Peter Frampton
Frampton Comes Alive
A & M
PR 3703
(1978)
Rock/Pop
LP, 6
Tracks, 40:22
Length
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01 |
Show Me The Way |
Peter Frampton |
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04:35 |
02 |
Baby, I Love Your Way |
Peter Frampton |
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04:37 |
03 |
Shine On |
Peter Frampton |
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03:29 |
04 |
Jumping Jack Flash |
Peter Frampton |
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07:21 |
05 |
Do You Feel Like We Do |
Peter Frampton; Mick Gallagher; John Siomos; Rick Wills |
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13:47 |
06 |
(I'll Give You) Money |
Peter Frampton |
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06:33 |
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Packaging |
Picture Disc Sleeve |
Live |
Yes |
Sound |
Stereo |
Extras |
Picture Disc |
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Guitar |
Peter Frampton |
Guitar |
Bob Mayo |
Bass |
Stanley Sheldon |
Drums |
John Siomos |
Producer |
Peter Frampton |
Engineer |
Eddie Kramer; Ray Thompson |
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Index |
#
1190 |
Owner |
Dave |
Tags |
Rock & Roll, Pop Rock |
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Purchased |
New |
Packaging Notes |
Limited edition |
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At the time of its release, Frampton Comes Alive! was an anomaly, a multi-million-selling (mid-priced) double LP by an artist who had previously never burned up the charts with his long-players in any spectacular way. The biggest-selling live album of all time, it made Peter Frampton a household word and generated a monster hit single in "Show Me the Way." And the reason why is easy to hear: the Herd/Humble Pie graduate packed one hell of a punch on-stage -- where he was obviously the most comfortable -- and, in fact, the live versions of "Show Me the Way," "Do You Feel Like I Do," "Something's Happening," "Shine On," and other album rock staples are much more inspired, confident, and hard-hitting than the studio versions. [The 1999 reissue in A&M's "Remastered Classics" (31454-0930-2) series is a considerable improvement over the original double CD or double LP in terms of sound -- the highs are significantly more lustrous, the guitars crunch and soar, and the bottom end really thunders, and so you get a genuine sense of the power of Frampton's live set, at least the heavier parts of his set, rather than the compressed and flat sonic profile of the old double-disc version. Frampton and the band sound significantly closer as well, even on the softer songs such as "Wind of Change," and the disc is impressive listening even a quarter century later. Of course, one must take this all with a grain of salt as a concert document -- as was later revealed, there was considerable studio doctoring of the raw live tapes, a phenomenon that set the stage for such unofficial hybrid works as Bruce Springsteen's Live/1975-85 and countless others.]