By his own admission, he really shouldn’t be a guitar player, due to not having long fingers. After tell-ing Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green he was a Taurus, Green abruptly ended their guitar jam. And about a year before he became a superstar, his name was thrown into the proverbial hat by his friends Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts to be the new guitarist in The Rolling Stones.
These are among the many fascinating tidbits and tales Peter Frampton writes about in Do You Feel Like I Do?: A Memoir, released in October by Hachette Books. It’s a book for casual as well as hardcore Frampton fans, full of detailed accounts of his days as a member of The Herd and also Humble Pie, his sideman gigs for some of rock’s biggest names and, of course, his successful solo career, with plenty of pages devoted to the Frampton Comes Alive! period.
Frampton doesn’t shy away from the negatives that came with the success of Comes Alive!, nor does he gloss over his ongoing battle with inclusion body myositis (IBM), a muscle disease that causes weakness in the fingers, wrists and thighs.
GOLDMINE: Was writing a memoir something you’d wanted to do for a long time, or did the impetus for the book come to you recently?
PETER FRAMPTON: It all sort of started to ferment around the same time we decided to do the farewell tour of the U.S. first. We haven’t been able to do the South American or European (legs) for obvious reasons. Ken Levitan, my manager, over the years had said, “You know, when you’re ready for the book …” I kind of felt that now that the decision had been made to stop touring, it was probably a good time to do the book.
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THE GRAND POOBAH!
SINCE THEIR INCARNATION in the early 1970s, the band Poobah have recorded over a dozen albums with various lineups, while openi ng for some of rock and roll’s biggest names.
THE MAKING OF PEARL
JANIS JOPLIN IN 1970: A NEW B AND AND THE MAKING OF HER CLASSIC ALBUM, PEARL.
There Must Have Been Something in the Water
If The Beatles never happened, if the British invasion never occurred, then music fans around the world would more than likely never have been exposed to some of the finest white blues singers that the U.K. produced between 1964 and 1970.
The SAGA Continues
SAGA WERE NOT THE ONLY band to make an album during the pandemic — far from it.
Ten Years After MORE THAN 50 YEARS LATER
DRUMMER RIC LEE TALKS TO GOLDMINE ABOUT A TEN YEARS AFTER DELUXE EDITION OF THE A STING IN THE TALE ALBUM AND HIS RECENTLY RELEASED MEMOIR, FROM HEADSTOCKS TO WOODSTOCK.
SUZI QUATRO IS BACK!
WITH A NEW ALBUM, THE DEVIL IN ME, THIS PIONEERING FEMALE ROCKER REMAINS AS DRIVEN AND DETERMINED AS EVER
RE-SHAKE & RE-MAKE
WITH THE RERELEASE OF THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER, THE BLACK CROWES FLY HIGH BY REFLECTING ON THEIR ROOTS.
LOVE FOR PEARL
2021 will be a big year for fans of Janis Joplin. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland is curating a special exhibit devoted to her that is scheduled to open in May.
Q&A WITH JANIS' SIBLINGS, LAURA AND MICHAEL JOPLIN
Q&A WITH JANIS’ SIBLINGS, LAURA AND MICHAEL JOPLIN
CHERISHING CITY TO CITY A timeless classic by GERRY RAFFERTY
It’s early 1978 and the new single by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, “Baker Street,” is blasting out on the airwaves on my small transistor radio.
