Right after the talkbox part where he sings "Wellllll" and the band comes in full is one of the best moments in recorded rock history. Gives me goosebumps it's so good. And I think Bob Mayo's keyboard solo is hands down is one of the greatest keyboard solos of all time.
Yep the tension release from the simmering Talkbox section to the solo at the end is a masterclass in dynamics in my opinion. So much modern music seems to have zero dynamics at all.
There were so many moments of payoff in this song. The listener was constantly rewarded for sticking with it and it was altogether a complete ride. Epic song!
Unless you're Doug and you play your keyboard over all the best parts lol. I wish he wouldn't pick songs with musical solos, he always talks/plays over them.
Today I saw your reaction for the first time. Enjoined immensly your inteligent comments and also I had immediatly certain that you've got a good back ground on classic music: I saw reaction to Shine on You Crazy Diamond and Do You Feel Like We Do. I'm 56 years old and a rock lover all my life. However, as my father had a music (pianno) degree, I grow up listening my father playing Chopin, Mozart, Bach, and also had pianno lessons. I simply love music, all kind but it has to be good. Well composed, produced, performed and, since 1998, above all, without computers and autotune. Sorry for all this long comment but I just want to congratulate for your accurate information, your sensibility to rock being a classic professional. Both reactions were, to me, a pleasure to hear and, in Peter Frampton's reaction, your hands in the pianno, loved it. Thanking again for showing that, when we hear music with quality, its gender dosen't matter at all. So sorry for my miserable english and greatings from Portugal
Interesting point: Peter was a technical advisor to the film “Almost Famous” which has an AMAZING soundtrack. Peter taught Billy Crudup how to play guitar like a real rocker. He also has a cameo in the scene where Billy Crudup sells the Band Aids to Humble Pie for $50 and a case of Heinekin. Peter plays the Humble Pie road manager.
I'm having a bad day with chemo side effects today and, having just watched & listened to that with you Doug, it brought me to tears of joy. It just shows how music can lift the spirits when you're feeling down. Frampton Comes Alive is a classic album. Music makes me feel alive when I need that lift. I enjoyed your participation on keyboards, too, as you got lost in the moment. Thanks for the entertainment. PS I was lucky enough to see Peter Frampton back in 2003.
Frampton's guitar phrasing is so different from many others. Sings amazing. Seen him twice. And from all I've seen, just a really nice human being. Never seen anyone have as much fun on stage as he.
Yes, though Frampton loved Clapton/Cream and all the rest of the pentatonic dominant blues influenced players coming out Britain, but because he could see that would be the popular trend, he made a conscious effort early on to be different. Therefore, he turned to more jazz based blues players, such as Django, who his dad turned him on to, which led to others, like Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Kenny Burrell and non-guitarists such as Miles Davis. A mix of jazz, blues and rock. That combination inspired Frampton to create a unique style in which he often plays around the melody rather than hitting it straight on.
Completely agree. I've only seen him once, but he was having a ball the whole way through. One of those people who give the impression he'd carry on playing, even if it was to three people and a dog, just for the love of playing.
This song is the very definition of the mid/late seventies, for me; "...must have been a dream, I don't believe where I've been. Come on! Let's do it again!"
Even after first purchasing the Frampton Comes Alive double album in 1976 , i can honestly say that this song and the guitar work in particular ,some 48 years later still gives me goosebumps ! What a brilliant Band too ....how Bassist Stanley Sheldon manages to keep up with Peter Frampton 's incredible guitar work was monumental in its being ?
Not only one of the best live albums of all time, but one of the best SOUNDING live albums ever. Crank this one at home and you can almost imagine being at Winterland. 😊
This is my favorite live performance of any band, ever. This song in particular is a magical voyage that Peter and the band take us on with the audience. The audience is a part of the song, responding to his cues. Absolute perfection.
Fun Facts: Frampton's father, Owen, was the art teacher at his high school. Owen also taught a boy there, a couple years older than Peter, known then as David Jones (and later as David Bowie). Owen was an important early influence for Bowie. In 1987, Peter played on Bowie's album "Never Let Me Down" and played on the Glass Spider tour.
@patriciamorgan6545 Same here. My first Bowie concert was on the Let's Bowie Serious Moonlight tour. Followed by the subsequent Tonight and Glass Spider tours. That's when I first saw Frampton in concert. I later saw him on 2 club tours with his band- Frampton tour and Comes Alive 2 in the mid 1990's. I was working at Camelot Music those years. I began writing his record label and management to have his 1976 concert footage released on DVD. Because I, like many, was too young to see those shows because of its historical nature. It never happened.
after a couple of bottles of wine around 11 o'clock turn volume up to 11 and let my neighbours that this of one of the greatest ever written brings back memories of being at the Sydney Myer Music Bowl
Awesome, I had the privilege of living 4 houses down from John Siomos the drummer for Peter Frampton, from 1975 to 1979 have 2 broken cymbals of his. Got watch him all the time and even was able to play his kit. He was a great drummer.
I was 12 years old when this album came out. I was just floored. I begged my parents to buy it for me. I frantically peeled off the wrapping and put it on the turntable and played it from start to finish. It is one the few live albums that truly captures the energy and feeling of a artist at the top of their game. The band was such an amazing line up, you can hear how in sync they are together and that only comes from spending the time together. For me, this is the greatest live album of all time.
Maestro Doug! A 1 time ,live experience. I think it can't be repeated. Once in a lifetime.( i don't think the band could have done it either) One of the best captured live performance! IMHO
I saw Frampton at Madison Square Garden as my first concert at 14. It was amazing!! Left a huge impression on me. Lines on my Face, is one of my favorites of his songs.
Doug, you grasped the concept of this song... I loved your keyboard overplay. I've been listening to this album for decades, and it would be worth your time.
"Lines On My Face" is a must from this album. I was in sixth grade when I bought this album with my allowance money at the ol' TG&Y Dime Store. '76 was the Bicentennial year and so much great music was coming out in rock, funk, you name it! Seeing the adults and older kids partying like there was no tomorrow set the tone for what was to come for me and most kids I knew. It's just how it was. That 70's show in real life. Not always that funny, but oh so real. The whole album is killer there just isn't a bad cut on it. The sound track to coming of age...well at least starting to:)
About 20 years ago, when Circuit City was still open here...I committed retail mischief. Do You Feel Like We Do was playing on the local rock station, being broadcast on one of the display stereos. I went along the shelf and turned them all on and tuned them to the station, then cranked them all up. Didn't get kicked out... and to their credit they let it play. A fun memory for me. 😁✌️🎸🎹
Big Frampton fan here. He was a big thing when I was in high school. I love Frampton's phrasing when he solos! Sophisticated lines. But always melodic & in the pocket.
Yeah, Doug was really feeling himself with this one, I got a kick out of watching him improvising a piano solo lol. This video was every bit as entertaining as I thought it would be, I knew Doug would love this song!
Doug, the keyboardist was the late, great Bob Mayo, not "Bob May". His stellar Fender Rhodes electric piano work on this album was a huge influence on my playing and led to me plunking down some serious coin on a new Rhodes in 1979, which I still own. Bob's playing is sublime.
I graduated high school in '76. Saw him at my local community college before this album hit the charts! Humble Pie to Peter ... just brilliant and I'm old ... 🙂
Jealous, I turned 6 that year. My parents and subsequently my aunts and uncles were all young and as a result I was/am heavily influenced by the music of the 70s as much or more so than that of the 80s. I think 76 may be the greatest year for rock music ever, definitely one of the best for sure. I'm sad that I don't think they'll be new music this good ever again, but so glad we'll always have it to go back to time and again.
I get the feeling that Doug will be listening to this song again on his own time. Also. They would play this live version on my local radio station all the time back in the day.
Just the fact that this song inspires you to play along says it all. Absolutely hands down one of the top three songs of the rock and roll era. They didn't chop produce this, the songs were all a live take for the album. Unfortunately, Peter, until late, was never able to rebound off this success. It was, so to speak, his best achievement that could not be followed up. I agree, its hard to follow up perfection.
Doug- You would probably dig watching a live recording of this from 1975, Burt Sugarman's The Midnight Special. Helen Reddy was the host that night. Little different version than the album, but that just makes it more interesting.
It’s a dreadful shame that Peter is now suffering from a muscle wasting illness that is severely impacting his ability to play his guitar in the style he would like. He is now undertaking his final live tour (unless things improve for him). He has to sit down whilst performing as he can’t be sure he won’t fall over whilst playing. I’m just glad I got to see him in his heyday, but equally impressed that he’s still trying to make music.
It was so good to see you enjoying that song, and playing along like you were a meme bet of the band. I just wish you could do interviews, like you did on Annie Haslam, from Renaissance. I believe you would enjoy interviewing Peter Frampton and Jon Anderson too. Thanks for this episode.
I was in the same category -- Frampton was the guy that the kids I didn't like liked, back in the day. When "Frampton Comes Alive" dominated the airwaves in high school, I was not happy. It wasn't until many years later that I came to understand what a genius and talent he was.
I grew up listening to a lot of music and picked up the guitar pretty young but i distinctly remember listening to this song with my dad when i was around 10 (i'm 29 as of writing this) and it was the moment i realized i actually live for music, it is with music that i've felt the best feelings i've ever felt. Our own impact on the universe, something that wouldn't exist if we weren't a thing, and it moves us in ways no one can describe but everyone understands.. Man i just love Music!!
I have to say, I got a little teary when you were jamming with Frampton. This was my first true rock album growing up, and I just loved the positive energy. Kudos to the sound engineers and the producer for capturing such a perfect event, and yay to Frampton…… awesome!!
For those who don't know how a Talkbox works: it's an effect pedal with a long rubber tube. Activating the pedal turns off the signal to your amp and into a speaker at the end of the tube. You run the tube up your microphone stand so that when the tube is in your mouth, you use your mouth as a resonance chamber for your guitar. It's as much a vocal effect as it is a guitar effect.
By what criteria? I'd put Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous and Jethro Tull Bursting Out ahead of this album to be honest, but it's all a matter of personal taste and this album is certainly a monster.
‘Before the Flood’ by Dylan and the Band, and ‘Waiting for Columbus’ by Little Feat also need to be thrown into the conversation of any double live album releases. And Kiss Alive (Alive II is also great but technically only 3 sides live).
Umm, has everyone forgotten Allman Brothers Live At the Fillmore? I don't know if it reached #1 on any chart, but it's iconic and still my favorite live album EVER!
1976 was a great year for rock music. Aerosmith, AC/DC, ZZ Top, The Eagles, Bob Seger and many more. During my senior year in high school I had a lot of those on 8-track back then including this one. There's a great live version from the Midnight Special in '76 on TH-cam for your viewing pleasure.
I saw many of those bands back in the day. I live in NJ but would travel into NY for concerts. I saw Aerosmith in NY's Central Park backed up by Rory Gallagher. I saw ZZ Top at the Academy of Music, an old theater that has since been demolished. It was a random weeknight with the theatre only half full.
Excellent year...Boston debut Boston was a huge album, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers debut...Peter Frampton and his band really did well with this live gem.
@Doug Helvering Wikipedia has a great entry regarding the Talk Box. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box ). Built by the legendary Bob Heil, who previously designed sound equipment for The Who, Grateful Dead, Chaka Kahn, Barnstorm (Joe Walsh), the Eagles, and Humble Pie. One of the rear speaker cabinets and part of the mixing console used during The Who's "Quadraphenia Tour" is now displayed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!
The way the talk box works is so simple, and yet, so awesome. A small speaker is on the end of the tube that he puts in his mouth. So the guitar sound is actually playing into his mouth, and then a microphone is used to pick up the sound from inside his mouth. As opposed to a vocoder, which modulates the sound without actually playing it inside the mouth.
Interesting story. The guitar on the cover photo ,his favorite was lost in a plane crash in the south American jungle during the eighties ,he always missed playing it . Around 2000 some American back packers saw a guy playing it in some small community ,so the purchased it brought it back ,restored it .then contacted his management and presented it back to him after 2 decades !!! There may be footage of its emotional return to peter
Rick Beato recently posted a video that claims songs like this will not be made in the near future because the music industry has ceased making songs with a key change-let alone multiple ones!
i first heard this when i came out, still give me goosebumps now. one of the best rock songs of all time. i lucked out one night and got to mix monitors for him. total dream come true. Frampton is awesome.
Came home late one evening many years back, (totally tripping on some great LSD), Turned on the tee vee to listen to the late night music program and this song came on. The talk box effect got me. Along with Jeff Beck, using one in the song, "Full moon boogy" , was the only other time I'd heard a talk box effect in a song. Got the album the next day.
Doug was really feeling himself with this one, I got a kick out of watching him improvising a piano solo lol. This video was every bit as entertaining as I thought it would be, I knew Doug would love this song!
I was lucky enough to see Frampton's tour of this album at Mile High Stadium in Denver - Sunday #4 1976. The lineup included Gary Wright, Tommy Bolin, Steve Miller Band & Frampton as the headliner. Doug you should DEFINITELY check out the album, it is one of the best live rock albums ever released.
Damn, sounds like a great concert. I saw him with Lynyrd Skynyrd and 38 Special. I was lucky enough to be in the front row at that concert right in front of Peter.
There is quite a story around the guitar Frampton has on the album cover and was using at the time. To put in short, the band's gear was in a freight plane when it crashed and burned. Frampton was sure the guitar went up in smoke. but actually it did survive with some scorches. He eventually got it back after many years. There is a video available about it.
I first saw Peter Frampton play in 2010. Didn't know any of his songs except Baby I Love Your Way. He was opening for America and Chicago. I was there to see Chicago and they were great, but I was really impressed with Frampton and thought he was the highlight of the night. Excellent showmanship and really fun to listen to. Years later I finally got around to listening to Frampton Comes Alive and realised he'd always been that good. Sounded just as great in 1976 as he did 34 years later.
There was a Frampton poster on my dorm room my first year in college (it was my roommate’s). It was an amazing time to be young. Listened to the album on repeat. Thanks for bringing back great memories.
I pause @ 1:26 to say, I attended a concert at Constitution Hall located in Washington D.C. This concert featured - Gary Wright, opener, then, Peter Frampton, and, finally, Yes. It was a wonderful concert experience.
A true classic! Time doesn't dull the song, it's still timely. You were wondering about a talk box. The one I have has a heavy magnet speaker built inside a metal box with a switch to swap it from amp speaker to talk box speaker, and a hole in the top of it for the clear tygon (plastic) tubing which runs up to the mic. The guitar notes are funneled up the plastic tube into a mouth which is singing into the microphone. You don't sing with a talkbox, you just mouth the words. It's really a simple process. Joe Walsh has used one for years (now that I think about it, so have I. Sheesh! I hate getting old). Greg in TN 😀
I saw Frampton play with Bowie during the Glass Spider tour. I remember he worked in a few lines from this song somewhere. Bowie gave him a look, they were laughing. Great memories.
We used to sit up in the mountains above Los Angeles, looking down on the millions of lights listening to this very loud. Oh those 70's high school years were the best.
Epic reaction! Doug, I've been watching your reaction videos since the pandemics started, something like almost 3 years now, but I think I never reacted so deeply by your thoughts about a song like this one! It gave me joy to hear you jamming in pleasure while swinging through the wave of the groove produced by Peter, Bob's keyboard and the whole band! There's a chemistry there that can't be denied, and it was a pleasure for me to enjoy this with you now! I can say that tears of joy and ecstasy about this masterpiece and your reactions were dropped here lol Thank you for sharing with us such amazing and true experience!
Thanks Doug, I've listened to Frampton Comes Alive for decades on vinyl, and on CD for a high volume blast in the car whilst commuting across the UK's roads. I really enjoyed your appreciation and your musical knowledge, Frampton underrated all round. Cheers.
I don't know if anyone outside Great Britain remembers this, but before his success he was touring with his band Camel. Unfortunately, at the same time Peter Bardens was touring with his group, also called Camel. So the local radio rock show on Saturday was announcing whichever band was playing in the area that week on the Gig Guide and having to remember to insert the name of whichever Peter it was beforehand. It's a strange thing to remember but its stuck in my memory for almost 50 years.
Rhodes and 1970s organs etc: I picked up a Roland VR09 - it has gorgeous vintage instrument patches, drawbars, and a leslie too. So much damn fun if you're in the market. The piano fills you were adding near the end gave the passage some meat, very nice. Yes, "I want to *thank you" lol
Such a great song! I always use to have the jukebox play this while I was playing darts on a team. My entire team groaned when it came on because of its length and that it came from me. lol
Saw Peter in the 90's. He played a few of the new songs, then essentially said, "You just want to her the stuff from when I had the pinkish hair..." the lights went pink and he played hits for the secomd set. His voice hadn't changed a bit and even the kids (30 years later) in the audience sang along. The guy had nothing left to prove and just wanted to entertain. One of my favorite concerts ever.
Simply, this song makes me happy. Every time I hear it. But... You're listening to the #1 album of 1976, a song about indulging and enjoying life in every sense, waking the next day unsure exactly what happened but willing and ready to do it again, and you're NOT toking up or even sipping? Doug! C'mon man! :)
Back at it again with my same recommendation as the last however many videos: I would like to recommend Alter Bridge’s latest epic Fable Of The Silent Son. It’s a masterpiece. From the way I understand it, the Silent Son is Myles Kennedy and the “Fable” is his battles with depression and his own inner demons that were so prevalent in his work (especially on their darkest album ABIII) and life. The song is a beautiful call to arms to fight for your own happiness and continue living with the aid of those who have walked your path before. It’s the “you’re not alone” speech without the preachyness and a dual guitar solo
I heard an interview with Peter Frampton (some years ago) in which he said one of the weird things from this album - particularly this song - was that after it was released, it was like the audience also learned their parts. On subsequent tours when he played it, regardless of where he was, the crowd would react in the same way, at the same points in the song(s).
This cut of this show or one quite similar is available on YT as a concert video. Aside from being able to watch as he employs the talk box, you're able to get a look at how much FUN PF had while performing this piece. Worth checking out for the view. Thanks for choosing this and really, really thanks for your obvious love of music -
Right after the talkbox part where he sings "Wellllll" and the band comes in full is one of the best moments in recorded rock history. Gives me goosebumps it's so good. And I think Bob Mayo's keyboard solo is hands down is one of the greatest keyboard solos of all time.
I've been listening to this since I was 10 years old. It never gets old. You stay parked in your car to let the song run to end.
Absolutely!
Yes! That's where all the old heads would crank their 8tracks, Sparkomatic of course🤘
The outtro solo is just an absolute all-timer. The Talkbox gets the press, but the guitar solo is IT.
Yep the tension release from the simmering Talkbox section to the solo at the end is a masterclass in dynamics in my opinion. So much modern music seems to have zero dynamics at all.
Right on
Flawless and Epic!
There were so many moments of payoff in this song. The listener was constantly rewarded for sticking with it and it was altogether a complete ride. Epic song!
Unless you're Doug and you play your keyboard over all the best parts lol. I wish he wouldn't pick songs with musical solos, he always talks/plays over them.
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@somethingblue Find the original track/video, don't kinda complain here! I believe this IS The Daily Doug. Am I wrong?? (Get my point, Blue?)
Today I saw your reaction for the first time. Enjoined immensly your inteligent comments and also I had immediatly certain that you've got a good back ground on classic music: I saw reaction to Shine on You Crazy Diamond and Do You Feel Like We Do.
I'm 56 years old and a rock lover all my life. However, as my father had a music (pianno) degree, I grow up listening my father playing Chopin, Mozart, Bach, and also had pianno lessons. I simply love music, all kind but it has to be good. Well composed, produced, performed and, since 1998, above all, without computers and autotune.
Sorry for all this long comment but I just want to congratulate for your accurate information, your sensibility to rock being a classic professional. Both reactions were, to me, a pleasure to hear and, in Peter Frampton's reaction, your hands in the pianno, loved it.
Thanking again for showing that, when we hear music with quality, its gender dosen't matter at all. So sorry for my miserable english and greatings from Portugal
@@mariadorosarioalvesrodrigu6610 Your English is fine. Thank you for contributing to the discussion.
Interesting point: Peter was a technical advisor to the film “Almost Famous” which has an AMAZING soundtrack. Peter taught Billy Crudup how to play guitar like a real rocker. He also has a cameo in the scene where Billy Crudup sells the Band Aids to Humble Pie for $50 and a case of Heinekin. Peter plays the Humble Pie road manager.
The solo after the talk-box ends just gives me goose bumps.
The end solo in this song is the reason I went and got guitar lessons. It is shattering
I'm having a bad day with chemo side effects today and, having just watched & listened to that with you Doug, it brought me to tears of joy. It just shows how music can lift the spirits when you're feeling down. Frampton Comes Alive is a classic album. Music makes me feel alive when I need that lift. I enjoyed your participation on keyboards, too, as you got lost in the moment. Thanks for the entertainment. PS I was lucky enough to see Peter Frampton back in 2003.
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I hope you're feeling better
I absolutely love that you were just jamming along with this one ... I mean, one just cannot help oneself when the song has such a great groove
Frampton's guitar phrasing is so different from many others. Sings amazing. Seen him twice. And from all I've seen, just a really nice human being. Never seen anyone have as much fun on stage as he.
Yes, though Frampton loved Clapton/Cream and all the rest of the pentatonic dominant blues influenced players coming out Britain, but because he could see that would be the popular trend, he made a conscious effort early on to be different. Therefore, he turned to more jazz based blues players, such as Django, who his dad turned him on to, which led to others, like Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Kenny Burrell and non-guitarists such as Miles Davis. A mix of jazz, blues and rock. That combination inspired Frampton to create a unique style in which he often plays around the melody rather than hitting it straight on.
And I agree wholeheartedly with your other comments as well. One of the nicest, kindest people ever.
Completely agree. I've only seen him once, but he was having a ball the whole way through. One of those people who give the impression he'd carry on playing, even if it was to three people and a dog, just for the love of playing.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
@@davidhills3100 I agree totally. I think he'd play for one person. Very grounded and compassionate man.
This song is the very definition of the mid/late seventies, for me; "...must have been a dream, I don't believe where I've been. Come on! Let's do it again!"
Even after first purchasing the Frampton Comes Alive double album in 1976 , i can honestly say that this song and the guitar work in particular ,some 48 years later still gives me goosebumps ! What a brilliant Band too ....how Bassist Stanley Sheldon manages to keep up with Peter Frampton 's incredible guitar work was monumental in its being ?
Not only one of the best live albums of all time, but one of the best SOUNDING live albums ever. Crank this one at home and you can almost imagine being at Winterland. 😊
All of the sounds are so crisp. love the keyboards, the guitar and of course the talk box but the high-hat sounds so good through it all.
The ending solo is one of rocks greatest moments.
Yup! Don't think Doug heard it though 😂
@@andyrichardson9981 Someone take his piano away...lol....
You nailed it.
This is my favorite live performance of any band, ever. This song in particular is a magical voyage that Peter and the band take us on with the audience. The audience is a part of the song, responding to his cues. Absolute perfection.
I remember this being the biggest thing happening in music in 1976 and as a 13 year old music head, this was the coolest album!!!
Fun Facts: Frampton's father, Owen, was the art teacher at his high school. Owen also taught a boy there, a couple years older than Peter, known then as David Jones (and later as David Bowie). Owen was an important early influence for Bowie. In 1987, Peter played on Bowie's album "Never Let Me Down" and played on the Glass Spider tour.
Huh, Thats fun
I'm fortunate to have seen Bowie with Frampton on that Glass Spider tour. One of the most memorable concerts I've seen.
@patriciamorgan6545 Same here. My first Bowie concert was on the Let's Bowie Serious Moonlight tour. Followed by the subsequent Tonight and Glass Spider tours. That's when I first saw Frampton in concert. I later saw him on 2 club tours with his band- Frampton tour and Comes Alive 2 in the mid 1990's. I was working at Camelot Music those years. I began writing his record label and management to have his 1976 concert footage released on DVD. Because I, like many, was too young to see those shows because of its historical nature. It never happened.
I saw that tour ...crazy staging
after a couple of bottles of wine around 11 o'clock turn volume up to 11 and let my neighbours that this of one of the greatest ever written brings back memories of being at the Sydney Myer Music Bowl
Awesome, I had the privilege of living 4 houses down from John Siomos the drummer for Peter Frampton, from 1975 to 1979 have 2 broken cymbals of his. Got watch him all the time and even was able to play his kit. He was a great drummer.
Great breakdown, Doug. I grew up during this era. Yes, validation but also having no regret as he says, "Let's do it again."
I was one of the people lucky enough to be at the show at winterland in San Francisco where he recorded part of the album it was an outstanding show.
I was 12 years old when this album came out. I was just floored. I begged my parents to buy it for me. I frantically peeled off the wrapping and put it on the turntable and played it from start to finish. It is one the few live albums that truly captures the energy and feeling of a artist at the top of their game. The band was such an amazing line up, you can hear how in sync they are together and that only comes from spending the time together. For me, this is the greatest live album of all time.
Maestro Doug! A 1 time ,live experience. I think it can't be repeated. Once in a lifetime.( i don't think the band could have done it either) One of the best captured live performance! IMHO
I saw Frampton at Madison Square Garden as my first concert at 14. It was amazing!! Left a huge impression on me. Lines on my Face, is one of my favorites of his songs.
Doug, you grasped the concept of this song... I loved your keyboard overplay. I've been listening to this album for decades, and it would be worth your time.
The ability of the rhythm section to just stay in that pocket and keep pace for almost 8 min always amazes me.
"Lines On My Face" is a must from this album. I was in sixth grade when I bought this album with my allowance money at the ol' TG&Y Dime Store. '76 was the Bicentennial year and so much great music was coming out in rock, funk, you name it! Seeing the adults and older kids partying like there was no tomorrow set the tone for what was to come for me and most kids I knew. It's just how it was. That 70's show in real life. Not always that funny, but oh so real. The whole album is killer there just isn't a bad cut on it. The sound track to coming of age...well at least starting to:)
Just want you to know how much I absolutely enjoyed this video. Thanks for more great content as always.
Met Frampton at my work several years ago and talked for a bit.
For the record, Peter is a SUPER NICE GUY.
…just wanted put that out there… tx
Bob Mayo’s solo (rumored overdub or not) is perhaps the only example of advanced jazz blues playing of any hit song . Outstanding!
This is truly a beautiful piece of music brother Doug...Ty for sharing this
The whole album is amazing
It still is!
Just turned 61 and this album was a big part of my teen years, and is still on my playlist
About 20 years ago, when Circuit City was still open here...I committed retail mischief. Do You Feel Like We Do was playing on the local rock station, being broadcast on one of the display stereos. I went along the shelf and turned them all on and tuned them to the station, then cranked them all up. Didn't get kicked out... and to their credit they let it play. A fun memory for me. 😁✌️🎸🎹
Sounds fantastic
Big Frampton fan here. He was a big thing when I was in high school. I love Frampton's phrasing when he solos! Sophisticated lines. But always melodic & in the pocket.
The audience also played such a huge part in the over-all performance on this album. They didn't cut them off...they let the audience play on.
Great comment
Winterland in San Francisco
The audience sounds were dubbed over on this album lol
Your reaction to this song was the reason I watch these type of videos. Thank you. Love your channel.
Yeah, Doug was really feeling himself with this one, I got a kick out of watching him improvising a piano solo lol. This video was every bit as entertaining as I thought it would be, I knew Doug would love this song!
Doug, the keyboardist was the late, great Bob Mayo, not "Bob May". His stellar Fender Rhodes electric piano work on this album was a huge influence on my playing and led to me plunking down some serious coin on a new Rhodes in 1979, which I still own. Bob's playing is sublime.
Frampton Comes Alive was so successful, it literally changed the music industry.
I graduated high school in '76. Saw him at my local community college before this album hit the charts! Humble Pie to Peter ... just brilliant and I'm old ... 🙂
Jealous, I turned 6 that year. My parents and subsequently my aunts and uncles were all young and as a result I was/am heavily influenced by the music of the 70s as much or more so than that of the 80s. I think 76 may be the greatest year for rock music ever, definitely one of the best for sure. I'm sad that I don't think they'll be new music this good ever again, but so glad we'll always have it to go back to time and again.
@@joelhammond4162 The same year, at the same college I also saw America ... damn they were good! Amazing sound and performances for a gymnasium ...
I get the feeling that Doug will be listening to this song again on his own time.
Also. They would play this live version on my local radio station all the time back in the day.
Just the fact that this song inspires you to play along says it all. Absolutely hands down one of the top three songs of the rock and roll era. They didn't chop produce this, the songs were all a live take for the album. Unfortunately, Peter, until late, was never able to rebound off this success. It was, so to speak, his best achievement that could not be followed up. I agree, its hard to follow up perfection.
Dude I so enjoyed this today love you great keyboards
Doug- You would probably dig watching a live recording of this from 1975, Burt Sugarman's The Midnight Special. Helen Reddy was the host that night. Little different version than the album, but that just makes it more interesting.
Frampton's guitar solos in this tune are excellent! Bob Mayo was a damn good keyboard player. One of the great double albums of all time!
One of my best loved music. Thank you Doug and Peter, I'll put on and play my vinyl right now.
It’s a dreadful shame that Peter is now suffering from a muscle wasting illness that is severely impacting his ability to play his guitar in the style he would like.
He is now undertaking his final live tour (unless things improve for him). He has to sit down whilst performing as he can’t be sure he won’t fall over whilst playing.
I’m just glad I got to see him in his heyday, but equally impressed that he’s still trying to make music.
I've seen Peter in concert 18 times including the Frampton Comes Alive Tour in Miami at the Baseball stadium. He's still fantastic
Saw him at the Boathouse in Norfolk Va in 96. Held only about 400 people. Hell of a show. Bucket list concert to see.
This album epitomises the 70’s for me, played it to death at the time, a classic!
It was so good to see you enjoying that song, and playing along like you were a meme bet of the band. I just wish you could do interviews, like you did on Annie Haslam, from Renaissance. I believe you would enjoy interviewing Peter Frampton and Jon Anderson too. Thanks for this episode.
I was in the same category -- Frampton was the guy that the kids I didn't like liked, back in the day. When "Frampton Comes Alive" dominated the airwaves in high school, I was not happy. It wasn't until many years later that I came to understand what a genius and talent he was.
The crowd response after that bombastic last note sends chill down my spine every time
I grew up listening to a lot of music and picked up the guitar pretty young but i distinctly remember listening to this song with my dad when i was around 10 (i'm 29 as of writing this) and it was the moment i realized i actually live for music, it is with music that i've felt the best feelings i've ever felt. Our own impact on the universe, something that wouldn't exist if we weren't a thing, and it moves us in ways no one can describe but everyone understands.. Man i just love Music!!
I've seen him in concert 3 times and got to meet him twice. Such a humble guy and so talented
I have to say, I got a little teary when you were jamming with Frampton. This was my first true rock album growing up, and I just loved the positive energy. Kudos to the sound engineers and the producer for capturing such a perfect event, and yay to Frampton…… awesome!!
For those who don't know how a Talkbox works: it's an effect pedal with a long rubber tube. Activating the pedal turns off the signal to your amp and into a speaker at the end of the tube. You run the tube up your microphone stand so that when the tube is in your mouth, you use your mouth as a resonance chamber for your guitar. It's as much a vocal effect as it is a guitar effect.
A double live album at #1. That'll never happen again.
By what criteria? I'd put Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous and Jethro Tull Bursting Out ahead of this album to be honest, but it's all a matter of personal taste and this album is certainly a monster.
@@emjem99 #1 best selling album.
‘Before the Flood’ by Dylan and the Band, and ‘Waiting for Columbus’ by Little Feat also need to be thrown into the conversation of any double live album releases. And Kiss Alive (Alive II is also great but technically only 3 sides live).
@@sledzeppelin Lol. Sales figures aren't a matter of personal taste, Earl Grey
Umm, has everyone forgotten Allman Brothers Live At the Fillmore? I don't know if it reached #1 on any chart, but it's iconic and still my favorite live album EVER!
1976 was a great year for rock music. Aerosmith, AC/DC, ZZ Top, The Eagles, Bob Seger and many more.
During my senior year in high school I had a lot of those on 8-track back then including this one.
There's a great live version from the Midnight Special in '76 on TH-cam for your viewing pleasure.
I saw many of those bands back in the day. I live in NJ but would travel into NY for concerts. I saw Aerosmith in NY's Central Park backed up by Rory Gallagher. I saw ZZ Top at the Academy of Music, an old theater that has since been demolished. It was a random weeknight with the theatre only half full.
Excellent year...Boston debut Boston was a huge album, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers debut...Peter Frampton and his band really did well with this live gem.
I had this one on a 45 back in the day. The B-side was cute, but this track was simply epic. BTW, your improvisational pianisms are right on, dude!! 🙂
@Doug Helvering Wikipedia has a great entry regarding the Talk Box. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box ). Built by the legendary Bob Heil, who previously designed sound equipment for The Who, Grateful Dead, Chaka Kahn, Barnstorm (Joe Walsh), the Eagles, and Humble Pie. One of the rear speaker cabinets and part of the mixing console used during The Who's "Quadraphenia Tour" is now displayed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!
It's that modal approach to soloing combined with unique phrasing, and that F9 in the hook that makes this a classic.
Great, this has always been one of my favourites, Peter Frampton is one of the most under rated guitarists and singers of our time
The way the talk box works is so simple, and yet, so awesome.
A small speaker is on the end of the tube that he puts in his mouth. So the guitar sound is actually playing into his mouth, and then a microphone is used to pick up the sound from inside his mouth.
As opposed to a vocoder, which modulates the sound without actually playing it inside the mouth.
Interesting story. The guitar on the cover photo ,his favorite was lost in a plane crash in the south American jungle during the eighties ,he always missed playing it . Around 2000 some American back packers saw a guy playing it in some small community ,so the purchased it brought it back ,restored it .then contacted his management and presented it back to him after 2 decades !!! There may be footage of its emotional return to peter
Peter proves his skill on this live album. Incredible performances on all of the songs! Thanks for playing this one!!
Rick Beato recently posted a video that claims songs like this will not be made in the near future because the music industry has ceased making songs with a key change-let alone multiple ones!
i first heard this when i came out, still give me goosebumps now. one of the best rock songs of all time. i lucked out one night and got to mix monitors for him. total dream come true. Frampton is awesome.
Came home late one evening many years back, (totally tripping on some great LSD), Turned on the tee vee to listen to the late night music program and this song came on. The talk box effect got me. Along with Jeff Beck, using one in the song, "Full moon boogy" , was the only other time I'd heard a talk box effect in a song. Got the album the next day.
A very underrated guitarist. Love the guitar tone. Sad to hear he has had to stop touring.
I met him once.
Quite the gentleman.
Quite the guitarist.
I bought this LP at a used record store a few years ago. It's faded and scratchy. It smells like someone's old, moldy recroom. It's perfect!
Doug was really feeling himself with this one, I got a kick out of watching him improvising a piano solo lol. This video was every bit as entertaining as I thought it would be, I knew Doug would love this song!
Seen them August 30, 1976, SLC, UT on the Frampton Comes Alive tour. Great concert to attend when I was in high school.
Saw Peter back in 2010; Orange Beach, AL. He played this track for 22 mins! Awesome. And he opened for Steve Miller Band, epic night!
I was lucky enough to see Frampton's tour of this album at Mile High Stadium in Denver - Sunday #4 1976. The lineup included Gary Wright, Tommy Bolin, Steve Miller Band & Frampton as the headliner.
Doug you should DEFINITELY check out the album, it is one of the best live rock albums ever released.
Damn, sounds like a great concert. I saw him with Lynyrd Skynyrd and 38 Special. I was lucky enough to be in the front row at that concert right in front of Peter.
There is quite a story around the guitar Frampton has on the album cover and was using at the time. To put in short, the band's gear was in a freight plane when it crashed and burned. Frampton was sure the guitar went up in smoke. but actually it did survive with some scorches. He eventually got it back after many years. There is a video available about it.
In encourage Doug and anyone else to look up the story of his guitar. It's here on YT. Fascinating.
I first saw Peter Frampton play in 2010. Didn't know any of his songs except Baby I Love Your Way. He was opening for America and Chicago. I was there to see Chicago and they were great, but I was really impressed with Frampton and thought he was the highlight of the night. Excellent showmanship and really fun to listen to. Years later I finally got around to listening to Frampton Comes Alive and realised he'd always been that good. Sounded just as great in 1976 as he did 34 years later.
Saw Peter on that same tour in Sydney. One of the best concert combinations ever.
Usually it's the other way around "sounded just as good as back in the day" - loved your comment.
There was a Frampton poster on my dorm room my first year in college (it was my roommate’s). It was an amazing time to be young. Listened to the album on repeat. Thanks for bringing back great memories.
I pause @ 1:26 to say, I attended a concert at Constitution Hall located in Washington D.C. This concert featured - Gary Wright, opener, then, Peter Frampton, and, finally, Yes. It was a wonderful concert experience.
A true classic! Time doesn't dull the song, it's still timely.
You were wondering about a talk box. The one I have has a heavy magnet speaker built inside a metal box with a switch to swap it from amp speaker to talk box speaker, and a hole in the top of it for the clear tygon (plastic) tubing which runs up to the mic. The guitar notes are funneled up the plastic tube into a mouth which is singing into the microphone. You don't sing with a talkbox, you just mouth the words. It's really a simple process. Joe Walsh has used one for years (now that I think about it, so have I. Sheesh! I hate getting old).
Greg in TN 😀
I saw Frampton play with Bowie during the Glass Spider tour. I remember he worked in a few lines from this song somewhere. Bowie gave him a look, they were laughing. Great memories.
We used to sit up in the mountains above Los Angeles, looking down on the millions of lights listening to this very loud. Oh those 70's high school years were the best.
Epic reaction! Doug, I've been watching your reaction videos since the pandemics started, something like almost 3 years now, but I think I never reacted so deeply by your thoughts about a song like this one! It gave me joy to hear you jamming in pleasure while swinging through the wave of the groove produced by Peter, Bob's keyboard and the whole band! There's a chemistry there that can't be denied, and it was a pleasure for me to enjoy this with you now! I can say that tears of joy and ecstasy about this masterpiece and your reactions were dropped here lol
Thank you for sharing with us such amazing and true experience!
Thanks Doug, I've listened to Frampton Comes Alive for decades on vinyl, and on CD for a high volume blast in the car whilst commuting across the UK's roads. I really enjoyed your appreciation and your musical knowledge, Frampton underrated all round. Cheers.
This was from back when you would put on a record and listen to a whole side. At a party, no one would cut this off part way through.
Great stuff, glad you enjoyed it was great to have you playing along too 👍
You reading a skillshare mid roll ad brings a tear to my eye 🥲 so happy to see you keep growing, Doug!!
A great voice box song. A favorite of mine from Peter Frampton.
Listen to 'The Lodger' and research the history behind the song. Saw him live at his Farewell Tour in the Royal albert Hall last Nov. Amazing!
I don't know if anyone outside Great Britain remembers this, but before his success he was touring with his band Camel. Unfortunately, at the same time Peter Bardens was touring with his group, also called Camel. So the local radio rock show on Saturday was announcing whichever band was playing in the area that week on the Gig Guide and having to remember to insert the name of whichever Peter it was beforehand. It's a strange thing to remember but its stuck in my memory for almost 50 years.
Amazing, great to hear that again..
Rhodes and 1970s organs etc: I picked up a Roland VR09 - it has gorgeous vintage instrument patches, drawbars, and a leslie too. So much damn fun if you're in the market. The piano fills you were adding near the end gave the passage some meat, very nice.
Yes, "I want to *thank you" lol
Such a great song! I always use to have the jukebox play this while I was playing darts on a team. My entire team groaned when it came on because of its length and that it came from me. lol
Saw Peter in the 90's. He played a few of the new songs, then essentially said, "You just want to her the stuff from when I had the pinkish hair..." the lights went pink and he played hits for the secomd set. His voice hadn't changed a bit and even the kids (30 years later) in the audience sang along. The guy had nothing left to prove and just wanted to entertain. One of my favorite concerts ever.
My three favorite guitar solos are all in this one song.
Simply, this song makes me happy. Every time I hear it. But... You're listening to the #1 album of 1976, a song about indulging and enjoying life in every sense, waking the next day unsure exactly what happened but willing and ready to do it again, and you're NOT toking up or even sipping? Doug! C'mon man! :)
Back at it again with my same recommendation as the last however many videos: I would like to recommend Alter Bridge’s latest epic Fable Of The Silent Son. It’s a masterpiece. From the way I understand it, the Silent Son is Myles Kennedy and the “Fable” is his battles with depression and his own inner demons that were so prevalent in his work (especially on their darkest album ABIII) and life. The song is a beautiful call to arms to fight for your own happiness and continue living with the aid of those who have walked your path before. It’s the “you’re not alone” speech without the preachyness and a dual guitar solo
I heard an interview with Peter Frampton (some years ago) in which he said one of the weird things from this album - particularly this song - was that after it was released, it was like the audience also learned their parts. On subsequent tours when he played it, regardless of where he was, the crowd would react in the same way, at the same points in the song(s).
That ending solo is an epic moment in rock and roll history!
This cut of this show or one quite similar is available on YT as a concert video. Aside from being able to watch as he employs the talk box, you're able to get a look at how much FUN PF had while performing this piece. Worth checking out for the view.
Thanks for choosing this and really, really thanks for your obvious love of music -