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FRAMPTON 

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 30, 2020…FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO PETER FRAMPTON RELEASED HIS FOURTH ALBUM, THE SELF TITLED ‘PETER FRAMPTON’. THIS ALBUM IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT WAS THE RECORD HE RELEASED JUST BEFORE HE WENT ON TOUR AND RECORDED ‘FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE’. THE ALBUM CONTAINED TWO SONGS SINGLES ‘SHOW ME THE WAY’ AND ‘BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY’ WENT NOWHERE ON THE CHARTS, HOWEVER , WHEN RELEASED AS LIVE TRACKS FROM ‘FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE’, THEY WERE MEGA HITS.  NOW, I’VE SAID IT BEFORE, AND I’LL SAY IT AGAIN, I’M A FREAKIN’ SUCKER FOR ANY SONG WITH A TALK BOX. I REMEMBER SEEING FRAMPTON PERFORMING ON THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL AND SAYING TO MY BROTHER “WTF IS HE PLAYING AND DOING WITH THAT TUBE IN HIS MOUTH, MAKING HIS GUITAR SOUND SO COOL ?!!?!”

HERE’S FRAMPTON FROM 1975 ON “THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL” PERFORMING HIS BIGGEST HIT ‘SHOW ME THE WAY’