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1 Something's Happening - 5:40
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2 Doobie Wah - 5:34
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3 Show Me the Way - 4:34
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4 It's a Plain Shame - 4:36
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5 All I Want to Be (Is by Your Side) - 3:25
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6 Wind of Change - 2:45
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7 Baby, I Love Your Way - 4:37
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8 I Wanna Go to the Sun - 7:14
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1 Penny for Your Thoughts - 1:22
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2 (I'll Give You) Money - 5:36
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3 Shine On - 3:34
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4 Jumpin' Jack Flash - 7:52
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5 Lines on My Face - 7:02
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6 Do You Feel Like We Do - 14:15
At the time of its release,
Frampton Comes Alive! was an anomaly, a multi-million-selling (mid-priced) double LP by an artist who had previously never burned up the charts with his long-players in any spectacular way. The biggest-selling live album of all time, it made
Peter Frampton a household word and generated a monster hit single in
"Show Me the Way." And the reason why is easy to hear: the
Herd/
Humble Pie graduate packed one hell of a punch on-stage -- where he was obviously the most comfortable -- and, in fact, the live versions of
"Show Me the Way," "Do You Feel Like I Do," "Something's Happening," "Shine On," and other album rock staples are much more inspired, confident, and hard-hitting than the studio versions. [The 1999 reissue in A&M's "Remastered Classics" (31454-0930-2) series is a considerable improvement over the original double CD or double LP in terms of sound -- the highs are significantly more lustrous, the guitars crunch and soar, and the bottom end really thunders, and so you get a genuine sense of the power of
Frampton's live set, at least the heavier parts of his set, rather than the compressed and flat sonic profile of the old double-disc version.
Frampton and the band sound significantly closer as well, even on the softer songs such as
"Wind of Change," and the disc is impressive listening even a quarter century later. Of course, one must take this all with a grain of salt as a concert document -- as was later revealed, there was considerable studio doctoring of the raw live tapes, a phenomenon that set the stage for such unofficial hybrid works as
Bruce Springsteen's
Live/1975-85 and countless others.] ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
- Fender Rhodes - Bob Mayo
- Guitar - Bob Mayo
- Keyboards - Bob Mayo
- Organ - Bob Mayo
- Piano - Bob Mayo
- Synthesizer - Bob Mayo
- Vocals - Bob Mayo
- Liner Notes - Cameron Crowe
- Engineer - Chris Kimsey
- Remixing - Chris Kimsey
- Assistant Engineer - Corky Stasiak
- Assistant Engineer - Dave Wittman
- Photography - David Redfern
- Engineer - Eddie Kramer
- Assistant Engineer - Frank D'Augusta
- Photography - Ian Dickson
- Assistant Engineer - Jay Messina
- Composer - Jerry Lynn Williams
- Drums - John Siomos
- Composer - Michael Gallagher
- Mastering - Mike Reese
- Photography - Mike Zagaris
- Assistant Engineer - Neal Teeman
- Arranger - Peter Frampton
- Bass - Peter Frampton
- Guitar - Peter Frampton
- Keyboards - Peter Frampton
- Producer - Peter Frampton
- Remixing - Peter Frampton
- Talk Box - Peter Frampton
- Vocals - Peter Frampton
- Engineer - Ray Thompson
- ? - Richard Aaron
- Photography - Richard Aaron
- Art Direction - Roland Young
- Artwork - Roland Young
- Design - Stan Evenson
- Bass - Stanley Sheldon
- Guitar (Bass) - Stanley Sheldon
- Vocals - Stanley Sheldon
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