Frampton Comes Alive! | 
| Artist: Peter Frampton
Label: A&M
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Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 5831
Format: Live, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 540930
UPC: 731454093026
EAN: 0731454093026
ASIN: B000009HF2
Release Date: July 28, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Something's Happening | | • | Doobie Wah | | • | Show Me The Way | | • | It's A Plain Shame | | • | All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side) | | • | Wind Of Change | | • | Baby, I Love Your Way | | • | I Wanna Go To The Sun | | • | Penny For Your Thoughts | | • | (I'll Give) You Money | | • | Shine On | | • | Jumping Jack Flash | | • | Lines On My Face | | • | Do You Feel Like We Do |
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If you were challenged to name five rock albums that epitomized the '70s, Frampton Comes Alive! should probably top the list. Former Humble Pie guitarist Peter Frampton recorded a few perfectly fine albums with his band Frampton's Camel, but it wasn't until some of those tracks were recorded at a live performance in San Francisco and released as Frampton Comes Alive! that he became a household name. Buoyant pop, sentimental ballads, arena rock--this album has it all. The double-LP package set sales records and contained three bona fide radio hits ("Baby, I Love Your Way," "Show Me the Way," and "Do You Feel Like We Do?"), one of which, shockingly enough, was over 14 minutes long. No wonder that, to many, the two-and-a-half-minute songs of the Damned and the Sex Pistols felt like a breath of fresh air a year or two later. --Lorry Fleming
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| Customer Reviews: Read 93 more reviews...
 70's Touchstone August 14, 2000
Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
Frampton Comes Alive came out of nowhere to become one of the biggest albums of all time. Peter Frampton released several albums in the early to mid 70's, a couple of which sold respectively. When this album was released in early '76, it exploded and stayed in the top ten for over a year. The album offers something for everybody from straight forward rockers like "It's A Plain Shame", "Something's Happening" & "Doobie Wah" to ballads like "Baby, I Love Your Way" & "Show Me The Way" to extended jams like "I Wanna Go To The Sun", "Lines On My Face" & "Do You Feel Like We Do?". It also has that voice-box. Frampton is a great guitar player and an energetic performer and those traits didn't always come across on his studio albums. They were front & center on the live album and people tapped into that. Frampton never again reached the heights he reached with this album, but it stands today as a touchstone of 70's rock music.
 Classic Frampton! September 29, 2000
W. Langan (the end of the world to your town!)
17 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is Peter Frampton in his prime! I had purchased a copy on CD last year and was impressed by the sound quality. Peter Frampton's guitar playing is one-of-a-kind. He's also a great acoustic guitar player, as shown on "Winds of Change" and "Penny for Your Thoughts". "Doobie Wah" uses the wah-wah pedal and borrows a lot from the Doobie Brothers style. "It's a Plain Shame" is as Frampton calls it "an oldie but a goodie" with more great guitar work. Keyboardist Bob Mayo also does a good job on "Baby I Love Your Way", "I Wanna Go to the Sun", and "Do You Feel". Back in 1976, a DJ described this as "the best selling live album". Listen for yourself to hear why.
Vinyl Memories January 8, 2007
John P. Morgan (Beautiful San Dimas, CA)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Ahhhhhh...1976...America was celebrating its 200th birthday, Farah Fawcett hairdos were all the rage, everyone wore either pooka shells or a mood ring (or both) and this album was EVERYWHERE.
I was eleven years old.
I remember sitting in the garage of my aunt's house listening to this album with my significantly older cousins. We'd have the garage door shut and Mike would light incense so that his mom, my aunt wouldn't smell the.....uhm, the biscuits that we were baking, in the garage...well, maybe it wasn't biscuits, but something was getting baked.
I just remember shutting my eyes while the music was going and feelung like everything was just this weird and wonderful dream. The music just kept on going and going even though I knew that my cousin periodically pulled himself up from the avocado colored beanbag he was sitting on to change the record. This music just seemed to register into my pre-teen brain. It even made me want to take guitar lessons even though my dad insisted that I should learn a more "practical" instrument first and then move on to the guitar.
Since when is the accordian practical?
But I never learned to play either of those instruments. Kind of sad, really. But cue up Show Me the way and I play a real mean Fender "air-caster". This album is just loaded with gems and even though later on, I was informed that a lot of stuff was done in a recording studio with stadium effects put in later, it still didn't sour my memories any.
I had this on vinyl and my friend at the time begged me to let him borrow it, after much pleading and promising, I succumbed to his whining. He promptly left it on the seat of his truck on a 105 degree Southern California Summer day. Oh, the carnage. He didn't even offer to replace it. He just told me it was an unfortunate accident. No, his mom not keeping her legs closed 20 years ago was an unfortunate accident. I did find another copy in a used record store, but it's still not MY copy. My copy had vibrations of my love, my joy, my gladness seeping through the album cover onto the album itself. The album that I was now holding had vibrations of someone desperate for a little cash money to buy their next beer so in their desperation they pawned this record for a buck...maybe even less. There's no love coming from this. Only desperation.
So I bought a CD version. Still not the same. At least it's mine, though. My little nephews get a kick out of this music. My youngest likes to pretend he's playing drums and my oldest is a chip off the old block playing his Fender air guitar just like his uncle. It makes me proud that I was able to provide them with some groovy music for some groovy memories later on.
Not too long ago I asked my cousin whatever happened to his vinyl version of this recording. Tears welled up in his eyes as he recounted a very sad tale of him being so desperate one night for cash. He said he sold it to a used record store for a buck so he could get a beer.
Buy this album. Make it yours and never sell the things that move your soul.
Peace & Blessings
Peter Frampton's legendary release July 20, 2000
R. Gorham
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
THE BAND: Peter Frampton (vocals, guitar, talkbox), John Siomos (drums), Bob Mayo (guitar, piano/organ), Stanley Sheldon (bass).
THE DISC: (1976) 14 songs clocking in at approximately 77 minutes. The original release was on two discs. This digitally remastered version has all tracks on one disc. Included with the disc is a 6-page foldout with a brief into by Cameron Crowe, song credits, band pictures and thank you's (no song lyrics). Recorded from a series of concerts - San Franciso, CA; San Rafael, CA; Commack, NY; and Plattsburgh, NY. All original material except for a cover of the Rolling Stones "Jumping Jack Flash". Label - A&M Records.
COMMENTS: "Frampton Comes Alive" is perhaps one of the best 'live' rock recordings... ever. This release is a testiment to the man in his natural habitat - the stage. Frampton had enjoyed only mild success with prior bands (2 albums with the Herd, and 5 albums with Humble Pie), and with his solo albums ("Wind Of Change", "Frampton's Camel", "Something's Happening", and "Frampton"). However, this live album changed everything. The 1970's were filled with some classic live releases (UFO, Kiss, Rush, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Deep Purple, etc)... and I think I have to put "Frampton's at the top. Frampton pulled truly his best material and turned them into a legendary recording. From the opening "Something's Happening", the ballad "All I want To Be (Is By Your Side)", to the guitar solo "Penny For Your Thought" followed by the hard rocker "(I'll Give) You Money", to the 14 minute voice box marathon "Do You Feel Like We Do"... there is absolutely no filler. Great sound production. A forever classic disc.
Peter Frampton - 'Frampton Comes Alive' (A&M) October 7, 2006
Mike Reed (USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Review no.77.Talk about your '70's arena rock staple.It's been said before,but I sort of believe that it's true:"If you lived in the suburbs,you were issued a copy of this album".I know I had an lp copy as well as an 8-track and a cassette copy of this gem at one time.First put out in 1976,I clearly recall tunes off this album being played SO much on FM radio,you ended up with several of them 'etched' in the back of your brain.'Frampton Comes Alive' STILL holds the harsh test of time.Total of fourteen tracks with a duration of 78:06.One of the longest CD reissues I've ever encountered. It's all good, from the guitar noodling of "Doobie Wah", "Show Me The Way", his all-time greatest ballad "Baby,I Love Your Way",the foot-stomper "(I'll Give You)Money", his Stone's cover "Jumping Jack Flash" and the album finale, the 14-minute historic (in it's own right)"Do You Feel Like I Do". You know, I believe this was playing when I partied for the very first time. An absolute must-have. Great slice of '70's rock,no doubt.
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