Anthology-History of Peter Frampton

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By the time Peter Frampton assisted in lifting the record industry to a new era of mega-sales with 1976's Frampton Comes Alive! he'd been a professional recording artist for nearly a decade. A teen "Face of '68" with the Herd, he quickly stepped up to arena-rock status with Steve Marriott in the quintessential boogie band, Humble Pie. (In a nice touch, Frampton later played that band's road manager in filmmaker Cameron Crowe's '70s period piece Almost Famous.) Soon, though, the guitarist went his own way with a melodic, Americanized pop-rock sound. At first a minor favorite of the era's FM DJs, Frampton's catalog proved the stuff of platinum dreams when culled for highlights on Alive!. Catchy if occasionally gimmicky (the "talking guitar" routine on "Do You Feel Like We Do," which paradoxically or not became his most credibility-laden tune when stretched to 14 minutes on the live LP), his music ended up one of the decade's defining artifacts. This history-minded disc offers Herd, Pie, and solo tracks, the latter mostly in studio versions. The breathtakingly weak ballad "I'm in You," the best he could offer as a follow-up to his massive score, landed him in Manilow territory and helped relegate him to also-ran status by decade's end. --Rickey Wright

Tracks:

From The Underworld - The Herd
Natural Born Woman (a/k/a Natural Born Boogie) - Humble Pie
Live With Me - Humble Pie
Shine On - Humble Pie
Stone Cold Fever - Humble Pie
I Don't Need No Doctor (Live) - Humble Pie
It's A Plain Shame - Peter Frampton
All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side) - Peter Frampton
Lines On My Face - Peter Frampton
Do You Feel Like We Do - Peter Frampton
Baby (Somethin's Happening) - Peter Frampton
Baby I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton
Show Me The Way (Live) - Peter Frampton
I'm In You - Peter Frampton
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) - Peter Frampton
I Can't Stand It No More - Peter Frampton

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By the time Peter Frampton assisted in lifting the record industry to a new era of mega-sales with 1976's Frampton Comes Alive! he'd been a professional recording artist for nearly a decade. A teen "Face of '68" with the Herd, he quickly stepped up to arena-rock status with Steve Marriott in the quintessential boogie band, Humble Pie. (In a nice touch, Frampton later played that band's road manager in filmmaker Cameron Crowe's '70s period piece Almost Famous.) Soon, though, the guitarist went his own way with a melodic, Americanized pop-rock sound. At first a minor favorite of the era's FM DJs, Frampton's catalog proved the stuff of platinum dreams when culled for highlights on Alive!. Catchy if occasionally gimmicky (the "talking guitar" routine on "Do You Feel Like We Do," which paradoxically or not became his most credibility-laden tune when stretched to 14 minutes on the live LP), his music ended up one of the decade's defining artifacts. This history-minded disc offers Herd, Pie, and solo tracks, the latter mostly in studio versions. The breathtakingly weak ballad "I'm in You," the best he could offer as a follow-up to his massive score, landed him in Manilow territory and helped relegate him to also-ran status by decade's end. --Rickey Wright

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4.5 Stars... Excellent overview of Frampton 1967-1979.......2004-08-30

There are at least 4 or 5 Peter Frampton compilations out there, but this is the only one that covers not just the solo years, but also covers the years prior to Frampton's first solo album in 1972.

The first half hour of "Anthology: The History of Peter Frampton" (16 tracks, 78 min.) includes one single from the Herd, which Peter joined at age 17. I had long forgotten about that song, "From the Underworld", but I instantly recognized when it played. Even better are the next 5 tracks, from Peter's days along with Steve "Small Faces" Marriott in Humble Pie, with whom he made 5 albums in less than 3 years. Best of them is the live song "I Don't Need No Doctor".

The remainder of the set showcases Peter's solo career. Beware, there is only 1 track from "Frampton Comes Alive" ("Show Me the Way"), all the other tracks are in studio form. Which doesn't matter, because if you are anywhere interested in Frampton, you already have that CD. The set closes with "I Can't Stand It No More" from 1979. Not that Frampton has stopped making music, as llast year's underrated album "Now" shows. "Anthology" is an excellent set, that showcases very nicely Cincinnati's best known resident musician (yea, I had to slip that in here...).

"Here's An Oldy But Goodie".......2001-07-27

Any Frampton die hard already owns all 16 of these classics. But to have them all together is a treat. Rediscovering such rockers as Live With Me and Natural Born Boogie from Peters Humble Pie Days are wonderful. And The Herds "From the underworld" is still terrific. They sound as fresh today as they did over 25 years ago. Wow, 25 years and still rockin! A studio "Shine On" makes an appearance on this collection along with the studio cuts of Lines on my face and the classic Do You feel...but the one tune that will leap out of your speakers is "I don't need no doctor" which is for anyone who has seen Peter recently perform live, is his closing JAM with Bob Mayo trading guitar licks. The only throw away here is the vanilla I'm In You. BUY IT!!!

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