It was funny how he dragged MM's mono player. A very generous musician. His discussion about jazz vs. audiences and how his listening could be less guitar-centric was great for such a young cat.

Good to see and hear a 'Blind Date' with Frampton. He's done with touring these days due to a very serious disease: inclusion body myositis (IBM), a progressive muscle disorder characterized by muscle inflammation, weakness, and atrophy (wasting). One of the Top British Blues/Rock players of any era.

Straightforward, to the point, honest and incisive as the man himself! What a variety pack of songs! Another fine episode, Yesterday's Papers!

Kudos to Peter Frampton's intelligence and class that he has when speaking of other artists. Never just insulting to be mean: just technical nits, etc. He has always been a class act.

The fact that he said he buy the Jack Bruce album says a lot! Love your channel as always 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Glad Peter got past his nervousness. He gave a great review. ✌

Great to hear Peter Frampton saying great things about Nicky Hopkins. I'm not surprised since Peter is one of the kindest musicians I've ever had the privilege of meeting, and all you ever hear about Nicky is what a wonderful person he was.

Frampton was at his best with the incredible Steve Marriott in one of the best hard rock bands, Humble Pie. He thought he'd dropped a clanger, when he left them after a couple of years immediately after the release of 'Rockin' the Fillmore' which went gold.

The sheer diversity of music from this time is what I notice most about these fabulous Blind Date videos and ‘69 was no exception. I loved Jack Bruce and he was in fine company on that particular album. The last time I saw Peter Frampton was as (unannounced) lead guitarist on Bowie’s Glass Spider tour. Fantastic work as always YP and your outro is excellent, thank you. Wishing you and yours a safe and Happy Christmas.

Lay Lady Lay- offered first to Everly Brothers, who mistook lyrics as “lay your big ass across my bed”. Don told Bob “Um Bob, we don’t do those type of songs” 😆😂

Love Peter's guitar playing, one of the best

Frampton Comes Alive is an incredible album. I didn't know he was famous in the 60s. Interesting to know!

“Fool For You “ by the Impressions is probably my favorite song by them, I’m glad he mentioned it

Really enjoyed some of these reviews. And give him props for being so frank about one of the 3 or so most influential jazz musicians in the history of the genre. "When it comes to jazz I really got into everyone but him" ...lol..That sounds funny/strange to my ears but I can understand as everyone has different taste. On the UK album charts I was surprised to see Elvis's soundtrack to Flaming Star so high (and it was even higher the week before) Elvis seldom worked with first class directors but with Flaming Star he had Don Siegel who was VERY talented. He directed my all time favorite sci-fi, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and one of my 6 all time favorite noirs, The Line-up.

Frampton is very knowledgeable with the music and musicians. Impressive.

Absolutely magnificent track by The Impressions - a late period beautiful slice of social commentary by Curtis Mayfield. Also interesting George Harrison is connected to two tracks - he produced the Billy Preston track along with a lot of his first album fir Apple (That's the way God Planned it is an epic track)

A very knowledgeable and generous reviewer. And yay! "Si tu dois partir" at number 22 in the singles chart and "Unhalfbricking" at number 11 in the album chart. Those really were the days.

Great that they gave Peter two Jeff Beck tracks, i'd love to hear what his opinion of Jeff is now. Thanks again guys for the great channel

Love The Ministry cover of Lay Lady Lay an incredible song.

He probably got the best records so far. I think I liked all of it, which I don't think has happened before.

This comment appears as a notification in my e-mail but I've been unable to find it in the comments below. I will comment on it below. L Thompson's comment: It’s interesting to hear Peter Frampton start his reviews by stating that he was was very nervous doing this type of thing . I recall him being interviewed on the radio and he talked about playing on some of the tracks on the ‘ All Things Must Pass’ album. He had never met George Harrison before he turned up at the studio for the session. He said he was very nervous and George noticed this . George walked over to him and said Peter, you are a a great guitarist. Just relax and play. After that he relaxed and played! My comment: I think Peter was wary because he was sensitive to how his 'pop star' image hung over him and how he was subjected to being judged by everything he did and said. As for meeting George Harrison, according to Frampton in an online interview, a friend in a pub invited him to pop 'round and meet 'Harry'. Frampton was unaware of who 'Harry' was but jumped at the chance when told it was Harrison. Upon walking into the studio, which was near the pub, Frampton was greeted with 'Hello Pete' from Harrison. Surprised, he said he looked around to see if there was another Pete - maybe Pete Townshend - in the room. But no, Harrison recognised him - as did all of the UK - because he had been such a big and visible star with the Herd. And Harrison possibly knew of Humble Pie. Harrison, who was producing Doris Troy's album for Apple Records had enlisted the likes of Klaus Voorman, Alan White, Delaney & Bonnie and members of their band, Eric Clapton...and now wanted Frampton too. Peter was handed Harrison's red Les Paul and invited to play on the tune 'Ain't That Cute'. Shortly after starting the tune Harrison halted proceedings and insisted that Frampton play lead, not rhythm. At a later date, Frampton was invited to play acoustic rhythm with Harrison on 'All Things Must Pass'. There has been some debate about these sessions because Bobby Whitlock, who played keyboards on many of the dates (though admits not all) claims he saw Frampton enter the studio on just one occasion for a chat in the control room but never actually saw him play. So he claims the guitarist was - contrary to Frampton's claims - not on the album. But that is incorrect. Frampton played on what were dubbed the 'country sessions' that included pedal steel player Pete Drake but not Whitlock. Indeed, it was during one of those sessions where Drake introduced Frampton to the talk box, a device that had been used for many years by country players (in rock, Jeff Beck, John Kay of Steppenwolf and Mike Pinera of Iron Butterfly had already used variations of the concept, as did the Who on an ad for the 'Sell Out' album). Joe Walsh, who was gifted with one (I believe it wasn't fully assembled) by pedal steel player Speedy West, husband of country star Dottie West but also a major star in his own right, took it to his friend Bob Heil - they were both electronics freaks - and Heil created the current talk box concept...one of which Peter soon got (I believe as a gift from his girlfriend at the time). It is heard on several early Frampton tracks, most notably in 'Show Me the Way'. Sorry for that digression, but sidebars are where the real insight is often to be found. So, Frampton first met Harrison on the Doris Troy session, not on 'All Things Must Pass'. It is worth noting that some of the confusion was created by Frampton on the Howard Stern Show, when he failed to mention Doris Troy in a discussion that fused together with 'All Things Must Pass'. Indeed, the header for that video clip on KZfaq also gets it wrong. And I understand Frampton's name was left off the album credits (as was Whitlock's). In one of his own videos, Whitlock says that the Harrison estate, when overseeing the anniversary box set of 'All Things Must Pass' had no clue who he was when contacted about having his credit included. I don't know if Frampton's name is now indicated in the anniversary set's credits, but it is somewhat understandable if not, as he said some of the playing was just him and Harrison on their own adding additional overdubs to satisfy Phil Spector's 'Wall of Sound' production aesthetic - there was no-one keeping an attendance record. Also, there was none of the lovely melodic soloing that is Peter's trademark, just acoustic strumming. The band got their credits as it was essentially the Delaney & Bonnie band fronted by Harrison (ditto Eric Clapton's debut solo album, and Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen - pretty much all the same players). At the time Whitlock and Clapton were assembling Derek & the Dominos and Harrison invited Bobby and Eric to use themselves, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon as the house band for the album. Just a quick word on the red Les Paul dubbed 'Lucy' that Harrison handed Peter for the Doris Troy session. It was gifted to George by Clapton (who would also give him 'The Fool', the painted 1964 SG used in Cream). It's history started with the Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian (who also had a Les Paul Goldtop). It was sold to Rick Derringer, then of the McCoy's via a music shop in NYC. Derringer had the sunburst finish stripped down and the red applied. He also had the neck shaved down to fit his small hands. However, he didn't like what that did to the guitar, so the shop sold it to Eric Clapton, who for whatever reason doesn't seem to have used it publicly but gave it to George...who would hand it back to him at one point so Clapton could play the solo on the Beatles' 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. As for the painted SG, Harrison gave that to Jackie Lomax, a friend from Liverpool who was on the Apple label and did a version of the Beatles' 'Sour Milk Sea' where, I believe, his voice was added to the Beatles' backing track. Lomax, who later had the band Badger with Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye and drummer Roy Dyke of Liverpool band the Remo Four (a fave of the Beatles), converted the guitar into a lap steel. Todd Rundgren purchased it from him for, I believe $250., had it repaired/rebuilt/repainted and used it for years before selling it to pay some taxes. By then he had been gifted with an identically painted 1964 SG by a Japanese fan that he liked as much as the original. Also worth noting that when Harrison got too wrapped up with his Concert for Bangladesh initiative and couldn't continue producing Badfinger's 'Straight Up' album, Rundgren was enlisted to step in and complete it. Beatles' engineer Geoff Emerick had produced the band's previous album, 'No Dice', but stalled on 'Straight Up', thus Harrison's intervention. Sessions had dragged on for months. With Rundgren at the helm things were finished within a couple weeks. The Badfinger lads didn't like his 'bossy' approach (nor did XTC for their 'Apples & Oranges') but when Todd - surely rock's true genius - is involved, things happen in a hurry. As he has said, 'If you know what you want I will help you get it. If you don't know what you want, I will do it for you.' For whatever reason John Lennon seemingly instigated a bit of a feud with Rundgren, though later backed off, possibly realising that his own silly comments were unwarranted. I realise this is much more than anyone wants to read in a comment, but do hope that if you've made it this far you have found something of interest.

Unrelated, but this is one of your best outro tunes- still listening to it!

I love ''Lay Lady Lay'', it's one of my Dylan favourites. I think it has stood the test of time. It is still as fresh today as then. 1:07 Merry Christmas, Yesterday's Papers.🤗🎁🎄⛄❄🎸😀

Beck Bruce and Parker wow I loved the early humble pie stuff too another great one YP thanks cheers!

Thanks. These videos are a treat.

"I tend to sound worse on stage than on record" - from the man who made the biggest-selling live album of all time, Frampton Comes Alive (ha ha). But his guesses here were pretty good - all correct, except the last track by Charlie Parker.

3:40 - I saw Chris Spedding on 🎸 playing with the late Robert Gordon on The Rockabilly Boogie tour in 1979. He had his own hit with Hurt at the time.

Choice of Colors was an amazing song

1969 . . . seven years later, Frampton had an enormously successful double album, "Frampton Comes Alive." Couldn't go anywhere without hearing songs from that classic.

IMHO, here in the US, summer of 69 had my favorite music until summer of 73. I was 10 going on 11, and the range of popular artists was crazy. You had Elvis, Tom Jones, Zeppelin, Glenn Miller, CCR, etc. Wow. I love this channel, I have been into music since I was 7 or 8 years old when my Uncle bought me my first transistor radio. There's a reason this music is still on the radio, it's still good.

Amazing content as always #1 channel

This is such a cool channel.

It was interesting to hear a young Peter Frampton talking humbly about the releases. Jack bruce's Rope Ladder is mt favorite track by him, and that includes his days in Cream. I found it hard to take anything that Elvis did seriously after Colonel Parker turned into a movie star/Las Vegas act, but the first song actually sounded pretty good to me. As a US boy, I missed hearing the Herd, but I did get all his Humble Pie albums as Steve Marriott led the band. I bought his solo albums - seemed like I was the only that did so - and saw him at the local university on the tour that provided the tapes for Frampton Comes Alive - pretty scarce 'crowd.' I didn't care for the voice box then or now, and I sure got sick of hearing that album. Working in a record store, my salesman told me that the Sergeant Pepper album shipped platinum and topped the charts. Two or three months later he admitted that it was also returned platinum as folks stayed away in droves.

George Harrison played on "Never tell you mother....". What a revelation! Who knew?

Frampton must have been the humblest teen idol ever. He even dissed himself for not knowing about Charlie Parker (though it's more than a bit weird that he wasn't into Bird when he knew the music of all these jazz masters who worshiped Bird.) Strange that he called the backing on Lay Lady Lay out of tune, cause I've heard that song about a billion times and it never sounded that way to me. His evaluation of Jack Bruce shows how respected Bruce was in the music world of his day. Very interesting and enlightening set of reviews.

Ahh, just came live. I'm first and humbled 😁

The expertise/insight of these commenters is blowing me away. This offering another example of what students of their art these premier young musicians were - Frampton shows how well acquainted he was with the scene, his currency on the artists & studio techniques of what he was being presented. I suppose a lot of that can be attributed to his session work. Not to mention, a complete straight-shooter.

You always play out your videos with the most wonderful music, love it.

Danke, wieder ein tolles Video! Frohe Weihnachten! ✴✴✴✴✴

I enjoy all the stuff you guys do Thanks and Merry Christmas!!🙏🎶☕🎵👀❗

hey, these videos are always great and a lot of fun, thanks again for making them and putting in the effort, also love the remixes at the end every time, thank you again.

Peter talks about Ronnie Scott and Beck. Jeff Beck live @ Ronnie Scott (w/ Colaiuta/ Wikenfeld / Rebello) is amazing. lol @ the mono pickup 😂

"Girl from the Mill Valley" really stopped me in my tracks while watching this episode ... aww that piano is stunning. I've never heard that song before but I'll have to check it out. Working your magic again there on the outro, YP 😊🥰❤💯🎹

peter frampton's reviews are much more specific and candid than anyone else's. it's like he's giving us a peek into his lived experience through the medium of details about the music he's listening to. good stuff. a coworker of mine was singing the frampton song "baby i love your way." except she sang it as "baby i love your dick."

This is amazing to me for this reason: Late 70s, and I'm on stage with my brother's band, singing 'Jailhouse Rock', and my old friend Jonathan was working the sound board. Three years later he was working for Peter Frampton. Btw, that Jeff Beck album with Rod Stewart that has their version of 'Jailhouse Rock', also has a GREAT version of 'All Shook Up'.

What can you say about the Impressions? Absolute class. Curtis is a real legend.

Him preferring Sgt. Pepper over the White Album is funny since he was Billy Shears in the movie, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band. It's also funny he said he sings better on record than live since Frampton Comes Alive was his breakthrough album after lousy selling studio albums.

I have more respect 4 Peter after hearing this bit ``` thx

Wet Dream followed by Je t'aime moi non plus, as it should be, although the other way around would be even more obvious, maybe. A review that makes me revisit that song by the late, great Jack Bruce.

Interesting that he loves Jeff Beck’s bass player - none other than Ronnie Wood, fresh from the English Birds!

its a stereo album played on mono, Melody Maker were such tight wads, he liked Pepper enough to help drown it years later with the Bee Gees ( falls off the chair laughing)

Elvis Clean up your own backyard was a great great song.

8:11 It's ironic that "Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus" and "Wet Dream" are in adjacent positions on the chart. Hearing them both, some might get the titles confused with each other.

preston was live on top of the pops? ive gotta find that vid...almost everyone from this era had to appear to a track i agree with peter about elvis....but i never thought elvis had that great of a voice in the first place every time he did gospel, it sounded forced i was into framptom before most of america was into him really interesting how he became huge with the live album....especially when here he claims not to have a great voice and finding breath control hard when he sings live my fav song of his is "i wanna go to the sun"

Sorry, Peter, I loved what Dylan did with his voice on Nashville Skyline. YP, nice rendition of Girl From The North Country.

Very astute young man. I thought he was gonna put down Jeff Beck at first?! But he redeemed himself, "amazing". That tune at the end got the wheels turning in my head...it's on the tip of my brain. What IS that?! Dylan?

That sound of Lady Lady Lay was freakin horrible, like it was played on a tape machine and the batteries were dead. On a decent stereo it has a great sound, one of Bobbys best vocals.

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I always thought Frampton was a bit of a pretty boy air head in the '70s, but it's amazing how thoughtful he sounds here. I suppose it all depends on the kind of input you get from your interviewer and press agent. I did like that one thing he did with Chris Spedding on the Thelonious Monk tribute.

That's around the time The Woodstock Festival was happening. I guess it was an ocean away.

Always forget he was around in the 60s. And this is not a bad take on certain tracks, although he should probably review his comments again. Thank you again, sir! Best history lesson I have had all week!

Outstanding 🤙

Some far out music here....groovy man...i dig it !

Interesting he said the bass and vocals on the Jeff Beck record are excellent. Considering that Rod and Ron would go to play with Steve Marriott's ex-band mates. Apparently it was Steve trying to get Peter Frampton to join the Small Faces that was the straw that broke the camel's back, as it were, that caused the band to split. But of course The Faces hadn't formed at this point. I wonder what Frampton thought of First Step?

I wonder if the mate who had the Charlie Parker records was Bowie as they were good pals by all accounts.

I think he gave a fair assessment, although I sort of like Charlie Parker. Frampton Comes Alive was one of the best albums of the 70s. I hope he's doing okay these days.

"That's the way god planned it" was the main song that America played on the radio...FM and AM from Billy Preston. What in the world was the matter with the U.K. radio choices?!

He needed a coffee. A lukewarm cup of tea won't make Frampton come alive.

Does anyone know the name of the tune that is playing at the end of video while they are showing the record charts?

I scrolled down through the comments and saw the name of the tune at the end of the video is Girl From North Country but who is the recording artist for this instrumental version? Beautiful recording.

Another cool outro track YP

Was there a Glenn Miller revival going on in the UK at this time? His "Best of...." LP was in the UK top 20.

What’s the song playing on the intro???

Did Dylan ever say why he changed his voice. I like it better like this…..! 😮😮😮

Nice guy Peter....

what's the outro track playing from 7:30?

Poor Peter, I hope he’s gotten into Parker’s music. I couldn’t imagine my life without it.

Thanks! Good as always... what is the instrumental part sound from the ending? Can't recognize this time

This Elvis thing was from a movie! It shouldn’t have been a single!!!!😢

she once was a true love of mine

I like the fact he wasn't afraid to be critical of black musicians unlike the rest.

Blind Date seemed to go easy on Peter, all the bands were well established groups and prominent singers and musicians, no frilly flower power or hippie dippie bands out on the fringes. Was that luck or what? Still, that does not take away from his astute and knowledgeable comments here. Excellent Date!

I think your outro jingles for the top charts are really good 7:30 Where can I hear more and where?

Those Brits really liked Jim Reeves...

Peter was right, John Wesley Harding was a better album.

What's the song on the outro of this video? It's very good.

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I thought he was deceased😮

Will you tell what song/Musician you used for the outro of this Blind Date? Thanks.

Another great Blind Date. I recall reading this at the time and I've kept it. I saw Humble Pie a few weeks late at Massay Hall in toronto as they upstaged the Moody Blues. But where's the Warwick Petersen review? 😀

greaat

Mickey Waller on drums for Jeff Beck group

Going to make it big for 6 months and be totally dated in a year. If there's not at least 20 used copies of Frampton Comes Alive in stock . It's not really a used Record Store

All I hear is "wahhhhh... wah wah wah wah wahhhhh...."

Good of him to show us the way of the baby that he loves, Or maybe you don't feel like I do lol

That Jeff Beck album was phenomenal IMO - Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass. And the guitar playing? I disagree with Perter Frampton on that one.

I detested Peter Frampton for years because _Frampton Comes Alive!_ was overplayed badly when I was in high school. In fact, I only started taking him seriously when I discovered that David Bowie used him as the guitarist for the Glass Spider tour. No one picked better musicians than Bowie did, so if he liked Frampton, that's good enough for me.

Jack Bruce was very good. I like Lay Lady Lay. Frampton was a one trick pony. However, a fine musician. Liked your Brian Auger treatment; of the Dylan song at the end.

second!

What is the music at the end? Its better than the songs that precede it!