PETER FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE A SECOND TIME

Not too many albums in the 70`s were bigger than PETER FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE, it outsold the Rolling Stones, outsold Led Zeppelin, probaly nearly outsold ABBA (laugh). It was a huge commercial success, legend has it that celtic hard rocker PHIL LYNOTT from the band THIN LIZZY said to the effect that listening to PETER FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE made him do cartwheels. Although that might be taking things a bit far, this famous live album, which was essentially a live greatest hits album of Frampton's four more mundane studio releases before 1975, captured on vinyl what Frampton was always better at doing than being in a recording studio - that being playing live in front of a rapturous San Francisco or New York audience. The only criticism i have ever had of FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE is the keyboard of bandmate BOB MAYO. The good old Fender Rhodes was the fashion back in the 70`s, but too often it was over-utilised by stadium bands in a live sitaution. Worse still, the Fender Rhodes usually made 70`s bands sound dated before their time. FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE is a great live album but Mayo's keyboard made it sound dated. However, lets not take away from Frampton that he's a very underated guitarist, commercially things went down hill just as quickly as they went up after the success of the album subsided, and by the mid 90`s, nearly twenty years later, Frampton was just another burnt out rocker who yearned to get back to the glory days of his past. Just like MEATLOAF with BAT OUT OF HELL 2: BACK INTO HELL, Frampton decided to go with a tried and true formula and call his 1994 'comeback' album FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE 2. A bit like me and BADRICK UNADULTERATED 2 (laugh). It's a much more stripped down and elemental album than the famous 1975 predecessor. Here Frampton and a new backing band are performing the song YOU, off FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE 2, live at the Filmore in San Francisco.