes me back to high school. I bought this when it came out after hearing this song on the radio.
Still sounds fresh 4+ decades later.
Another great one is "Do You Feel Like I Do?" The video from The Midnight Special is here on TH-cam.
He was huge back in the day! The whole live album was great!
I was 16 when Frampton Comes Alive! came out. I got the album as part of my subscription to the Columbia Record Club. Peter Frampton was everywhere in 1976. The massive fame wasn't for him and he had some problems in his life due to the craziness. He sort of faded into the background but came back to work with a lot of great artists. David Bowie grew up with him in London. Bowie was very close to Peter's dad who was a teacher in their high school who encouraged them both to pursue music.
I think I still owe Colombia House a couple albums.
Columbia House! Wow does that bring back memories. I was a member!
In this song, Frampton is a drowning man looking for someone to throw him a life preserver. The lyric is rather vague, but it's clear he is seeking guidance, asking another to "show him the way."
The lyric could relate to a specific person or to a higher power; Frampton kept it universal on purpose, but he did have a specific inspiration in mind. "I just met somebody that gave me such confidence," he told Melody Maker in 1976. "My life is completely changed. All the lyrics in that song are about me and her."
The original studio version of this song was released on the 1975 album Frampton, Peter's fourth. At the time, he had a modest following and was building a reputation as a stellar live performer. What he didn't have was a hit.
Frampton's label, A&M, had him compile a live album for his next release. He put one together with six songs - none of which were "Show Me The Way" - and played it for his label boss, Jerry Moss, who asked, "Where's the rest of it?"
With the go-ahead to make it a double album, Frampton included "Show Me The Way." Frampton Comes Alive was released in January 1976; by April, it sold a million copies in America.
"Show Me The Way" got the best listener response and the most airplay, so it was issued as the first single, climbing to #6 in May and giving Frampton his first hit. Frampton Comes Alive was the best-selling album of 1976 and eventually sold over 8 million copies.
(Songfacts.com)
Great reaction. “Frampton Comes Alive” was a massive hit album. Maybe do more from that album. Songs were long but great.
Do the whole live album start to finish. You will get a feel for what his concerts were like back then.
One of my favorite albums of ALL TIMES.
Artists back in the day would usually make 3 albums, then a fourth album would be a live greatest hits album.
This one went through the roof!!!🕶️🎼🎵🎶🎼 Frampton can play the guitar. He was down with Humble Pie..who also have a monster live album, Rockin' The Fillmore.
Pete Frampton used to be in the band humble pie back in the day.
Such a great guitar player. And 70s rock is the peak, the pinnacle, of rock in my opinion. Soooo many good bands.
His songs sound even better on the Frampton Comes Alive album. It is heads above the sound on the TV show.
One of the greatest feel good classic rock songs of all time and Peter Frampton was super talented and worked with many greats
Peter Framton's rise to success is one of the best stories you'll ever hear. he was relatively unknown, having released
a few records that went nowhere. hie biggest claim to fame at the time was with the group Humble Pie. Long story
short, he releases Frampton Comes Alive and becomes a world wide superstar. I wore my double LP out!
He was a teenage heartthrob in his teens in the band The Herd.
I love this sound now as much as when it came out on an eight-track tape.
The sound of the guitar comes up through the tube and changing the size and shape of your mouth changes the tone of the notes being played
Peter Frampton got introduced to the talk box when he played guitar on George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass." Another guitarist (pedal steel) there, Pete Drake, had a talk box ... in fact, it was the one he'd lent to Joe Walsh for "Rocky Mountain Way." He showed Frampton how to use it, and Frampton fell in love with the sound and decided to incorporate it into his own music.
Frampton came onto the scene like an explosion. No joke when people say this was everywhere and had such a great impact on seventies.
At one time his live album was the biggest selling record of all time. Popular is an understatement.
Gorgeous Peter Frampton, 70's music can't beat it
I was a teenager when this album came out and every song on the album was a hit!! He was a breath of fresh air for for all teens!! I think everyone I knew bought this album. The airwaves were filled with FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE!!
Frampton Comes Alive was a HUGE album when I was in college. I had the biggest crush on Peter. Great memories.
My favorite song by Frampton. He was at the top of the game when this came out.
My favorite also
Summer 1976, live at Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO: Sly and the Family Stone (they actually showed), Gary Wright, Steve Miller Band, and Peter Frampton. Good times.
That summer the line up in Chicago was Gary Wright, Frampton, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Yes. Great Show
Peter Frampton's dad "Owen Frampton" was my Art teacher at school. Not just mine. He was also David Bowie's art teacher. Not at the same time as he was mine. Which is both good and bad. I would have liked to be at school with David Bowie but if I had been, I would be a lot older than I am and maybe dead by now. Anyway, Owen Frampton was a truly lovely man and sparked my lifelong interest in photography.
I remember hearing about the connection.
Hi Mom & Dad!! Peter Frampton is extremely talented. Check out his early work with Humble Pie live Performance Rockin the Fillmore, "I Don't Need No Doctor", "I Walk On Gilded Splinters, etc...whole album is fire! ✌️ ☮️ ❤️🇱🇷🎸🎵🎼🎶
Humble Pie rocks (especially the Marriot/Frampton years). The Fillmore album is one of the greatest live rock albums ever
@@mvellis3863 Damn straight 🎵🎶🎼🎶🕶️🕶️
@@mvellis3863 Agree!
WOW! This brings back memories! Saw him in concert with Yes in San Diego when I was in high school! My first festival seating concert in a HUGE stadium. I was 16. Man, that was a LONG time ago! Good times!
Peter Frampton by no means was underrated. He was a phenomenon back in the 70s. Everybody loved him.
Peter Frampton, one of the greatest and most under-rated guitarists of my generation. He was recently diagnosed with a muscular disease which will eventually keep him from playing his beloved guitar. His final concert is here on yt. I have always owned a copy of Frampton Comes Alive, whether it be on LP, cassette or CD. A personal favorite of mine.
"I'M in you" is great!
Only Frampton could pull off a line like "I watch you when you're sleeping ooh and I wanna take your love"
Yes, you can talk using a talk box. Like Peter did when you reacted to “Do You Feel Like We Do”.
Great reaction!
The "talk box" was first popularized by country steel guitarist Pete Drake.
In the mid 70s this guy was a rock god. Got to see him in 1975 and again in the mid 90s. That wa wa sound is from a voice box he uses, there's a rubber/plastic tube taped to the microphone (at the 4:00 minute mark you can see it clearly). And yes, he's playing that live. No backing track or lip-synching.
Peter came here in 2019. We saw him outdoors here in K.C. at Starlight outdoor theater. His voice is a good today, as it was in the 70's. Heck, it's better.
I saw Peter live in 2018, and the women in the audience literally went insane! It was hard to hear over the screaming!
I am from the same South East London area as Peter and David Bowie( taught by Peter's Dad at Art College).
Heaven=Seeing Peter Live. Hell, Being there with thousands of screaming Women😀
Hell + was on a London train around 4 years ago, during a weekday, and noticed there were around 20 other passengers. All Women. All in Pairs and 4 years in and my ears haven't fully recovered from that, er,....experience🤣
I remember watching him on this show . And when " Frampton Comes Alive ". He also played at Clapton's Crossroads Festival .
"A talk box directs sound from the instrument into the musician's mouth by means of a plastic tube adjacent to a vocal microphone. The musician controls the modification of the instrument's sound by changing the shape of the mouth, "vocalizing" the instrument's output into a microphone."
If you go back and listen to "Do You Feel Like We Do" you can hear him saying actual words, e.g. "Do you feel like we do", "we're gonna have a good night", etc.
My favorite song off this album. Just has a carefree sound but it gives me the chills. Beautiful
My 2 older brothers listened to Frampton in the 70's. He has some good songs.
Anybody who listened to FM radio owned this album! He was that big back in the day.
Peter Frampton had is moment of celebrity where nobody was bigger, but the rest of his career left him terrible underrated. I've seen him live several times and his talent shines as bright as the sun.
The very first rock concert I went to was to see Peter Frampton at the Los Angeles Forum. I was 15.
There are songs that if played over and over, I can start to dislike, even though I liked them at first. My brother used to play this song day and night---but to my surprise I still loved hearing it. And I still do. Thanks for playing it.
I got to see him one summer evening in the 70s, at a stadium in DC. Now, for me, his music is synonymous with summer. Even though I went with a real a-hole of a boyfriend, it still brings back wonderful memories. Nostalgia.
1975🎵❤️ Lol..always remember the talk box!!!😀🎶I think it was my first album….bought it with babysitting money!!!
The sound of the guitar travels up a tube into his mouth where he shapes it into sounds/words which are then picked up by his vocal mic and sent out through the PA stsyem with the rest of the mix. TWRP does it with a keyboard for all their vocals.
I remember walking home from School with a small transistor radio in 1975 and this came on and it blew me away. Then the next year when I left school in 1976, I bought the Album Frampton come alive based on that track. I still play it today!!
With talk-boxes, you slightly bite down on the tube by the microphone and make vowel sounds with your mouth whilst playing the same notes on the guitar.
Nowadays, you can get digital pedals which approximate the same effect, but 'real' talk-boxes are a similar price and more versatile.
(if you're happy cleaning out the saliva from the tube lol).
Just saw him live. Even at 73 years old, his voice iss amazing and his guitar playing is perfect. And this guy has a muscular degenerative disease, walks out with a cane, and plays sitting on an office chair.
How many times did I hear this song, swimming in my pool with friends, during that summer? So many great memories.
I met Frampton in Austin in the early 80s. He stopped by the fitness club I was managing looking for a Racquetball game. We played for an hour or so. Good player. I assume he performed at one of the arenas around town that night. Chill guy.
Theere are many great live verisons of Lines On My Face, my favorite song by Peter.
This reminds me of sunsets on Indian Rocks beach in the 70s when I was a teenager! My husband and I went to see him at the Hard Rock Orlando about 10 years ago - he was just as good!
It’s called a a squawk box as he plays the guitar notes. He sings along, sort of humming its play together, guitar and voice.
man, that takes me back to a place and a time. this song, and Frampton, were the soundtrack of a generation.
I wish you guys could have been there, no matter what else was going on or not going on in your life, this was part of it back then, and it made it better!
When ever I watch I cry, it's so beautiful. 💓🎸.
Frampton was so huge in the day! he was the King for a while. check out "Baby I love your way" great tune
The 70's were great times, musically and otherwise!
I was a teen with the Frampton Comes Alive was HUGE! So much great music we had growing up in the 70's. You really need to cover the LIVE music. Absolutely fabulous music!
Peter Frampton's album called Frampton Comes Alive, was one of the highest selling albums ever.
This song, Peter Frampton and his Comes Alive album will always bring back great memories of hearing this on the radio as we were cruising around or playing the album with a bunch of friends.
he must play every note on the guitar as he "sings" through the talk box, it ain't easy
Everybody and their mama had that album Frampton Comes Alive back then can't believe it's been almost 50 years ago damn i'm old!
I was in a band during high school in the late 70's and made my own voice box with a section of 4" PVC, a funnel, a speaker and fiberglass. I don't remember what songs I used it with, but we probably had a Peter Frampton song or 2 in there.
Frampton Comes Alive is my favorite album of ALL time! ( This is from The Midnight Special)Every song is amazing! The vocals, the guitar playing, the talk box, keyboards....its's a must own album! And that Peter Frampton poster was on many bedroom walls,mine included! 😅
Only person in the world to skyrocket into fame from their "live" album (after several studio albums with all the same songs). Frampton Comes Alive is one of the best albums of the 70s and rock history in general.
A couple of years ago I was in a vintage guitar shop outside of Cincinnati when I look up...Holy shit! Peter Frampton!! He was the nicest, most pleasant guy (with an infectious laugh). No ego, just another guy in a guitar shop!
The Talk Box has a metal coil that vibrates when you play the guitar, those sound vibrations travel up and out of the tube. The tube is inserted just far enough into the mouth cavity for the changing shape of your mouth to modify/alter the sound of the guitar. That sound then has no place to go but back out of the mouth and into the microphone which gets amplified just like when his voice when he is singing. You don’t make any noise, just manipulate the guitar sound with the shape of your mouth. In certain cases, like “Do you feel, like we do” the effect is used to manipulate the guitar sound into words by mouthing the intended words to make the guitar seem to be “talking.” Often confused with the vocoder which came slightly later with the advent of the synthesizer and typically used in conjunction with keyboard. In that case the person would sing or say words into the mic/vocoder input and then then manipulate the sound of that voice and words electronically with the keyboard synth. This more clearly sounds like the words that were just spoken or sung but then modulated or synthesized and typically made to sound robotic or very futuristic techno.
Great Reaction and Peter should ALWAYS be seen LIVE...😀
Peter Frampton was the biggest thing on the planet from the mid to late 70's, everyone had his live album, "Frampton Comes Alive". When I saw David Bowie on his Glass Spider Tour in 1987, Peter Frampton was a featured guitarist, meaning he wasn't on stage for every song, and he was shorn of his golden locks. Quite a change from ten years earlier. But when he was hot, he was HOT!
Joe Walsh also used the talk-box a lot. 'Life's Been Good'.....I think came out around the same time as one of Frampton's first albums.
He's awesome but the other song that comes to mind is Stillwater's Mind Bender!
@@michaelwaterdragon Thank you. Couldn't remember the name of the group.
Frampton Comes Alive was a Monster Album. Peter Frampton was the hottest act going for about 3 or 4 years.
i was in the army stationed in germany when this album came out in 1975. pretty soon just about everyone in the barracks had this album.
This is great of course, and the live release of "Baby, I Love Your Way" from Frampton Comes Alive! tops it (and "I'm in You" is right up there)
Anything live by Peter Frampton is good, he was unique in the way that his live performances were always better than the album cuts
Can you imagine back then just sitting by a radio and all of a sudden for the first time Frampton Comes Alive comes on with this or Do You Feel Like We Do? Many a mind was blown!
Yep, mine was definitely blown!
The talk box is basically a tube that the sound of the guitar goes through that you put in your mouth. You can then shape the sound by moving your mouth to affect the sound and it is picked up by the microphone.
Frampton Comes Alive! If you were anywhere near a radio in the 70’s this is what you heard. There was a plethora of supreme music back in the day. And it’s still wowing every new person who takes a good listen to it nowadays, and I love that.
This is the only album that I have ever preferred live over studio.
And Cheap Trick Live at Budokan!
It's called a 'Talkbox'. That pipe that goes in his mouth is playing the guitar sound into his mouth and then it echos back out into the microphone. So he's "shaping" the sound of the guitar with his mouth.
This song put Peter Frampton on the map. His solo career took off after this . He played in Humble Pie before this .