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Peter Frampton

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Peter Kenneth Frampton is an English born songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd. Frampton's international breakthrough album was his live release, Frampton Comes Alive! .

Discography

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The Preachers

June 19, 1965 Witch Doctor, Hastings, ENG (supported by The Confederates)

September 26, 1964 Hastings Pier Ballroom, Hastings, ENG (supported by The Other Two & Shelley)

July 4, 1965 Racks Close, Guildford, ENG ("Rhapsody at Racks", with The Graham Bond Organization, The Stormsville Shakers, Geno Washington) January 21, 1966 Regency Ballroom, Bath, ENG (supported by The Original Checkmates) April 2, 1966 Witch Doctor, Hastings, ENG (supported by The Alex Lane Group) April 25, 1966 Marquee, London, ENG (with Steampacket) June 4, 1966 Witch Doctor, Hastings, ENG (supported by The Clockwork Oranges) June 27, 1966 Marquee, London, ENG (with Steampacket) August 22, 1966 Marquee, London, ENG (supporting The Art Woods) August 28, 1966 Witch Doctor, Hastings, ENG September 24, 1966 Witch Doctor, Hastings, ENG October 21, 1966 Fairfield Hall, Croydon, ENG ("The Marquee Show", with The Spencer Davis Group, Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, Wynder K Frog, The Move & The VIPs) October 29, 1966 Marquee, London, ENG (with Bluesology) November 12, 1966 Marquee, London, ENG (with Bluesology) January 14, 1967 Witch Doctor, Hastings, ENG January 23, 1967 Marquee, London, ENG (supported by The Ultimate) April 27, 1967 Marquee, London, ENG (with Family) June 5, 1967 Marquee, London, ENG (supported by The Time Box) June 12, 1967 Christ College, Cambridge, ENG (With The Who & Moody Blues)

Package Tour with The Who, Traffic, The Herd, The Tremeloes, Marmalade & (compere) Ray Cameron

October 28, 1967 City Hall, Sheffield, ENG (2 shows 6.20 & 8.50)

October 29, 1967 Coventry Theatre, Coventry, ENG (2 shows 6.00 & 8.30)

October 30, 1967 City Hall, Newcastle, ENG (2 shows 6.00 & 8.30)

November 1, 1967 Empire, Liverpool, ENG (2 shows 6.15 & 8.35)

November 3, 1967 Granada, Kingston, ENG (2 shows 7.00 & 9.10)

November 4, 1967 Walthamstow Granada, London, ENG (2 shows 6.30 & 9.00)

November 5, 1967 Theatre Royal, Nottingham, ENG (2 shows 5.30 & 8.00)

November 6, 1967 Town Hall, Birmingham, ENG (2 shows 6.30 & 8.45)

November 8, 1967 Granada, Kettering, ENG (2 shows 7.00 & 9.10)

November 9, 1967 Granada, Maidstone, ENG (2 shows 6.20 & 8.30)

November 10, 1967 Adelphi, Slough, ENG (2 shows 6.40 & 8.50)

November 11, 1967 Hastings Pier Ballroom, Hastings, ENG

May 20, 1968 Pavilion, Bath, ENG

June 3, 1968 Queens Hall, Leeds, ENG (King Mojo Festival No. 1, supporting Small Faces & Bill Haley and the Comets, with Edwin Starr and The Starliners, The Fantastics, Alan Bown, Amboy Dukes, Gospel Garden, The Turquoise & Clockwork Orange)

July 26-28, 1968 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (supporting Charles Lloyd Quartet, with James Cotton Blues Band) August 11, 1968 8th National Jazz Blues & Pop Festival, Sunbury (With ISB, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, Traffic etc) February 28, 1969 Club Fiesta, Stockton-on-Tees, ENG May 26, 1969 Pennycross Stadium, Plymouth, ENG (supporting Fleetwood Mac, with Spirit of John Morgan, Rod Mason's Jass Band, Bobby Cee, Frozen Tear & 22 Karrat)

October 19, 1968 (Peter Frampton sat in with The Small Faces)

Frampton's Camel

September 16, 1972 Academy Of Music, New York City, NY (supporting J Geils Band, with Slade) September 17, 1972 R.P.I. Armory. Troy, NY (supporting J. Geils & Mahavishnu Orchestra) September 22, 1972 University Of Iowa Fieldhouse, Iowa City, IA (supporting J Geils Band, with Albert King) September 23, 1972 Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, IL (supporting J Geils Band, with Ramatan) September 29, 1972 Laurie Auditorium, San Antonio, TX (supported by Gentle Giant) October 1, 1972 Music Hall, Houston, TX (supporting Steve Miller, with Gentle Giant) October 6, 1972 Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX October 7, 1972 Winterland, San Francisco, CA (Cancelled, supported J. Geils Band) October 8, 1972 Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA (supporting J Geils Band) October 10, 1972 East Carolina University Minges Coliseum, Greenville, NC (supporting J Geils Band) October 11, 1972 Paramount Northwest, Portland, OR (supporting J Geils Band) October 29, 1972 Coliseum, London, ENG (with Humble Pie) October 31, 1972 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, ENG (with Humble Pie)

April 15, 1973 Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (supporting Procol Harum) April 26, 1973 SUNY, Stony Brook, NY (with Poco) April 27, 1973 Fairfield University Gym, Fairfield, CT (with Poco) April 28, 1973 Roberts Center, Boston College, Boston, MA ? April 29, 1973 Atwood Hall, Clark University, Worcester, MA (with Poco) April 30, 1973 Southeastern Massachussetts University Gym, No. Dartmouth, MA (with Poco) May 1, 1973 Union Quad, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY (Free Show With Poco) May 4-5, 1973 Academy of Music, New York City, NY (supporting J Geils Band) May 11, 1973 SUNY Cortland Lusk Fieldhouse, Cortland, NY (supporting J Geils Band) May 12, 1973 Twin City Ballroom, Elizabeth NJ (supporting J Geils Band, with Black Oak Arkansas) May 17, 1973 Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX (supporting Slade) May 26-27, 1973 Winterland, San Francisco, CA (supporting Johnny Winter & Foghat) July 1, 1973 Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, MI (Supporting J. Geils Band) July 6, 1973 Dillon Stadium, Hartford, CT (Supporting J. Geils Band & Humble Pie) July 8, 1973 Waterford Park, Chester, WV (Music In The Hills, Supporting J. Geils Band, Humble Pie & Black Oak Arkansas) July 12, 1973 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA (with ELO & Arthur Lee) July 15, 1973 Long Beach Auditorium, Long Beach, CA (with Quicksilver, ZZ Top & Savoy Brown) July 20, 1973 Dane County Memorial Coliseum, Madison, WI (supporting Humble Pie & The Blackberries) July 27, 1973 Sportsdrome, Jeffersonville, IN (Supporting J. Geils Band & Mahavishnu Orchestra) July 28, 1973 Hara Arena, Dayton, OH (Supporting J. Geils Band) July 29, 1973 Tiger Stadium, Massillon, OH (Replaced Captain Beefheart, supporting Mott The Hoople, with Flo and Eddie) December 3-5, 1973 Richard's, Atlanta, GA (supported by Law) December 9, 1973 International Amphitheater, Chicago, IL (with Humble Pie)

March 3, 1974 Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA (with Poco & Maggie Bell) March 8-9, 1974 Winterland, San Francisco, CA (supporting Doobie Brothers, with REO Speedwagon) March 25, 1974 Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH (supported by L.A.W.) April 14, 1974 Kennedy Center, Washington DC (with Poco) April 20, 1974 Civic Center Coliseum, Charleston, WV (supported by ZZ Top) April 27, 1974 Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH (Supporting J. Geils Band) April 28, 1974 Kent State University Gym, Kent, OH (Supporting J. Geils Band) April 30, 1974 IMA Sports Arena, Flint, MI (Supporting J. Geils Band) July 2, 1974 Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI (supporting Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, with Tom Waits) July 11, 1974 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA (supporting Procol Harum, with Steeleye Span) July 13, 1974 Forum, Los Angeles, CA (Supporting J. Geils Band, with Premiata Forneria Marconi) July 16, 1974 Sports Arena, San Diego, CA (Supporting J. Geils Band) July 27, 1974 New Jersey Convention Center, Asbury Park, NJ (2 shows 7.00 & 10.00, with Poco) August 9, 1974 Civic Center, Providence, RI (Supporting J. Geils Band, with Premiata Forneria Marconi) August 17, 1974 Civic Center, Providence, RI (Supporting J. Geils Band, with Premiata Forneria Marconi) August 23, 1974 Central Park, New York City, NY (Schaefer Music Festival, supported by Snafu)

September 27, 1974 Rhein-Neckar-Halle, Heidelberg, GER (The Great Music Circus, with Humble Pie, Rory Gallagher, Electric Light Orchestra & Chapman And Whitney)

September 28, 1974 Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, GER (The Great Music Circus, with Humble Pie, Rory Gallagher, Electric Light Orchestra, Black Oak Arkansas, Chapman And Whitney The Johnny Rivers Boogie Band (feat. Rick Grech & Zoot Money), Bo Hansson & Geordie)

October 15, 1974 Colston Hall, Bristol, ENG (supporting Uriah Heep) October 16, 1974 Town Hall, Birmingham, ENG ? October 17, 1974 City Hall, Newcastle, ENG (supporting Uriah Heep) October 19, 1974 Odeon, Edinburgh, SCOT (supporting Uriah Heep) October 20, 1974 Apollo, Glasgow, SCOT (supporting Uriah Heep) October 22, 1974 Guildhall, Preston, ENG (supporting Uriah Heep) October 23, 1974 City Hall, Sheffield, ENG ? October 26, 1974 East Ham Granada, London, ENG (supporting Uriah Heep) October 27, 1974 Hammersmith Odeon, London, ENG (supporting Uriah Heep) October 28, 1974 Guildhall, Portsmouth, ENG (with supporting Heep) October 29, 1974 De Montfort Hall, Leicester, ENG (supporting Uriah Heep)

February 10, 1975 Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX February 17, 1975 Auditorium Theater, Chicago, IL (supported by Gentle Giant) March 21-22, 1975 Winterland, San Francisco, CA (supported by Man & Babe Ruth) May 22, 1975 International Convention Center, Niagara Falls, NY (supported by ZZ Top)

May 25, 1975 Eastern Michigan University Rynearson Stadium, Ypsilanti, MI (supporting Santana, with Lynyrd Skynyrd)

June 14, 1975 Winterland, San Francisco, CA (supported by Brian Auger & Bonaroo) June 15, 1975 Calaveras County Fairgrounds, Angels Camp, CA (Mountain Aire Festival) June 16, 1975 Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA June 17, 1975 Winterland, San Francisco, CA June 28, 1975 Staples High School Auditorium, Westport, CT July 5, 1975 City Park Stadium, New Orleans, LA (Supporting J. Geils Band & Black Oak Arkansas, with Montrose) July 9, 1975 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (with Slade) July 11, 1975 Place De Nations, Montreal, QC (Supporting Mahavishnu Orchestra) July 25, 1975 Civic Center, Savannah, GA (supporting Black Sabbath, with Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost) July 26, 1975 Civic Center, Lakeland, FL (supporting Black Sabbath, with Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost) July 27, 1975 West Palm Beach Auditorium, West Palm Beach, FL (supporting Black Sabbath, with Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost) ??? July 27, 1975 Central Park, New York City, NY (Schaefer Music Festival, supporting James Gang) ??? August 2, 1975 Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA (supporting Fleetwood Mac & Dave Mason) August 3, 1975 Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA ("A Day On The Green", supporting Fleetwood Mac, Robin Trower & Dave Mason) August 15, 1975 Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI (Supporting J. Geils Band, with Ruby Starr) August 16, 1975 Boston Garden, Boston, MA (supporting Steppenwolf, with Gentle Giant) August 24, 1975 Long Island Arena, Commack, NY August 25, 1975 Paramount Theater, Wilkes-Barre, PA (with Poco) August 30, 1975 Aquanaut Plateau, Steubenville, OH (Ohio River Jam, Supporting J. Geils Band & Black Oak Arkansas, with Ambrosia) September 5, 1975 Orange Show Stadium, San Bernardino, CA (supporting Black Sabbath & Lynyrd Skynyrd)

September 20, 1975 Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA ("Day On The Green", with Edgar Winter Group, Johnny Winter, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Earth Quake & Climax Blues Band. Peter made a surprise appearance and sang "Do You Feel Like We Do")

September 25, 1979 Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, NY (supported by The Simms Brothers)

October 11, 1975 Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ (supported by Peter Frampton) October 17, 1975 St. Paul Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, MN (Supporting J. Geils Band, with Ruby Starr) October 18, 1975 North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND (Supporting J. Geils Band, with Ruby Starr) October 21, 1975 Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, WI (supported by Gentle Giant & Gary Wright)

November 7, 1975 Capital Centre, Landover, MD (Supporting J. Geils Band)

November 13, 1975 Bloomsberg State College Haas Auditorium, Bloomsberg, PA (with Poco)

November 14, 1975 Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, NY (Supporting J. Geils Band)

November 22, 1975 SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY

December 6, 1975 University of Scranton, Scranton, PA (supported by Rory Gallagher)

December 12, 1975 West Palm Beach Auditorium, West Palm Beach, FL (Supporting J. Geils Band, with Gary Wright)

December 13, 1975 Bayfront Center, St. Petersburg, FL (Supporting J. Geils Band, with Gary Wright)

April 6, 1976 Civic Center, Springfield, MA (Supporting J. Geils Band) April 7, 1976 Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY (Supporting J. Geils Band) April 21, 1976 Anaheim, Los Angeles, CA (with Slade) April 24, 1976 County Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA (with Gary Wright & Brecker Brothers) April 25, 1976 Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA ("The British Are Back To Back", supported by Fleetwood Mac, Gary Wright, Status Quo & UFO) May 1, 1976 Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA ("The British Are Back To Back", supported by Fleetwood Mac, Gary Wright, Status Quo & UFO) June 12, 1976 JFK Stadium, Philadelphia PA (with Pousette-Dart Band, Gary Wright, The Mummers & Yes) June 13, 1976 RFK Stadium, Washington DC (with Pousette-Dart Band, Ace, Gary Wright & Yes) July 1, 1976 Hartford, CT July 3, 1976 Milwaukee, WI (Summerfest, with Cheap Trick, BTO & Gary Wright) July 4, 1976 Atlanta, GA July 17, 1976 Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA (supporting Yes, with Gentle Giant & Gary Wright) July 18, 1976 Balboa Stadium, San Diego, CA (supporting Yes, with Gentle Giant & Gary Wright) July 19, 1976 Selland Arena, Fresno, CA (supported by Gentle Giant) July 24, 1976 Royals Stadium, Kansas City, MO (with Santana, Gary Wright & Natural Gas) July 25, 1976 Tulsa Fairgrounds Speedway, Tulsa, OK (supported by Santana & Gary Wright) August 13, 1976 Comiskey Park, Chicago, IL (CANCELLED "World Series of Rock #3", supporting Yes, with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gary Wright & Natural Gas. The concert was moved to the Hawthorne Race Track in Stickney, Illinois on August 15th, 1976)

August 15, 1976 Hawthorne Race Track, Stickney, IL ("World Series of Rock #3", supporting Yes, with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gary Wright & Natural Gas. Originally scheduled for August 13th, 1976 at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, but due to a fire there on July 10th this concert was moved to Hawthorne, though local opposition almost prevented this concert from happening at all. A court battle emerged, and a judge allowed the concert to proceed but with a 6pm curfew. Yes could not use their laser show as they were performing during the daylight)

October 25, 1976 Apollo, Glasgow, SCOT (supported by Gary Wright)

May 19, 1977 Freedom Hall Civic Center, Johnson City, TN (with J. Geils Band & Foghat) June 11, 1977 JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA (with J. Geils Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd & Dicky Betts & Great Southern) June 18, 1977 Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, MI (with J. Geils Band, Steve Miller Band & The Romantics) June 27, 1977 Kingdome, Seattle, WA (with J. Geils Band, Foghat & Blondie Chaplin) June 30, 1977 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (with J. Geils Band) July 2 & 4, 1977 Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA (supported by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Santana & Outlaws) July 6, 1977 Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA (supported by J. Geils Band & Foghat) July 7, 1977 Sports Arena, San Diego, CA (supported by J. Geils Band) July 9, 1977 Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, AZ (supported by J. Geils Band) August 6, 1977 Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland, OH (supported by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, The J. Geils Band & Derringer) August 11, 1977 Dane County Exposition Center, Madison, WI (supported by J. Geils Band) August 16, 1977 Le Forum, Montreal, QC (supported by J. Geils Band) September 3, 1977 Miami Baseball Stadium, Miami, FL (supported by J. Geils Band & Derringer) September 4, 1977 Tangerine Bowl, Orlando, FL (supported by J. Geils Band, Kansas & Derringer)

September 8, 1979 Uptown Theatre, Chicago, IL

May 30, 1986 Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN (supporting Stevie Nicks) May 31, 1986 Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy, WI (supporting Stevie Nicks) June 3-4, 1986 Centrum, Worcester, MA (supporting Stevie Nicks) June 7-8, 1986 Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY (supporting Stevie Nicks) June 11, 1986 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA (supporting Stevie Nicks) June 13-14, 1986 Blossom Music Theatre, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (supporting Stevie Nicks) June 17-18, 1986 Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ (supporting Stevie Nicks) June 21, 1986 Poplar Creek Music Theatre, Chicago, IL (supporting Stevie Nicks) June 22, 1986 Pine Knob Amphitheatre, Clarkston, MI (supporting Stevie Nicks)

July 13, 1986 Sports Arena, San Diego CA (supporting Stevie Nicks) July 14, 1986 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA (supporting Stevie Nicks) July 17, 1986 California Expo, Sacramento, CA (supporting Stevie Nicks) July 18, 1986 Great Western Forum, Inglewood, CA (supporting Stevie Nicks) July 21, 1986 Sandstone Amphitheatre, Bonner Springs, KS (supporting Stevie Nicks) July 23, 1986 Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (supporting Stevie Nicks) July 27, 1986 Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME (supporting Stevie Nicks) July 29, 1986 New Haven Coliseum, New Haven, CT (supporting Stevie Nicks) July 30, 1986 Great Woods, Mansfield, MA (supporting Stevie Nicks) August 2, 1986 Capitol Center, Landover, MD (supporting Stevie Nicks) August 5, 1986 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (supporting Stevie Nicks) August 7, 1986 Atlanta, GA ? August 8, 1986 Ocean Center, Daytona Beach, FL (supporting Stevie Nicks) August 11, 1986 Community College Of The Finger Lakes, Canandaigua, NY (supporting Stevie Nicks) August 12, 1986 Saratoga Springs PAC, Saratoga Springs, NY (supporting Stevie Nicks) August 14, 1986 Canadian National Exibition, Toronto, ON (supporting Stevie Nicks) August 15, 1986 Cayuga County Fairgrounds, Weedsport, NY (supporting Stevie Nicks. Peter couldn't perform due to the weather so joined Stevie onstage instead) August 17, 1986 Orange County Raceway, Middletown, NY ? August 20, 1986 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO ("Stevie Nicks Live At Red Rocks" Video filmed, supporting Stevie Nicks, with guest Mick Fleetwood)

David Bowie Glass Spider Tour 1987

Opening on the 30th May 1987, The Glass Spider World Tour visited fifteen countries and produced eighty-seven performances, as well as nine promotional press shows. The band consisted of: David Bowie (vocals, guitar, saxophone), Carlos Alomar (guitar), Peter Frampton (lead guitar), Carmine Rojas (bass), Alan Childs (drums), Erdal Kizilcay (keyboards, trumpet, congas, violin) and Richard Cottle (keyboards, saxophone).

The dancers were: Melissa Hurley, Constance Marie, Craig Allen Rothwell (aka Spazz Attack), Viktor Manoel and Steven Nicholas (aka Skeeter Rabbit). In March before the tour started, a number of Press Shows were given in various countries. The band for these performances consisted of: David Bowie (vocals), Carlos Alomar (guitar), Peter Frampton (guitar), Alan Childs (drums), Carmine Rojas (bass) and Richard Cottle (keyboards).

1987 MARCH - Glass Spider Tour Press Conferences

MARCH - PROMOTIONAL PRESS TOUR

17th Diamond Club Toronto Canada - Press Show

18th Cat Club New York United States Of America - Press Show

20th Players' Theatre London WC2N England - Press Show

21st La Locomotive Paris France - Press Show

24th Halquera Plateaux Madrid Spain - Press Show

25th Piper Club Rome Italy - Press Show

26th Parkcafe Lowenbrau Munich Germany - Press Show

28th Ritz Stockholm Sweden - Press Show

30th Paradiso Amsterdam Holland - Press Show

? ? New York City United States Of America - 1st Rehearsals

18th Ahoy Hall Rotterdam Holland - 2nd Rehearsals

19th Ahoy Hall Rotterdam Holland - 2nd Rehearsals

20th Ahoy Hall Rotterdam Holland - 2nd Rehearsals

21st Ahoy Hall Rotterdam Holland - 2nd Rehearsals

22nd Ahoy Hall Rotterdam Holland - 2nd Rehearsals

23rd Ahoy Hall Rotterdam Holland - 2nd Rehearsals

24th Ahoy Hall Rotterdam Holland - 2nd Rehearsals

27th Stadion Feyenoord Rotterdam Holland - 3rd Rehearsals

28th Stadion Feyenoord Rotterdam Holland - 3rd Rehearsals

30th Stadion Feyenoord Rotterdam Holland

31st Stadion Feyenoord Rotterdam Holland

June 2, 1987 Werchter Festival Terrein, Werchter, BEL

June 6, 1987 Platz der Republik, Berlin, GER (Festival)

June 7, 1987 Nürburgring, Koblenz, GER (Rock am Ring)

June 9, 1987 Stadio Comunale, Florence, ITY

June 10, 1987 Stadio San Siro, Milan, ITY

June 13, 1987 Festwiese Am Stadtpark, Hamburg, GER

June 15-16, 1987 Stadio Flaminio, Rome, ITY

June 18, 1987 Neckarstadion, Stuttgart, GER (Cancelled)

June 19-20, 1987 Wembley Stadium, London, ENG

June 21, 1987 Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff, WAL

June 23, 1987 Roker Park Stadium, Sunderland, ENG

June 27, 1987 Eriksberg Festival Site, Gothenburg, SWE (The original venue was Nya Ullevi, but the gig was transferred to a shutdown shipyard called Eriksberg)

June 28, 1987 Stade Municipal de Gerland, Lyon, FRA

1st Wiener Prater Stadion Vienna Austria

3rd Parc Départemental de la Courneuve Paris France

4th Le Stadium Toulouse France

6th Estadio Vicente Calderon Madrid Spain

7th Miniestadio C.F. Barcelona Spain

8th Miniestadio C.F. Barcelona Spain

11th Slane Castle Slane, Co.Meath Ireland

July 14-15, 1987 Maine Road, Manchester, ENG

15th Maine Road Stadium Manchester England

17th Stade de l'Ouest Nice France

18th Stadio Comunale Torino Italy

30th Veterans Stadium Philadelphia United States Of America

31st Veterans Stadium Philadelphia United States Of America

2nd Giants Stadium East Rutherford United States Of America

3rd Giants Stadium East Rutherford United States Of America

7th Spartan Stadium San Jose United States Of America

8th Anaheim Stadium Los Angeles United States Of America

9th Anaheim Stadium Los Angeles United States Of America

12th Mile High Stadium Denver United States Of America

14th Civic Stadium Portland United States Of America

15th British Columbia Place Stadium Vancouver Canada

17th Commonwealth Stadium Edmonton Canada

19th Winnipeg Stadium Winnipeg Canada

21st Rosemont Horizon Chicago United States Of America

22nd Rosemont Horizon Chicago United States Of America

24th CNE Stadium Toronto Canada

25th CNE Stadium Toronto Canada

28th Lansdowne Park Ottawa Canada

30th Olympic Stadium Montreal Canada

1st Madison Square Garden New York City United States Of America

2nd Madison Square Garden New York City United States Of America

3rd Sullivan Stadium Foxboro United States Of America

6th Dean Dome Chapel Hill, NC United States Of America

7th Dean Dome Chapel Hill, NC United States Of America

10th Marcus Amphitheatre Milwaukee United States Of America

11th Marcus Amphitheatre Milwaukee United States Of America

12th Pontiac Silverdome Detroit United States Of America

14th Rupp Arena Lexington United States Of America

18th Orange Bowl Stadium Miami United States Of America

19th Tampa Stadium Tampa United States Of America

21st Omni Arena Atlanta United States Of America

22nd Omni Arena Atlanta United States Of America

25th Hartford Civic Center Hartford United States Of America

26th Silver Stadium Rochester United States Of America - Cancelled

28th Capital Centre Landover, Maryland United States Of America

29th Capital Centre Landover, Maryland United States Of America

1st St. Paul Civic Center Minneapolis United States Of America

2nd St. Paul Civic Center Minneapolis United States Of America

4th Kemper Arena Kansas City United States Of America

6th Superdome New Orleans United States Of America

7th The Summit Houston United States Of America

8th The Summit Houston United States Of America

10th Reunion Arena Dallas United States Of America

11th Reunion Arena Dallas United States Of America

13th Los Angeles Sports Arena Los Angeles United States Of America

14th Los Angeles Sports Arena Los Angeles United States Of America

27th Tivoli Club Sydney Australia - Press Conference

29th Boondall Entertainment Centre Brisbane Australia

30th Boondall Entertainment Centre Brisbane Australia

November 3-4, 6-7, 9-10 & 13-14, 1987 Entertainment Centre, Sydney, AUS

November 18, 20-21 & 23, 1987 Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, AUS

November 28, 1987 Western Springs Stadium, Auckland, NZ

July 31, 1993 Utah State Fairpark, Salt Lake City, UT (with Bad Company, 38 Special, Steppenwolf, Stephen Stills & BTO)

June 14-16, 1995 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA

June 2, 2001 Silverbowl, Las Vegas, NV ('Junefest', supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 5, 2001 Journal Pavilion, Albuquerque, NM (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 6, 2001 U.T.E.P., El Paso, TX (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 8, 2001 Smirnoff Amphitheater, Dallas, TX (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 9, 2001 South Texas Amphitheater, San Antonio, TX (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 10, 2001 Cynthia Woodlands Amphitheater, Woodlands, TX (Postphoned until August 22nd, because of a Storm) June 12, 2001 New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, LA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 13, 2001 Pensacola Civic Center, Pensacola, FL (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 15, 2001 USF Sundome, Tampa, FL (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 16, 2001 Mars Music Amphitheater, West Palm Beach, FL (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 17, 2001 Ocean Center, Daytona Beach, FL (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 19, 2001 Oak Mountain Amphitheater, Birmingham, AL (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 20, 2001 AmSouth Amphitheater, Antioch, TN (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 22, 2001 Nissan Amphitheater, Bristow, VA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 23, 2001 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Charlotte, NC (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 24, 2001 Chastain Park Amphitheater, Atlanta, GA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 26, 2001 Alltel Pavilion, Raleigh, NC (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 27, 2001 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Virginia Beach, VA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 29, 2001 PNC Amphitheater, Holmdel, NJ (supporting Journey, with John Waite) June 30, 2001 E. Center, Camden, NJ (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 1, 2001 Montage Mountain, Scranton, PA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 3, 2001 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 4, 2001 Singer Park, Manchester, NH (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 6, 2001 Tweeter Music Center, Boston, MA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 7, 2001 Meadows Music Theater, Hartford, CT (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 8, 2001 Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 10-11, 2001 DTE Energy Music Theater, Clarkston, MI (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 13, 2001 Polaris Amphitheater, Columbus, OH (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 14, 2001 Post Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 15, 2001 Riverbend Amphitheater, Cincinnati, OH (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 17, 2001 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Indianapolis, IN (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 18, 2001 Gund Arena, Cleveland, OH (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 20, 2001 Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 21, 2001 Target Center, Minneapolis, MN (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 22, 2001 New World Music Theater, Tinley Park, IL (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 24, 2001 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Denver, CO (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 25, 2001 World Arena, Colorado Springs, CO (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 27, 2001 Riverport Amphitheater, St. Louis, MO (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 28, 2001 Sandstone Amphitheater, Bonner Springs, KS (supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 29, 2001 Zoo Amphitheater, Oklahoma City, OK (Cancelled. supporting Journey, with John Waite) July 31, 2001 Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 1, 2001 Idaho Center Amphitheater, Boise, ID (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 3, 2001 Portland Rose Garden, Portland, OR (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 4, 2001 Gorge Amphitheater, George, WA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 6, 2001 Reno Hilton Amphitheater, Reno, NV (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 7, 2001 ? (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 8, 2001 Centennial Gardens, Bakersfield, CA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 10, 2001 Amphitheatre Shoreline, Mountain View, CA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 11, 2001 Sacramento Valley Amphitheater, Sacramento, CA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 13, 2001 Konoct Resort, Kelseyville, CA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 14-15, 2001 Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 17, 2001 Glen Helen Blockbuster, San Bernardino, CA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 18, 2001 Coors Amphitheater, Chula Vista, CA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 22, 2001 Cynthia Woods Amphitheater, Spring, TX (Rescheduled from June 10th, supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 25, 2001 Motor Spectrum, Parkersburg, WV (supporting Journey, with John Waite) August 26, 2001 New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY (supporting Journey, with John Waite) September 11, 2001 Michigan State Fair, Allegan, MI (supporting Journey, with John Waite) September 12, 2001 Pennsylvania State Fair, York, PA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) October 20, 2001 Hi-Fi, Atlanta, GA (supporting Journey, with John Waite) October 21, 2001 Smirnoff Amphitheatre, Dallas, TX (supporting Journey, with John Waite)

August 2, 2003 Little River Rockfest Ampitheatre, Minnedosa, MB August 4, 2003 Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake, MN August 5, 2003 Ravinia Pavilion, Highland Park, IL August 7, 2003 Oneida Casino, Oneida, WI August 9, 2003 Ameristar Casino, Kansas City, MO August 14, 2003 House of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC August 15-16, 2003 Frederick Brown Jr. Ampthitheatre, Peachtree City, GA August 29, 2003 Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI (Harley Davidson's 100 Year Anniversary) August 30, 2003 DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI September 3, 2003 Innsbrook Pavilion, Glen Allen, VA September 5, 2003 Foxwoods Resort & Casino, Mashantucket, CT September 6, 2003 Pennís Peak, Jim Thorpe, PA September 7, 2003 Community Arts Center, Williamsport, PA September 10, 2003 Fraze Pavilion, Kettering, OH September 12, 2003 Beau Rivage Resort, Biloxi, MS September 13, 2003 Verizon Wireless Theater, Houston, TX September 14, 2003 House of Blues, New Orleans, LA September 25, 2003 Town Hall Theatre, New York City, NY September 26, 2003 Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA September 27, 2003 Community Theatre, Morristown, NJ September 28, 2003 Roxy, Boston, MA September 30, 2003 Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ October 2, 2003 Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC October 4, 2003 Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN October 5, 2003 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA October 7, 2003 Florida Theatre, Jacksonville, FL October 8, 2003 Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg, FL October 10, 2003 King Ctr. for the Performing Arts, Melbourne, FL October 11, 2003 Carefree Theater, W. Palm Beach, FL October 12, 2003 Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL October 15, 2003 Majestic Theatre, Dallas, TX October 17, 2003 Paramount Theatre, Austin, TX October 18, 2003 Heritage Hall, Ardmore, OK October 19, 2003 Juanita K. Hammons Hall, Springfield, MO October 21, 2003 Paramount Theatre, Denver, CO October 24, 2003 House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV October 25, 2003 Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA October 26, 2003 The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA October 28, 2003 McDonald Theatre, Eugene, OR October 29, 2003 Roseland Theater, Portland, OR October 30, 2003 Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA

October 2, 2004 Sports Arena Toledo, OH (Vote for Change Tour. Joined Pearl Jam & Neil & Pegi Young onstage for the encore "Act Of Love")

November 10, 2004 Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, ENG (supporting Deep Purple)

July 12, 2005 Pueblo Español, Barcelona, SPA (Peter & Jackson Browne join CSNY onstage on "Teach Your Children")

December 15, 2007 Civic Center, Asheville, NC (The 19th Annual Christmas Jam, with Jackson Browne, Bruce Hornsby, Gov't Mule, G Love, Stockholm Syndrome and Grace Potter & The Nocturnals. Special Guests include Mike Barnes, Mike Farris, Audley Freed, Col Bruce Hampton, Kevn Kinney & Greg Morrow)

June 19, 2010 Borgata, Atlantic City, NJ (with Yes) June 20, 2010 Meadows Racetrack & Casino, Washington, PA (with Yes) June 23, 2010 The Fiene Center, Vienna, VA (with Yes) June 24, 2010 Pier Six Concert Pavilion, Baltimore, MD (with Yes) June 25, 2010 PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ (with Yes) June 26, 2010 Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY (with Yes) June 29, 2010 Tag's Summer Sound Stage, Big Flats, NY (with Yes) June 30, 2010 CMAC, Canaadiagua, NY (with Yes)

July 2, 2010 DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkson, MI (with Steve Miller Band) July 3, 2010 Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI July 4, 2010 Lake Forest Venue, Blue Ash, OH (with Yes) July 5, 2010 Delta Bessborough Gardens, Saskatoon, SK July 6, 2010 Lucky Star Casino, Concho, OK (with Yes) July 7, 2010 Sandia Casino Amphitheatre, Albuquerque, NM (with Yes) July 9, 2010 Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (with Yes) July 10, 2010 Harrah's Rincon, Valley Center, CA (with Yes) July 11, 2010 The Mountain Winery, Saratoga, CA (with Yes) July 13, 2010 Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA (with Yes) July 15, 2010 Snoqualmie Casino, Snoqualmie, WA July 17, 2010 River Cree Resort & Casino, Enoch, AB July 18, 2010 Delta Bessborough Gardens, Saskatoon, SK July 19, 2010 Regina Casino, Regina, SK July 22, 2010 Massey Hall, Toronto, ON July 23, 2010 Harris Park, London, ON July 24, 2010 Explorer's Point, Mattawa, ON July 26, 2010 Turning Stone Resort Casino, Verona, NY July 27, 2010 Penn's Peak, Jim Thorpe, PA July 28, 2010 Bank of America Pavilion, Boston, MA (with Heart) July 30, 2010 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Alpharetta, GA (with Steve Miller Band) July 31, 2010 Amphitheatre at the Wharf, Orange Beach, AL (with Steve Miller Band)

August 1, 2010 Performing Arts Center, Montgomery, AL August 3, 2010 North Charleston Performing Arts Center, North Charleston, SC August 6, 2010 Brown Theatre, Louisville, KY August 7, 2010 Town & Country Fair, Washington, MO August 10, 2010 The Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ (FREE SHOW) August 10, 2010 Cape Cod Melody Tent, Hyannis, MA August 11, 2010 Erie County Fair & Expo, Hamburg, NY August 13, 2010 Lucas County Fairgrounds, Maumee, OH August 14, 2010 Music By The Lake, Williams Bay, WI August 15, 2010 Grand Casino Hinckley Event Center, Hinckley, MN

September 4, 2010 Caopolican Theatre, Santiago, CHL September 6, 2010 Gran Rex Theatre, Buenos Aires, ARG September 9, 2010 Centro Convenções, Brasilia, BRA September 11, 2010 HSBC Arena, Rio de Janeiro, BRA September 16, 2010 Teatro Guiara, Curitiba, BRA September 17, 2010 Via Funchal, Sao Paulo, BRA September 18, 2010 Chevrolet Hall, Belo Horizonte, BRA September 22, 2010 Hugenottenhalle in Frankfurt, GER

October 27, 2010 Harbour Theatre, Sydney, AUS October 29, 2010 WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, AUS October 30, 2010 Riverstage, Brisbane, AUS

November 1, 2010 Sidney Meier Music Bowl in the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, AUS (With Brian Wilson, Chicago & America) November 3, 2010 Palais Theatre, Melbourne, AUS November 5, 2010 Luna Park, Sydney, AUS November 6, 2010 Hope Estate Winery, Hunter Valley, AUS November 7, 2010 AIS Arena, Canberra, AUS November 9, 2010 Theatre Mode, Adelaide, AUS November 12, 2010 Pioneer Women’s Memorial Kings Park & Botanic Garden, Perth, AUS

11.23.2011Bataclan, Paris, FRA 11.22.2011Phonixhalle, Mainz, GER 11.21.2011Tempodrom, Berlin, GER 11.19.2011Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, NED 11.18.2011Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerp, BEL 11.16.2011Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, SCOT 11.15.2011Symphony Hall, Birmingham, ENG 11.13.2011Hammersmith Apollo, London, ENG 11.12.2011Corn Exchange, Cambridge, ENG 11.11.2011Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, ENG 11.08.2011Club Jordi, Barcelona, SPA 11.06.2011La Riviera, Madrid, SPA 11.05.2011Atlantico Pavillion, Lisbon, POR 10.22.2011Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN 10.21.2011Mud Island Amphitheater, Memphis, TN 10.19.2011Majestic Theatre, San Antonio, TX 10.18.2011Austin City Limits Live - Mood, Austin, TX 10.16.2011House of Blues, Houston, TX 10.15.2011Paragon Casino, Marksville, LA 10.14.2011House of Blues, Dallas, TX 10.12.2011Saenger Theatre, Pensacola, FL 10.11.2011Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL 10.09.2011Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, FL 10.08.2011Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL 10.07.2011St. Augustine Amphitheatre, St. Augustine, FL 10.05.2011Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham, NC 10.04.2011Eastern KY Univ. Center for the Arts, Richmond, KY 10.02.2011Effingham Performance Center, Effingham, IL 10.01.2011Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS 09.30.2011State Theater, Minneapolis, MN 09.28.2011The Pantages Playhouse Theatre, Winnipeg, MB 09.26.2011Southern Alberta Jubilee Hall, Calgary, AB 09.24.2011River Rock Casino, Richmond, BC 09.23.2011Mill Bay Casino, Manson, WA 08.28.2011PNC Pavilion @ Riverbend, Cincinnati, OH 08.27.2011Riverside Casino & Resort, Riverside, IA 08.26.2011Stiefel Theatre For The Performing Arts, Salina, KS 08.24.2011Heritage Hall, Ardmore, OK 08.23.2011Hard Rock Casino & Hotel, Catoosa, OK 08.21.2011The Hudson Gardens & Event Center, Littleton, CO 08.20.2011Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Albuquerque, NM 08.18.2011Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek, CO 08.17.2011Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre, Salt Lake City, UT 08.16.2011Botanical Garden, Boise, ID 08.14.2011Coeur D'Alene Casino Resort, Worley, ID 08.12.2011Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville, WA 08.11.2011Oregon Zoo Amphitheater, Portland, OR 08.09.2011Wente Vineyards, Livermore, CA 08.07.2011Wells Fargo Center For The Arts, Santa Rosa, CA 08.06.2011Thunder Valley Casino Resort, Lincoln, CA 08.05.2011The Warfield, San Francisco, CA 08.03.2011Fox Performing Arts Center, Riverside, CA 08.02.2011Balboa Theatre, San Diego, CA 07.31.2011Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA 07.30.2011The Greek Theater in Los Angeles, CA 07.29.2011Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV 07.27.2011Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre, Tucson, AZ 07.22.2011Beau Rivage Resort & Casino, Biloxi, MS 07.21.2011Chastain Park Amphitheater, Atlanta, GA 07.19.2011House Of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC 07.17.2011Pier 6 Pavilion, Baltimore, MD 07.16.2011MGM Grand @ Foxwoods Resort, Ledyard, CT 07.15.2011Bank of America Pavilion, Boston, MA 07.13.2011Trib Total Media Amphitheatre, Pittsburgh, PA 07.12.2011Wellmont Theater, Montclair, NJ 07.10.2011Lebreton Flats Park, Ottawa, ON 07.09.2011Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON 07.08.2011DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI 07.06.2011Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI 07.05.2011Ravinia Pavilion, Highland Park, IL 07.04.2011Meijer Gardens Amphitheater, Grand Rapids, MI 07.02.2011Meadowbrook-US Cellular Pavilion, Gilford, NH 07.01.2011Charles Ives, Danbury, CT 06.30.2011Place Des Arts, Montreal, QC 06.28.2011Artpark, Lewiston, NY 06.24.2011Borgata Spa & Resort, Atlantic City, NJ 06.23.2011The Filene Center, Vienna, VA 06.21.2011Sands Casino Resort, Bethlehem, PA 06.18.2011Paramount Center For The Arts, Peekskill, NY 06.17.2011The Beacon Theater, New York City, NY 06.15.2011Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ 04.18.2011Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, SCOT 03.23.2011Auditorium Sala Sinopoli in Rome, ITY 03.22.2011Salumeria della Musica in Milan, ITY 03.20.2011WUK, Vienna, AUT 03.19.2011Sallerhalle in Winterbach, GER 03.18.2011Turbinenhalle in Oberhausen, GER 03.16.2011Fabrik in Hamburg, GER 03.15.2011Kulturfabrik in Nurnberg, GER 03.14.2011Muffathalle in Munich, GER 03.12.2011Haus Auensee in Leipzig, GER 03.11.2011Stadhalle in Bad Rappenau, GER 03.11.2011Wells Fargo Center For the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA 03.10.2011Hugenottenhalle in Frankfurt, GER 03.08.2011Boerderij in Zoetermeer, NED 03.06.2011Academy, Bristol, ENG 03.05.2011Shepherds Bush Empire, London, ENG 03.03.2011Academy 2, Manchester, ENG 03.02.2011ABC/Academy, Glasgow, SCOT 03.01.2011Assembly Rooms, Leamington, ENG 01.20.2011Assembly Room, Leamington Spa, ENG

08.11.2012Biltmore, Asheville, NC 08.10.2012War Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro, NC 08.08.2012Fraze Pavilion, Kettering, OH 08.07.2012Artpark, Lewiston, NY 08.04.2012BMO Harris Bank Center, Rockford, IL 08.03.2012Rockwoods Jamfest, Otsego, MN 03.31.2012Orpheum Theater, Omaha, NE 03.30.2012Peabody Opera House, St Louis, MO 03.28.2012Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel & Casino, Deadwood, SD 03.27.2012Paramount Theatre, Denver, CO 03.24.2012Cordiner Hall, Walla Walla, WA 03.23.2012Pantages Theater, Tacoma, WA 03.20.2012Cascade Theatre, Redding, CA 03.19.2012Craterain- Ginger Rogers Theater, Medford, OR 03.17.2012Marin Center, San Rafael, CA 03.16.2012Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, Reno, NV 03.14.2012Long Beach Terrace Theatre, Long Beach, CA 03.12.2012Fox Theatre, Bakersfield, CA 03.10.2012Fantasy Springs Resort & Casino, Indio, CA 03.09.2012Pechanga Resort and Casino, Temecula, CA 03.07.2012Mesa Arts Center- Ikeda Theate, Mesa, AZ 03.01.2012Old National Centre, Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN 02.29.2012Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI 02.27.2012Gillioz Theater, Springfield, MO 02.25.2012Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL 02.24.2012Caesars Windsor-The Colosseum, Windsor, ON 02.22.2012Akron Civic Theatre, Akron, OH 02.21.2012Midland Theater, Newark, OH 02.19.2012Warner Theatre, Washington DC 02.18.2012Beacon Theatre, New York City, NY 02.16.2012Theatre at Westbury, Westbury, NY 02.14.2012Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, New Bedford, MA 02.11.2012Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA 02.10.2012Palace Theater, Albany, NY 02.08.2012Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ 02.07.2012State Theatre, Portland, ME 02.04.2012Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, Worcester, MA 02.03.2012Lynn Auditorium, Lynn, MA 02.01.2012Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center, York, PA

January 24, 2013 Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN February 1, 2013 Massey Performing Arts Center, Nashville, TN April 26-27, 2013 Cincinatti Ballet, Cincinnati, OH June 10, 2013 The Lawn @ White River State, Indianapolis, IN June 20, 2013 LC Pavilion Outdoor Amphitheater, Columbus, OH June 22, 2013 Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica, Cleveland, OH June 23, 2013 The Paramount, Huntington, NY June 24, 2013 American Music Theatre, Lancaster, PA June 27, 2013 Beacon Theatre, New York City, NY June 28, 2013 Kodak Hall @ Eastman Theater, Rochester, NY June 29, 2013 Woodstock en Beauce, Saint Ephrem de Beauce, Quebec, QC June 30, 2013 Indian Ranch, Webster, MA

July 10, 2013 Innsbrook Pavilion, Glen Allen, VA July 13, 2013 Choctaw Event Center, Durant, OK July 14, 2013 Majestic Theater, San Antonio, TX July 16, 2013 Selena Auditorium, Corpus Christi, TX July 20, 2013 Diamond Jo Casino, Dubuque, IA July 21, 2013 State Theater, Minneapolis, MN July 23, 2013 Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek, CO July 26, 2013 Northern Quest Casino, Airway Heights, WA July 27, 2013 Deepwater Amphitheater, Manson, WA

August 5, 2013 Musikfest, Bethlehem, PA August 7, 2013 Performing Arts Center, Simsbury, CT August 8, 2013 Pier Six Pavilion, Baltimore, MD August 11, 2013 Wolftrap, Vienna, VA August 20, 2013 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO August 24, 2013 The Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA August 30, 2013 Thunder Valley Casino & Resort, Lincoln, CA

October 20, 2013 Zenith, Paris, FRA October 22, 2013 Messehall, Dresden, GER October 24, 2013 Messehall, Erfurt, GER October 25, 2013 Donau Arena, Regensburg, GER October 26, 2013 Max-Schmelinghalle, Berlin, GER October 29, 2013 Mitsubishi Arena, Dusseldorf, GER October 31, 2013 Schleyerhalle, Stuttgart, GER

November 1, 2013 Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, GER November 2, 2013 SAP Arena, Mannheim, GER

June 20, 2014 Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont, IL (with Cheap Trick) September 12-14, 2014 ( Telluride Blues & Brews Festival 2014 ) December 18, 2014 NEP Studio 54, New York City, NY (The final episode of The Colbert Report)

June 3, 2015 Gallo Center for the Arts, Modesto, CA June 5, 2015 Pechanga Resort, Temecula, CA (with Cheap Trick) June 6, 2015 Thunder Valley Casino, Lincoln, CA (with Cheap Trick) June 7, 2015 Santa Barbara, CA (Notes for Notes Benefit) June 9, 2015 Mountain Winery, Saratoga, CA (with Cheap Trick) June 10, 2015 San Diego County Fair Grandstand, Del Mar, CA (with Cheap Trick) June 12, 2015 Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (with Cheap Trick) June 13, 2015 Fantasy Springs Resort & Casino, Indio, CA (with Cheap Trick) June 14, 2015 Talking Stick Resort and Casino, Scottsdale, AZ (with Cheap Trick) June 16, 2015 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO (with Cheap Trick) June 18, 2015 Starlight Theatre, Kansas City, MO (with Cheap Trick) June 19, 2015 Festival Park, Elgin, IL June 20, 2015 Treasure Island Resort & Casino, Welch, MN (with Cheap Trick) June 23, 2015 Artpark, Lewiston, NY (with Cheap Trick) June 25, 2015 Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA (with Cheap Trick) June 26, 2015 Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ June 27, 2015 Maine State Pier, Portland, ME (with Cheap Trick) July 10, 2015 Lawrenceburg Event Center, Lawrenceburg, IN July 11, 2015 Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center, Canandaigua, NY (with Cheap Trick) July 12, 2015 DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI (with Cheap Trick) July 14, 2015 Honeywell Center, Wabash, IN July 16, 2015 Paramount Theater, Cedar Rapids, IA July 17, 2015 Big Top Chautauqua, Washburn, WI July 18, 2015 Moondance Jam, Walker, MN July 28, 2015 Sands Bethlehem Event Center, Bethlehem, PA (with Cheap Trick) July 29, 2015 The Paramount, Huntington, NY (with Cheap Trick) July 31, 2015 Tropicana Showroom, Atlantic City, NJ (with Cheap Trick) August 1, 2015 Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, Boston, MA (with Cheap Trick) August 2, 2015 Foxwoods Resort, New London, CT (with Cheap Trick) August 5, 2015 Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON (with Cheap Trick) August 7, 2015 Hard Rock Live, Northfield, OH August 8, 2015 Celeste Center, Columbus, OH (with Cheap Trick) August 9, 2015 The Rose Music Center at The Height, Huber Heights, OH (with Cheap Trick) August 11, 2015 Ferguson Center for the Arts, Newport News, VA (with Cheap Trick) August 12, 2015 Cary's Koka Booth Amphitheatre At Regency Park, Cary, NC (with Cheap Trick) August 14, 2015 Beau Rivage Theater, Biloxi, MS (with Cheap Trick) August 15, 2015 Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheatre, Peachtree City, GA (with Cheap Trick) August 16, 2015 Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, TN (with Cheap Trick) August 18, 2015 River City Casino and Hotel, St. Louis, MO August 19, 2015 Orpheum Theatre, Wichita, KS August 21, 2015 Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre, Tucson, AZ (with Cheap Trick) August 22, 2015 The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV (with Cheap Trick) August 24, 2015 Antelope Valley Fairgrounds, Lancaster, CA (with Cheap Trick) August 25, 2015 Wente Vineyards, Livermore, CA (with Cheap Trick) August 27, 2015 Oregon Zoo, Portland, OR (with Cheap Trick) August 28, 2015 King County's Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA August 29, 2015 Hard Rock Casino Vancouver, Coquitlam, BC

October 8, 2015 Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greenville, TN October 9, 2015 MSU Riley Center, Meridian, MS October 12, 2015 Scottish Rite Auditorium, Collingswood, NJ October 13, 2015 Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, New Bedford, MA October 14, 2015 Bergen Performing Arts Center, Englewood, NJ October 16, 2015 Carnegie Library of Homestead, Munhall, PA October 17, 2015 Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA October 19, 2015 Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT October 20, 2015 Hart Theatre at The Egg, Albany, NY October 22, 2015 Pfeiffer Hall, Naperville, IL October 23, 2015 Ritz Theatre, Tiffin, OH October 24, 2015 Niswonger PAC, Van Wert, OH December 5, 2015 New York City, NY (Imagine: John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert)

January 21, 2016 Fort Lauderdale, FL (Rock Legends Cruise)

Peter Frampton RAW: An Acoustic Tour 2016

March 9, 2016 Fox Tucson Theater, Tucson, AZ March 10, 2016 Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix, AZ (supported by Julian Frampton) March 12, 2016 Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks, CA March 13, 2016 Fox Performing Arts Center, Riverside, CA March 15, 2016 Sunset Center, Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA March 16, 2016 Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA March 18, 2016 Harris Center For The Arts, Folsom, CA March 19, 2016 Uptown Theatre, Napa, CA March 20, 2016 Njaqua Concert Hall, Eugene, OR March 22, 2016 Cascade Theatre, Redding, CA March 23, 2016 John Van Duzer Theatre, Arcata, CA March 25, 2016 Revolution Hall, Portland, OR (supported by Julian Frampton) March 26, 2016 Pantages Theater, Tacoma, WA

April 8, 2016 Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston, NY April 12, 2016 All For The Hall 2016, Nashville, TN

Peter Frampton Full Band Tour 2016

May 15, 2016 Uptown Theater, Kansas City, MO May 17, 2016 Gillioz Theatre, Springfield, MO May 18, 2016 Osage Event Center, Tulsa, OK May 20, 2016 Golden Nugget Lake Charles, Westlake, LA May 21, 2016 Richardson, TX (Wildfower! Arts and Music Festival) May 23, 2016 Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, San Antonio, TX May 24, 2016 Moody Theater, Austin, TX May 27, 2016 IP Casino Resort and Spa, Biloxi, MS May 28, 2016 Capital City Amphitheater, Tallahassee, FL May 30, 2016 Greenfield Lake Amphitheater, Wilmington, NC June 1, 2016 Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY June 3, 2016 Times Union Center, Albany, NY June 4, 2016 PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ June 5, 2016 Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY June 7, 2016 Modell Performing Arts Center, Baltimore, MD June 8, 2016 Clippers Magazine Stadium, Lancaster, PA June 10, 2016 Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA June 11, 2016 Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, Gilford, NH June 14, 2016 Sands Bethlehem Event Center, Bethlehem, PA June 16, 2016 The Avalon Ballroom Theatre At Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, Niagara Falls, ON June 17, 2016 Twin River Casino, Lincoln, RI June 18, 2016 Boarding House Park, Lowell, MA July 9, 2016 Marion Cultural & Civic Center, Marion, IL July 11, 2016 Prairie Capital Convention Center, Springfield, IL July 12, 2016 Vetter Stone Ampitheater, Mankato, MN July 13, 2016 State Theater, Minneapolis, MN July 15, 2016 Hoyt Sherman Theater, Des Moines, IA July 16, 2016 Chicago, IL (Laid Back Festival) July 18, 2016 Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI July 19, 2016 PNC Pavilion At Riverbend, Cincinnati, OH July 20, 2016 Farmer's Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park, Indianapolis, IN July 22, 2016 Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC July 23, 2016 The Harv at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort, Newell, WV July 26, 2016 Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC July 28, 2016 DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI July 31, 2016 Foellinger Theatre, Fort Wayne, IN August 2, 2016 Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Atlanta, GA August 4, 2016 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX August 5, 2016 Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square, New Orleans, LA August 6, 2016 Choctaw Grand Theater, Durant, OK August 9, 2016 Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Englewood, CO (supporting Lynyrd Skynyrd) August 18, 2016 Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA August 19, 2016 The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV August 21, 2016 Ironstone Amphitheatre, Murphys, CA August 23, 2016 Luther Burbank Center For The Arts, Santa Rosa, CA August 25, 2016 Vina Robles Amphitheatre, Paso Robles, CA August 26, 2016 The Mountain Winery, Saratoga, CA August 27, 2016 Pala Casino Starlight Theater, Pala, CA

September 30, 2016 Charleston Music Hall, Charleston, SC October 2, 2016 Capitol Theatre, Clearwater, FL October 4, 2016 The Plaza Live, Orlando, FL (supported by Julian Frampton) October 5, 2016 Parker Playhouse, Fort Lauderdale, FL October 8, 2016 Hayes Hall, Naples, FL October 9, 2016 Sunrise Theatre for the Performing Arts, Fort Pierce, FL October 12, 2016 Sandler Center For The Performing Arts, Virginia Beach, VA October 14, 2016 Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ October 16, 2016 The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC October 18, 2016 Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ October 19, 2016 Theatre at Westbury, Westbury, NY October 22, 2016 Opera House, Lexington, KY (supported by Julian Frampton)

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Peter Frampton at 73: ‘Never say never’ attitude, dazzling guitar work launch U.S. tour

• by John Sinkevics
• June 20, 2023

The once curly-haired, golden boy of rock ’n’ roll returned to Meijer Gardens for a sold-out, tour-starting show Monday – nearly five decades after his first West Michigan appearance.

The Fire is Still There: Peter Frampton rocked Meijer Gardens on Monday. (Photo/Joshua Tufts)

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Just a year before recording the album that would become one of the best-selling live collections of all time – turning Peter Frampton into an international superstar – the British guitarist uncorked many of the same iconic songs for a robust crowd at the domed Grand Valley State Colleges fieldhouse in Allendale.

The handsome, golden-haired 24-year-old guitarist – following opening sets by Spooky Tooth and Montrose during the June 22, 1974, tour stop – delivered audience-pleasing renditions of “All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side)” and “Do You Feel Like We Do,” even completing a searing guitar solo without a hiccup even though he broke a string midway through.

It was proof of the engaging, ultra-gifted musician and singer’s rock savvy and future as a guitar hero, after paying his dues with Humble Pie.

The poster for Peter Frampton’s 1974 tour stop.

Fast forward (almost) exactly 49 years to Monday night at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, when the now 73-year-old guitarist returned to the outdoor amphitheater and, yes, revisited many of the tracks from “Frampton Comes Alive” that made him globally famous and cemented his status as a rock legend.

And despite an ongoing battle with the degenerative Inclusion Body Myositis that atrophies his muscles (and had him announcing a farewell four years ago), Frampton’s 2023 “Never Say Never Tour” kickoff in Grand Rapids was nothing if not an energetic, triumphant statement by a guitarist whose vocal and instrumental skills clearly remain prodigious and relevant.

With a sold-out crowd of 1,900-plus (mostly baby boomers) on hand, the multi-platinum-selling guitarist and singer used a cane to take the stage and remained seated for the entire 2-hour-and-20-minute concert that began with “Lying” from 1986’s “Premonition” and wrapped up with an encore that featured Humble Pie’s “Four Day Creep” and “I Don’t Need No Doctor” and a surprising, emotion-rending version of The Beatles’ and George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”

What the top-shelf band lacked in energy from staying seated rather than roaming the stage it more than made up for with tight, loud and rousing renditions of songs from Frampton’s extensive catalog, enhanced by colorful and historic images on a video backdrop.

REALLY COMFORTABLE ON STAGE, LOVING MEIJER GARDENS

“The whole reason behind doing some of these numbers we’re doing is that I had quit because I thought I was not going to to be able to play anymore because of my fingers,” Frampton told fans early on.

“Whatever I have, a muscle disease, it has given me more time, it’s progressing so slowly. It’s quite amazing what an audience and never-give-up attitude will do.”

Indeed, that “never-give-up” mentality gave West Michigan fans another opportunity to cheer a gifted guitarist’s rock and blues acumen, highlighted on an absolutely perfect-weather Monday night by “All I Want To Be,” “Can’t Take That Away,” “(I’ll Give You) Money” (trading sizzling guitar leads with bandmate Adam Lester) and “Do You Feel Like We Do,” which had the entire amphitheater standing and singing along.

‘Never Say Never’: Frampton (Photo/Joshua Tufts)

Frampton also dedicated songs to late bandmate John Regan (“Lines on My Face” and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell (“Black Hole Sun”), while clearly reveling in his return to the stage and Meijer Gardens’ scenic milieu.

“I’m really comfortable up here,” Frampton gushed at one point. “It’s probably because you’re all smiling.”

Smiling because Frampton proved Monday that he’s not nearly ready to pack his guitar away – a decision enthusiastically reinforced by his fans – with 27 more concerts ahead on his summer tour, release of a “Frampton@50” vinyl box set in late July and work on a follow-up to his 2020 “All Blues” album.

“I’m going to keep on playing and saying, ‘Never say never,’ ” he proclaimed before leaving the stage. “We love it here. What a crowd.”

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45 Years Ago: ‘Frampton’ Shows Peter Frampton the Way to Success

Released in March 1975,  Peter Frampton 's fourth solo album, Frampton , gave the former Humble Pie guitarist the tools he needed for his breakthrough a year later.

After three pleasant pop-rock albums that had failed to dent the top half of Billboard 's 200 Albums chart -- and didn't chart at all in his native Great Britain -- his career, which started as a teenage guitar prodigy in the Herd, was at a crossroads. It didn't help that rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Andy Brown left Frampton’s band after just one year, as did bassist Rick Wills, who had played on Frampton's previous solo efforts.

Instead of folding, Frampton recruited a new bassist, Andy Bown, and they, along with longtime drummer John Siomos entered Gloucestershire’s Clearwell Castle in October 1974 with Ronnie Lane ’s Mobile Studio parked outside. The band's leader also rose to the challenge, composing his finest set of songs to date and augmenting them with inventive arrangements and some of the best playing he ever committed to vinyl.

Frampton shows of the breadth of its namesake's influences, now subsumed into a seamless mix of acoustic and electric guitar textures, including a liberal dose of a new weapon in Frampton's arsenal, the talkbox. The double-tracked guitars on the catchy arena rocker “Nowhere’s Too Far (For My Baby)” are grittier than elsewhere on the album, and the twanging riffs and clangorous chords can trace a through line to Hank Marvin, the Shadows' guitarist who was a major influence on many British rock guitar heroes.

Frampton’s descending triplets and clean-ringing harmonics on the funky country-rock shuffle “Fanfare” show how much he'd absorbed from gypsy jazz master Django Reinhardt, whom he discovered through his father's record collection.

“He’d put on Django Reinhardt and Hot Club de France,” Frampton told this author in 2014. “Each time he would put that album on, it would take me longer to leave the room, until I never left. .. I've learned various different passages from Django, and then it goes into my library of licks and notes. It doesn't sound like Django, but it's totally inspired by his gypsy soul. I'd like to think that I've got some of it somewhere from all the listening I've done.”

Still, the standouts on Frampton are the four tunes that went on to greater fame a year later on  Frampton Comes Alive!    “Penny for Your Thoughts” may be the slightest of these songs, but it’s no less enjoyable. It’s a spiraling whirligig acoustic guitar workout, with bucolic bluegrass overtones that shares a similar feel with Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen’s “Embryonic Journey.”

“We were right at the end of mixing the record, and I said that I had this little bit that would be cool to stick on,” Frampton told MusicRadar’s Joe Bosso in 2011. The tune became an acoustic staple of Frampton’s set starting in 1975.

On Frampton and in concert, “Penny for Your Thoughts” dovetails into “(I’ll Give You) Money.” The stomping mid-tempo rocker is the record's hardest-hitting song, with grimy riffs and squealing fills that hearken back to the guitarist’s Humble Pie days. By the song’s end, Frampton’s double-tracked guitars have gone spinning off into spiraling riffs over a thundering drum pattern that recalls Led Zeppelin ’s “When the Levee Breaks.” During a soundcheck at Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park in New York, Frampton came up with the song’s main riff, he told Bosso. “I started playing it and people were pretty blown away, so I knew I had something.”

But the best two songs on  Frampton would soon become more famous. On “Show Me the Way,” Frampton’s talkbox seems distant from the rest of the song, his vocals feel more forced and the production is more cluttered with the talkbox popping in and unexpected. None of this detracts from the power of the tune. Acoustic guitar textures dovetail into electric riffs and talkbox tearaways. It’s a cascading string of pleasures, where every section of the song is a hook.

“Show Me the Way” was surpassed in cultural cachet by “Baby, I Love Your Way.” Frampton’s jangling, strutting guitar interpolates plangent fanning strums as a hooky verse tumbles into and even catchier chorus. Harmonized sustained notes thread through the melody as the song culminates in a gently pinwheeling solo. It’s easy to hear why this song, above all others by Frampton, became the songbook standard.

Although "Show Me the Way," "Baby, I Love Your Way" and "(I'll Give You) Money" continued his lack of success on the singles chart, Frampton managed to hit No. 32 on the album chart, easily his best placement to date.

To tour for the new album, Frampton and Siomos went on the road with guitarist-keyboardist Bob Mayo and bassist Stanley Sheldon. This is the band that recorded Frampton Comes Alive! at a series of summer and fall 1975 shows at Winterland in San Francisco, the Long Island Arena in Commack, N.Y. and on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus in Plattsburgh, N.Y.

That record finally broke Frampton, selling 8 million copies and delivering three Top 20 singles, including "Show Me the Way" and "Baby, I Love Your Way." But because of some poor decisions, such as starring in the misbegotten film adaptation  of the Beatles '  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band , Frampton could not sustain the success spawned by his live double-disc behemoth.

Frampton has joked that when his time comes, obituaries will lead with Frampton Comes Alive! , along with a variation on the title “Frampton Drops Dead!,” it’s clear the guitarist has made peace with capturing his distinct brand of lightning in a bottle – one of the biggest-selling live albums of all time, and the studio album that paved the way for its runaway success.

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Released in 1973, ‘Frampton’s Camel’ is classic early 70s rock, and set the stage for ‘Frampton Comes Alive’ a few years later.

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While legions of fans first became enamored with Peter Frampton in 1976 with the release of the brilliant Frampton Comes Alive, just three years earlier, Frampton had released Frampton’s Camel on A&M Records on October 20, 1973.

When Peter Frampton was labeled the Face of ’68 by Rave magazine he was with The Herd, a pop-oriented band who nevertheless produced some classy singles. In April 1969 Frampton left the Herd to form the “supergroup” Humble Pie with Marriott on guitar and vocals, Jerry Shirley on drums, and Greg Ridley on bass. After four albums Frampton quit Humble Pie in October 1971 to go it alone, releasing the appropriately titled Wind of Change the following year.

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He then formed Frampton’s Camel to tour the US in support of his debut – their first public appearance was at The Academy of Music, New York in September 1972 supporting The J Geils Band. In December 1972 the band went into Electric Lady Studios in New York to begin recording the album that became Frampton’s Camel .

A movable feast

Frampton’s band was a movable feast throughout the early 1970s, but at this time it was future Blockhead and former Animal Mick Gallagher on keyboards and Hammond B-3, bass player Rick Wills (formerly with Cochise and later with stadium rockers Foreigner), and American drummer John Siomos, whose credits by this time had included the brilliant “Hello It’s Me” with Todd Rundgren. For this album, Frank Carillo, an American musician who had also played on Wind of Change , was drafted in to play acoustic guitar and backing vocals.

Frampton’s Camel is classic early 1970s rock, but with a difference. It includes some outstanding melodic songs – always a trademark of Peter’s career. The album opens with the funky “I Got My Eyes On You” written by Frampton, and while it is very definitely “of its time,” it is completely indicative of what made both this album and Frampton so appealing. “All Night Long” is one of the two co-written songs on the album; this one features Gallagher as well as some gorgeous guitar work. It was also one of the two tracks released as a single, but it failed to dent the charts on either side of the Atlantic.

An ear for great songs

Track 3 is the familiar (that is, if you came to Peter via Frampton Comes Alive ) “Lines on My Face,” a trademark Frampton ballad with a tingling guitar solo and an emotional vocal. It’s followed by “Which Way The Wind Blows” that harks back to the gentler side of Humble Pie and their country-rock influences with the addition of another sumptuous melodic guitar solo. It was also released as a single at the time but also did nothing on the charts.

Frampton has always had an ear for great songs to cover, and on this album, it’s Stevie Wonder ’s “I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” that had been released on Talking Book a couple of months before Frampton’s Camel entered the studio. It closes side one of the original LP and imbues the original with something fresh, no mean feat when covering Stevie Wonder.

Side 2 of the LP opens with “White Sugar,” a definite nod to the Stones and their classic “Brown Sugar” in title and in something of the feel of the track that has a great piano solo from Gallagher. “Don’t Fade Away” is a return to the melodic rock ballad style that Frampton is so good at. Similarly, “Just the Time Of Year” emphasizes what a very good songwriter Frampton had already become.

Ready to step into the spotlight alone

The album closes with “Do You Feel Like We Do,” written by the entire band, and a track that would go on to become one of the standout cuts on Frampton Comes Alive , where it also closed side 4 of the double LP. What’s not to love about this track? It is easy to hear why it translated into such an excellent stadium rocker. A great riff allows it to build and build, and that Gibson rings out loud and clear.

Ultimately, with no hit singles, Frampton’s Camel struggled to sell in large numbers after its release in October 1973, although it did eventually make No. 110 on the Billboard chart where it hung around for half the year. In retrospect, it obviously deserved way better, and with the benefit of hindsight, it’s the solid, grounded stepping-off point for Frampton’s subsequent success. His songwriting and guitar playing had matured so much by this point, giving him the confidence perhaps to step into the spotlight alone and assume superstar status.

Listen to the best of Peter Frampton on Apple Music and Spotify .

12 Comments

Kendra Landry

July 3, 2014 at 5:51 pm

Yes, it is true that “Frampton Comes Alive” was my into to the man’s great music. A few friends and I collected as many of his works as we could get our hands on, in the days before an easy internet search. I owned and loved this album and many others. Frampton is still a genius guitarist and his recent works are definitely worth a listen. I was privileged to see him perform on his Comes Alive tour back in the 70s, and I was able to see him again in 2008 at Interlochen, Michigan. He is still a masterful writer, guitarist, and performer! Thank you for this wonderful trip down memory lane!

Karen Galpin

July 3, 2014 at 6:14 pm

You are soooo wrong!!! I was totally into Peter way before Frampton Comes Alive. I did buy this album when it first came out and still have it all these years later! My favorite Peter is before Frampton Comes Alive. Saw him many, many times the Comes Alive…he was alive and well way before 1976!!! Hail Peter!!!

jamal zeglam

July 3, 2014 at 6:38 pm

Great songs & music peter,love to listen to and the way you play guitar as well ! Awesome oh yeah…….

July 3, 2014 at 8:52 pm

Fantastico P.Frampton

July 4, 2014 at 5:55 am

Here is what I admit. I listened to this album and every other one before “Comes Alive” ever came out. These are still in my rotation every year and I know these by heart. I saw Peter 2nd row at the Baltimore Civic Center when he started touring to support “Frampton.” He opened for Ten Years After an blew them away. The studio albums were always superb. For those like myself who appreciated the studio music first the success of “Comes Alive” was a mixed bag because few understood the quality of the recorded music it was based on. So happy that nearly 40 years later a few of you are finally getting around to what Peter was about before all the fame. “Comes Alive” is a great live album but the studio work is better and on top of that they are superb recordings.

Ed Gallagher

July 4, 2014 at 12:21 pm

I’d been a fan since ‘Winds of Change’ and spent a lot of time trying to make people understand what a great artist he was. ‘Comes Alive’ was probably one of the greatest ‘Told Ya So!’ moments of my young life. Saw him in ’74, ’76, ’77, ’92, and mid ’90’s and he never less than great. Keep rockin’ Peter!

Bridgette Halloran

July 6, 2014 at 7:36 pm

Ed, I so agree with you! When FCA came out, I too had that ‘Told You So’ moment!…

Cindy Buchan

July 4, 2014 at 3:32 pm

<3 My favorite album of all time and only ONE of his fantastic albums among my collection. It's Always Been the Music!

July 4, 2014 at 4:00 pm

Humble Pie’s Smokin album will always be a favorite. Framton Comes Alive is just a masterpiece. Thanks Peter.

July 4, 2014 at 9:07 pm

I too am a huge fan of the FIRST 4 for several reasons. The intricacy of technique is really showcased with these lovelies, that we just do not get to hear during the LIVE cuts. There are so many songs on these albums that are just so fantastic. ‘Don’t Fade Away’, my personal favorite for that awesome guitar solo, just blows my mind everytime I listen to it. If you came up on these LP’s, FCA will surely take a second seat to them because of the partiality we feel with them… and then of course, there is the loyalty issue that one feels having known Frampton’s work before all the hype! Somehow I feel more legitimized as a fan than those who discovered his music after the Live one. I want to scream out… Listen to ‘The Lodger’… listen to ‘Fig Tree Bay’… all of ‘Something’s Happening’ is pure magic… finally ‘Frampton’… Nowhere’s Too Far’ and Money? Great, great stuff here on these babies… my babies… they hold a very special place in my heart simply for the memories and the era, aside from the masterful execution of solid rock driven, flawless guitar playing! Yea… these are always within reach when I go to put in a Frampton CD.

October 21, 2017 at 8:55 am

Had “Wind of Change” and “Camel” when they came out. Most friends said they really liked this guy, who is he? My God didn’t everyone in the world listen to Humble Pies’ Performance at the Fillmore?

October 21, 2017 at 1:03 pm

My all time favorite musician.I was lucky to see that band by chance at the Academy Of Music in 73 and immediately Frampton became my fav because his show was unique in a mellow yet rocking.I enjoyed how he would sit on a stool and play his acoustic favorites.A very underrated guitar player.My favorite song is ‘Line on my Face’.Since 73 I have probably seen him 50 times.Actually liked him before’ Frampton Comes Alive’ success changed him for a while and he has a long road back.He credits good friend David Bowie for helping snap out of his slump post my least favorite album ‘I’m in You’ yuck.Tkday I enjoy him as much as I did in 73′.Peace to all the family of friends.

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PETER FRAMPTON Announces Spring 2024 'Never EVER Say Never Tour'

To celebrate his 60th year of touring, Grammy Award -winning guitarist Peter Frampton has confirmed new spring dates on "Never EVER Say Never Tour" . Fresh off the heels of his nationwide headline run this year, the 2024 tour will see the legendary artist playing at venues across North America, including a stop at Los Angeles's Greek Theatre.

"I am delighted to let you know I'm planning more shows in March and April for the new 'Never EVER Say Never Tour' ! I don't want to give up my passion and will play as long as I physically can," says Frampton . "Hope to see you in 2024!"

Tickets will go on-sale to the general public on Friday, December 8 at 10 a.m. local time at frampton.com. See below for full tour routing.

The upcoming shows kick off what promises to be yet another landmark year for Frampton , whose 2023 spring and summer tour announcements were unexpected by fans. The musician announced a farewell tour four years ago following a diagnosis of the degenerative disease inclusion-body myositis, but with the aptly named "Never EVER Say Never Tour" , Frampton is back, appearing on stages across America. Most recently, Frampton was joined by Chris Stapleton who performed alongside him at his sold-out Ryman Auditorium show in Nashville, Tennesee last month.

Citi is the official card of the Peter Frampton "Never EVER Say Never Tour" . Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets in select cities beginning Monday, December 4 at 10 a.m. local time until Thursday, December 7 at 10 p.m. local time through the Citi Entertainment program.

Frampton is one of the most celebrated artists and guitarists in rock history. In 2007, Frampton won a Grammy for "Best Pop Instrumental Album" for "Fingerprints" and in 2014 was inducted into the Musicians Hall Of Fame . He received the prestigious Les Paul Innovation Award from NAMM 's TEC Awards in 2019 and his album "All Blues" was No. 1 for fifteen weeks on Billboard 's Blues chart. In 2020 Frampton was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame , his autobiography "Do You Feel Like I Do?: A Memoir" debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list, and his 2021 album "Frampton Forgets The Words" was released to widespread critical acclaim.

Most recently, Frampton appeared on Dolly Parton 's new album, "Rockstar" , which was released last month, as the only artist featured on two tracks. Frampton also performed at the 2023 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony, joining the stage with fellow lauded musicians Sheryl Crow and Stevie Nicks .

This year, Frampton released "Frampton@50" on Intervention Records , a numbered limited-edition vinyl box set featuring Frampton 's essential 1972-1975 studio releases "Wind Of Change" , "Frampton's Camel" and "Frampton" . He also received The Myositis Association 's Heroes In The Fight 2023 Patient Ambassador Award in September and unveiled his historic performance at London's Royal Albert Hall as a live album via UMe .

After 47 years, "Frampton Comes Alive!" remains one of the top-selling live records of all time selling over 17 million worldwide.

"Never EVER Say Never Tour" dates:

March 03 - Greensboro, NC - Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts March 05 - Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Center for the Arts, The Vogel March 07 - Wallingford, CT - Toyota Oakdale Theatre March 09 - Waterloo, NY - The Vine at Del Lago Resort & Casino March 10 - Hanover, MD - The Hall at Live! Casino & Hotel March 13 - Morristown, NJ - Mayo Performing Arts Center March 15 - Windsor, ON - The Colosseum at Caesars March 16 - Mount Pleasant, MI - Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort March 18 - Gary, IN - Hard Rock Casino March 30 - Waukegan, IL - The Genesee Theatre April 01 - Minneapolis, MN - State Theatre April 03 - Omaha, NE - Orpheum Theatre April 05 - Kansas City, MO - The Midland Theatre April 07 - Denver, CO - The Mission April 09 - Salt Lake City, UT - Eccles Theater April 11 - Reno, NV - Grand Sierra Resort, Grand Theatre April 13 - Los Angeles, CA - The Greek Theatre April 14 - San Diego, CA - The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park

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Peter announces Never EVER Say Never Tour for Spring 2024!

I am delighted to let you know I’m planning more shows in March and April for the new Never EVER Say Never Tour! I don’t want to give up my passion and will play as long as I physically can. Hope to see you in 2024!

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• Frampton Forgets The Words - Peter's New Album
• Do You Feel Like I Do - Peter’s Memoir

On April 22, 1950 Peter Kenneth Frampton was born to Owen and Peggy Frampton in Beckenham, Kent, UK

At the age of 10, Peter played in a band called The Little Ravens. He and David Bowie both went to Bromley Technical School and would spend lunch breaks together, playing Buddy Holly songs. The Little Ravens and Bowie's band, George and the Dragons, played shows together. When he was 11 years old, he played in the Trubeats before joining The Preachers, a band that Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman produced and managed.

Peter became a successful child guitarist, and in 1966 he became a member of The Herd, landing three British Top 10 hits. He was also named The Face of 1968 by Rave, a teen magazine.

In 1969, when Peter was 18 years old in 1969, he co-founded one of the first super groups, seminal rock act Humble Pie with Steve Marriott.

Peter met Pete Drake in 1970, on George Harrison’s session for his All Things Must Pass album.  Pete introduced Peter to the "talk box" which would become one of Frampton's trademark guitar effects. In 1972, Peter's solo career debut Wind of Change was released, with guest artists Billy Preston and Ringo Starr.

Peter released a whopping 6 albums in this decade: Frampton's Camel was released in 1973 and Somethin's Happening was released in 1974. In 1975, Frampton was released and rose to #32 in the US charts, and was certified Gold by the RIAA. In 1976, Frampton Comes Alive! was released and became a best-selling live album with hit singles "Baby, I Love Your Way," "Show Me the Way," and "Do You Feel Like We Do". In 1977, I'm In You was released and went platinum

In 1978, Peter starred in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with The Bee Gees, Aerosmith, Billy Preston, George Burns and others. Later that year, Peter was in a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas.

Peter received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979 and that same year, Where I Should Be was released.

Rise Up was released in 1980. The same year, Peter's black Les Paul Custom, "Phenix", was lost in a plane crash. In 1981, Breaking All the Rules was released and was recorded almost completely live. 1982 brought the release of The Art of Control. In 1986, Premonition was released with the hit single, "Lying". Frampton played on David Bowie's album Never Let Me Down in 1987 and joined Bowie on his Glass Spider tour.

In 1994, the Peter Frampton album was released. Frampton Comes Alive! II was recorded on June 15, 1995 at The Fillmore Theater in San Francisco. In 1996, Peter appeared as himself on the hit tv show The Simpsons headlining Homerpalooza.

In 2000, Peter was the technical advisor for Cameron Crowe’s Oscar winning movie, Almost Famous. Peter wrote a lot of the music on the soundtrack and appeared in the film as Humble Pie’s road manager. The album Now was released in 2003 and Frampton embarked on a tour with Styx. In 2006, Peter released the album Fingerprints. And in 2007, the album won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album. Peter was immortalized as himself on The Family Guy in 2009.

Thank You Mr Churchill was released in 2010 and was Peter's 14th studio album. The album included a song written with his son, Julian Frampton. Peter went on a North American tour with the band Yes. 2011 marked the 35th anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive! and Peter embarked on a 69 date tour playing the songs exactly as they were recorded on the album. In 2012, Peter received ASCAP’s Global Impact Award. In 2013, Frampton's Guitar Circus went on tour featuring guest performers B.B. King, Robert Cray, Don Felder, Rick Derringer, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Steve Lukather, Sonny Landreth, Davy Knowles, David Hidalgo, Mike McCready, Roger McGuinn and Vinnie Moore. Frampton was one of several musicians to participate in 2014's The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles tribute to the Beatles on the 50th anniversary of their first appearance on American television. Hummingbird in a Box was released in 2014 and Peter performed a few shows live onstage with the Cincinnati Ballet. Acoustic Classics was released in 2015, featuring many of his hits. In 2016, Frampton was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. Peter toured with the Steve Miller Band in 2017 and 2018 and was given the Les Paul Innovation Award at NAMM in 2018 as well.

On February 22, 2019 Frampton announced his retirement from rigorous touring with his 'Peter Frampton Finale—The Farewell Tour' after disclosing his diagnosis of inclusion body myositis (IBM), a progressive muscle disorder. That same year, Peter was honored at The Music Business Association Awards & Hall Of Fame Dinner with the Chairman’s Award For Sustained Creative Achievement. Also in 2019, All Blues was released and debuted at number one and stayed there for 15 weeks on the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart.

In 2020 Frampton published his memoir, Do You Feel Like I Do?, co-written with Alan Light that debuted on the New York Times Best Seller List. Also, in 2020, Frampton Comes Alive! was inducted in to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Frampton Forgets the Words album released in 2021.

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Peter Frampton Rallies For Rock Hall Induction During ‘Never Ever Say Never’ Tour Stop In L.A. [Photos/Videos]

Call it a faux pas, if you will, but Peter Frampton hasn’t been shy about sharing exciting news with audiences during his Never Ever Say Never tour; specifically, that the legendary English guitar hero is (finally) on the ballot for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame .

During his rain-filled April show at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Frampton took time out of his set to not only tell his fans about it, but encourage them on the spot to vote for him. He and his crew went so far as to project a QR code for the ballot onto a giant screen onstage, with his band playing the Jeopardy! theme while attendees cast their votes.

Shameless? To some, perhaps. But there’s no denying that the soon-to-be-74-year-old deserves a spot in Cleveland’s hallowed halls.

The roaring success of Frampton Comes Alive —one of the best-selling live albums of all time—would be enough to make a case on its own. That the album spawned a series of classic rock staples and propelled Peter as a talk box pioneer only further cemented his legacy. So much so that he was able to celebrate a whopping 60 years of touring with his latest go-round. Yet, despite being eligible for the Hall since 1990, Frampton is only now in the race for induction.

Campaigning aside, for those who witnessed Frampton’s performance near Griffith Park, he left no doubt that he belongs in any and every rock pantheon.

First and foremost on display was the indomitable spirit that has long propelled Frampton through his career. An ongoing battle with inclusion body myositis (IBM) has left him reliant on a cane to walk on and off stage—and kept him from the usual theatrics of a pre-encore exit. The rain and frigid (for L.A.) temperatures added to the challenge, both in terms of the guitarist’s own state and the scattering of the crowd.

But rather than bow to circumstance, Frampton played on from his seat and did so with the enthusiasm, charisma, and craft that have been his trademark for more than 50 years.

He pulled liberally from the portion of his catalog that coincided with the height of his fame in the 1970s. He opened with “Golden Goose” from 1974’s Somethin’s Happening , later doubled back to that album for “I Wanna Go to the Sun”, dropped in “I Got My Eyes on You” and “Lines on My Face” off of 1973’s Frampton’s Camel , and called on 1975’s Frampton for “The Crying Clown”, “Nassau”, and “(I’ll Give You) Money”. He even dug all the way back to Winds of Change , his solo debut in 1972, to play “All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side)”.

To be sure, those weren’t the only hits that Frampton performed from the prolific period that preceded his near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas in 1978. But, for all intents and purposes, iconic tracks like “Baby, I Love Your Way”, “Show Me The Way”, and “Do You Feel Like We Do” might as well be the property of Frampton Comes Alive  since it was that live album that put Peter and those songs on the cultural map.

The last of two that unbeatable trio of songs offered the guitarist ample opportunity to delight fans with his signature work on the talk box. With “Do You Feel Like We Do”, in particular, he closed out the main set by thanking the crowd for sticking out the weather, all tuned by his guitar and talk box. At no point did Peter use the tool to greater effect, though, than during his cover of Soundgarden ’s “Black Hole Sun”. His pseudo-robotic rendition of the late Chris Cornell ’s vocals was nothing short of enthralling—as was Peter’s pure guitar work on the song.

That was hardly the only cover that wound its way into the setlist. Peter’s aforementioned plea for Hall of Fame votes preceded his instrumental version of Ray Charles ’ “Georgia (On My Mind)” (which was, itself, a cover of the same song by Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra). Immediately after that, Peter welcomed his son, Julian Frampton , onstage to sing “Rebel Rebel”, originated by Peter’s friend and former schoolmate, David Bowie . And while playing songs from his former band might only qualify as quasi-covers, Peter’s rendition of “Shine On”—another ditty made all the more famous by Frampton Comes Alive —was no less compelling.

The three-song encore consisted exclusively of covers as well. He dug deep into his blues guitar bag and pulled out Ida Cox ’s “Four Day Creep” and Nickolas Ashford ’s “I Don’t Need No Doctor” before ending the evening with The Beatles ’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.

When (or whether) Peter returns to the road after this now-completed tour remains to be seen. That will likely depend on how his battle with his degenerative muscle disease proceeds from here. Then again, his diagnosis in 2019 spurred what was billed as a farewell tour that same year. Fortunately, Peter was able to get back to playing live thereafter, even in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whatever the future holds, there are but two certainties for Peter Frampton: He will turn 74 on April 22nd and, with the help of those who turned out for his shows this time around, he will hear his name called in Cleveland very soon.

Check out a gallery of images from Peter Frampton at L.A.’s Greek Theatre courtesy of photographer  Josh Martin along with a collection of fan-shot videos.

Peter Frampton | The Greek Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | 4/13/24 | Photos: Josh Martin

Peter Frampton on His Rock Hall Induction: ‘My Phone Hasn’t Stopped Blowing Up’

By Andy Greene

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After three decades of eligibility where he didn’t appear on a single ballot, Peter Frampton was starting to think he’d never be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . But once voters finally had to chance to select him earlier this year, things changed very quickly. He learned the good news over the weekend when his manager phoned him up to say he made it. “I was absolutely blown away,” Frampton says. “My mind has been sort of a blur ever since I found out, especially since the announcement [on American Idol ] last night. My phone hasn’t stopped blowing up since.”

The afternoon after the news broke, Frampton spoke with Rolling Stone about the Hall of Fame, his fellow inductees, what he’s planning for the big night, upcoming tour plans, his battle with inclusion body myositis, and his hope that Cher changes her mind and shows up on induction night.

The thing that blew me away the most was not actually getting in — even though that is a phenomenal, unbelievable thing. It’s the amount of people who voted for me [in the fan vote]. You don’t quite understand where you’re at until you look at the amount of people who voted for you. Those are the people I need to thank the most. That was a real wonderful shock.

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I think part of the problem is that rock critics had a huge voice in the nominating process for a long time. You had such an insanely big record in the Seventies, and it attracted so many young fans, that you maybe turned off some critics. Yeah. Sometimes you can be too big. Hootie & the Blowfish, same thing. You have this ginormous selling record, and it works against you. It becomes too much of a good thing. Framptom Comes Alive! turned into Rubik’s Cube very quickly. Look what happened to that. But I can open one of those very quickly now since I’ve learned the secret.

Had you attended an induction before last year? I went when Metallica got in. It was a much smaller event in those days compared to last year’s. I’ve watched every one, all the inductees over the years, whether it be live or on film. I always thought, “Maybe… Who knows?”

It’s a cool class this year with Cher, Foreigner, Dave Matthews, Ozzy… It’s very cool. I think because of the new team that’s running it, headed by John Sykes…having known a little bit and spoken with some of them, things were not that realistic before…there were a lot of missed opportunities before, and some artists that weren’t maybe ready to go in.

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I loved seeing John Mayall’s name. He really deserves it. Absolutely. There I was in the front row of the Flamingo Club in London watching him and Eric Clapton, and him and Peter Green. I would always go up there. He has always been a champion of so many incredible guitar players, as well as being this guy that never faltered, never went commercial, never did anything but the blues. I applaud him for that. He very much deserves to get in.

There’s also people that grumble about R&B and hip-hop artists getting inducted. To me, it makes perfect sense to bring in Mary J. Blige and A Tribe Called Quest. Maybe it should be called the Music Hall of Fame as opposed to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They’re king of stuck now. But I agree. Mary J. Blige is an unbelievable talent. They definitely both deserve to get in.

Shortly before she was placed on the ballot, Cher basted the Hall of Fame and said she wouldn’t go even if she got in. I’m hoping she changes her mind. Oh, go on, Cher! We want you there. It’s okay. Look at how long I waited. I didn’t wait as long as you, but it’s okay. You’re in now. You’re in! Come on, Cher! [ Laughs ]

Do you have any thoughts on who might induct you or what songs you might play? Not right now. I haven’t been told. The basic thing I need to be told is how long musically I have, and how long speech-wise I have. And then I can make those decisions. I obviously have people in mind, but I haven’t spoken to anybody yet.

It’s going to be in Cleveland, which is pretty cool since it’s a great rock town, and you have so many fans there. Oh yeah. I’ve always loved Cleveland. I did my time in Cincinnati for a while. I lived there. They can’t take the Ohio out of me.

How do you think it’ll feel to stand at the podium, take the award, and finally give your speech? Oh, my stomach turned over when you said that. [ Laughs ] I don’t know. I’ll prepare for that moment. With great gratitude, I’ll step up to that microphone and accept what I never thought would happen for me.

You just finished a tour a few weeks back. How did that go? Fantastic. In fact, it looks like we’re going to do another two-week run sometime in the summer. I don’t have any info right now. It’s been incredible going back out after I quit. [ Laughs ] I think the crowds are so behind me since I don’t want to give up. I am a fighter. I’m going to be playing until that time comes when I can’t.

We all have our battles. We’re all fighting something. I’m just a person who is out there, doing the best he can, and brining awareness to IBM [inclusion body myositis], raising money where I can. We’ve got a lovely foundation at Johns Hopkins, the Peter Frampton Fund . People are still sending in money, which is wonderful. It’ll help us with clinical trials. Those are expensive. I’m raising money for them so we can find that magic bullet.

I’m very optimistic. I’m speaking with my doctors all the time, and hearing all the new stuff that’s coming along, and the new technologies the scientists are finding in the lab. It looks like something could be coming around the corner. We’re always hoping for that.

If your voice works and your hand works, why shouldn’t you be onstage? Exactly. I really want to share my time between three things right now. I have a record to make. I’ve been writing for six years or more. I have material up the yin yang. But only a few classics. [ Laughs ] I’m waiting a little longer, another month or two, and then I’m going to go in the studio.

In June, I’m going to England to do some stuff for my documentary. We’re going to go back to where I was born, and where I went to school with David Bowie, and the house where my brother and I grew up. We were doing some interviews with people last week in Los Angeles for the doc. We now have full funding. It’s full steam ahead. Those three projects are what we’re working on this year.

I would love to see Soungarden get in too. Oh my God. They’re not in?

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It’s great seeing Ozzy Osbourne get in solo this year. He deserves to be in twice. I agree. The man is the Betty White of rock & roll. [ Laughs ]

It would be fun to see you play “Crazy Train” with him. That would be fantastic. Let’s see what happens.

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Not long after Peter Frampton settled in downtown Nashville in 2011, his adopted neighborhood slowly yet surely morphed into the bachelorette-party capital of America. The legendary rock musician, who just marked his 60th year of touring, is no stranger to celebratory atmospheres. (His latest Never Ever Say Never tour kicked off on March 3 in Greensboro, North Carolina.) But when Frampton kept close to home during the pandemic, “the huge double-decker buses…just got so noisy from Thursday through Sunday.”

Frampton readied to relocate to a more peaceful condo nearby, until a new companion convinced him otherwise. That would be Bigsby, the service dog who for the last several years has supported Frampton as he adapts to life with inclusion body myositis (IBM). “I had decided to move, but in the interim I got Bigsby and I realized that living in an apartment wasn’t going to be the best thing,” he recalls. Extra confirmation of that hunch came with a visit to the home of friend and interior designer Robin Rains in a bucolic part of Nashville: “Robin has land and Bigsby was just beside himself. I saw him running free and thought, Oh my god, I’ve got to move. I needed a backyard, I wanted my privacy.” Rains had done work for Frampton previously, and without hesitation he commissioned her eponymous design studio to collaborate on this prospective project. “Peter very much has his card deck of people he works with, and he goes back to them,” Rains says of the trust she and Frampton have in one another.

Navigating a competitive marketplace, Frampton ultimately found a newly constructed house not far from Rains. The residence suited Bigsby, and it was big enough to accommodate visits from Frampton’s human family, which in December expanded to include a second grandchild. It just required tailoring to his specific needs and point of view. “Any time you work with a spec house, you’re really trying to make the space unique and memorable,” Rains says of the assignment, on which she was assisted by her in-house designer Jenna Miller.

Rains peeled back the interior architecture before making a mark. “We eliminated things we deemed unnecessary to get to a cleaner aesthetic,” she says of the removal of existing trim and lighting. Wood planks and Venetian plaster were then applied to ceilings and walls, and the entry as well as multiple closet doors were replaced, to crystallize the property’s European farmhouse identity.

Simultaneously, Rains removed larger chunks of the house to accommodate Frampton’s IBM. He specifically feels symptoms most around the knees, as his guitar-licking digits have resisted the autoimmune disease. “Stairs are my worst enemy,” says the musician, “[so] obviously we put in an elevator.” Exercise is one of the few clinically proven ways of slowing and reducing disease activity, and the retrofitted lift takes Frampton to an upstairs gym where he works out six days each week; “Bigsby snoozes while I exercise,” he says. The remaining second-floor rooms encompass a two-bedroom apartment with an office, reserved for guests, which is largely decorated in the previous condo’s furnishings.

Because he planned to spend most of his day downstairs, Frampton asked Rains to focus her attention on a suite of ground-floor rooms that includes a music room and studio—the latter converted from a den—in addition to a primary bedroom, kitchen, and family room. In these spaces, Rains says, IBM informed design choices. “We needed to think about how easily [Frampton] could get up from a sofa, so we customized those to be a little bit taller without necessarily looking like it,” Rains cites as one example. “We also used vintage chairs, but only pieces with arms and tight seats, and we put the kitchen’s coffee station close to the family room because Peter’s coffee is important. Attention to daily living was something we had to keep in mind with everything.”

At the same time, Frampton wanted the renovation project to celebrate his family and personal style rather than merely accommodate his condition. “I didn’t think I had any specific taste, and don’t get me wrong, I knew nothing,” he prefaces. “But Robin told me that we think along the same lines, and she showed me what can be done and has taught me so much about design.” Rains isn’t quite so convinced of that narrative, however, noting that Frampton’s eye is as laser-focused on style as functionality. “Peter doesn’t like clutter; pieces need to be meaningful to him, and he wants to feel at rest at home,” the designer observes. Mission accomplished.

Peter Frampton in his home.

While many of the possessions from Peter Frampton’s condo were moved to the second floor of his new house, the musician asked interior designer Robin Rains to give pride of place to his long-treasured Pablo Picasso portrait, which was shot at his La Californie villa by Irving Penn in 1957. Rains mounted the artwork over a custom iron bench upholstered in Holland & Sherry’s Patagonia mélange wool flannel .

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In the family room, patio doors center on a fireplace topped by an abstract painting by Bernadette de Samois. A custom sofa facing an ebony coffee table from Clubcu , as well as a bouclé-clad seat and Emmitt Lounge Chair by Charleston Forge , completes the vignette.

Rains removed some kitchen cabinetry to create a more commodious dining area. Frampton uses the expansive table as a multifunctional surface for WFH duties which, in the case of the rock star, includes signing posters. Light by Roll & Hill and seating by Faustine Furniture .

Rains reused much of the spec house’s existing kitchen, and put Frampton’s stamp on the space by illuminating the island in Apparatus’s Cylinder Pendant lights .

Rains approached the primary bedroom in a similar fashion as the studio, using expanses of Weitzner’s Ritual fabric to transform the space into a cocoon with the push of a button. “That whole-wall treatment really blew me away,” Frampton exclaims.

In a secondary bedroom, a Marco Bed with a headboard by Oly sits beneath Lawson-Fenning’s Alta Brass Dome luminaire . The flanking sconces were custom made by the Urban Electric Co.

In the music room, an oil-on-canvas triptych of Japanese martial artists hangs above a mohair-upholstered Wave Sofa by Baker . The chandelier, Wareco’s O Branch V Curved , features lamps shaded in ostrich eggs. Local artisans from Olympia Paint Design were responsible for plastering walls in multiple rooms.

“I’ve lived in New York and Los Angeles, where people meet up and say, ‘We must get together and jam.’ Here, you do ,” Frampton says of Nashville’s music community. At Frampton’s home, these friends and colleagues may find themselves in the studio that Rains outfitted with an artfully worn vintage rug from Eliko Rugs by David Ariel and curtains sourced from James Dunlop Textiles , which visually and acoustically soften the jam sessions.

“He was so excited by his porch,” Rains says of indoor-outdoor space, which features Palecek lounge chairs, a Lee Industries outdoor sofa, multiple antiques, and a wall-mounted sculpture by husband-and-wife artists Cor Oda and Kit King. “It was important to create artistry and uniqueness to reflect Peter’s anticipation of dining and playing guitar there, but he also uses the space to stash his grandchild’s toys and let Bigsby lay on the stone.”

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Peter Frampton, 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, used to call Cincinnati home

T his year's crop of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees is stacked with legendary performers, from Cher to Mary J. Blige and Jimmy Buffett. And several have graced Ohio 's concert venues over the years.

Rock legend Peter Frampton , though, carries a more personal tie to the Buckeye State: He was a Cincinnati resident for over a decade.

Born in Beckenham, England, Frampton first rose to fame as a member of British rock bands The Herd and Humble Pie in the '60s. He then found success as a solo artist, with his breakthrough 1976 album "Frampton Comes Alive!" claiming best-selling status that year and entering the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2020.

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Frampton, 74, joins the prestigious Rock & Roll Hall of Fame after 26 years of eligibility as a solo artist.

“I think I’m a little bit in shock, and speechless,” Frampton told Billboard about being inducted. “I never expected this. People always said, ‘You should be in.’ ... So mixed emotions, because it’s something that I just never expected, whereas other people did for me."

A look at Peter Frampton's Cincinnati ties, two legacies

After revealing his diagnosis of an incurable muscle disease in 2019, Frampton played what some thought would be his last show in Cincinnati that summer at Riverbend Music Center. It was part of his Peter Frampton Finale, The Farewell Tour.

Frampton, who called Indian Hill home from 2000 to 2013 before moving to Nashville, embarked on the tour after being diagnosed with inclusion body myositis (IBM) four years prior. A condition marked by muscle weakness, inflammation and fatigue, the artist intended to perform his farewell tour while he could still play guitar.

“You are the biggest crowd of every amphitheater that we played on this tour,” he said during his 2019 Cincinnati show that drew a crowd of 10,000, according to a Riverbend spokesperson at the time.

Frampton also reminisced about Cincinnati during the concert, per a 2019 Enquirer article . He shared his affection for the Graeter’s in Mariemont, and he said he had crushed some of the ice cream backstage.

“I had to loosen my belt a notch,” he joked. “I always look forward to coming here to Cincinnati, because it has been my home for many, many years.”

Frampton defied odds a few years later, returning to Riverbend as part of his Never Say Never Tour in June 2023.

“To say that Peter has made history in music and in medicine is accurate in every way. He has now two legacies,” Frampton’s rheumatologist, Dr. Lisa Christopher-Stine, told The San Diego Union-Tribune this month.

After his 2023 tour, the veteran guitarist announced a spring 2024 run with shows from March through April.

"I don’t want to give up my passion and will play as long as I physically can. Hope to see you in 2024," Frampton wrote on X on Dec. 1, 2023.

Where to watch the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony

The ceremony to honor the new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class will take place Oct. 19 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland. It will stream live on Disney+ and will air on Hulu the next day. There will also be an airing on ABC at a later date.

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Peter Frampton, 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, used to call Cincinnati home

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Bob Heil, Whose Innovations Enhanced the Sound of Rock, Dies at 83

A groundbreaking audio engineer, he provided the large-scale systems that brought tours by the Who and the Grateful Dead to life.

By Alex Williams

Bob Heil’s career as a groundbreaking sound engineer who brought thunder and rich sonic coloring to tours by rock titans like the Grateful Dead and the Who began behind a pipe organ in a 1920s movie palace.

Mr. Heil, who helped usher rock into its arena-shaking era by designing elaborate sound systems that allowed rock juggernauts of the late 1960s and ’70s to play at volcanic volumes, first learned to appreciate the full spectrum of musical tones as a teenager, when he took a job playing the massive Wurlitzer pipe organ at the opulent Fox Theater in St. Louis.

“We had to voice and tune 3,500 pipes, from one inch to 32 feet,” he said in a 2022 video interview with the audio entrepreneur Ken Berger. “Voicing taught me to listen. Very few people know how to listen. Listening, you’ve got to mentally go in and dissect.”

Mr. Heil died on Feb. 28 of cancer in a hospital in Belleville, Ill., his daughter Julie Staley said. He was 83. His death was not widely reported at the time.

Although he worked behind the scenes, Mr. Heil was enough of a force that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland credited him with “ creating the template for modern rock sound systems” In 2006, the Hall installed a public display containing his mixing boards, speakers and other items.

“The concert business became what it is today because he made the experience so much better for the customers,” Howard Kramer, who at the time was the Hall of Fame’s curatorial director, said in an interview that year with The Houston Chronicle. “No one made the leaps in live sound that he did.”

Mr. Heil got started in the business in 1966. Up to that point, top rock ’n’ roll bands often had to rely on feeble sound systems that were drowned out by screaming fans. That roar, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones wrote in his 2010 autobiography, “Life,” was often so deafening in the band’s early days that audiences could hear nothing more than the drums: “We used to play ‘Popeye the Sailor Man’ some nights, and the audience didn’t know any different.”

Mr. Heil gave rock shows the sound arsenal they needed. “We were the first company back then to build a package P.A .,” he said in a 2008 interview with the audio magazine TapeOp. “You could come to Heil Sound in 1972 and leave the facility with a complete system: snakes, road cases, everything — even a modular mixer.”

He also put a distinctive stamp on 1970s rock with the Heil Talk Box, an effects pedal that transformed guitar parts and vocals into an interstellar drone. Joe Walsh used it in memorable fashion on his hit “Rocky Mountain Way” in 1973, and the Talk Box was a signature of Peter Frampton’s monster-selling 1976 double album, “Frampton Comes Alive!”

Mr. Heil’s career took a major turn in 1971, he told Mr. Berger, when a manager for the Who frantically called him in St. Louis, asking if he could get his crew to Boston the next day. The opening show there, part of the band’s tour in support of its hallowed album “Who’s Next,” had been a disaster, with one newspaper noting that the band’s “soaring brand of rock could not be heard” under the venue’s “miserable conditions.”

Roger Daltrey, the band’s lead singer, threatened to fly back to England until Mr. Heil arrived with his rig. When Mr. Daltrey “did the sound check,” Mr. Heil recalled, “it was OK, because it was a monster P.A.” He would work with the Who for the next decade.

Robert Gene Heil was born Oct. 5, 1940, in St. Louis, the elder of two children of Robert and LaVerna (Bills) Heil. His parents owned a clothing shop in the small town of Marissa, Ill., about 40 miles east of St. Louis.

As a youth, Bob not only played the accordion and the organ but also became a ham radio enthusiast, which gave him an early opportunity to fiddle with electronics. After graduating from Marissa Township High School in 1958, he spent time studying at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and the St. Louis Institute of Music.

In 1966 he opened Ye Olde Music Shop in Marissa, where he rented Hammond organs and repaired instruments for professional musicians. He also began to design his own audio systems.

Before long, he was supplying them to country acts like Dolly Parton and Little Jimmy Dickens as they came through St. Louis. His big break came in 1970, when management of his old employer, the Fox Theater, called him and told them of a crisis: The Grateful Dead was set to play there, but the band’s P.A. system had been confiscated by authorities in a drug raid.

On a subsequent call with Mr. Heil, Jerry Garcia, the band’s lead guitarist and vocalist, “almost dropped the phone” when he learned that Mr. Heil had a sophisticated system featuring an amplifier by McIntosh, the high-end audiophile brand, Mr. Heil told Mr. Berger. Performing Musician magazine later called the resulting concert “the night that modern live sound was born.”

In addition to his daughter Ms. Staley, Mr. Heil is survived by his wife, Sarah (Benton) Heil; another daughter, Barbara Hartley; a stepson, Ash Levitt, the president and chief executive of Heil Sound; a sister, Barbara Schneidewind; and seven grandchildren. Both daughters are from his first marriage, to Judy Mortensen, which ended in divorce.

By 1980, Mr. Heil had grown weary of life on the road, so he created a new line of headsets and microphones for the ham radio industry. At one point, Joe Walsh, another ham enthusiast, told him he wanted to use one of his microphones onstage.

Mr. Heil protested that the microphones were not concert quality. Mr. Walsh disagreed. “I was at his house and went downstairs to his little studio and he proved it to me,” Mr. Heil told TapeOp. “So I had to start listening all over again.”

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