Peter Frampton - Live In San Francisco March 24 - 1975 (2004) [FLAC]
Hip-O Select / A&M Records B0003617-2
It was March of 1975 when Peter Frampton strolled into the Record Plant is Sausalito to record what would become a live solo album. It wasn't originally intended as anything more than a radio show, a thank-you to KSAN and the rock fans of San Francisco, both of whom had made the Bay Area Frampton's biggest market. After leaving Humble Pie, Frampton had a respectable career as a solo artist, but his name was far from being a household word. That would all change in a few months.
For this set, Frampton drew from under-exposed material scattered across his four solo albums, songs that he and his band had honed into razor-sharp performances over years of incessant touring. They later became staples of virtually every rock station in America: Do You Feel Like We Do. Baby I Love Your Way. (I'll Give You) Money. Frampton was accompanied by Bob Mayo, Andy Bown, and John Siomos, three-quarters of band that would propel Frampton Comes Alive to the top of the charts (Andy Bown was replaced by Stanley Sheldon). The performances captured at the Record Plant on that March day have an intimacy that wasn't replicated on Comes Alive for obvious reasons, but they absolutely have that same electric energy.
Peter Frampton's golden era may not have lasted as long as one might have hoped; they never do. This long-lost session is a glorious relic of the brief shining moment just as the rollercoaster was about to take Frampton on a ride he could never have imagined. Longtime Bay Area critic Joel Selvin contributed notes to this record, and the release was remastered from the original master tapes by Suha Gur in 2004. Frampton himself has been involved in every phase of the project, and is as ebullient over the record's release as we are.
This little gem of a CD is a pristine copy of the KSAN radio show of March 24, 1975. Recorded at the Record Plant Studios in Sausalito. This is the full band that features Peter, with: Bob Mayo: keyboards, guitar & vocals, John Siomos: drums and Andy Bown: bass guitar & vocals.
Tracks:
01. Introduction
02. Wind Of Change
03. Baby, I Love Your Way
04. Somethin's Happening
05. Days Dawning
06. Lines On My Face
07. Doobie Wah
08. It's A Plain Shame
09. I Wanna Go To The Sun
10. (I'll Give You) Money
11. Do You Feel Like We Do
12. Closing
Limited Edition and out of print.