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LISTEN HEAR
Peter
H
ere’s what you’ve got to know
about Peter Frampton. He is
just as excited about hitting the
stage today as he was killing it
with Humble Pie, or setting the world
on fire recording Frampton Comes
Alive. The enthusiasm and fire in
his guitar playing and overall song
performance is undiminished with
time. He brought that same positive
energy to our interview.
Listen Hear Peter Frampton
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by John Stix
I just listened to the Rockin the
Fillmore record (Humble Pie) and
it was great. It was raunchy and
loose. It was live, it was real. What
was the great thing about playing
with Humble Pie?
The great thing for me about Humble
Pie was, apart from it being flat out
whatever you wanted to do worked
with Humble Pie, it’s just like energy
unlimited. Which we were all at that
age when we were just, like, going for
it. We’d all apprenticed in other bands.
But this was something we just got
together to play what we wanted to
play. So that was great. But also for me
it was the perfect band for me to really
develop and define the Frampton guitar
style. I think that is where my style
was most influenced, by Humble Pie. I
had, when everybody was listening to
Bluesbearkers and then Cream for Eric
Clapton, so was I, but at the same time
I was listening to Kenny Burrell, George
Benson, a very young George Benson,
and Wes Montgomery. People like
Django Rheindardt. People like that. So
when it came to working my style out
with Humble Pie, it was this sort of very
jazzy lyrical style that developed over a
very, very rock ‘n’ roll or rock or blues
based, you know, sort of very edgy, as
you said loose band. It was fire.
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