Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive! (remastered) - Music & Performance - CD

This classic reissue from recording great Peter Frampton encapsulates the timeless sounds of the 70's as the best selling live recording of all time. Frampton Comes Alive was first released in 1976 and set a precedent for double-vinyl. Now remastered from the original source tapes and compiled on 1 CD, this multi-platinum release features such enduring hits as "Show Me the Way," "Baby, I Love Your Way" and "Do You Feel Like I Do."

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, All Music Guide

Performer	Peter Frampton
Music genre	Rock
Music subgenre	Rock
Music release type	Release
Media format	CD
Original release date	1998
Edition	Remastered
Language	English
Is collectible	Y
Number of tracks	14
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive (remastered) [COMPACT DISCS] Rmst
Track listing	Something's Happening, Doobie Wah, Show Me the Way, It's a Plain Shame, All I Want to Be (Is By Your Side), Wind of Change, Baby, I Love Your Way, I Wanna Go to the Sun, Penny for Your Thoughts, (I'll Give) You Money, Shine on, Jumping Jack Flash, Lines on My Face, Do You Feel Like We Do
Record label	A&M
Songwriter	Peter Frampton
Music producer	Peter Frampton
Track name	Show Me the Way
Digital audio file format	CD
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N